The epitome of all race drivers, NASCAR drivers, often try drifting as a victory celebration.
I think it’s cool if it doesn’t endanger (unwilling) others.
Was his passenger in on the game?
I don’t get that she feels sorry for him. I don’t. I have more a lot more compassion for the victim and his family and pretty much zero for him but I do know what it’s like to live with things you’ve done until you die. I guess you don’t. I’m glad for you. Keep making the right choices and hope you don’t fuck up. Because guess what? There’s a whole world of people just like you waiting to judge you. Walk a few miles and you might see some things to change your mind. Or maybe not. Just my 2 cents.
But somehow, I doubt that you continued the behavior that got you into trouble. Sounds like you learned from your mistakes.
Unlike Nickybrat.
Did you miss the part where he deliberately LIED about his victim’s condition, and on a street-racing forum to boot? Y’know, where he implied that the guy just bumped his head and is gonna be just fine, when in fact the passenger had his skull crushed and will be a vegetable for life?
From what I’ve read, the passenger (John?) was in on the game, along for the ride and the thrill. A lot of guys ride shotgun for fun. That doesn’t excuse Nick, who at the least should have insisted on the belt, but it’s not like the victim was an innocent bystander.
If I’ve missed something, tell me about it.
Where did you read that?
The Hogans claim that their group was simply on their quiet, orderly, speed-limit-abiding way to a dinner meeting at a restaurant, and that no speeding or racing was going on at all. Nick just skidded a bit on a puddle, going a mere 45 mph. John just bumped his head a bit, that’s all. He’s gonna be just fine. That’s what the Hogans are saying.
There is no way that kid was going 45, no matter what the Bollea’s would have you believe. I live in Clearwater, drive down Court St. every day. People have a tendency to zip through the lights and switch lanes to get around slower people. Add pedestrians and cyclists in the mix, and it’s NOT a road you want to speed on.
Posts #25, 33, &40. Plus the videos linked. Something about the damage being similar to that in a "drifting wreck. Guess I somehow got those mixed up with the accident.
Never the less, John should have been belted, and Nick should have insisted.
I think that if you are responsible for injuries resulting in a coma or vegetative state lasting, say six months, you should be tried for manslaughter.
Yeah, I do. I think the whole thing is tragic and I feel sorry for everyone involved. As for Nick’s comments, perhaps that’s what he thought was true at that time. Maybe the diagnosis hadn’t been made yet. Maybe Nick was in denial about the situation. I don’t think it makes him some kind of homicidal maniac because he was irresponsible and caused a terrible accident. It could have just as easily been him in a coma instead of the friend. I can’t pretend to know every detail of what happened or how Nick and his family are handling it. Neither can anyone else.
Just because I feel empathy towards a kid who is going to have to live with this tragedy forever doesn’t mean I don’t also feel compassion and sympathy towards the injured kid and his whole family. There’s enough sorry to go around.
I feel somewhat sorry for the kid because he had his own mother cheering him on, and doing the same shit herself. It takes a certain level of maturity to understand that your parents are seriously fucked up, and a certain amount of time. Multiply these things when your parents are famous and surrounded by toadies, and it seems to me that Nick didn’t have much of chance to grow up and learn rationality.
He’s another Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie, but they are luckier in that they haven’t actually destroyed anyone. Yet. And their parents didn’t turn them on to an insanely dangerous street game.