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sheikurbouti - 2008-06-22

You may want to turn away.


kingarthur - 2008-06-22

I can't stand how people view these sorts of things as tragedy. This is not tragedy. This is a guy who knew the risks of a 300 mph funny car. It's like when someone gets eaten by a shark, everyone gets all mopey and mumbles about how tragic it is. It's not tragic, it's the food chain.

Now I can understand being sad about it, I'm just a cold bastard that has a problem with calling the highly likely a tragedy.


Caminante Nocturno - 2008-06-22

It's only tragic if you know them.


Desidiosus - 2008-06-22

At least you're not a lawyer salivating at the thought of launching a wrongful death suit. I'm sure there were several who came in their pants watching this.


Unsung - 2008-06-22

Don`t cut yourself on the edge there, man.


Syd Midnight - 2008-06-22

I'm pretty sure PoeTV has figured that out, since we're watching a man die for entertainment value.


nonplusplus - 2008-06-22

just world fallacy + hindsight bias = the darwin awards


Cleaner82 - 2008-06-24

Everyone knows that when people that take risks die, it is not a tragedy. That's in the Bible somewhere.


Caminante Nocturno - 2008-06-22

This is how every racing game I've ever played ends, either through frustration or sadism.


Jefka - 2008-06-22

They show it anyway because the risk of a fatal crash is one of the only thrills to be found in watching this shit.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND SCOTT KALITTA


Maggot Brain - 2008-06-22

He died doing what he love and on fire. We should all be as lucky.


zatojones - 2008-06-22

imagine if he loved being on fire. this would be the perfect death


kiint - 2008-06-22

GET THE SHELL! GET THE SHELL, BOY.......!!!!!!


FABIO2 - 2008-06-22

We don't have enough road to get up to 88.


Road? Where we're going, we won't need r--*BOOM*


Mad Struggle - 2008-06-22

Damn you, I was planning on making a BTTF reference right until I scolled over your post.


Charles - 2009-03-30

I like to imagine that Scott Kalitta actually looked exactly like Christopher Lloyd. Also, this is the only way Christopher Lloyd can die.


Big Name Celebrity - 2008-06-22

One less idiot wasting gasoline....

I don't care if it would be "insignificant", all I know is that if "motorsports" were ended, gas would get cheaper.


drcrypt - 2008-06-22

Uh. No. It wouldn't. At ALL.


Ursa_minor - 2008-06-22

They run nitromethane, retard.


Ursa_minor - 2008-06-22

Also, the yearly gasoline expenditure of all the "motorsports" in america would probably equal that the yearly gasoline expenditure of 1 or 2 operating diesel tractor-trailers. Pick your battles.


Mike Tyson?! - 2008-06-22

I was beaten to this already, but they don't even run on the same fuel any highway vehicle does.


CornOnTheCabre - 2008-06-22

Well then what the hell are they doing wasting all our nitromethane?! Traffic wouldn't even be an issue if we were all going 300 miles per hour.


athodyd - 2008-06-22

"Motorsports" have brought us all-wheel drive, disc and antilock brakes, seatbelts, safety cages, the rear-view mirror, and pretty much all gear speeds above 2nd.

Clearly this barbaric waste of gasoline should be brought to an end as soon as possible.


Ursa_minor - 2008-06-22

Most of all, because he wastes nitromethane, he deserved to die.


zatojones - 2008-06-22

who would have thought that riding a car-like sled with a supercharged, nitro burning, V8 engine strapped to a frame that weighs slightly less than a fart at 300 mph would be dangerous?


Udderdude - 2008-06-22

Who put that concrete wall there? You think it'd just be open track for miles in case of something like this.


SolRo - 2008-06-22

drag racing has just about the worst safety measures possible.

the drivers safety is almost 100% dependant on how well his car is built, the track is basicly a long piece of road with highway barriers on the sides.


Syd Midnight - 2008-06-22

I'd think a long stretch of mud at the end would be more logical than a wall. It's like BASE jumping onto concrete while carrying a barrel of burning rocket fuel.


RockBolt - 2008-06-22

I've only ever seen the drag track out on the front range in Colorado, there it keeps going a long long way past the finish line, but then again they have a lot of space to work with


Scrotum H. Vainglorious - 2008-06-23

Agreed, there should be a jump ramp at the end.


HURF BLURF DUH - 2008-06-23

Yee haw


Chancho - 2008-06-22

Probably less risky than driving every day


StanleyPain - 2008-06-22

I'm less bothered by people calling this a "tragedy" than the people who try to take these kinds of accidents and extrapolate them into "this man is a hero."

That's the point where racing fans go into their loony-bin fucktardedness.


Cleaner82 - 2008-06-24

He heroically drove in a circle with the word "Pepsi" on his car for our sins.


Begbie - 2008-06-22

Toda la gente que acude a esta clase de eventos, lo hace con la intención de ver algo como esto... por lo menos esta vez no se sintieron defraudados.


mr666 - 2008-06-22

Sin duda algunas personas esperaban esto


mr666 - 2008-06-22

Hooray! I got to see how much of my high school Spanish I remembered!


Hooper_X - 2008-06-23

ayep.

that's pretty much the risk every one of those dudes takes every time they get in one of those things. I'm pretty sure he had no idea what the fuck even hit him, just YEAH VROOOO-










keinsignal - 2008-10-02

No one will ever fall in love with a nitro burning funny car
No one will ever eat lunch with a nitro burning funny car.


sparklefatty - 2009-01-24


They took it down. Probably because it's worth too much money to put it up on youtube for free.


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