Teenage stupidity at its best
 

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Kind of brings back my brother and his best friend racing motorcycles in a parking lot, the results were more graphic

I doubt this is an age related thing?

"You're going to jail anyway..." :lol:


I like American people! :mdr:

Wow...Stupid ricers. :lol: :lol: :lol:

That GTO is pretty damned sturdy, more of a basher than a ricer.

I don't see a GTO, just a 3000GT and a Civic I do believe. :neutral:

"O"h, then Mitsubushi called the 3000GT the 3000GTO "O"ver here, whatever its called in your locality it looks 911 tough! Though I bet that active chin spoiler still cost a pretty penny to put right.

Future hit and run
 

What a bunch of idiots. These young men have now built up their courage to do more down the road and will more than likely be seen on COPS some day soon. Their next televised event will probably be a hit & run man slaughter, because they will end up hitting some poor pedestrian of inocent passer-by and killing them. If you want to race, then create sanctioned events run at a track and do it responsibly. Unfortunately it will not really sink in until someone dies because of their selfish stupidity.

Thats old...I saw that back in 2001

I don't live on YT like you do, it was new to my eyes.

lol...bunch of dumbasses.

That was before youtube was even existed

Saw that before, I laughed pretty hard the first dozen or so times I watched it (one after another after another, it is so great!) Jerry, I don't think it's that severe. Just because they were screwing off in a parking lot doesn't mean that they're going to become bank robbers. They're just a couple idiots that put a folgers can on an import and thought they were speed racer and crashed due to a complete and total lack of competance, that's all.

I cannot fathom a suitable sequence of grammatical characters to properly iterate how utterly flabbergasted I am pertaining proprietarily to the incomprehensible absurdity I latterly became apprised of!

Stellar show! My man, you are obviously a connoisseur of the literary English language.

I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out that a so-called "run on sentence" is not always such, and that this is usually a matter of one's own perception and bias, so it would be unfair to call it as such, insomuch as our beloved English instructors would deem just, there really is no such thing as a run on sentence, because aren't we just living one long sentence, punctuated only by commas, with there being only one period, which never seems to come, yet we are to fill the page with periods, as if

Great stuff niiiiiitro, stupid teens could learn a thing or two.

You've never met my girlfriend have you? :mdr: More like never seems to go away...

Ah yeah well there is that...

Don't it make ya proud to be a man tho!

Very much so...

Haha thanks guys! I learned a thing or two myself writing that one! I had to look up a few of them to make sure they were being used in the proper context... Funny thing is, I can only "speak" that way when I have enough time to put together a sentence. During real-time conversation it's all but impossible for me to communicate in such exquisite literary detail...

:lol:

Disagree
 

I have to disagree with you there. Did you not see the inocent vehicles arrive in the parking lot while they were racing? It doen't look like it was an abandoned parking lot way off in the countryside. There were things going on around them suggesting that it was near restaraunts and shopping areas. Thats the problem with stuff like this. No one thinks its a big deal until some stray little kid wonders into the area and gets killed trying to see whats going on. Just my 2 cents anyway. Nothing to argue over.

I would honestly have to agree. I'm usually the LAST to complain about street racing and all, since I do on a regular basis, BUT....I would NEVER do it in a parking lot that wasn't COMPLETELY empty, with no risk of hurting anyone aside from myself, or on a empty road with nobody around and so forth. People have to realize, when it comes to racing, regardless of where you are (YES, even a track) somebody can always get hurt. Freak accidents do happen. Regardless, what they where doing is simply stupid and is only asking for trouble (duh! look at what happened...) and its stupid ricers like that who make the streetracing penalties so harsh, even for people who do it safely for lack of a track, yada yada. For christ sake, those damn ricers got so bad in California that if you get caught racing out there, they can CRUSH your vehicle for a FIRST offense. How ridiculous is that? Whats even worse is if they don't crush it, the police use them for a streetracing task force that go around and initiate a race then bust the person they try to start the race with! Sorry, but all this kinda pisses me off. [/rant]:whip:

I mean watch this shit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnmjVKlCHB0
If that were my car I would KILL somebody. Now granted, I think all Civic's should be crushed just like that, but hey its and principle of the matter. If you can't tell I hate imports. :lol:

Ok, now I HAVE a problem with that.

