DeTomaso Mailing List: July 2001, Message #17

I did some seriously foolish things in the past, but
what really scared me was finding out that racing can
meet the recklessness element for murder.  In other
words, street racing has been held to demonstrate
sufficient reckless disregard for human life, to be
equivalent to the intentional taking of human life. I
could probably find the case if I dug out my old
criminal law text. SO you better be really sure that a
Pinto doesn't pull out in front of you. I'd imagine
that you could even get nailed if the fatality is the
driver of the car you are racing against.  

Kind of makes the track and open road events sound
like a really good idea.

Ken


--- hopp@concentric.net wrote:
> Hey let's try not to be too hard on each other. 
> Sometimes we write things
> that are written somewhat exaggerated and understood
> differently by
> different people.   I hate it when I get a ticket
> but I have a lot of
> respect for a  good cop and the hard job they have. 
> They are not all
> perfect but we need those guys.
> 
> I do not want to write about my moments of stupidity
> in driving on the
> street.  I will say I have owned my car 20 years and
> back when I first
> bought my car there were still a lot of people
> driving their cars daily.  I
> can remember a few faces of pantera owners I had met
> but not known, that
> died in their cars.  Back then about every 2 years
> someone would crash in
> their pantera and die in Arizona alone.  I had
> friends call me when they
> read that a pantera driver was killed to see if it
> was me.
> 
> It was usually someone relatively new to the car. 
> Let's say with less than
> a year of ownership.  It was real apparent that new
> owners were rookies when
> the club would go on driving events in groups and
> the new drivers were
> really scary and unpredictable.
> 
> These cars are a lot of fun, but can kill you.  I am
> going to run legally at
> the silver state to feel the rush of speed.
> 
> Rich Hoppe
> 
> 
> 


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