When a NASCAR driver dies...

[Endangered Specie]

in a race... how do you feel?

[northzax]

1. what brought this one on?

did someone die today that I haven't heard about?

Anyone dying is an awful thing, even someone in a dangerous sport, shame on the people who think otherwise.

[Endangered Specie]

3. NASCAR threads in the lounge.

edit: Since when does a Lounge Thread need a reason for being "brought on" ;)

[shawcomm]

5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was burned in a crash but should be okay.

Don't know about anyone dying though. Hope not.

[Myrina]

6. ITA ...

To those who said 'poor bastard' or 'evolution in action' ... how tacky!

I hope when someone close to you dies in an accident, someone responds to you in the exact same manner, so you find out
first hand how callous that sentiment truly is.

[LynneSin]

8. But the folks I know don't go spinning in circles at 200mph

:shrug:

[Endangered Specie]

14. not to mention tailgate each other by inches.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

23. It's called "drafting"

I used to do it with semis when I was riding my motorcycle. Not only does it cut down on the wind on cold days, but the engine runs cooler and uses less fuel!

Of course you have to be about six feet off his tail, and if another trucker tells him you're there you may have to hit the brakes REAL FAST... :evilgrin:

[traco]

19. How do you know they don't

My ex husband use to spin donuts in the middle of the highway after a rain or snow storm. How do you know you dont have any relatives or friends that do that?

[Bluzmann57]

9. Agreed

and I don't particularly like NASCAR. Those remarks were not neccessary. And the cheap shot of "only men" wasn't real funny either. Maybe I'm just losing my sense of humor in my old age or maybe some people are just truly warped.

[tcfrogs]

10. However, I must defend my response

NASCAR racing is by nature dangerous. Very different from someone in the general public who dies in an accident. I know that's tragic - been through it.

When Dale Earnhardt died (the last big name to die in a wreck, I believe) I felt very sorry for him and his family. However, it's a dangerous "sport". He didn't deserve to die, but it's an unfortunate possibility in NASCAR.

[Donkeyboy75]

12. I took Poor Bastard to mean "poor guy." Maybe it's a local dialect

thing? :shrug:

[Endangered Specie]

15. local dialect?

as far as I know, poor bastard and poor guy mean are different... must be a Southern thing.

[Donkeyboy75]

32. I'm actually from Chicago,

but bastard can be used as an endearing term here.

Kinda reminds me of that Seinfeld episode where George has to hobnob with those guys from Texas.

[frylock]

24. i took it to mean the same

:shrug:

[HuckleB]

13. Sorry, but what should people have chosen?

None of them fit how I would actually feel, so I chose "poor bastard," because it came closest to reality, as in "that sucks for his family, friends and fans."

Me thinks your judgment is a bit in haste.

[frylock]

22. i'm a huge race fan, and i voted poor bastard..

we should have a national memorial?! I was saddened the day that DE was killed, though I really never cared for him or his style of racing. How else can you feel? These guys know going in that it is an inherently dangerous occupation. :shrug:

[mrboba1]

34. What would you say?

'I just dont give a Cheney?'

I think 'poor bastard' is about equivalent to 'that sucks' which is about where I stand.

[Sporadicus]

7. Not Quite

but I read in a LBN posting that Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was burned in an accident today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x693757

That's why I stay on the 'Latest' page. I know everything :P

[LynneSin]

11. I'll give credit to Earnhardt Jr, he said he liked Fahrenheit 9/11

so in this case I hope the guy is ok.

Heck, I hope anyone in an accident is ok, but I still don't have alot of sympathy for autoracing. It just screams 'bad accidents'

[Sporadicus]

20. Tinfoil Hat Alert

Accidents DO happen, but this is very soon after expressing a desire to take his pit crew to see F-9/11 :tinfoilhat:

[tcfrogs]

2. That's a tough one

between poor bastard & evolution

[Deja Q]

4. Poetic justice? Wait until peak oil starts to subside...

When it costs more to procure a barrel of oil for the good that barrel will give us, we're toast.

[jmowreader]

16. When they scraped the 3 off the wall...

a lot of state government agencies in western NC replaced the US flag with the Earnhardt Flag (you can buy them at the Dale Earnhardt Inc. giftshop in Mooresville and the Richard Childress Racing giftshop in Welcome, among other places) until the next race.

I saw a LOT of US flags flown at half staff here in central NC.

It depends on the driver, and most NASCAR drivers who die in the "line of duty" don't die during the race; Earnhardt was one of the few I remember. They either die during a practice session--Tony Roper in the truck series and Kyle Petty in the Busch series both died in practice sessions at New Hampshire International Speedway--or they die while going to or coming from a race. Alan Kulwicki and Davey Allison both died in aircraft crashes; Kulwicki died in the Bristol, Tenn., area, and Allison died in the Talladega infield. (Alan Kulwicki invented the "Polish Victory Lap"--turning the car around and driving your victory laps clockwise. These make more sense than "regular" victory laps; in a regular victory lap the driver waves to the network cameras and pit crews, but a driver making a Polish victory lap waves to the crowd.)

It's really sad when a driver dies.

[Bombero1956]

17. that would be

Adam Petty, not Kyle. Kyle and Patty Petty have turned the tragic circumstances of Adam's death into something positive. The Victory Junction Gang camp was created to allow ill children to enjoy a time away from hospitals and still have their treatments. It is affiliated with the Hole in The Wall Camps of which Paul Newman's in Connecticut is one.

[jmowreader]

18. Adam. D'oh! You're right.

It's a good thing he's doing something positive with his life...because he sure as hell can't drive a stock car anymore.

Strange...he was really good in the Mello Yello car, but once Mello Yello quit sponsoring a stock car he can't do shit in one.

[Elidor]

21. When a NASCAR driver dies

Do they cover the coffin with commercial endorsements?

[Endangered Specie]

27. Life Insurance ads?

[jukes]

25. no slot

for "he immediately goes to paradise where he is greeted by 27 (72?) eager virgins."

[DrWeird]

26. Remember when that professional wrestler died?

They were for some reason lowering him from a cable from the ceiling to the ring. Somebody didn't hook it up right, so he did a sixty foot piledriver and didn't get up at the count of three.

I feel just about the same when a NASCAR driver dies.

[ChoralScholar]

29. when someone dies

it affects a lot of people. No matter what, that was someones son or daughter or daddy or mama. Whether or not you think their occupation had value, they were just making a living for their families. Have a freakin' heart.

[DrWeird]

33. It's funny when it happens to somebody else.

See, for instance, The Darwin Awards.

[anti_shrub]

30. That's pretty heartless

I'm a wrestling fan and a NASCAR fan, and while I wasn't in tears over Owen Hart (the wrestler who tok that "sixty foot piledriver") I did feel for his wife and two young kids. And so did all the WWF wrestlers who dedicated the next night's TV show to his memory and offered tearful recollections of his memory.

But then who cares when people die in them thar redneck sports, right?

[daligirrl]

28. An angel gets his wings? <eom>

[fishnfla]

31. To me ,when of them boys hits the wall, well,its like when Elvis died

I might have to take another week off from work just to get by...