[The_Bishop]

At the end of the day, there was an illegal street race. People got hurt when a racer crashed.

If there was no street race:
A: Nobody would have been spectating
B: Nobody would have crashed
C: Nobody would have gotten hurt.

There is *NO* was around that. Do I think they deserve to face the charges they are? I think it's a bit harsh but they are organizing and promoting a criminal activity. There *has* to be consequences. Street racing is ****ing stupid, especially when the cars get that powerful. The odds of things going very, very wrong jump up, exponentially.

I've had to extricate too many people from their cars after tragic accidents. Two of the worst were from street racing.

In one, the driver lost it and slid broadside into a pole hard enough to split the car in half and take out the lower section of the power pole, leaving the top hanging by the wires. The driver was screaming as we packaged him up. Turns out his pelvis was shattered, and both legs had multiple fractures. Fortunately, nobody else was hurt.

In the second one, some jackass was showing off street racing on a main avenue with his 10-11 year old son in the passenger seat. In a convertible, no less. He lost it and went straight under the back of a box truck. The bumper of the box truck was all the way to the back seat, on the passenger side. His son was dead, that jackass lived. Should have been the other way around, that kid didn't ask for his life to end.

Nothing you can say will convince me that street racing is OK. I've seen the consequences of it, and it's never good.

On top of that, screw you guys. I didn't need to dig those memories up.