Street racer dies in Collier accident (I didn't know a CRX could go that fast!)

WBBH-TV Ft. Meyers ^ | 1.21.04

[Joe Hadenuf]

Thank God I live in a quite area, where there are no "through" streets in my area.

[SassNClass]

Sorry, Nik, I beg to differ. Drivnig is a privilige. You take a written and a driving test (in high school driver's ed was mandatory) and if you passed you got a permit, and later on you got your license.

Half these @ssholes on the road should not be behind the wheel of a car in the first place.

[rock58seg]

Right on! I want my 57 Chrysler 300 convertible with the 427 hemi back. But then, I was afraid to take it faster than 150mph on the highway. Very few Interstates then.

[lentulusgracchus]

This idiot was on a surface street. You don't do that kind of speed on surface streets. Glad he didn't take anyone with him.

About 22 years ago, a comely co-worker was killed when she and her hubby accepted a thrill ride with a friend who'd just picked up a new BMW 320i. A lot more car than the rice rockets I see puling up and down Westheimer Road in Houston like they're bad or something (I remember what a GTO sounded like under full military power, side-by-side with a 4-4-2 -- it was like mating season in the Lost World; you could hear them three miles away), nevertheless the guy overtaxed it by taking it out on a long, straight two-lane highway through the southeast Texas marshlands and cranking it up. At some point he went airborne for an impressive distance, and jammed the speedo at 115 when came back down. Of course, if he were no longer in contact with the pavement, the speedo reading was unreliable. But one got an idea.

Eventually, someone found the wreck and summoned the hearses and wreckers.

[Fledermaus]

More wonderful ways the gene pool is cleansed from morons.

Keep it up out there you idiots.

[lentulusgracchus]

Sorry, Nik, I beg to differ. Driv[in]g is a privilige.

I'm not sure you aren't both right.

Yes, I know how the law reads, but consider this: that when conditions of life change, and things that once were optional, or certainly not universal, become universal or nearly so, so that they become daily necessities, or the next thing to necessities, the lack of which would impose a considerable hardship, then do they deserve to be redefined as rights?

My analogy would be firearms ownership; 450 years before the Second Amendment was written, firearms didn't exist. But the Antifederalists insisted that the Federalists recognize in the BoR a right to keep and bear, the right to defend oneself, and of one's community to defend itself, being held forth as natural rights that needed explicit recognition in the Constitution. Which makes it a pretty basic right.

[BikerTrash]

"Urban" Culture is Moron Culture. Dumbass lowlife people in silly lowlife cars, with ridiculous lowlife "music".

If this ain't quote of the day, it should be.

[Doc Savage]

In Philadelphia, suping up a CRX is the premier pasttime of Mexican and Puerto Rican illegals. They spend $1,000's (and I mean 1,000's) on special alloy wheels, black-out windows, special mufflers. Of course the basic car is a worthless piece of crap, but they love them. They meet every night and compare their latest up-grades, then go racing. What a waste of dough!

[evets]

"lost control tryin to take a turn" I hate it when that happens.

[Grumpy Bear]

JOHN: I was losin', man.
TERRY: What?
JOHN: He had me, man. He was pullin' away from me just before he crashed.
TERRY: You're crazy.
JOHN: You saw it.
TERRY: No, you creamed him, from right off the line. The guy never had a chance.
JOHN: Shit, Toad. The man had me. He was beating me.
TERRY: John, I don't know what you're talking about. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. That guy, he might as well get a wheelchair and roll himself home. Man, you got...you got the bitchinist car in the Valley. You'll always be number one, John. You're the greatest.

[jimt]

An aside to the point of the article, which is that street racing is stupid and dangerous.

The advertising for "The Fast and the Furious" was horribly misleading. I watched it only to find that rice burners were the true topic, and that the hot rod Dodge was only in a very small part of the movie.

American cars still rule the drag strip.

[GOP_1900AD]

Whew.... for a minute there, I thought I'd see a candid shot of my '88 Accord LS (the real McCoy...). But sadly, I guess since I only have a cheap aftermarket Sony stereo, factory speakers, and, I sheepishly admit, an exhaust upgrade on my lone exhaust pipe, it's just not quite ricey enough. Also, I guess the now well faded factory white paint job and automatic transmission didn't help either!.... LOL ;)

[stboz]

Same here in Fresno. There's a guy who comes through our apartment complex in one. I guess he thinks he's Fangio or somethin'. Everytime I hear his exhaust, I want to go find my bowling ball (I live on the second floor.....)

[VOA]

(photo of over-turned road leveler):
Now that is REAL DRUNK DRIVING!