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Old 3rd June 2008   #1
VelocityBoy
 
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Mexico crash image

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76008922@N00/2545836745/
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Old 3rd June 2008   #2
Dan(J-D-S-H)
 
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Sweet Jesus that looks horrendous! :(
What's the story?
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Old 3rd June 2008   #3
Dylan
 
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whoa! image is deleted ?
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Old 3rd June 2008   #4
adoubletap
 
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Drunken driver fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into a peloton. Police had to save him from being lynched which was a shame.

Here is the pic rehosted,

http://drunkcyclist.com/wordpress/wp...6/image002.jpg

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Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (Monday June-2-2008) Seven competitors from yesterday cyclist race were severely injured after being hit by a drunk driver, one of them died and other three were hospitalized. The drunk driver was arrested after the rest of the participants tried to lynch him.
30 year old Alejandro Alvarez, from Brownsville,Texas, was pronounced dead on the scene, while Alejandro Salvador Tamez, 18, Juan Machaita, 38, and Guadalupe Martinez,, 16, were severely injured.
Cyclists were participating in a race from Matamoros to Bagdad Beach, when drunk driver Jesse Campos, a Brownsville, Texas resident, in his Ford Grand Marquis, license 659-FKF from Texas, impacted seven cyclists, even as they were being escorted by Local Transit Officials.
News Source: Periodico El Bravo
Pictures Taken By: Fidelino Vera
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Old 3rd June 2008   #5
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christ !!! that's awful, looks like the driver didn't give a fuck. what a tosser.
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Old 3rd June 2008   #6
matt (baddesigner)
 
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fucken hell, that's a nightmare. my sympathies to the families affected. kinda wish they'd been left to lynch him tho, tough justice.
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Old 3rd June 2008   #7
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It's in the Sun today. They say 3 people died, but that's the Sun. Truly awful - and not w/o precedent.
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Old 3rd June 2008   #8
asm
That image is total carnage. The guy must have been going fast.
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Old 3rd June 2008   #9
tomiskinky
Jeezus, that is horrific! I was in Mexico over Christmas and New Year, and the driving over there is very bad, saw 3 fatal accidents whilst I was there! I for 1 would not ride a bike on the roads over there.
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Old 3rd June 2008   #10
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the guy was drunk. can happen anywhere. and people fall asleep whilst driving all the time. a mate once fell asleep (due to fatigue not alcohol) whilst going over bridge below...the barriers woke him up
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Old 3rd June 2008   #11
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nice of the cop car to get out of the way for him!!!
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Old 3rd June 2008   #12
DrAlfonzo
 
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brutal. that looks like the police car out of transformers
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Old 3rd June 2008   #13
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the guy was drunk. can happen anywhere. and people fall asleep whilst driving all the time. a mate once fell asleep (due to fatigue not alcohol) whilst going over bridge below...the barriers woke him up

Westgate?
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Old 3rd June 2008   #14
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yep, westgate bridge. he fell asleep for a couple of seconds and the car swerved onto the side barriers. he was wide-eyed after that.
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Old 3rd June 2008   #15
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this is sickening.
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Old 3rd June 2008   #16
t-4003
that is a shocker
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Old 3rd June 2008   #17
shootthebreeze
 
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Damn, that is one scary picture...
HTF did someone snap that ?
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Old 3rd June 2008   #18
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It's also on CNN, if you want a more reputable news source than the Sun.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/am....ap/index.html
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Old 3rd June 2008   #19
somebody
i got this form another source. horrendous.

how do they know he fell asleep ? he might have done it on purpose !

my source also said there is a pro speeding forum called pistonheads where they are all having a good laugh about it.

car enthusiasts = murderous facists.

i am beginning to think so. what with all the issues concerning motor powered vehicles.

why do let them drive through our community anyway ?

what is wrong with our leaders that they cant stand up to the motoring lobby and tell them 'we dont want you anymore - you are doing bad things'.

gotta get it of my chest somewhere.

apologies if i am boring you all.

gonna go to bed now.
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Old 4th June 2008   #20
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Because who are you to tell people how they should get about?
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Old 4th June 2008   #21
jonaent (Jon)
 
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Because who are you to tell people how they should get about?
Well, if I was in the government.... i'd be the Government.... aren't they supposed to tell people how to get about ?
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Old 4th June 2008   #22
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I just saw it a sec ago and came to post it on here.

It indeed is spectacularly horrifying.

As its Mexico im still hoping its some photochop job by a crime tabloid, with much exagerration.

If it is indeed as it looks though, maybe the punishment will be fitting over there.
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Old 4th June 2008   #23
edscoble
 
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we know how cars sounded when they crashed with each other, we know how bicycles sounded when they crashed with each other.

Right now I just don't want to know what a car and bicycle combine sounded when they've crashed.
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Old 4th June 2008   #24
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Eek, horrible.

12 club riders got hit while out on a Sunday 60-miler in Wales a few years ago. 4 were killed.

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car enthusiasts = murderous facists.

i am beginning to think so. what with all the issues concerning motor powered vehicles.

why do let them drive through our community anyway ?
Fascism is the ideology that makes the individual will entirely subserviant to the nation/state.

For the government 'to tell people how to get about' would arguably be fascist.

I think car ownership is the opposite evil - an individualist, ego-centred, 'nobody else matters' pathology.
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Old 4th June 2008   #25
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I'm not sure that I agree with you definition of fascism.
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Old 4th June 2008   #26
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Well, if I was in the government.... i'd be the Government.... aren't they supposed to tell people how to get about ?
the government is best which governs least.
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Old 4th June 2008   #27
fruitbat
 
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No taxes = no health service. Is that best.
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Old 4th June 2008   #28
lpg
 
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well, i never said no taxes.
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Old 4th June 2008   #29
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the government is best which governs least.
That's what you said
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Old 4th June 2008   #30
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I'm not sure that I agree with you definition of fascism.
It has proven pretty difficult to define.

I was going with Mussolini..
"Anti-individualistic, the fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal will of man as a historic entity...."
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Old 4th June 2008   #31
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Mussolini was wrong about many things, including (probably) his definition of fascism.
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Old 4th June 2008   #32
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edit : crank you are right. i cant read
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Old 4th June 2008   #33
crank
 
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fruitbat: What do you think is wrong with such a definition?

lpg: nope, don't think so
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Old 4th June 2008   #34
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@lpg The problem is in the lack of apostrophe (and a comma).
Last edited by fruitbat; 4th June 2008 at 01:30.. Reason: slowness of typing
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Old 4th June 2008   #35
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I'm not sure that I agree with you definition of fascism.

I think Crank's posting of Mussolini's definition is fairly accepted, fascism as an authoritarian system of government and social organization.

What is your own definition ?