Galaxie

There is nothing wrong with drinking too much, as long as you have the common sense to get someone else to drive that night.

Youth + Booze + Power = trouble.

Waste of a car and a life.

I am going out tonight, I am probably going to drink, but my friend is driving, so that's ok... simple as that.

dswhalen

darn those Mexican Roads :bang:

Ballz

If thats not getting old I don't know what is.

2MFF

The Ferrari club rented the track. The Porsche driver was a competent driver and was giving a prospective Carrera GT buyer a ride. They were using the ROVAL (part Road course, part over) and he was travelling 150+ when a car came on track infront of him. He tried to avoid but lost control and went into the wall. The passenger died on scene, the driver while being airlifted out. There was a memorial for him today at a local car hang out and a cruise afterward in his honor.

mr-mstng

Amen. I went out tonight and had one beer and a water.

Like Steve said, please have the common sense to let someone else drive if you are drinking.

If you are in doubt, let someone else drive, or call a cab. Lives depend on it.

forddude1416

Of course were cold. He took his own life. He choose to get boozed up. He choose to drive. End of story.

Now, if he was drivin around, swerved to miss a deer and crashed, thats compeltly different. That's what I'd like to call an accident.

If it involves booze to me it's not an accident. Just cause it was unintentionall that doesn't mean it was an accident. Accidents are something you can't control. This was avoidable

kerafaith

Thank you, I am not that heartless, nor do I own a donkey & I wish I had a blueberry donut but I don't(besides that's another story for another time). And no I didn't forget that the guy was only 20. I myself am only 23. However that does not excuse stupidity. He got drunk & got behind the wheel. He was asking for & got trouble. Did he deserve to die? No, I don't know of many people who do deserve death.

But I have absoulty NO symapathy or compassions for a drunk driver. NONE at all. My neighbor was a drunk from pretty much the time he was born until he dies a few years ago of heart attack. When I was little he would get into his vehicle & back out & 75% of the time he hit our mailbox & turned it over. At least once a week, sometimes more he would hit the mailbox.

He also beat his wife (my cousin), knocked her teeth out, shot at her, threatened her & us on our side of the road, etc. He was always running off the road & crashing his car. Thankfully he never once hit another car. He even came out naked one say because he was drunk & came home & had pissed all over his self & stripped & ran outside naked. He would come outside waving a gun around shouting & threating to shoot the "old bastard" across the road (the "old bastard" he was referring to is my grandfather).

These are just a few reasons I have NO compassion for a drunk driver. If you drink enough that you are impaired & you get behind the wheel, then you are asking for trouble. And I hope you get it. I just hope you don't take someone else with you. Again, I don't think you derserve to die for drinking & driving but you do deserve to spent a few days in the hospital for observation & then a little time behind bars. (and you being in general not being directed at anyone)

Anyway. That's my take on it. I do feel for his family & friends. Noone deserves to loose a loved one. Also, the above reasons are prime example why I WILL NEVER drink & drive. Heck, I don't even drink. But I would never get behind the wheel if I did. I had rather walk.

scottie1113

Sad story. Don't drink and drive, and when you're driving sober be prudent.

ponyboy66

You have to pay the price for your choices.
As stated earlier, if a deer jumped out in front of him it would have been totally different.

I was drinking and driving when I was 16. Never once did I drink to the point of not being in control (So I thought at the time). If I had been killed it would have been no one's fault but my own. Not my parents, not the booze, not the car, just me.

Same case here. It is a sad day when a life is lost, but life is life and there are prices to pay.

My 17 year daughter was on her way home from school Friday noon (half day). She rear-ended someone. Totally her fault. She and another car travelling in the same direction. The car in front of her was making a left hand turn. My daughter never saw them. At the last second the car took off to gain some speed. So instead of my daughter hitting a car stopped at 55, the other car managed to get to about 30. Anyway, no one hurt. If something had happend as sad as it may be, it would have been my daughters fault, no one eles's.

AJC

Not heartless just not sympathetic for the driver - he signed his own death warrant. Truth is , the lesson is drilled into everyones head over and over - DONT DRINK and DRIVE... and there are idiots who continue to make the decision to do so... and some of them end up dead or killing others who are innocent bystanders or both.
I am sure it wasnt the first time for this guy - thankfully it was the last and he only killed himself, however let there be no doubt about it I do feel for his family's loss since they have to live with his poor decision.

As I have mentioned earlier - My wife and I have been victims of a drunk driver, and my wife lives with life long injuries after 7 reconstructive surguries on her feet and a cancelled wedding that was scheduled for that week, so no sympathy from me for the driver.

2MFF

I guess I'll be the first to admit I am a heartless bastard when it comes to drunk drivers, or even drivers performing donkeyclownery on public roads. I am glad this useless ozygen burner is gone. Darwinism at it's greatest.

EDIT - LOL that filter/replace system is hilarious. hineyClownery becomes DonkeyCLownery LOL.

EDIT2 - LOL @ s s clownery becomes hineyclownery LOL

jdr

These days I thank my mom that she bought me a Chevette when I was 16. That thing had a top speed of 50mhp & took 2 min to get there.

a GT is too much car for a 16 year old.......period :nono:

I hate he lost his life.