Posted on 04/27/2020 4:39:31 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Yeah, but who won?
Up here in my neck of the woods, there has been a sharp increase in people doing over 130 mph on the highways thinking they won’t be pulled over...
I go down to that part of Dallas once a month to hit the junkyards. South Dallas is the wild west around dusk weeknights and all day Sunday.
Dallas PD leaves it alone. Every once in a while they show up to scrape someone off the street. Its all fun.
If the locals aren’t afraid of getting run over by a spinning car driven by a guy baked on weed, they aren’t afraid of CCV.
Besides, the DPD is too busy shutting down hair salons to bother with any of this.
LOL
Come to the San Francisco Bay Area
I have been seeing groups of 3, 4 and 5 cars all racing each other...
Trump supporters? Oh wait.............
Excellent!
Used to do that all day and night in Arlington around 65-68.
Cops will get right on it after they are done busting people for going walking, swimming, canoeing, standing 5 feet apart etc.
Most likely they won’t get pulled over. In DFW, the police posted photos of 115+ mph radar readings... but no mention of any arrests, or even how much the ticket would have been.
I’ve kept below 120 mph in my commutes through DFW during the first week of the total shutdown. Now we are back down to 75-80 mph average, 85-90 mph max during the morning commute, but because of traffic, not the police. Just keeping up with the traffic.
I’ve had a couple calls where the where the vehicle was disintegrated and unrecognizable. One was on Military near White Rock Creek where the car could not be found but there were indentations every so often in the grass along the right shoulder and torn branches every so often above, indicating it went end over end several times before disappearing someplace (probably into the riverbed below). Fire and rescue were already there. We were more concerned with locating one or more people bodies than an auto body at this point, but a license plate might at least be nice.
One man was with Fire/Rescue in a suit and tie, hands in pocket, looking down into the ditch along with the others. I just assumed he was a bystander or someone with them. I asked the Captain if anyone had been located yet. He said “that guy” was found wandering around. “That guy” somehow unscratched and was catatonic and unresponsive to any questions and apparently was the driver and sole occupant (maybe). Don’t know how he survived, let alone unscratched, but isn’t it often the case? Somehow we got a VIN on what he was driving (plate, VIN plate, ID, not sure) and it came back to a Pinon Farina which I’m sure had been a nice vehicle a half-hour ago. Never did find the rest of it.
That wasn’t the only one. I have stories of others farther down closer to Seagoville.
Mind you, I don’t have a problem with it, I find it entertaining to think of these people who have cars that can easily do that and more, just cruising on the highways of America!
Not being sarcastic. I have always admired the Autobahn, but I admit, having the larger number of er...challenged high speed drivers, is a bit sobering to consider...:)
oh my! I used to drive thru that intersection on my way downtown to work. (that’s actually EAST Dallas) I always thought the street racing was out off Luna Rd.
And what was with that game of Chicken that went on then?
Two words: Gandy bridge.
Since 1935.
5.56mm
Them were the good old days.
I saw a few four wheeled rockets on the Howard Franklin Stein back in the day
The first crash of the pandemic was pretty spectacular Southbound 360 - 7:15 AM.
I was rolling about 95 but wasn’t catching the cars in front, and was just keeping the cars behind me off my bumper. Saw brake lights up ahead slowed down to 20 mph and came across total carnage. First thing I saw was a Multiple rolled nissan Maxima that looked like a single car roll over... in the other lane, over the median wall. Driver was out looking at his car with WTF look.
Next was a 25’ Box truck Missing the right front suspension, against the median wall and then the primary cause, a 90’s Acura whose hood was bent in the shape of a truck tire. then lots of other secondaries, flat tires and shaken witnesses.
The Acura seems to have traveling “with traffic” @ 90-95 mph overran the truck going 55-60, and passed it on the right just as the truck was going from the center to the right lane.
Rollover in the other lane appears to have swerved to miss the truck tire/suspension that went over the wall, hit the hillside and rolled multiple times.
America really doesn’t have the lane discipline to travel these speeds. I travel them to social distance myself from the idiots.
Saw a Corvette inside a culvert once. No survivors.
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