So there are two races left in NASCAR’s Chase for the Winston Nextel Sprint Cup and apparently Jimmie Johnson is going to win the thing.   He’s got 106-point lead and that’s like an insurmountable lead at this point, or at least that’s what they tell me.   I’m not exactly the biggest NASCAR fan in the world, but I have my reasons.   One being that it gets kind of boring to watch cars drive in a circle for four hours, and the other reason is for my personal safety.

You see, going to a NASCAR race is pretty dangerous.  I mean you can be sitting in your motor home while parked on the infield at the speedway just minding your business, and the next thing you know there’s a bullet coming through your roof and hitting you right in the arm.

From YAHOO!:

A NASCAR fan in her recreational vehicle at Texas Motor Speedway was wounded by a stray bullet after someone apparently fired a gun into the air, police said.

A bullet suddenly pierced through the motor home’s roof Sunday morning before the Dickies 500 race, hitting a woman in the right arm, relatives said.

“She immediately (screamed), ‘I’ve been shot. I’ve been shot.’ She took off running out the door,” her son-in-law Bobby Cook told Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT.

The 62-year-old woman, whose name was not released by authorities, was taken to a nearby hospital with a “significant wound” and was listed in stable condition, police Lt. Paul Henderson said Monday.

Now you’re probably wondering how in the hell somebody was allowed into the speedway with a rifle, and it’s a good question to ask.  Of course I should remind you that this was a NASCAR race in Texas.  They were probably giving rifles out as you entered the speedway.

Had it just been Dale Earnhardt Jr. Bobblehead night all of this could have been avoided.