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06-03-2008, 09:26 AM
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Grand Poobah
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drunk driver at bike race
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06-03-2008, 09:32 AM
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Holy ****!
I hope he gets maximum time for that one. Any idea how strict Mexican justice is?
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06-03-2008, 09:34 AM
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It is amazing that more people were not killed. From the picture it looks like everyone should have died.
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06-03-2008, 09:39 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sparkchaser
Holy ****!
I hope he gets maximum time for that one. Any idea how strict Mexican justice is? |
Depends on how much money you have. They don't have a death penalty.
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06-03-2008, 09:41 AM
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The guy arrested claims to be an American citizen.
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"Sandstorms inflict damage of about $540 million per year, and losses of crops and forests due to acid rain amount to about $730 million per year. More serious are the $6 billion costs of the "green wall" of trees being built to shield Beijing against sand and dust, and the $7 billion per year of losses created by pest species. We enter the zone of impressive numbers when we consider the onetime cost of the 1996 floods ($27 billion, but still cheaper than the 1998 floods), the annual direct losses due to desertification ($42 billion), and the annual losses due to water and air pollution ($54 billion). The combination of the latter two items alone costs China the equivalent of 14% of its GDP each year." - Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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06-03-2008, 10:20 AM
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A drunk American driver mows down a bunch of Mexican citizens? Wow.
Could you imagine the outrage at the opposite?
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06-03-2008, 10:29 AM
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Grand Poobah
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SillyPutty
A drunk American driver mows down a bunch of Mexican citizens? Wow.
Could you imagine the outrage at the opposite?
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not much outrage, I read somehwere that 3 Americans are killed by drunk illegal aliens every day.
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06-03-2008, 10:33 AM
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thats gonna leave a mark
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06-03-2008, 10:47 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sparkchaser
The guy arrested claims to be an American citizen.
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Can't conclude whether or not the driver was really an US citizen or not but:
" Juan Campos was charged with killing 37-year-old Alejandro Alvarez of Monterrey. "
"Campos said he is an American citizen living in Brownsville. The U.S. Consulate could not immediately confirm that. "
The last time I was in Brownsville, TX (1989) there were no "American citizens" as far as I could tell.
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06-03-2008, 10:48 AM
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That's a big problem down there, and it's why we have so many incidents of illegals driving drunk here. It's the 'machismo' I guess. Stupid people.
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06-03-2008, 10:50 AM
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I wonder how fast he was going. Only 1 dead seems pretty amazing.
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06-03-2008, 03:20 PM
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Like how the photo was cropped so you don't see the police escort swerving out of the way leaving the riders helpless?
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06-03-2008, 03:25 PM
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Is it bad that as soon as I saw it was a Mexican bike race I started laughing? ... Now I feel like an *** hole.
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06-03-2008, 03:27 PM
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So that's how they get the shoes up on the power lines.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by XJ2Timer
Like how the photo was cropped so you don't see the police escort swerving out of the way leaving the riders helpless?
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Thinking it was a natural reaction. It does look like the car hit the brakes at the last second, the way it's pitched sideways.
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Last edited by XJ99; 06-03-2008 at 03:43 PM..
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06-03-2008, 04:36 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by XJ99
So that's how they get the shoes up on the power lines.
J/K
Thinking it was a natural reaction. It does look like the car hit the brakes at the last second, the way it's pitched sideways.
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natural reaction to someone not trained in doing their job....
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