"Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker dies in car crash.

[Kirk Freeman]

If only Mitt Romney's sons were there!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse. Apparently, he made 2 out of 3.

Whoa! What a way to go...

I will admit I'm one of those people that have neither heard of this guy or seen one of those movies.

 

[Cameramonkey]

If only Mitt Romney's sons were there!

Hell, too bad we couldn't have stuffed the entire executive and legislative branches into the trunk...

 

[Wild Deuce]

We might have our signals mixed.
Does this guy have ANYTHING to do with the ATF GunWalking scandal Fast & Furious
ATF gunwalking scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Or is this post about the movie F&F?
If the 2nd then I'm sorry but I really don't care.

This encompasses everything I know about Jedi.

I have to rep you on this one!

 

[jbombelli]

Looking at that twisted mess that used to be a Carrera GT, there's no way that car was going within the speed limit.

The car:

Porsche Carrera GT in Walker crash had six owners in its cross-country life - Autoweek Racing car news - Autoweek

 

[chezuki]

Hell, too bad we couldn't have stuffed the entire executive and legislative branches into the trunk...

Again with the "people we don't agree with should die" bull****... Why can't you people keep the craziness in the politics forum?

 

[churchmouse]

Again with the "people we don't agree with should die" bull****... Why can't you people keep the craziness in the politics forum?

Yup....agreed.

I see this as a hey, watch this moment. Looks like the driver was a lot faster than he was good situation baring mechanical failure.

This thing had to be going just under Mach.

 

[sepe]

Again with the "people we don't agree with should die" bull****... Why can't you people keep the craziness in the politics forum?

What? You don't want everyone you don't agree with dead while you sit there thinking about how crazy they are? Heh, you must be one of them.

 

[SMiller]

Pretty easy to see they were doing 5x the speed limit, just glad they didn't smoke a family driving on the same road, so stupid!

 

[stephen87]

SMiller, you should be a crash investigator. It seems you can determine speed from pictures of a burnt car. Know if they're speeding, what the speed limit is, everything, just from one picture. You're awesome!

 

[Manatee]

SMiller, you should be a crash investigator. It seems you can determine speed from pictures of a burnt car. Know if they're speeding, what the speed limit is, everything, just from one picture. You're awesome!

If you end up with a 8" diameter tree in the middle of your Carrera, chances are you might have been traveling a tad over the speed limit.

 

[chezuki]

If you end up with a 8" diameter tree in the middle of your Carrera, chances are you might have been traveling a tad over the speed limit.

Hey now, you shouldn't jump to conclusions. Maybe the tree was speeding!

 

[sepe]

SMiller, you should be a crash investigator. It seems you can determine speed from pictures of a burnt car. Know if they're speeding, what the speed limit is, everything, just from one picture. You're awesome!

Well, I'd say that with my untrained eye I can tell that it wasn't a parking lot tap. Also with all of the reports that I've seen out at this time, speed was the biggest contributing factor. Unless that speed limit was pretty low, 5x the limit is a little silly. 3 times the speed would easily be doable in that car though, even on the freeway. And from one of the reports, the driver was a pretty skilled racer so the speeds they were doing weren't something that hadn't been done before. This is why people need to keep speed on the track and not the highway/surface streets/industrial parks. And yes, I can legitimately say my speeds are always within 5mph of the posted limit unless conditions call for less even if I think the limit is stupid for the stretch of pavement.

 

[CathyInBlue]

Maybe the Porsche Carerra GT and the palm tree just underwent a quantum flux dispersion.

 

[87bluejay]

Unfortunately people die in traffic accidents every day. They just don't make the front page or headline news. Why should this?

 

[sepe]

Unfortunately people die in traffic accidents every day. They just don't make the front page or headline news. Why should this?

Because he was famous and famous people are better than us normals!!!!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Because he was famous and famous people are better than us normals!!!!

He is? I would have never heard of him had it not been because of this thread.

 

[sepe]

If you've ever seen Varsity Blues, you've seen him. If you're a Highway to Heaven kind of guy, chances are you saw him. If you've seen Pleasantville (which was a pretty decent movie) you've seen him. He was in quite a few shows and movies with most being much, much better than the stupid street racing movies.








I'm mostly just hating on the movies because I could never get a Honda Civic up over 150 mph in a 1/4 during a street race. I mean, I've never owned or driven one but that's beside the point.

 

[chezuki]

If you've ever seen Varsity Blues, you've seen him. If you're a Highway to Heaven kind of guy, chances are you saw him. If you've seen Pleasantville (which was a pretty decent movie) you've seen him. He was in quite a few shows and movies with most being much, much better than the stupid street racing movies.








I'm mostly just hating on the movies because I could never get a Honda Civic up over 150 mph in a 1/4 during a street race. I mean, I've never owned or driven one but that's beside the point.

I see someone's done their IMDB research.

 

[sepe]

Nah, I've got a friend that sports a permanent boner for Varsity Blues and during his drunken ramblings about the greatness that the movie was, he'd tell us dude's other roles. I'm not 100% sure why a straight male is that into Paul Walker but my friend is...then again, his ringtone has been the theme to The OC so maybe he isn't quite as straight as him and his wife claim. My friend actually had a post about Paul Walker on facebook dedicating a viewing of Varsity Blues to him.

But Pleasantville really was a pretty good movie. I mean, it had Don Knotts in it. Who doesn't love them some Barney Fife?