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Cripes, at this rate, your area is going to post speed-sensors or something along the stretches of road.

IMO, once you hit 24, you should be mature enough not to streetrace other people and drink responsibly.

I actually saw a TV show about prisons where they said one of the strategies the big guys will use to get other people to "comply" is to viciously beat the living hell out of inmates if they refuse and thus to scare others.

Actually, I sort of agree with you rakjoe, I feel kinda sorry for Bluemax as well, but the part where it gets harder to is HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, HE'S IN HIS FOURTIES. He wasn't some teenager or twenty-something who was stupid and decided to race, he was a grown man, he should have known that racing on a public road takes other people's lives into account as well. If anything, he should have set an example for the twenty-something dumbass in the Mustang with his girl, and told him to keep it to the track IMO. The thoughts of Bluemax being ass-raped in prison bring no joy to me, it was a stoooopid mistake he made, but unfortunately a very big one. I am conflicted in that I feel sorry he ruined his life like he did, but at the same time, he must be punished.

A few other questions: 1) Did the wife of the dead guy come and ask for them not to press charges against Bluemax and the Mustang guy, but they will be doing so anyway, or was Allan just joking about her doing that? 2) Are public defense attorneys always lousy attorneys?

I'm confused....so were they let off, or are they still going to jail?

If all jails were like that, we'd probably have less crime (though I've read crime is actually a lot lower than it used to be, just it gets a lot more airtime so people think it's worse).

L-Power is really becoming a site for a little knowledge on everything, everything from fixing a flat screen TV to what gun to buy to tips on how to become a fugitive, etc...

What is life in Mexico like anyhow?

Yeah I figured that, I was just laughing because you hide the fact you drive a Lambo too. Also doesn't VW ultimately own Lambo right now? If you get to Mexico, isn't that a country with no extradiction? Or do you mean bounty hunters would go in and get him...?

Going back a bit, what kind of idiot decides to race with the wife, daughter, and granny in the car!? MORON. topcarbon, I like how at the MBWorld forum, you have: "Vehicle I drive: vw" :lol2: Romandad, I disagree on the Benzes, I don't think of them as an old-person's car, an old person's car is one of them Lincoln Town Cars

I'm just wondering, but doesn't pulling it make the thread look guilty...? Could someone say, "SEE!! They pulled a thread and got rid of the evidence!" or something? Or was it perfectly legal to eliminate the thread? (I'm guessing it was, but I don't know enough about the law).

This really sucks for all parties involved. Allan, thanks for the visuals. I can see now how this happened. To the old dude, the cars racing must've looekd like they were a loooong ways down the road, traveling at normal speed, so he pulled out having no clue that they were going so fast and they smashed into him. But seriously, who the heck tries to race through an intersection!? That's just insanely stupid.

Ahh, okay, I hadn't thought about the witnesses being experts, and when I thought of eyewitnesses, I was imagining people standing on the side of the road who saw two cars go by, and then said, "WOW! Those things are doing 100 mph!"

I get what you mean, and again I am NO EXPERT, but I remember watching a car show where they were discussing the difference between the builds of old cars and today's, and they slammed an old car head-on into a light pole, and that pole just tore right through that car front to back, it tore it in half. With the newer car, the crumple zones crumpled and the frame of the car prevented the pole from tearing through it. The occupants would be jolted obviously, but the airbags would have cushioned them as best as possible. This old car was on of those 1950s or 1960s land yachts. Those cars, if you bumped into them, they were like a tank, whereas with a modern car, if you bump it, the crumple zones cause them to get damaged very easily. But if you crash one of those old cars into like a telephone pole, it just rips through it, whereas with the newer car that has the crumple zones, this won't happen. So maybe that Camaro was built similar to the old cars, like a tank for light bumps, but when smashed into by two vehicles, it tore in half... New cars and old cars are stronger and weaker than each other in different ways.

Just playing devil's advocate, but like Cola said, how would the witnesses know what 100+ mph looks like?

Corporate666 mentioned about a "temporary setback" in life for Bluemax (he was saying how the guy he hit and killed won't get one of these), I'm just wondering though, but could it be called a "temporary setback," or did Bluemax ruin his life with this? I mean if you go to jail for murdering someone, I don't think you can just come back out and get a job, start a career, or start a business, can you...?

Just some food for thought, I am no expert on cars of thirty-five years ago, however, I did see a crash video of a car on a TV show about car safety some years ago, I think it was from the 1950s, maybe sooner, but in it they crashed the car head-on into a pole and the pole literally tore the car in half. It just tore right through the car. A lot of those older cars, if you bumped into them, they were like a tank. However, if you smashed them into something really hard, they'd snap in half. Modern cars have a structure to them that allows you to smash them into say a pole head-on and the car will bounce back. The airbags deploy inside to cushion the passengers. These modern types of cars, if you bump into them, they have the crumple zones which absorb the impact but also thus cause damage to the car really easily. However, for a high-speed crash, the skeleton of the car itself should hold it together. I don't know when they started "toughening up" cars so-to-speak but it is possible that if this old man's car was of the old design, then it could have torn in half a lot more easily.

Just wondering, but was Bluemax a soldier or something? (I keep reading about how he "risks his life" for us?). Also, Allan-Lambo, you mentioned about a "race license" in a previous thread, in order to race at a race track, does one need a race license? Or do you just show up to the track and race...?

Is the guy in the Benz in trouble at all for this, or just the teenagers?

This made me laugh, didn't want to start a whole other thread for it though, but it's a dermatologist: http://www.johnbukkake.com/

Just make sure when you come down to the refrigerator in the morning and pull out leftovers and start snacking, that you didn't accidentally pull out last year's leftovers

I sure hope they're not Americans!

In typical L/P fashion, HAPPY THANKSGIVING BITCHES!!! I was in the market today and looking at the amount of turkeys, hams, fruits, veggies, luxury chocolates, coffee, etc...and really was kind of thinking how blessed it is to be in this country, I mean I read about an "upper-class" couple who had lived in the Soviet Union, and the guy who'd visited them right after the collapse of the Soviet Union said their being upper-class meant they had a small apartment to themselves, one microwave (the wife's pride-and-joy), and for shopping, they had to shop at the neighborhood store (by LAW! You want to shop, this is where you go. There was also one restaurant as well I think) This was better than communal living and having to go wait in line for things I guess. Well anyway he said they went and shopped for some crappy vegetables and a piece of meat he said that looked like it was the worst piece from the worst part of the animal). He said then some time later the Russian couple came to visit America and were astounded over the "huge" home they (he and his wife) owned (which by American standards was just average-sized). Then they went shopping at a farmer's market and the guy said he went to get a cart and when he came back, the Soviet wife was crying, and asked "Who shops here?" to which he said "Anybody." It was a farmer's market with fresh fruits and vegetables piled up high and meats and cheeses, and all the other consumer products available. So we are all very blessed to be born in America IMO. This thread makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside now

Coolbeans, well aside from the individual mechanical gears, I'd hope such clocks wouldn't be made in a factory, kind of sounds like an oxymoron