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KaptKaos
post Jan 31 2008, 02:37 PM
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Its about that kid that launched the M5 off the runway and died. Evidently, he was on a forum, not unlike this one. The M5 board seems to be down right now.

Since I can't read the forum, and see what people were posting, I'll need to wait until it's online. But I can't help but think that maybe someone could have reasoned with him not to drive so fast. Terribly sad.
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post Jan 31 2008, 02:47 PM
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My brother has the M6 version of that car. I can't imagine handing that car over to an 18 yo kid. Terrible story, I'm sure the father is devastated by his loss and its only going to get worse when the other families get involved.
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post Jan 31 2008, 02:48 PM
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I know it's sad and all... But what a fucking retard. Who flies a BMW off of an airstrip at 140+?
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post Jan 31 2008, 02:51 PM
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Valid points.

My reason for posting this was that as a forum, we need to recognize this stuff when it happens. Granted "most" 914s aren't as fast as that M5, we need to be on the lookout for that kind of thing.
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post Jan 31 2008, 03:06 PM
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I wouldn't give a kid any type of performance car until he found his brain.....it took me until I was in my 30s. No comments from the peanut gallery.....

Hopefully, other kids in his neck of the woods will learn from his fatal mistake. It's a tragedy that mistakes like this have to happen to wise up the kids AND the parental units.
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post Jan 31 2008, 04:24 PM
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One of my other cars is a Ford Focus. Back in 2001 when I bought it I used to post on a board dedicated to these cars. A lot of those posting on the board were young kids, a lot of them who bought their own cars, not daddy's hand out. There was this one kid, barely 18 who went by "NasThug" and he had his Focus modified to the max. He would post stories about taking certain freeway off ramps at high speed, and similar tales. The kid just couldn't slow down, and I think everyone suspected that it would to a bad end.

NasThug gave up on the Ford after a while, but some of the folks kept track of him. It was the Summer of 2004 that an article was published in the Fresno Bee about a kid on a sport bike. Single vehicle crash over 100 mph on a straight country road.

It was damn sad at his funeral.
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post Jan 31 2008, 04:29 PM
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Anyone can get in a car a GO fast. It takes experience and know how to get in the same car and be able to DRIVE fast. Unfortunetly this sort of thing happens all the time.
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post Jan 31 2008, 07:36 PM
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This kids bragadocious attitude reminds me alot of someone here.........
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post Jan 31 2008, 07:56 PM
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Bummer...Just bummer.
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post Jan 31 2008, 08:15 PM
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Well, I am almost 21 and my most powerful car is 115hp. I say the father was a moron and the son was ignorant. My father's car is only an a4 1.8 turbo and even though he leaves the keys at home for a week when he is on business I have never taken the car out without his permission.

As to him being behind the wheel? I am gonna say it shouldn't even be legal. I will admit to pulling stupid stuff in my car. I flog the celica sometimes just for fun, and probably the main reason I haven't killed myself is because its not powerful enough to get into trouble quickly in. I have learned a lot of this car, and have plenty more ontop of that before I will be ready to move up.
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post Jan 31 2008, 08:22 PM
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Sounds like to me you were brought up right. Congradulations on being intelligent and respectful, two things that seem to be missing in alot of todays "youth".
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post Jan 31 2008, 08:42 PM
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Pretty sad....I don't know too much to say other than I am glad I made it through those years alive.
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post Jan 31 2008, 08:47 PM
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I made it through those years because I had to drive a 55 Ford with a straight 6. What a pig that was.
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post Jan 31 2008, 08:59 PM
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The accident happened just north of the Tampa area and has been a popular subject at the lunch table. From what I've read in the local papers, he was posting on a BMW board and asking a lot of questions about going fast. There was a number of quotes from other members that the young man shouldn't try to drive his car very fast as he is very young and inexperieced. Evidently, youth and peer-pressure won out. This airport is actually private property and part of a subdivision that the owners all own their own planes. It's also the subdivision that John Travolta lives at, along with his 707 and Lear jet. We still haven't found out if the parents live there or if he snuck onto the runway.

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post Jan 31 2008, 09:33 PM
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The accident happened just north of the Tampa area and has been a popular subject at the lunch table. From what I've read in the local papers, he was posting on a BMW board and asking a lot of questions about going fast. There was a number of quotes from other members that the young man shouldn't try to drive his car very fast as he is very young and inexperieced. Evidently, youth and peer-pressure won out. This airport is actually private property and part of a subdivision that the owners all own their own planes. It's also the subdivision that John Travolta lives at, along with his 707 and Lear jet. We still haven't found out if the parents live there or if he snuck onto the runway.

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From what I have read, the kids GF lived there, but he did not. However, several reports said that late night runs were not all that uncommon on the runway, and that there was little security on it.

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post Jan 31 2008, 10:05 PM
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When I was 18 I was driving a '68 bug with 60 something HP.
This story is sad, but it's Darwin's law, thinning out the gene pool.
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post Jan 31 2008, 10:06 PM
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I was talked into selling an 18 yr old kid my M3. He reduced it to rubble is 30 days after an agument with his GF. The driver lost control and was ejected from the car. His friend rode it out. The passanger got 6 stitches and a concusion. The driver walked away.

All kids are not the same. My 16 year old son drove this car to school every day for two years without a ticket or accident.


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post Jan 31 2008, 11:29 PM
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Rick,

What happened to the driver's side airbag in the M3?
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post Jan 31 2008, 11:43 PM
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Rick,

What happened to the driver's side airbag in the M3?


You mean his wife was driving?
















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post Jan 31 2008, 11:51 PM
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At 16 I was riding a motorcycle through the streets of Santa Maria without a care in the world.... then I started seeing wrecks and having friends of friends die in accidents and slowly it started hitting home. Its the FEAR of what you know that CAN happen that slows you down. At 16 or 18, you just don't know and it only takes one bad decision to end it.

A tragedy for sure, that will likely never end for the families (and their attorneys).
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