What a horrible tragedy.

 

sorry have a hard time drumming up any sympathy.

 

Old one, posted here long time ago.Yeah, massively dumb.

 

Well, it's hard to excuse their idiocy. Still, five young people are dead. At the very least one can have sympathy for their friends and family.

 

dont have any sympathy for the kid, complete moron, but I do for his passengers, although they were dumb enough to ride with him. This is more reason 16 y/o's should not have fast cars, just parents being stupid, I'm sure his need for showing off didnt show up the night he died, someone like that should start with a pacer

 

Big story down here, long time ago. Keg Party, Private Air Strip, 5 Drunk Teens. Only a Tragedy could have resulted. Sorry for the "coldness", but SOP in that particular Exclusive Gated Neighborhood.

 

I do feel bad for the families of his passengers.

 

Or maybe a Vespa.

 

FYI, the Pacer was available with a 304 V8 2bbl.
I vote for Vespa too.

 

Welcome to 8 months ago. Terrible that there was a loss of life, no matter how stupid or irresponsibly the driver behaved.

 

As a fellow young person I have no sympathy for the kid, just his family and the family of the other's. May this be an example to the young drivers in this forum of the importance of safe driving and that high hp+young age dont mix.

 

Wow thats horrible...Im 16 and i've never had my Gt over 100 mph...i tihnk i pass someone one time and got to like95 but thats it..but going that fast is crazy.

 

120 mph on day 2. But that was alone, on an empty interstate at about 2:30am.

 

And that makes it okay?

 

Yup. The only life at risk was my own. And being an adult I knowingly took the risk, no different than if I was on a track... except for the legalities. So legally, no not OK, but just as responsible as being on a track. I'm telling you, there was nobody out, not even oncoming traffic.

 

John, I didn't mean by anyone on the road, as at that time, I'm sure it was deserted. It wasn't yourself I was thinking of, but your family? How they would react to the news if something happened? Sorry for playing it that way, but having had a near-death experience already in my life, you wonder how your family would take to the news in case something were to happen to ones self. Plus at that time of night, what would have happened if an animal crossed the road, since it was dark?

 

We can play 'what-ifs' forever, but the truth is I feel safer taking a quick 120mph jaunt in the middle of the night than I do driving suburban streets at 50mph during rush-hour. I ride a motorcycle and have had it at 'excessive' speeds as well, but under the right conditions. The only time I've gotten hurt is when I got T-boned by a car while I was going about 35mph and a car drove into an intersection.

As far as the kid in the Bimmer - I actually give him credit for doing this on a runway and not on the streets racing a Civic, etc, where he could cross an intersection and kill an entire family as well as his occupants.

I've done my share of dumb things, I just don't try to make a habit of it.

 

'Cept that he forgot to leave the passengers behind.

 

I am willing to bet that he has done this sort of thing on the streets. He just ended up getting killed at an airport instead.

 

Agree, but to some extent they're likeley responsible for getting in the car in the first place.