Sorry. I just can't stand em. :whistle:

I'm embarrassed to admit I was a passenger in an accident not unlike that one back in the day...very much a slow motion "why is this happening?" moment

Done things
 

I am sure that we can all share things that we have participated in that we are not proud of. I think the character of a man is not only in how they learn from the mistakes they make, but more so in finding ways to avoid repeating those mistakes and helping others to not make those same errors in judgement. That is what makes us so special compared to the animals of the wild. Growing up is never an easy task, but it is with the efforts of our elders that we can learn( if we could only listen) to strive for a better life, and avoid getting involved in things that are either simply bad, or maybe out of our realm of control once we start the ball rolling. Watching these types of videos makes most of us shutter at the thought of even trying something like this. Unfortunately some look at these clips as a means of "One Upping" the last guy. We are by nature very competitive and are always trying to improve upon the one ahead of us. These acts shared in these videos are just plain stupidity at its worst. Just because Jonny is moronic enough to do something so ignorant, does not mean that you have to follow him by trying to duplicate his idiocy or even adding more danger to the act. Of course this may just be part of that thing we call "The Natural Selection of Population Control". Unfortunately it is not the participants who sacrifice their lives. It is the inocent bi-standers who pay the ultimate price for the stupidity of others.

I never showed y'all the CRX I became paralyzed in. This thread seems worthy..

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Now you done it.
 

OK well you opened the door now Harold. Please share your story with us. What happened? If you don't mind? I have always been curious about why you are in that chair, but it is a tough question to ask sometimes. I would not wish that on anyone, but sometimes sharing these things can help stop future tragities like this. We consider you a friend in here young man and it might help others to know what your story is.:eyes:

Well, there isn't a whole lot to it. It happened on August 13th 2001, at about 1pm. A bright and warm summer day. I was sober as a judge.

I was heading to my parents house, so it was a very comfortable road for me. I dropped the hammer on my little ricer and was doing about 90mph up a large hill. On that same hill was an old farm semi pulling a fully loaded grain trailer, dropping gears and only going about 10mph. I nailed the back of his trailer. He only stopped because he thought he "blew a tire or something"

That day is gone from my memory. I've peiced as much together as I just told you from people that saw me that day and the accident report. I can only imagine I was fiddling with the radio. Like they say, most accidents occur close to home, where you are comfortable and drop your guard.

Now, the crazy part is that I never injured my spine. I was airlifted to the nearest trauma center, and actually was helped to WALK to the helicopter. But not wearing a seatbelt and slamming into the steering wheel made my heart slosh around in my chest, and my aorta was ripped from my heart. During the ensuing heart surgery no oxygen flowed to my spine, and it was oxygen deprivation that caused my paralysis.

I was told that the survival rate of an aortic dissection is less than 3% nationwide.

They knew ther was like a 30% chance that the heart surgery would cause paralysis, but it was that or die.

So I was paralyzed from the chest down as I am today, but 3 days after the heart surgery I was awake and had full normal use of my arms. I fed myself, I signed things, I was ready to get on with life. Then my brain started to swell, and I slowly lost my arm movement. By day 5 after the accident I was completely paralyzed from the neck down, hooked to breathing machines and a feeding tube was placed in my stomach. Nobody could say if I'd ever get any better.

For the next 4 months I was completely paralyzed. At this point the brain swelling had gone down, and a doctor asked me if I could move my fingers. I knew I couldn't, so I mouthed NO! to him and sent him out of my room.

The next day my mom asked me, "did you even try to move your fingers?". The answer was no. So I tried and miraculously I could move them a little bit. From there it was 6 months in a rehab hospital regaining use of my hands and arms, and then 11 months in a rehab center.

To this day I have no feeling in my hands (I can't reach in a bag of chips and grab one, I need to be able to see it) and have a weak upper body, but compared to a lot of people I am very fortunate to have the arm and hand use that I have. I am classified as a c-5 quadriplegic. I am completely dead from the nipples down.

