Four students killed in N.C. car [RX-8] accident
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Originally Posted by SilverEIGHT
Ohhhh, my heart hurts for the kids as well as the families and friends. I have skimmed through this thread and find it hard to accept some of the responses. I am a parent that has raised 2 boys, one of which is still just 20 and survived the early driving years, this is the kind of accident that causes nightmares and torn up lives.
You guys that think these kids got what they deserved are so wrong. I would agree that giving a kid a fast car is inviting trouble. My kids drove a Plymouth Reliant, an early model Altima and a toyota pickup and no matter what they wanted they didn't get anything else. Kids can die in the Reliant just as easy as the RX-8. My youngest totaled 3 cars before he was 18 and that was with taking his license away for 6 months. He could have been (according to some of you) needed to be removed from the gene pool! But he survived because we never let up on him. So many nights I worried myself sick waiting for him to come home. Those were the toughest 2 years of my life, watching him get past that stage. But he did and now at 20 is putting himself through a private college because he is working his *** off and going to college. He is a taxpaying contributor to our society and thank God, he made it.
He could have so easily have died in any of his accidents but he didn't. The parents of these 4 children will never have the chance to teach their kids again. They will never be able to direct them on how to survive the tough times or how to correct their mistakes. And I assure you that every single person that reads this post has had a bad, and probably stupid, experience that you could have died from but obviously you are lucky enough to be reading this.
Please give these kids, even the driver, a break and pray for them and their devastated families. I may be wrong but I suspect that you guys that are so down on these kids have probably never raised your own.
So sad! I shall call my son tonight just to talk and listen to his voice and be thankful I stuck with him all the way through his early years.
You guys that think these kids got what they deserved are so wrong. I would agree that giving a kid a fast car is inviting trouble. My kids drove a Plymouth Reliant, an early model Altima and a toyota pickup and no matter what they wanted they didn't get anything else. Kids can die in the Reliant just as easy as the RX-8. My youngest totaled 3 cars before he was 18 and that was with taking his license away for 6 months. He could have been (according to some of you) needed to be removed from the gene pool! But he survived because we never let up on him. So many nights I worried myself sick waiting for him to come home. Those were the toughest 2 years of my life, watching him get past that stage. But he did and now at 20 is putting himself through a private college because he is working his *** off and going to college. He is a taxpaying contributor to our society and thank God, he made it.
He could have so easily have died in any of his accidents but he didn't. The parents of these 4 children will never have the chance to teach their kids again. They will never be able to direct them on how to survive the tough times or how to correct their mistakes. And I assure you that every single person that reads this post has had a bad, and probably stupid, experience that you could have died from but obviously you are lucky enough to be reading this.
Please give these kids, even the driver, a break and pray for them and their devastated families. I may be wrong but I suspect that you guys that are so down on these kids have probably never raised your own.
So sad! I shall call my son tonight just to talk and listen to his voice and be thankful I stuck with him all the way through his early years.
you are being too kind. you did the right thing. Those parents did not.
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Originally Posted by STREET RACING IS BAD MK
Well at least he went out in style. I hate running into an old persons home with all his gadgets that are keeping him alive, and for what. Old mans house looks like a car shop lol. Old man dead on the ****'r or eating his oatmeal sunday morning. BORING if you ask me. I see alot of boring deaths all the time(fire fighter). at least sparky and his buds went out in a ball flames, so great that we are all talking about it. But no ones talking about old man. Whats the big deal about death that has you guys all cry "be nice be nice" I have had best friends burn in front of me. Big deal, life happens. Dont cry about it. They go to heaven or hell so it's not like their lives are over, The real **** has just begone for these kids. They are lucky if you ask me to go out like stars
now tell me how lucky they are.
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Originally Posted by STREET RACING IS BAD MK
Well at least he went out in style. I hate running into an old persons home with all his gadgets that are keeping him alive, and for what. Old mans house looks like a car shop lol. Old man dead on the ****'r or eating his oatmeal sunday morning. BORING if you ask me. I see alot of boring deaths all the time(fire fighter). at least sparky and his buds went out in a ball flames, so great that we are all talking about it. But no ones talking about old man. Whats the big deal about death that has you guys all cry "be nice be nice" I have had best friends burn in front of me. Big deal, life happens. Dont cry about it. They go to heaven or hell so it's not like their lives are over, The real **** has just begone for these kids. They are lucky if you ask me to go out like stars
i think theres a difference when someone wants to die in style and when someone wants to live....
oh theres another thread in the lounge about the same thing....
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