Irony 2, People 0

So this is a pretty sad story, but once again the awfulness is in danger of being eclipsed by the irony. A monster truck show promoter, George Eisenhart, was killed this weekend at one of his shows after he stepped in front of a moving truck, and the driver wasn’t able to stop in time.

Normally this wouldn’t really be worth mentioning, but it comes right on the heels of a kid being killed by flying debris at a different monster truck show a week or so earlier. After this death, Eisenhart was interviewed on local television in Madison, WI, touting the safety of his shows, saying, “we have not had an incident besides a gal slipping in the aisleway.” Yeah, he may have jinxed himself there.

Also, here’s something I’ve been wondering about: was Alanis Morissette being ironic by not having any ironic situations in her song Ironic, or was she just dumb?