Car hits Md. street-race crowd; 8 killed
Long story short: Car driving down a highway happens upon a group of people gathered for a late-night illegal car race. Tragedy ensues, as people are watching the race apparently ON the damn highway in the middle of the night.
What jumped out at me was this:
William Gaines Sr., 61, had a broken leg, and was not able to get away in time.
and
Marion Neal feared her 42-year-old brother was among the dead and was awaiting images from the police.
People, if you are in your 40s (let alone your 60s) and you are gathering on the side of a fucking highway in the middle of the fucking night to watch a bunch of testosterone-addicted morons smoke their tires and run illegal races, your fucking brain is not hitting on all cylinders. I don't mean to sound heartless here (okay, maybe I do), but I stopped pulling this shit when I turned 18. And even then I wasn't dumb enough to stand on a fucking highway in the middle of the fucking night.
While the deaths are of course a tragedy, what makes it doubly so is the stupidity and carelessness involved. The car that ran into the crowd apparently couldn't see the spectators who were standing on the highway because of the smoke from the racing cars' tires. Some poor bastard has to live with the knowledge that he killed 8 people, regardless of whether or not it was his fault.
Darwin will not be denied, folks. That is all.
6 comments:
Not sure how old I was, but I quit that right after I had to replace my tires. =)
Hell, I gave up racing once I had to pay for my own set of wheels.
These folk need to seriously get a life....
You forgot the part about the lady who brought her kids to watch. It was Grandpa with the broken leg who bought it.
Three generations of stupidity on one stretch of road.
Well I took a little longer to get over my testosterone foolishness, but not by much I was 20 when I stopped racing. The eye opener was seeing a person lost thier arm after spinning out and hitting a bridge abutment cured me. But foolisheness knows no bounds for some people
Yeah, pretty much my thoughts when I read it too. Geeze.
There are drag races at tracks. I enjoy watching them on television and I want to go to see at least one in person... but I'm not going to go stand on a highway in the middle of the night with some idiots. Holy crap.
Jeebus, what the hell is wrong with people.
When I was younger, we did 1/4 mile runs in the wee hours of the weekend morning at an industrial park with all the streets blocked.
Now, you just line 'em up on the highway and bring a crowd of people to stand by.
Stupidity runs rampant, and when people gather in large numbers, the I.Q. goes to the lowest common denominator.
Damn shame for the families that have to live after this shit.
tweaker
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