09-14-2023, 10:10 AM
(09-13-2023, 10:01 PM)PDub80 Wrote: I didn't see the video... Was he doing this in traffic? Was there oncoming traffic? Were there people in the lanes? Were pedestrians about?
Not excusing it - but there are degrees of reckless. If he's endangering just himself and his property along with a guardrail and some grass.... I don't give a rip what he's doing on the highway. Same thing if a motorcyclist wants to hit 150MPH on an open highway.... That's his life & property he's endangering, not others. Now, weaving in and out of traffic, playing chicken into other people's lanes, etc? That endagers other people and the consequences are horrific.
To sit here and pretend no one reading this has gone 100+ miles an hour and are following all traffic laws at all times is naive to me.
I believe in your personal freedom to do whatever crap you want that doesn't affect society around you in any meaningful way. Is there a better way to instantly free up $4.5mil of cap space than a fireball of high speed glory? I think not!
I wasn't able to see the video myself, only reading descriptions of it. It sounds like the video was just of his speedometer approaching 170, or something similar to that. However, the video was posted in the afternoon. Maybe it was a recording of him, maybe it was old. However, if he posted it around the time he recorded it, then yeah, there were probably people on the highway at that point.
Quote:To sit here and pretend no one reading this has gone 100+ miles an hour and are following all traffic laws at all times is naive to me.
No one has said anything like this except for you. No one is claiming that they have never gone fast and always follow traffic laws. We are all saying that it is stupid to do something like this, even if that person is by themselves. If they are okay with killing themselves, then okay, at least they understand the consequences. However, I am willing to bet that most people who get up and drive that fast don't go through the thought process of "Okay, this could end my life and I am prepared to accept that" but rather think "Oh man, this will be fun." There is also the fact that whenever the person does eventually die and mangle their bodies, it could do some real damage to the people who have to come and clean them up.
