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No Charges Yet After Dragster Deaths
One day after the car careered into a crowd and killed six people, witnesses questioned why the driver was allowed to speed down a multilane highway with no guard rails, lined on both sides by hundreds of spectators. […]
"It ain't really safe to do anything with drag cars on a city street," said 19-year-old Garett Moore, who said he was about 15 feet away from the wreck, but was uninjured. "They shouldn't have done it."
Well, dipshit, you shouldn’t have been standing there, now, should you? I’m sorry, but I have enough brain cells to know that standing next to a drag strip is a Bad Idea. I’m sorry people died, but what made them think it was a wise move to stand there? What made them think that it was someone else’s job to look out for their safety? What made them think, “Hmmm, this looks dangerous, but, you know, everyone else is doing it, so it has to be okay”? Or are they lacking the inner voice of common sense? Were they really that stupid?
Hey, everyone, let’s go stand by the side of a freeway, shall we? Are people so brainless, such mindless sheep, that they don’t even think any more?
Although I do agree with this:
"There should have been guard rails," Staples said. "But even if there had been, it wouldn't have mattered."
Guard rails only do so much. Fences only do so much. People are injured every year at far safer races by wrecks and blown tires. That’s one event that – if I ever did go to it – I would be more than happy to be in the nose-bleed section.
…but you still can’t convince me that car racing is a ‘sport.’
In other front-page news, a boy scout was killed by a falling totem pole, another boy was killed by a bear (sadly, I’m sure the bear will be hunted and killed), a man was killed in a car accident after a tire blew out, 3 people were shot in a drive-by, a teenager drowned in a lake, a child was washed away and killed in a storm, and police shut down a pedophile ring (surprisingly, neither Livejournal nor Warriors for Innocence were named! Shocking!).
Seriously, is there no good news in the world? Please, someone, tell me something nice happened recently. And I promise to stop looking at the news. I know it just irritates me.
One day after the car careered into a crowd and killed six people, witnesses questioned why the driver was allowed to speed down a multilane highway with no guard rails, lined on both sides by hundreds of spectators. […]
"It ain't really safe to do anything with drag cars on a city street," said 19-year-old Garett Moore, who said he was about 15 feet away from the wreck, but was uninjured. "They shouldn't have done it."
Well, dipshit, you shouldn’t have been standing there, now, should you? I’m sorry, but I have enough brain cells to know that standing next to a drag strip is a Bad Idea. I’m sorry people died, but what made them think it was a wise move to stand there? What made them think that it was someone else’s job to look out for their safety? What made them think, “Hmmm, this looks dangerous, but, you know, everyone else is doing it, so it has to be okay”? Or are they lacking the inner voice of common sense? Were they really that stupid?
Hey, everyone, let’s go stand by the side of a freeway, shall we? Are people so brainless, such mindless sheep, that they don’t even think any more?
Although I do agree with this:
"There should have been guard rails," Staples said. "But even if there had been, it wouldn't have mattered."
Guard rails only do so much. Fences only do so much. People are injured every year at far safer races by wrecks and blown tires. That’s one event that – if I ever did go to it – I would be more than happy to be in the nose-bleed section.
…but you still can’t convince me that car racing is a ‘sport.’
In other front-page news, a boy scout was killed by a falling totem pole, another boy was killed by a bear (sadly, I’m sure the bear will be hunted and killed), a man was killed in a car accident after a tire blew out, 3 people were shot in a drive-by, a teenager drowned in a lake, a child was washed away and killed in a storm, and police shut down a pedophile ring (surprisingly, neither Livejournal nor Warriors for Innocence were named! Shocking!).
Seriously, is there no good news in the world? Please, someone, tell me something nice happened recently. And I promise to stop looking at the news. I know it just irritates me.