Let’s Fly

Police in Colorado know they don’t like it, but they’re not sure what to do to stop it. Skiers and snowboarders have found the ideal terrain near a highway in Silverplume that allows them to jump over cars on the highway. Drivers are startled to see skiers sailing 40 feet above them, jumping the 60-foot gap in the snow cut by the road. Several of the daredevils have been injured when they didn’t make it, but no one has been killed. “The sheriff says we could charge them for not having a pilot’s license,” joked a sheriff’s spokesman. But “I don’t know exactly what we’d [really] charge them with — other than stupidity.” (AP) ...Isn’t that really what, in the end, most people in prison are guilty of?