The perils of being a nature lover

Nature lovers out there, I sympathize with your need to help animals, but you can't take foolish risks doing so:

An Illinois woman who stopped to help a family of ducks cross Interstate 90/39 on Wednesday morning ended up in the hospital after she was hit by a car and thrown 60 feet.

In the last few weeks, I've seen several people pull over on busy roads to either help animals or to let their dogs relieve themselves at the side of the road. This is just dumb. The majority of people are going to avoid hitting animals in or near the road, anyway, because it costs so much to do body repair these days. And when they do swerve, chances are they haven't seen you because their focus was the animals. This woman was lucky; all she received was a leg injury.