Trio deserves no less.
Posted on 01/20/2008 5:00:28 PM PST by Sursum Corda
Fast cars were what Flaherty, 21, was all about, his family said Saturday, which is why they aren't all that surprised that's how he and two of his closest friends -- Lucas Raymond Snyder, 21, and Amber Dawn Kowalski, 23, who each shared that penchant for speed -- died early Friday when the car they were traveling in crashed at more than 100 mph into a light pole at the corner of McCaslin Boulevard and West Cherry Street in Louisville. ----- Lorie Flaherty said it "really isn't a shock to any of us" that her brother died in a high-speed crash.
"The thing that really makes me feel much better about this is they died doing what they loved to do -- they were drinking, they were going fast and they were together," Lorie Flaherty said. "It gives me comfort, it does, to know those three things."
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After Easy Rider, Peter Fonda got killed at the end of just about every movie he made, whether it made sense with the plot or not. The only thing to recommend the movie was that Susan George was in it.
So how would this read if Larry, Moe and Curly here were indulging the love for booze and acceleration at the expense of a family of six in a minivan when they crashed, for instance?
Permissiveness meets denial meets “Spare the rod and spoil the child”
Sad.
That movie would be Dirty Mary Crazy Larry - Peter Fonda and Susan George, 1974.
Posted by mlyoung33 on January 20, 2008 at 8:20 a.m. (Suggest removal)
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! “They died doing what they loved - drinking and driving” Thank God me and my kids were not out on that road that night to be the collateral damage that these irresponsible kids annihilated. Not only do they come from an unimpressive gene pool but they have already pro-created!!! Unbelievable!!!
I agree.
I posted a comment to the Daily Camera story, early in the cycle, as Little_Red_Wagon. The writer of the article has not yet responded.
The baby will peobably do well. The young woman was in the habit of leaving the child with her father, who has Alzheimer’s.
I missed that-I too hope the kid turns out ok but looking at his mother he’s already inherited one strike against him.
That would be Vanishing Point......
“Spare the Hot-rod and spoil the child”
If the title doesn't say "Darwin" to you, there's always this:
"The thing that really makes me feel much better about this is they died doing what they loved to do...
Soooo, how long before a necrotroll resurrects this thread?
But they died drinking, going fast and together. Ms. Flaherty is comforted by that. Devoid of common-sense, does not even begin to cover what we are dealing with here.
About as pathetic as it can get
Trio deserves no less.
I can’t say much here. Just a few years ago I was in my friend’s Mustang doing 150 mph. I’ve done 120 behind the wheel myself. I’ve had friends who’ve been up around 175. The friend with the ‘stang has done over 200 mph on a motorcycle. More cajones than I’ll ever have.
They aren’t the first or the last to be going those kinds of speeds. The drinking was pretty stupid though.
Yes, I understand what you say. Nevertheless, I think you would agree, time and place.
Alcohol, high speeds and slick suburban roads are a bad combo.
Give it a week or two and one will be along and ping everybody back to the thread to tell us what awful people we are.
Yes, the drinking, driving at nite, in winter, and in town was stupid. If you’re going to go that speed at least give youself some margin for error.
What, you can’t afford plates for the car? (;~
I do like yellow!
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