QUOTE(Ferg @ Aug 27 2015, 04:40 PM)
So tell me, if he was your brother or a close friend, would you still be calling him names?
ABSOLUTELY!!! Even more so, and to their face!
And
especially if someone did it that should know better, like RacerChris**, he'd NEVER hear the end of it from me!
Because it was stoooopid to:
- Drive race tires on the street that do not get sticky until they heat up (and he should know that, since he is an "instructor"*) despite the fact that, technically, they're DOT-approved (I don't think there's a rating for "DOT-smart");
- Drive around a (non-blind!) corner on a thin, no-shoulder, public two-lane road at excessive speeds without any form of crowd control, which...
- ...caused him to lose control and swing wide against said traffic, thus...
- ...forcing him to take an evasive maneuver that was well above his capabilities, and...
-...risk the safety of not only himself, and his passenger, but that of two other vehicles that were nearly hit by him, not to mention that of the pedestrian(s) standing immediately to the side of the road.
Harsh? Hardly. Dude was damned lucky that all he did was wrinkle his 911 and a trailer.
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Just trying to figure out if he was a "tool" before the accident or because of it?
"Because". Toolness is earned. Public toolness is shamed. Publicly.
GA
*Never mind.
**But he wouldn't, because he's not that much of a tool.