(05-16-2013, 04:16 AM)ryoken Wrote: You are right. So why put it,and others at risk by being an arse, and cutting off a vehical 10times your weight, and size? Just because you want to get ahead, or home 2 minutes faster?
Not saying i look for cars to crush, but i will not risk myself for tools, when i know i am safer in the bigger, stronger, heavier vehicle.
Just last week in Toronto where i live some 18year old in a acura cut off a big rig. The truck swerved to avoid, went into a concrete pillar of an over pass, and was killed as the 60000 pounds of pipe he was hauling crushed his cab, and leaving his wife a widow, and 3 kids fatherless.
Now tell me who is the more evil?
Wait. Just wait.
Did the driver of the Acura cut off the semi driver KNOWING it would lead to his death? I highly doubt it.
It's called an accident. A tragic one to be sure, but an accident none the less.
People make mistakes. That's expected. Most of them don't brag about them on public forums, but to each his own I suppose.
Glad I'm not driving the same roads as you is all I can say.
Sorry look up accident.
An accident is something that cannot be avoided. That was something that with a little patience, or respect of other drivers could have been avoided.
Also the law also seen it as avoidable, and the kid was charged with vehicular manslaughter, and such.
Meh, semantics. I'm quite certain that the guy did not intend to kill the truck driver.
Perhaps mistake is a better word, but there are mistakes with UNINTENTIONAL consequences.
That's neither here nor there, though. I just don't agree with joking about crushing 5 cars under my semi, and it certainly wouldn't be something I would brag about.
I'm sure the owners of those cars, regardless of the mistakes that were made, didn't think it was so funny.
Any car accident is serious business....I'm awestruck that a grown man thinks its something worth bragging about, and a semi-driver no less.
Meh...just meh.
Did not intend to kill the driver. Maybe, but careless none the less. It would be the same as twirling a loaded gun, while walking down main street, and claiming it was an accident when it went off, and killed someone.
My point being the kid should be the one hurt/dead for being careless/stupid/selfish, and not the truck driver that if chose not toswerve may have smashed the car, or caused it to lose control hitting concrete pillar, and with its smaller size/weight/airbags probably that driver would have gotten off maybe with an injury, or 2.
As for the cars i crushed? All walked away, as i hit them in a way, as to force them off the road, and away from other traffic.I am not a total bastard. 2 of them actually admitted it was thier fault, and said they were sorry. Surprisingly they all said "they never saw the truck" which just blows my mind how you can miss a truck if you even looked, or how you could not even here it. But eh.
The driver swerved because HE DIDN"T WANT TO KILL SOMEONE, and it cost him his life. In other words, he acted like a grown man ought to....regardless what the kid did, NONE of them DESERVED to DIE.
You honestly think that "kid" (I'm assuming late teens/early 20) deserved to be hurt or killed because he made a mistake?
Do you realize how stupid this sounds.
My original point is people make mistakes. This does not give you the right to just run right over them because you can bend laws (I still have no idea what the hell that means), nor does it mean they deserved to be hurt or killed.
Just whatever dude. Go run someone over.
@SMG
I get the hurting other people thing....I always have an exit, because that's what I was taught. Truck Drivers certainly know the same. He knew he wasn't going to hit anyone else, or he wouldn't have swerved.
I know, because I looked for my out saw it wasn't there and had no choice but to hit the brakes and hope for the best. I'm an average driver. If I'm that aware of my surroundings and can decide NOT to swerve that quickly, couldn't a trained semi-truck driver who is responsible for 60000 pounds also be aware of his exit points and whether or not they're open at the time.
He swerved because he saw he could...I would have.
