How the hell...?

Started by Slide Panda, July 21, 2010, 06:38:38 AM

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Slide Panda

"Woman Drives Car 100 Feet Into School Building

At about 9:50 this morning, a female student at a Tewksbury, MA job training school drove her Pontiac Bonneville into the building, making her way 100 feet into the structure before stopping. Inside, a local newspaper's video report."

http://tv.gawker.com/5591087/woman-drives-car-100-feet-into-school-building

100 feet... 100
The 60-0 Stopping distance for that car is rated at 127 feet... not to mention the curbs and such... What the hell was she doing!?
-Throttle's on the right, so are the brakes.  Good luck.
- '00 M900S with all the farkles
- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.

zooom

Quote from: yuu on July 21, 2010, 06:38:38 AM
"Woman Drives Car 100 Feet Into School Building

At about 9:50 this morning, a female student at a Tewksbury, MA job training school drove her Pontiac Bonneville into the building, making her way 100 feet into the structure before stopping. Inside, a local newspaper's video report."

http://tv.gawker.com/5591087/woman-drives-car-100-feet-into-school-building

100 feet... 100
The 60-0 Stopping distance for that car is rated at 127 feet... not to mention the curbs and such... What the hell was she doing!?

probably texting of course


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Slide Panda

I'm not pointing any gender fingers... I watched some dude nearly head on a tree the other day for whatever dumb reason.

Guy or gal... I'm just mystified how that much distance was covered - with physical barriers in the way to boot.
-Throttle's on the right, so are the brakes.  Good luck.
- '00 M900S with all the farkles
- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.

Pip

Quote from: zooom on July 21, 2010, 06:43:44 AM
probably texting of course

oMgzz ths guy wuz talkinnng to me abowtt... i juzt ran n2 mY skul. Ill txt u bck.
"You can fight a lot of enemies and survive, but not your biology."

Wouldn't fat air be easier to disappear into?

zooom

itsa shame it wasn't a Prius...she could say it would brake and the accelerator was stuck...
99 Cagiva Gran Canyon-"FOR SALE", PM for details.
98 Monster 900(trackpregnant dog-soon to be made my Fiancee's upgrade streetbike)
2010 KTM 990 SM-T

Slide Panda

Oh that shit... Sad, but true - they have found a statistically significant number of the 'runaway' toyotas had had 100% throttle and 0% brake on at the time of their crash, in instances when the driver claimed to be standing on the brakes... Sucks for those folks.. but Darwinism?
-Throttle's on the right, so are the brakes.  Good luck.
- '00 M900S with all the farkles
- '08 KTM 690 StupidMoto
- '07 Triumph 675 Track bike.

Le Pirate

Quote from: yuu on July 21, 2010, 06:47:40 AM
I'm not pointing any gender fingers... I watched some dude nearly head on a tree the other day for whatever dumb reason.

Guy or gal... I'm just mystified how that much distance was covered - with physical barriers in the way to boot.

I watched a dude in a ford pickup sideswipe the guardrail on a bridge while texting a couple days ago.

dumb is unisex.
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