Posted on 10/06/2024 1:49:23 PM PDT by DFG
YouTube personality and Kick streamer Jack Doherty totaled his $200,000 McLaren supercar as he apparently texted and drove in the rain — while live-streaming himself.
Video of Doherty’s Kick stream shows the 20-year-old Internet star looking down at his phone in his hand as he drives along a slippery Miami highway Saturday morning.
Seconds later, Doherty loses control of the vehicle, screaming as he glides across the right lane and smashes into a guard rail. The video on the streaming platform goes white, and his cameraman in the passenger seat can be heard groaning in pain.
The two men can then be heard struggling to get out of the wrecked vehicle, with one frantically crying out, “Open the door! Open the door!”
The footage then cuts to Doherty examining his wrecked, wildly custom-painted car. The social-media star, who is now shirtless in the clip, kicks his mangled whip twice.
“All my money’s gone,” Doherty says before listing the upgrades he shelled out big bucks for on the vehicle, including a custom exhaust system and its paintball-gun-splatter paint job.
Doherty purchased the McLaren at the end of last year for $202,850.10, according to his YouTube channel.
According to Sportskeeda, there were 185,000 people in Doherty’s livestream at the time of the crash.
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
Whatever.
Insurance company: “You’re on your own, kid.”
“Doh!”
so, will insurance cover that?
His passenger friend was injured and could not get out.
He only cared about the car.
Super loser.
“The social media star ‘kicks his mangled whip twice”.
He owns a Whip, as in Rawhide?
Too bad he wasn’t ejected
Wife worked in a highrise in Buckhead/Atlanta that featured an exclusive restaurant on the ground floor. One Saturday around lunchtime there were two McLarens and a Lamborghini parked at the curb at the front entrance. Cars parked in the regular lot consisted of the usual Buckhead rabble of BMWs, Caddies, Porsches, etc. My wife’s 10 year old beat up Maxima SE didn’t exactly fit in.
20 years ago, this'd be something to do with the prostate.
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t pull the mask off the old Long Ranger
And you don’t drive a McClaren in the rain!
He’ll make it all back and then some from YouTube views
Every kid in the country needs to be made to sit down and watch this. Screw “sensitive feelings”, this is reality and it is time to get back to reality instead of coddling them in a bubble.
or Courics Colon
$200,000 for a McLaren? Was it used?
I don’t think schools still have driver’s education. We were made to sit through gory crash videos, usually due to alcohol or speeding. Today, they’ve have to add texting.
You are right. They pamper their feelings with a bubble that insulates them from reality. We need to go back to public hangings and make the kids watch. We need to show the gore of war, We need to show the gore of vehicle accidents. They WILL ONLY learn from VISUAL reality along with a cause and effect message...
Apparently he won’t; the platform (Kick) banned him following the incident.
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