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Street Racing, Death by Ego

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Devo in Just Dumb

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There are a lot of things that always amaze me and surely always will, one of these is street racing. No, not a bunch of guys getting together late at night to have drag competitions, but the guys in their little cars with big tail pipes, baseball caps on backwards, and drivers seats as far back as they will go. The guys that alone or with a car full of friends decide to put the metal down anywhere and rocket down the road usually many times the speed limit.

Anyone can be driving wherever and minding their own business and suddenly one of these cars just blows by you. You know it because all you had time to do is gasp “holy f&*%”!

It’s a mentality spreading like a virus that enters the body instantly when guys get together and talk fast cars, then transforms the brain much like an addictive narcotic does, giving the driver the name of their favorite race car driver. Astonishing isn’t it! Now, I’m certainly not making a joke of something I find totally outlandish so don’t take my sarcasm in any other way than that.

How about reality. The street racing law as we have it in Ontario comes into effect when you are caught 50k/h (30 miles/h) over the posted speed limit. Some say that that’s not really that much for a street racing law, but if I say driving 50k/h over the limit in a 50k/h (30 miles/h) zone, a zone very popular in and around residential areas, areas with a lot of pedestrians, areas with a lot of traffic lights and you now find yourself at highway speed.

Recently there was a 20 something guy clocked at 210k/h in a 80k/h zone (130miles/hr in a 50mile/hr zone). Does this make any sense? Does he know how far you travel ever 2 seconds? If he did the math maybe he would think, something he and all the others clearly don’t do too often. Do they know what they will do to another car if they hit it at that speed? Maybe I’ll answer that question with another. Do they care?

Watch NASCAR or F1 (I prefer F1) and look at the facts. They drive very fast indeed, but they have trained for this for a long long time. They drive cars meant to drive that fast. They drive on controlled tracks where the only other drivers on the track are professional race car drivers. They have more in the way of safety regulations than you can shake a stick at.

To those who do this ‘dumb’ and criminal behavior I hope you are fully prepared for all of the very harsh consequences when you kill someone. If you kill yourself, oh well.

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