(quadriplegic does not mean full paralysis, rather if you split the body into four quadrants all four of those quadrants have been affected by my particular paralysis, just not completely on my upper half)

So, here I am today 8 1/2 years out and I'm doing okay. I've spent most of the last 2 1/2 years on bedrest because of pressure sores, but I am alive. I just got a new wheelchair with a custom built seat that is supposed to help alleviate the pressure sores, so I'm hopeful to get up and about and live as much life as is possible.

The custom back was over $6,000 and the wheelchair was over $23,000. Say what you will about the U.S. government and taxes, without either I'd be rotting away in a corner.

That's a summary of the last 8 1/2 years of my life. Any questions?

I'll just shut up now except to say "Wear your seatbelt kids"

Harold, I applaud you for sharing your story with us. Looking at your car, I'm amazed you're even alive & the statistics you've used agree with me

It's not much I know (& I'm sure I speak on behalf of many others) but how you handle yourself & the humour you employ in doing so is both humbling & inspiring

Thanks. I was pretty arrogant before my accident, and wouldn't be who I am today without my lifes experiences. There are so many right here in this great country that have it way worse off than I do. I have good friend and family support, and many lacked even that when I was in the rehab center, despite greater injuries than I had.

And then to think of third world countries where I simply would have been written off makes me realize I am lucky.

It could always be worse.

Friends and family are what life is about, be the best person you can be, then in a time of need they will be there for you.

See, that's what I'm talking about :yes:

Well...
 

Well Harold thank you very much for sharing your story with us:gasp:. Now we finally have an idea of what you have been through and why you are dealing with such tough circumstances:oh:. Considering what you have been through and what you have had to deal with you are a great source of encouragement, knowledge, and humor to all of us here on RCM:yes:. We are glad that you are here with us and not haging around at the TRX forum. We all know that there have been some on here who have come and gone and even come back again, and we hardly missed them. Then there are Gents like yourself who make comming to RCM everyday part of our regular routine worth while. Please stick around and keep us in stiches as you usually do Sir. We can only pray that young men like yourself would listen to us old folk and learn from our experiences so things like that could be avoided. I am happy to know that you are doing as well as can be expected considering. So get some pics of that new HOTROD you are running around in and let us see what our hard earned tax dollars are going to. snap snap get a move on:whip: since we know you can get around much faster now:lol:.

I don't mind my tax dollars helping people like Harold. This those fat ass lazy SOB's sitting at their apartments with a slight leg injury and 4 kids while watching there 42" plasma from Wal-Mart courtesy of me. :whip:

I remember you telling us some of this story before and at the end had some questions like 'why, what does it all mean?'. That's a pretty braod question but I think snippets like this can help fill the gap. To hear about someone growing as a person warms the heart, no matter what walk of life.
I didn't know you had no feeling in your hands. Does that make it hard when your fiddling with screws etc.. in rc? and what about typing posts? I made a joke recently about your paralyzed hands, didn't know how close I was. :oh: Upside is- when you have a domestic with linc and bitch slap him, it don't sting :tongue:

Great poke
 

Now that was funny. Made me laugh thinking about Harold wearing a dress bitch slapping James around the parking lot. Sorry James you know it was funny. Sorry for your pain and your losses Harold. Nothing we can do about that now, but you are here with good people and if there is anything that we can you to help you out, please post up. I've never even met you, but I consider you my friend Sir. I hope whatever God has in mind for you that it makes you feel proud of who you have become. Your positive slant on things is what makes me like who you are. Glad your hanging out here with us.

Yeah, it makes things more difficult. So much of any mechanical situation is done by feel. So it takes me a little longer. I've always been a "hunt and peck" typer so that isn't a lot different.

Because of muscle memory I'm pretty decent with a remote now, but until my muscles learned I had to look up at the r/c then down at the remote and repeat that over and over again. Occasionly I'd look down and the remote had dropped to my lap. Woops!

Linc fully takes advantage of my hands. I don't know what else to say about that.:neutral: