NBA player crashes his Cadillac Escalade SUV while drunk and watching porn

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Jul 11 2006, 11:45 AM) [snapback]284532[/snapback]</div>

But, but, but...

he is a ceeeeellebrity and Sooooo much more than any of we wee mortals...

 

This gives the phrase 'carjacking' a whole new meaning...

 

I grew up in a large family before the SUV. In those days (70's and 80's) seatbelts were not even enforced by law. That way you could put 10 people in a 6 seatbelt station wagon or 6 people in a single bench pickup.

These days you have to have everyone in a seatbelt, or worse, in a car seat. That makes the enormous gas guzzler necessary for some folk. Big vans are just as inefficent and bad for the environment as a similar sized SUV, so what is the difference?

A friend of mine has adopted 11 special needs children. A real live saint. He had to get a used courtesy bus, which uses more gas than any SUV sold in America.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MarinJohn @ Jul 2 2006, 08:55 AM) [snapback]280104[/snapback]</div>

 

My family was Mom, Dad and us three kids.

They owned a station wagon just once when we were young. Why, I have no idea. After that it was always regular cars. We always sat in the back.

My Sister and her husband have two children. Then have a Van. They sit up front and the two boys (now in High School) sit in the next two seats. No one sits in the back. As far as I know, my sister does not do car pool and never has. Why the big, honkin' Van? Well, they bought it before the SUV craze or I'm sure they would have bought one of those instead.

They don't go camping either.

Could they have managed in a Prius. Resounding yes.

Plenty of families can.

How many SUVs do you see with only one person....the driver?

BTW they had the Van and a Taurus. My sister would chaffeur the boys in the car and her husband drove the Van.....alone.....to work every day.

Stupid.

She wants a Prius. She bought my old Saturn for her oldest boy when he got his license. Now he chaffeurs his brother and she carpools to work to save gas. I told the youngest he had two years to save up to buy my old Prius when I buy the new 2009.

 

Ok, let me see if I've got this straight:

A rich guy is driving shitfaced, jerking off, and crashes. Cops all but trip over themselves to make sure he isn't given a DUI test. People FEEL SORRY for him?!?! Typical arrogant "get out of my way" SUV behaviour.

And a real slamdunk for cops too. If that had been a "regular" person the cops would have thrown the book at him.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hyo silver @ Jul 11 2006, 03:46 PM) [snapback]284554[/snapback]</div>

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

...pretty messed up...

but whats worse is you'd never hear the end of it or live it down either!!!

...yea i agree with doc, you can't hate on people that drive big SUVs, if you had like a huge ego and a fat wallet, you might be driving one too.