Bus Plunge!

Back in the day (which was a Saturday), there was a website dedicated to documenting the bizarre phenomena of buses that inevitably and invariably “plunge” into the depths of whatever canyon the bus could find to snuff the lives of religious travelers. The site was a precursor to blogging, and it was called, appropriately, Bus Plunge! The site still exists here, but it may be an archive only.

The phenom of writing news articles about about bus plunging garnered a lot of attention, and there is even a Wiki article about it. The reason I bring all this up is because it was bizarre to me how buses never just crashed, but always plunged, and you could see the pattern emerge that God hates busfulls of worshipers, no matter what religion it is. Here is a recent case in point, from Fox News here:

A bus packed with passengers traveling along a narrow road in southern Egypt plunged into an irrigation canal Sunday, killing 57 people.  The bus, with at least 70 passengers on board, swerved to avoid an oncoming pickup truck near a village close to the city of Minya, about 130 miles south of Cairo.

Rescuers on small boats searched the canal for passengers, and volunteers pulled bodies out of the water. A crane later lifted the bus out of the canal.

The accident took place early Sunday at the end of a major Muslim holiday, when inter-city roads are crowded with returning vacationers.

Keep on plungin’.