As they appear to be from some middle eastern oil-rich nation judging by some of the videos. You can find them on Youtube, Google video, or the specific video I saw at Metacafe - link to actual video.
In this video two guys get thrown from the car after it goes off the road and crashes into then flips over a burm.
What I don’t get is why don’t these bozos at least wear seat belts ?
With the kind of money they have and the kind of cars they regularily destroy they could easily have roll cages and 5 point harnesses installed.
Hell, for the kind of money they plow through they could build themselves a safe race track to play around on and they wouldn’t be at the dealer every other day buying a new car to drift into ditches with.
Maybe they get bonus points from Allah for drifitng off into the afterlife, or maybe they just started listening to American Rock and Roll and specifically Puddle of Mudd’s “Drift and Die”?
Whatever the case, these retards need to find a better way to rip through $80,000 while putting themselves in traction for several months, if they’re lucky.
Either that, or start using HD camcorders so the video quality is better than the typical camera phone video that you can find of this sort of activity. That way the rest of the world can better see where our oil money is really going, :dubious:
into eighty-thousand dollar Benzes that get bought just to wreck 'em.
People are idiots. So, what was your point again? That these are middle-eastern idiots? Every country has it’s share.
Sure, but they get to spend $80,000 on their stupidity, maybe I’m jealous.
I would be if they didn’t do it so stupidly. At least wear seatbelts people!!
Plus, I’ve seen many videos of this same sort of thing, almost like it happens so often over there that it’s a right of passage or something. Or an initiation of some sort.
Do we know for sure that they were trying to drift?
If rich people want to risk their lives, it doesn’t bother me any; with three provisions:
They don’t hurt any innocent bystanders.
They don’t ruin anything irreplaceable.
They don’t drive up the price of nice cars.
If they want to buy a Mercedes and trash it, go ahead. I’d much rather that money find its way to auto workers in Stuttgart than buried in a coffee can in their backyard.
(That’s not all entirely true. For anyone who gets killed this way, I have sympathy for their family and friends, and I realize what a waste of potential it is. But the decisions, and the risks, are ultimately theirs to bare.)
Just a quick FYI, the stupidity isn’t limited to the Middle East.
From the Darwin Awards slush pile. No fatalities, but only by the direct intervention of some diety.