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Originally Posted by neutral
I'm all for constructive criticism, except when it's not actually constructive. Nothing you've said in this rant of yours adds any value to the conversation, and nothing you've said is anything I haven't already thought myself. I am extremely happy I didn't injure my passenger, and stayed up thinking about it and beating myself up over it the night of the accident. I felt horrible. I didn't even know how to apologize because I felt so insanely guilty for what I did. As I said earlier, I made a bad decision. Consider yourself lucky for apparently never doing so yourself.
I'm also all for scare tactics, except when they don't really apply to the situation at hand. I'm not really "lucky" for not ending up like those people in that video. They were going 200kph (124mph) and doing something that any sane person would call MUCH more stupid than the idiocy I attempted. But hey, at least my accident incited enough self-righteousness in you to make you join the forum! So welcome!  |
Yup, it sure did. I joined just so I can get some words in. Of course I applaud you for having the balls in coming forward, and you do seem genuinely sincere. I'm just sharing what I want to say, like I said, it might be harsh. I'm obviously a car enthusiast myself, you obviously are too, but to be enthusiastic, you still have to drive responsibly. Well, like I said, it seems like you got your sh!t together, so it's good because I've seen/known a fair share of crappy drivers, and it just pisses me off so much as to how the hell do these guys even get a drivers license. You may not fall into that group from what I read, but what happened just hit a nerve for me because I sure in hell don't want my friend or kid being the passenger or even near your car when that happened.
Consider myself lucky that I haven't done anything like that? PUL-EASE.
Luck had nothing to do with me thinking things through before doing something stupid. Even if I wanted to do something stupid in my car back in highschool or something, I couldn't because my car was a POS.
So the whole point of the video is...even if they are going at 200km (124 mph), they got 7 rolls in. Not very scientific, but divide those together, and you get 1 roll/17.7mph. So I'm just saying, it not impossible if you rolled your car at least once if you didn't hit the telephone pole and instead clipped a curb or something. The telephone pole may have been your saving grace.