street racing

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Recent news story from my home town

Terribly sad Street racing is moronic and can have fatal consequences. Remember folks, we don't have a cure for death yet.

Assholes using the public roads for their playground:thumbsdown:

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Recent news story from my home town

Terribly sad Street racing is moronic and can have fatal consequences. Remember folks, we don't have a cure for death yet.

Assholes using the public roads for their playground:thumbsdown:

although i do not condone street racing, at least they took it to an industrial area and they killed one of their own... unlike these canadians that basically got a slap on the wrist. i guess, if i ever want to become a street racer, i now know where i should live.

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: ObiDon

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Recent news story from my home town

Terribly sad Street racing is moronic and can have fatal consequences. Remember folks, we don't have a cure for death yet.

Assholes using the public roads for their playground:thumbsdown:

although i do not condone street racing, at least they took it to an industrial area and they killed one of their own... unlike these canadians that basically got a slap on the wrist. i guess, if i ever want to become a street racer, i now know where i should live.

Yeah I don't see the problem if people want to go out and rock climb and kill themselves, smoke 10 packs a day and give themselves lung cancer, put a bullet in their head in the middle of the desert, or go to the outskirts of town away from traffic and kill themselves racing, as long as they don't involve anyone else who isn't a willing participant.

I don't see why people are so damn concerned over what everyone else is doing. Thats just as bad as people who want to ban smoking even in your own home, just because. I don't smoke, but thats just ridiculous. You going to intervene, pass laws, and call the police, to stop someone from going on a hiking trip or playing football because they might hurt themselves?

Like everything else, I say, if it's not bothering you or anyone who isn't participating willfully, then STFU. (public roads with traffic obviously constitutes involving unwilling participants in this context)

 

[zylander]

Originally posted by: exdeath

Originally posted by: ObiDon

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Recent news story from my home town

Terribly sad Street racing is moronic and can have fatal consequences. Remember folks, we don't have a cure for death yet.

Assholes using the public roads for their playground:thumbsdown:

although i do not condone street racing, at least they took it to an industrial area and they killed one of their own... unlike these canadians that basically got a slap on the wrist. i guess, if i ever want to become a street racer, i now know where i should live.

Yeah I don't see the problem if people want to go out and rock climb and kill themselves, smoke 10 packs a day and give themselves lung cancer, put a bullet in their head in the middle of the desert, or go to the outskirts of town away from traffic and kill themselves racing, as long as they don't involve anyone else who isn't a willing participant.

I don't see why people are so damn concerned over what everyone else is doing. Thats just as bad as people who want to ban smoking even in your own home, just because. I don't smoke, but thats just ridiculous. You going to intervene, pass laws, and call the police, to stop someone from going on a hiking trip or playing football because they might hurt themselves?

Like everything else, I say, if it's not bothering you or anyone who isn't participating willfully, then STFU. (public roads with traffic obviously constitutes involving unwilling participants in this context)

Exatly, rock climbing isnt illegal, skiing, snowboarding, sky diving, deap sea diving, ect. You can lose your life doing any one of these but they arent illegal.

These guys racing in an industrial area and were not hurting anyone. The guy who was killed knew exactly what was going on and was participating in it. If that article were about someone who died in a sky diving accident, would you be calling the rest of the people with him "assholes"?

 

[SampSon]

Of course, why else would I buy a brand new Corvette?

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: IGBT
..yet another reason the legal driving age should be 21. street racing is immature juvenile and reckless behavior. Speed exhibition on public streets is illegal. If you get caught you should loose you license..if you have one and mandatory jail time.. 5 year probation with 2 thousand hours of public service work to be served on your weekends.

That's ridiculous. There are plenty of responsible under-21s and there are certainly plenty of idiots over 21. You fail at reasoning again.

Although teens make up only 7 percent of the total driving population, they account for 14 percent of all fatalities. Car accidents are the leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 15 and 19. "In 2000 alone, we recorded 4,877 teen deaths as a result of preventable crashes," says Rose McMurray, associate administrator for traffic safety programs at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Today, 16-year-old girls are just as likely to crash as 16-year-old boys. And the fatality rate for girls ages 15 to 20 increased 4 percent from 1990 to 2000. "Parents are letting girls drive more often, so they are just as much at risk," says McMurray.

The risks are substantial: At 16 years, teen driving inexperience leads to 43.2 crashes per million miles driven. (By contrast "veteran" 17-year-old drivers experience 30.3 crashes per million miles.)

Then, of course, there are the many innocent victims who die in car crashes with teens each year. "Teen crashes have become an epidemic," says McMurray. "Teens are risk takers." Of those involved in crashes in 2000, 36 percent of teens had been drinking, and 58 percent were speeding at the time of the crash, according to the NHTSA. "They think they are immortal," says McMurray.









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[NL5]

Fast cars aren't street legal anyway.........