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BMW Halved In Deadly Florida Street Racing Crash
Detroit, 9:43 PM
Wed Dec 9
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06/21/09
Go there, drive fast, drift, burnout, circle-work and go home (maybe) safe in the knowledge that no innocent road users were put in danger.
But that would be like legalising pot. Too much fun for the masses.
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What kind of idiot races against his girlfriend?
I hope this teaches her parents a lesson, that giving her a BMW that she didn't have to work for at all killed her.
I hope her parents kill themselves.
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I'm also quite sick of parents giving unqualified kids powerful vehicles they can't drive responsibly.
I hate to say it, but if that skank Kim Kardashian can figure out how to drive a Ferrari responsibly around town, there's no reason why other rich idiot kids can't.
This girls parents should be thanking their lucky stars their idiot daughter didn't kill anyone else on her way out.
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You take the parents to task for the "powerful vehicle". BMW might call themselves the ultimate driving machine, but a 325i makes something like 185hp. Civics and Colbalts can be had off the floor with much more.
Second, class issues: On the day of a young woman's death, you "hope her parents kill themselves." I know the web is an anonymous forum, but it's not so far fetched to believe that her family might come across this thread.
She was being unutterably stupid. But I did some pretty dumb things as a young man, even though my parents had told me not to. Had I been slightly less lucky, I'd hate to think that someone would tell my grieving mother to kill herself.
06/19/09
And in terms of driving ability, I'd much rather have her in a BMW 3-series, where if she rear-ends me with a 50-mph speed difference I can probably get out of the car and onto the stretcher, than a giant No-Handling-For-Me-Thanks Escalade or similar.
If anyone ought to kill themselves, it'd be her boyfriend (not her parents, as they're not the cause) - and we don't even have all the facts there. Sorry, Pleco - you and I usually see eye-to-eye, and if this had been an M3 I'd agree with you on the former point, and partially on their being the cause - but in this case, you're being too harsh.
06/19/09
You may just be taking a debating posture with me, but that BMW gave it's life trying to save hers. The expense of a car like a BMW is as much due to safety engineering as performance. My point was that a ratty old Camaro is cheap performance and much easier to kill yourself in, regardless of your class or gender. This story is only a story because it's not typically people like Jessica that kill themselves due to stupidity.
I'm sure you're a good guy. You just went off in an ugly direction here.
06/20/09
Oh well, maybe it's just because I'm unemployed, bitter and driving a 15 year old car surrounded by people undeserving of the 3 and 5 series they've been given (or in some cases 6 series)... I'm just jealous and bitter.
This chick wasted her BMW in a really violent manner. I knew a chick that got hit by a drunk driver and had her BMW pile-drivered into the V shaped set of concrete barriers where the exit and freeway diverge from each other, and despite for moderate knee injuries, she came out mostly okay.
People have rolled their three series on the autobahn and walked away.
This chick's bmw clearly came up against an obstacle it couldn't override.
06/19/09
Must be something in the water or air in Florida to attract these idiots. It seems they may be knocking one another off however. I hope they don't take too many sane , innocent people with them.
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Just to keep the racing interesting.
06/19/09
STRAIGHT FROM SUNNY FLORIDA! TWO BMW 164i ART CARS! FORMERLY ONE BMW 328i! EVERY ARTISTS AND CAR GUYS DREAM! RUNS, HAS DRIVESHAFT ISSUES.
DONT MISS OUT ON THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY!!!!!
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I am sorry for her though, no one deserves to die for being dumb.
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1. Fire Extinguisher;
2. Crash Helmet;
3. ROLL CAGE.
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Seriously trees, keep it up, I'm feeling a hug coming on.....
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I am sad to hear that a young woman is dead, but by the same token, she was being stupid. I have no right to pass judgment on her considering the dumbass things I did in high school, but that doesn't change the obvious causal reasoning.