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How Not To Travel in A Convoy

Old Nov 30, 2004 | 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by LJinNC
A few points I'd like to make:

1. Don't drive like this: It's stupid.
2. Don't record your own illegal actions (or those of your friends, unless you intend to provide the cops with evidence). How stupid can you get?
3. If you must **** off a cop by arguing the law at the side of the road, be prepared to go to jail now.
4. If you drive like this and get caught, hire a lawyer.
5. Don't drive like this: It's stupid. If you do, you deserve worse than these kids will likely get.

-- Lee
Yeah, I could NOT agree with you more, Lee. At the ripe old age of 22 and a former ricer myself - hey, Honda's WERE the car to get 5 years ago, okay? - these kids deserve all the trouble they caused on film. It wasn't even half a decade ago when I was driving just as reckless as they were and not caring one bit about my actions. My parents struggled to get me to slow down, learn DEFENSIVE not OFFENSIVE driving, and get smart, but it was the huge accident I was involved in that "sobered" me up from my dilusions of street racing being "cool."

Unfortunately, young drivers are not prone to listening to adults when it comes to hooking up their cool ride and NOT taking the action to the streets. I have started speaking at high schools and to groups of new drivers about the dangers of street racing, and I wish I could do more to get the point across - if I could get paid for doing it so that I might be able to spare more time as an advisor, I would in a heartbeat. I almost killed my two best friends I've known since pre-school that night, but thank god no one was hurt. I learned instantly from that accident to never put others in danger while driving, and hopefully viewers of a video like that will too.... chances are, they won't however....

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm no angel. I can vouch for the 135mph speed limiter on the MCS, but I'm not an idiot doing it in traffic in the middle of the day. As a side note, good for VW drivers getting in the spotlight for once - I got really tired of people bashing Honda drivers all the time for their stupid actions....


and to show there are no hard feelings (i hate all idiot drivers equally)....
 
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