Dumbass of the Month award goes to this guy, who taped himself going 180+ MPH on a busy Canadian highway on a motorcycle.
Runner up is the dumbworm who made this comment on the CNN intertubes site:
“Aaah…how, exactly, was a guy on a motorcycle going to kill anyone? Most likely case: he crashes into a car, and he dies.”
Physics knowledge FAIL. A 400-pound bike with a 200-pound rider going 180MPH is a metric fuckton of kinetic energy. Anyone unlucky enough to be rear-ended by that moron at those speeds would have had a very bad day indeed. Imagine an anvil getting shot out of a cannon and plowing through an occupied minivan from back to front.
Who was it a few years back, said in Miami they refer to flip-flops as Cuban motorcycle boots?
Yeah, but since though blind luck he didn’t hit anyone, it’s a metric fuckton of pure awesome.
Yup. A sportbike hitting a car at full speed is basically a big fucking petrol bomb.
Reminded me of something, and I was able to find it: bike centerpunched a car, estimated bike speed ~155mph:
http://www.driveandstayalive.com/articles%20and%20topics/crash%20causation/speed_swedish-motorcycle-crash_2005.htm
Killed both people in the car as well as the moron on the bike
“Police took no action” … well, yea. Unless they wanted to bury the motorcyclist on unhallowed ground or something.
Is a meric fuckton larger than a buttload?
Try a Goldwing at 70 into the rear of a Toyota…Nobody won that day..
All these idiots. Suddenly, electoral results become clear.
Uhhh, for one thing, it’s a cubic metric fuckton of energy.
And second, then Dumbworm volunteered to be the point car for the next motorcyclist who wants to test the land speed record in a production bike.
I think I’ll go with the idiot who siphoned gas from a cop car and posted a photo of himself doing that on Facebook.
As a paramedic, I have seen motorcycles at only 80mph cut a car in half, and kill the two people in the car as well as the rider of the bike.
Yeah don’t worry about that even though who ever he hits is relatively unhurt they have to live with the emotional and mental strain of seeing that.
Yeah, reminds me of this:
“We were just cruising in the center lane when we heard a big ol’ bang — and he’s lying between us,”
http://www.ocala.com/article/20100923/ARTICLES/100929891
I love going fast, bikes cars or whatever, but ya gotta understand the real risks.
Yeah, it’s not the “one-half M” that’ll get ’em, it’s the “times V-squared” that’ll really fuck stuff up at those speeds.