It was revealed today that the geniuses running Oxford have decided to ban parking along a controlled-access, 4-lane Highway during football games. Who’d a thunk it? All it took to accomplish this feat was for a student to get killed.

Now most people, people with half a brain anyway, would have realized that cars traveling in excess of 55 MPH with plenty of room to pass slower cars, and parking on the same road was a recipe for disaster and would have done something sooner. Apparently this is not the case in Oxford, the place that can not even properly pronounce the name of their county (Lafayette, from the French General of American Revolution War times–not the redneck “La Fay Ette”). Finally after one student is run over by another drunk student, they eliminate parking. (Yes, I realize that “drunk student” is redundant when referring to University of Mississippi and LSU students.)

What is really sad about this is that although parking on the highway was not the brightest thing to do, the real cause of the death of the student was a drunk driver. Recall that the University of Mississippi was chastised by a judge in the not too distant past about its leniency towards alcohol consumption by students. The police have said that they will ensure that no one parks along the highway for the next football game, which is good; if only they could be as dedicated, determined, and efficient in removing drunks from the road. In the meantime, stay out of Oxford, it is not a safe place to be.