It's April Fools' Month

Or so you'd be forgiven for thinking with headlines like these. The above is from RTE. I read about this yesterday and Rick picked it up like a gust catching a priest attached to 1,000 helium balloons.
Now a man is probably dead here and that shouldn't be funny ordinarily. But if you enter into something so dangerous, so ill prepared, and for such a redundant cause (a spiritual rest stop for truckers), the

COMEDY=TRAGEDY+TIME

thesis no longer applies and your death may be instant comedy gold. Or silver foil attached to helium balloons.