not long ago I was flying atl-mci during a bad line of storms. our flight plan had us over texas trying to bust through when we realized we were the only ones up there.

but low and behold someone popped up on TCAS 4000' below and ahead of us. either the Captain (a fun Timbo type) or me called the guy an idiot for flying around this weather. then we realized he might be on to something so "follow the idiot!"

the guy seemed to do a great job until we realized he wasn't going to MCI. we broke out anyways not soon after that and landed as the storms rolled past the field.

all that to say, the guy following the idiot is never the fool. IMHO.