Newsflash Folks: Dragsters are Dangerous

People who stand on the sides of roads even during parades need to be aware that motorized vehicles are dangerous at any speed no matter who is driving them as they are machines and mistake prone humans are driving them.

It's a terrible shame that people were killed during this seemingly harmless stunt adn when one sees the video below, it is an accident waiting to happen the way the scene appears and it tragically turned into one. Sadly there are people doing these same things from stoplights in regular traffic day in and day out around the country and mostly teenagers doing it any day or night of the week. I myself wrecked my first car at 16, a souped up 1976 Pontiac formula 400 around a tree doing the very same thing this professional was doing, very same thing.

So it's very disingenuous to complain that this is the fault of just one individual, when the people who were standing there knew full well what was going to happen and stayed there anyway with total disregard of the fact that anything can happen when doing this stuff on open roadways..

Once again this is not to minimize the terrible tragedy that took place here, and may God rest the souls of the poor people that were unfortunately and innocently killed and or injured, but the finger pointing and "blame someone else, everyone's a victim" game in America and elsewhere is the works of the new "don't blame me" litigation happy society that we now live in today and nothing else.

Everyone sees payday and dollar signs the minute something goes wrong. It's amazing how the death of a supposed loved one's can be so easily replaced with mounds of greenbacks.

Just listen to the finger pointing and complaining going on after this tragedy in the article below after viewing the video.\

Dragster's Fatal Tricks Questioned:

My Way News - "SELMER, Tenn. (AP) - One day after a drag-racing car careened into a crowd and killed six people, witnesses questioned on Sunday why the driver was allowed to speed down a highway with no guard rails, lined on both sides by hundreds of spectators.

'It ain't really safe to do anything with drag cars on a city street,' said 19-year-old Garett Moore, who said he was about 15 feet away from the wreck, but was uninjured. 'They shouldn't have done it.'

Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Mike Browning said the six killed were in their teens or early 20s. The accident injured at least 18 others, including a 5-year-old boy, who were taken to hospitals in Tennessee and Mississippi."

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Larry Price, the founder of Cars for Kids, said he has been staging this event for 18 years in Selmer, and they always do burnouts at the end of the parade. There had been no accidents in the past, he said.

"We're not racing," Price said. "We're just doing little-old burnouts, revving the motors up, stuff like that."

There were four professional drag-racers at the show, and each was supposed to do one burnout, Price said. read more

In defense and in addition, this event has gone on for 18 solid years and done countless good deeds and raise millions upon millions of dollars for sick children all around the world during that time and without incident ever.

So as reasonable people know good and well, unfortunate accidents happen all the time and this was one sadly of those times, and for charges to be filed against this one guy and to try and shut down this event in the future would be wrong and stupid.

However, to listen and to learn something by trying to prevent it from happening again would be more worthwhile, without going overboard and banning this, banning that, making laws about this and that hastily, as is usually the case in this country whenever anything goes wrong.

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