LIFE IS HARD. IT'S HARDER WHEN YOU ARE STUPID. OFTEN IT IS ALSO SHORTER.

by Bob Walsh

Santos Garcia, 35, and his wife Marcelina, 33, died Tuesday near the teeming metropolis of Delano, CA. Cause of death was terminal stupidity.

They were pulled over by an ICE police car. Horror of horrors, the people who got out of the police vehicle were not CHP or local County Mounties, the were the dreaded La Migra, agents of I.C.E. The Garcia's no doubt felt that they would be beaten, robbed, tied into their vehicle and set fire, or at the very least deported, so they fled. Badly.

Their SUV took off as soon as they saw who was walking towards them. They fled with more enthusiasm than skill, hit the soft shoulder and rolled, leaving their six children orphans.

I.C.E. originally went to the couple's home seeking another man, an illegal alien criminal but did not bother the Garcias, though they did follow them after they left the house and made the stop some distance away.

Mr. Garcia had a 2014 DUI and had self-deported three times within the last eight years. He was thrown out once last year.