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Originally Posted by Helrza
Sorry david, but that was actually an insight on how i would feel if i was in the firing line. Wasnt an implication that that is what happened to these ppl. But i can bet on your life in their obituaries/ eulogy, some would have had something metioned in it "He/she died doin what they loved" or some blah blah like that.
But ive noticed one thing about that statement and anothers of yours... your saying it should be stopped because of this bad "happening"..... but since youve watched it across several angle... and im assuming youve watched them several times, i get the feeling you might have actually enjoyed watching it happen... over, and over... and over again. Which is human nature i think. a part of us all enjoy watching things like this lol.
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I watched each tape once because I wanted to see what happened. Several years ago a good friend of mine was killed in an air show crash. His young child and wife were watching at the time. I also watched the tape of that once. Do you think I enjoyed it?
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Originally Posted by Helrza
But yes, it is tragic, and inevitably, it was bound to happen one day, might not have been this year, maybe not in the next decade, the race could be into its 100th year and it could have happened. But really, all parties know the risks involved going to a spectacle like this, or any others.
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Actually, the parties clearly don't know the risks involved. But they're going to find out when the next insurance bill shows up.
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so why should it be stopped?
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Because it's recklessly dangerous.
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If each event/ thing was to be stopped becuase of a few fatalities there would be no motor racing, no bike racing, no flights to other countries, no taking a cruise ship to other countries, no driving you car down the street for groceries.. and etc etc etc. Would be a very boring world i must say.
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This isn't "a few fatalities", this is 2 dead for every 5 events. That is appalling.
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These days i get the feeling that the world has gone way too soft. In the old days it would have been "thats horrible", "OMG", "Terrible, terrible, terrible.... Soooo ill cya next week for the next race?".
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Yes, that's what they used to do in auto racing, until they realized that it was moronic and they stopped the carnage.