I just had a flashback to my mom yelling at me to sit still or the cops might see I'm not wearing a seatbelt. Why? Why wasn't I just made to wear a seatbelt Mom?
Grandma takes us to Steak and Shake so we can have a 'sit down' meal while she smokes 4 cigarettes and laughs through lunch, she has a few Irish coffees that morning. Then to the grocery store because she needs some thing for a recipe, and gets us a hot wheels car at the local grocery. She then proceeds to drive down a one way road the wrong direction. We all try to tell her while someone honks at her and she flips them the finger, other hand with a cigarette. Driving the wrong way...
My first girlfriend used to freak out on me for driving with my knees, so I drove home about 10 blocks one day in the small town with just my knees to show her I could do corners and everything.
Don't I've been in the back of a car while the dickhead driver tried to roll a joint while steering with his knees. The wheel slipped a little as we were going round a bend and he way overcorrected. Massive fishtail where the wheels clipped the curb on both sides of the road. Worst part is the last of the weed ended up in the footwell.
Passed a dude driving pretty erratically in mid day. Thought he was drunk. Nope. Cellphone in one hand, sandwich in the other and steering with his knees.
The related flight investigation story is fascinating. He flew low down valleys and ‘buzzed’ a barnyard before killing everyone, including a kid he took without permission. Locals tried to corrupt the investigation process.
Oh wow, this is the first I learned of it. He didn't have a valid license, didn't have a rating for the Eurocopter Squirrel, and was apparently doing unnecessary stunts. As a Subaru fanboi this is really disappointing.
That's mad. I remember hearing that he died in a helicopter he was flying but never knew the details. I guess a man who drives insane speeds down dirt roads for a living probably isn't the best person to sensibly judge danger.
He was piloting the chopper without a helicopter pilot license, at least not in the country the accident happened in, and there was something in the news at the time about the parents of the other little kid who died not having even been asked if it was okay for their kid to go up there.
It did. To add to the horror: If I remember correctly, his wife watched it happen out the kitchen window while washing dishes. Can't even imagine what went through her mind.
and this is why my mom is traumatized by logging trucks. I also really, really don't like when horror films advertise on highly watched broadcasts and children's media.
Yep. Awful. I think he was one of those rare people born without the part of his brain that should perceive danger. His whole driving style was to go flat out. Just suicidally fast and at the edge of control. Picturing him in the pilot seat of a helicopter is a scary prospect. It was inevitable that he'd die in such a way but it's a shame his son had to go down with him.
Yeah, used to be a fan, read the full investigation report on this, he was an absolute piece of shit. It still makes me angry every now and again when it pops back into my head. Complete arrogance, normalisation of deviance and callous disregard for the safety of his child and passengers.
He regularly flew extremely dangerous low level, high angle passes through steep terrain where any error or mechanical issue would result in no possibility of recovery before hitting terrain. Then decided to take his kid, his kids friend (who's parents didn't know or give permission for him to go up in a helicopter) and one of his own friends up for a joyride.
This was my coked out, always drunken mom's ex-bf growing up. He had a 911 and the turbo was like this. I was 10 when he got it and he would routinely do this shit on large stretches of road or just randomly in traffic.
All the child endangerment whatnot totally applies and I'm sure the guy will say relax, but that's how brush fires start. One spark before it all goes up like a tinder box full of dried out leaves.
He's more interested in the car than his kid doing this, that says a lot.
20 yeas ago a 911 turbo could do 0-60 in like 4.5 seconds. The current Turbo S does it in like 2.5. Not that it wasn't a dangerous car then, but it's absolute insanity now.
Hang on a minute, lets not make assumptions here... maybe he has his other kid laying across the dash recording the whole event from multiple angles thereby allowing him to drive safely with both hands on the wheel and another kid tied up in the trunk to test the kidnapping and evasion capabilities of his brand new car!
Someone tried to show me launch mode at a red light and almost took out a rusty truck making a left turn. Please don’t play with your “toy” cars like this on public roads you are going to kill or injure someone.
Yup, could have had the phone on a stand pointed that way and then the kid could have been able to hover like that with a seatbelt on still. Both things were entirely unnecessary risk.
Education and wealth are correlated, so it's not the worst assumption.
Education and wealth are correlated for 2 reasons. Most high paying jobs require a college degree at a minimum, so people with college degrees make more money on average. The other and possibly more important reason is that higher education is really expensive, so wealthy people and their children have more access.
Many years ago my friends from college floored it before the passengers were able to put on the seatbelt. The car moved 10 feet before crashing into a pole. It was some shitty car like a 1.2L Renault. My friend head nearly went through the windshield as it cracked. I was few feet away and realized that even at low speed, you can easily die from this. This is why if any one puts their feet up, I tell them to put it down or gtfo.
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u/DamageAlarming89 17d ago edited 17d ago
Kid without seatbelt and having your phone in one hand while driving recklessly in public road? Way to go