Ok, my wife says this was a terrible incident, I say good riddance. Why am I wrong?

If it were burritos' son which did the same thing tomorrow, yeah, I'd think, "karma's a bitch."

Hatred rears its ugly head in another one of burritos' threads.
Karma must have really been a bitch to make him the way he is.

 

Life is a bitch,
and then you die.

Wildkow

 

Wow, I feel the love.

Look, anytime someone drives any car like a loon, if they die, it's sad, at least for those who knew him/her. If they kill someone while doing it, it's a tragic loss.

We should not take any kind of joy in another's misfortune.

 

Your wife's right, it IS a terrible incident. That poor Lamborghini, what a waste of such a beautiful car.

 

I'm not one to squelch people expressing their opinions, but I hope the media doesn't broadcast the sentiments of this thread. We're not exactly going to come out smelling like roses.

 

I think there is an element of "class-ism" here. As someone mentioned earlier, I too wonder if the reaction would have been the same if they were driving an econobox? Anyway, let's hope the guy's family can deal with the tragedy.

 

I can imagine the news item: "Prius owner group cheers over death of driver after tragic accident in a sports car".

Nice.

 

As Hobbit and others have said, going really fast in a fancy car is not the only way to die while driving. I don't have a statistic for this, but I'd guess that the overwhelming majority of fatal traffic "accidents" are somebody's fault. That doesn't mean they all deserve death though. It means there's a huge problem with our transportation infrastructure and our driver's licensing requirements.

I'd tend to agree with comments that the OP wouldn't have brought it up if it were a clunker instead of a Lamborghini.

And SPE, did you seriously just condemn burritos for his comment and then wish death on his son in the same post? Classy! I know you guys have some FHOPol-style venom to share, but leave it in there, please!

 

Nothing in my post can be construed that I would wish death upon burritos' son - only that IF the same thing happened . . . Karma. And it can't be construed as a personal attack either.

So what if there is nothing political about the OP. We are still in FHOP and . . .
"The Fred's House of Pancakes forum provides you with discussion on Anything unrelated to the Prius. Come chat. First Amendment is your friend in here.."

 

After working for the Public Defender, you'll find that your 'customers' generally get away with their bad acts, somewhere between 8 out of 9 ... to 9 out of 10 different times (turning on whether you're talking murder, burglary, drunk driving, drag racing, drug sales/use, rape, arson, drive by shooting, smash & grab, etc), before they get 'caught'. Sometimes they're caught by fate, sometimes the long arm of the law. Too many innocent victims, nevertheless. But knowing that? Well it's a rare day when the perpetrator 'gets hers/his' on the 1st go-around.

That said, I too have been stupid 2 or 3 times and in 2 or 3 ways. But the odds were in my favor, and wisdom finally began to settle in. I'll bet my next jelly doughnut that there are more BMW's, Porshes, MB's, and Lambos that hurl over the sides of switchbacks than hyperemilers. Read their chats ... how stupid cars are that can't 'handle' well. NO car does well on the unexpected gravel, or oil, unless they're driving cautiously. But . . . if you go through the hairpin turns as though you want to survive a blow out?

 

...and one less rich person, too. We need to cut down on the number of rich people in this country.

 

I bet he was even white and male and heterosexual.

 

I'm don't believe you really believe we are better off because of this. I do agree innocent people can be injured, but hoping for bad things to happen to others..not good.

 

I'm fond of pointing out to just about anyone that driving is one of the few things we do on a regular basis as a society that absolutely requires we cooperate with each other to a very high degree. Driving on public streets is not a competition, it's not a race, the streets are not your playground (even though you helped pay for them). I think the various states do a lousy job of reminding everyone of this necessity of cooperative driving. I see a lot of TV ads reminding us that it is the law to wear seat belts, but never ads that encourage working together to make driving safer and less annoying. I remember seeing "Drive friendly" signs years ago all over Texas. They were a nice idea, but not really powerful enough to do any good.

The Lambo driver was not driving friendly.