News Dept. of Sad Things
posted by June 3 at 9:57 AM
onDrunk driver slams into bike race, killing one and injuring ten:
Juan Campos, an American citizen living in Brownsville, TX, was charged with killing Alejandro Alvarez, 37, of Monterrey, Mexico.
Thanks—I guess—to Slog tipper Chris.
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Lock him up, throw away the key, and if you let two or three pot smokers out to do it, you'll turn a profit!
Ugh, it really drives the reality of the situation home when you see a wall of flailing cyclists being obliterated by a car.
Mr. Poe and I are firing up the Buick as we speak...
Jesus Christ, that picture.
Question: why include the fact of his American citizenship in the post? I'm not trying to be hostile, but am in the middle of doing close-readings for a paper and am thus close-reading everything I read and questioning all word choices.
That is bound to happen in Seattle on Eastlake or downtown one of these days....soon. More bikers on the roads that we are supposed to "share" with a lot of asshole drivers. You know, share the road since we don't have bike lanes and probably never will until 2075.
That picture is equal parts horrific and awesome.
man, thats horrible. i lived in mcallen, next to brownsville for what seem like eternity ( 6 months), its hot as hell and it almost seems like every driver is drunk as hell.
the road between playa bagdad and matamoros, where this happened is a death trap.
this dude is going to spend the rest of his useless life in a mexican prison. and he deserves every hellish hour he gets.
That guy can't come to Seattle soon enough.
"Hey hey! Ho ho! Evil cars have got to go! Critical mass! Bikers are people tooOH GOD--
Re close reading, I think they mentioned his citizenship because the accident actually took place in Mexico. So at least in this case, I think it's relevant.
Disker, you're one sick motherfucker.
@9:
Am not. You can't tell me I'm the only one who has entertained that thought while Critical Mass turned a 10-minute commute into a 2-hour ordeal.
@4 His citizenship might not be relevant to the story but there's not a shot in shit that it wouldn't have been included if it was the other way around. (Drunk Mexican slams into cyclists in USA)
It looks like the driver is bowling for bikers with a car instead of a ball.
WTF is he doing on the left side of the road?
@Max Solomon: He's drunk AND asleep?
@6 You echoed my thoughts more eloquently than I could state them.
@13: Ummmmm... He was drunk... Hellloooo?
@10: I've never considered it because of the increased commute time... But I have considered it for the purpose of creating a dramatic picture such as this... But since someone else did it for me I guess I don't have to do the jail time... So thats good... Right? I am so going to hell...
if you look at the larger version of that pic, you can see that the "pace" car got out of the way of the sleeping, drunk driver. tough call on that action.
@14: He was drunk and asleep.
@17: wtf at the pace car. That was my thought, too, when looking at the large picture. At least then, the drunk driver may have received some collateral damage. Not that I'm advocating causing harm to others. But I am.
it also reminds me when that cracked out woman slammed into the block party in south east dc last year.
http://video.nbc4.com/player/?id=115955
Critical massacre?
#10, if your commute is 10 minutes, why don't you just get out and walk?
@21:
10 minutes by car, 400 hours on foot.
@22
Damn disker, you sure walk slow.
@10
I too harbor such thoughts... (and they bring me a deep internal peace.)
Griffy your "Critical Massacre?" comment was uncalled for and very funny. I feel dirty for laughing so much.
What a beautiful picture.
@26
Well, it's a good start at least.
Very sad picture. But I can't help but to see a symbolic metaphor of what Clinton is doing to the Democratic Party.
I call bullshit. Photoshop. Where'd all the dust come from on an asphalt road?
@29
He probably hit his brakes. I'm pretty sure that when you hit 11 bicyclists full speed you're bound to wake up.
Ditto what #11 said. If a drunk Mexican plowed into a group of cyclists in Texas, not only would his citizenship be called into question but the immigration nazis would be pushing for the death penalty.
Too bad he didn't kill more.
One thing is for sure, those dumbass bikers won't think they are kings of the road anymore.
To all you dumbfucking bikers out there, this is what happens when car meets bike. YOU LOSE...
Game over.
Now try and be a little less smug and watch out for cars, who BTW, the roads were MADE FOR!!!!
The picture's a convenient crop: their police escort swerved out of the way:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060203346.html
This is seriously the funniest event of all time.
i'm sorry, but that picture made me laugh my ass off.
I think it's interesting that a puppy thrown over a cliff in iraq makes people shit the bed but a person dying in a horrific way is the height of hilarity. not that the situations are equal in many regards but this absolutely turns my stomach to think about.
Yeah. Not getting the humor. Maybe if the situation was just described I could see the jokes but... really? Actually seeing bodies flung about is funny? Guess I'm officially old now.
Oh shit, ecce homo and I have the same opinion.
I need to seriously reconsider my life.
Free Juan Campos!
I don't think that's dust as another commenter questioned, I think that's the mist of dozens of exploding water bottles and hydration packs. God, this photo is my new wallpaper.
Yeah, someone getting killed by a drunk driver is so fucking hilarious and righteous. What a bunch of sociopaths.
Righteous!
@35
We have something in common! YAY!
too soon!
Whats the last thing that went through that bikers mind before he bought the farm?
The windshield...
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
As a cyclist myself, I say this without a hint of irony: I wish someone would have gotten this on video. Because it deserves to be shown at every single driver's license station to every single person getting their license renewed until the end of time.
Be safe, people.
Bicycle Jihad must reconsider tactics.
On the bright side, in the near future, if not right now, European cars are adding more crush zone between engine and hood for pedestrian and cyclist impacts.
I don't suspect Detroit is following this EU rule (like they care about exporting cars), and I don't suspect this safety feature will trickle down to drunken guys in Texas/Mexico for... a few decades... heck, it's been almost two decades since that generation of Chevy Caprice was sold.
As for where the dust came from, uh, you must live in the PacNW.
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