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The pandemic was a boon for any car nerd with a lead foot. During the "2 weeks to slow the spread" period when we were all locked inside, all my friends with fa

The pandemic was a boon for any car nerd with a lead foot. During the "2 weeks to slow the spread" period when we were all locked inside, all my friends with fast cars were out enjoying the roads. One the one hand, it's incredibly dangerous some of the stuff they did. On other other hand though, you're not getting this chance again so go have fun and try not to kill yourself.

konschubert 5y ago
What about the other people that you kill while having fun?
- taneq 5y ago
  Not condoning anything but I'd imagine the implication is that they should have been at home following the rules.
  - ranko 5y ago
    Unless they were hospital staff, emergency responders, etc, etc...
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- frockington1 5y ago
  From the post I don't see any evidence that they killed or even injured anybody.
  - konschubert 5y ago
    If someone shoots into a crowd the fact that they missed doesn’t somehow make the action less evil.
    - bradlys 5y ago
      You know many people go out to roads that there aren’t many people on, right? They went out and did this because they knew people wouldn’t be out there. Thus why they did this when everyone was locked up inside… it lowered risk for everyone.
rootusrootus 5y ago
Those were a blissful couple of weeks, for sure. Took my Camaro SS out for enjoyable drives both in the city and out in the sticks. Didn't do anything too crazy, but it sure was a refreshing experience. Makes me want to move somewhere farther from the city traffic. It's also the one time I went by a cop and got a "slow down" gesture instead of a ticket. Just the local speed trap, so it wasn't crazy fast, like 65 in a 45. For a highway, with ramps! Don't ask me why the speed limit is 45. I'm sure if I had been going legitimately fast he'd have overcome his desire to avoid the covid plague.
- frockington1 5y ago
  I a lot of areas cops weren't allowed to stop people due to the plague. Only took a few days for that message to reach the general public. Great fun
madcaptenor 5y ago
Traffic moved very fast then. When my partner and I realized day care was about to close but we would still have to work we drove our daughter ten hours to my in-laws' house... mostly on rural southern interstates, speed limit 70, traffic might go 80-82 in normal times. I was hitting 90 quite often. And still getting passed.
tristor 5y ago
Weird, I'm a huge car nerd, and I stayed inside during the times when I was supposed to and attended HPDE and other track events when it became possible again. Like many other folks, I used the extra time at home to order parts online and upgrade my car in my garage during my free time. I don't know anyone that used this opportunity to go out on the public roads and do anything dangerous, and I find that suspect, but it could be regional differences (or socioeconomic differences) between different groups of car people.

konschubert 5y ago

What about the other people that you kill while having fun?

taneq 5y ago
Not condoning anything but I'd imagine the implication is that they should have been at home following the rules.
- ranko 5y ago
  Unless they were hospital staff, emergency responders, etc, etc...
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frockington1 5y ago
From the post I don't see any evidence that they killed or even injured anybody.
- konschubert 5y ago
  If someone shoots into a crowd the fact that they missed doesn’t somehow make the action less evil.
  - bradlys 5y ago
    You know many people go out to roads that there aren’t many people on, right? They went out and did this because they knew people wouldn’t be out there. Thus why they did this when everyone was locked up inside… it lowered risk for everyone.

rootusrootus 5y ago

Those were a blissful couple of weeks, for sure. Took my Camaro SS out for enjoyable drives both in the city and out in the sticks. Didn't do anything too crazy, but it sure was a refreshing experience. Makes me want to move somewhere farther from the city traffic. It's also the one time I went by a cop and got a "slow down" gesture instead of a ticket. Just the local speed trap, so it wasn't crazy fast, like 65 in a 45. For a highway, with ramps! Don't ask me why the speed limit is 45. I'm sure if I had been going legitimately fast he'd have overcome his desire to avoid the covid plague.

frockington1 5y ago
I a lot of areas cops weren't allowed to stop people due to the plague. Only took a few days for that message to reach the general public. Great fun

madcaptenor 5y ago

Traffic moved very fast then. When my partner and I realized day care was about to close but we would still have to work we drove our daughter ten hours to my in-laws' house... mostly on rural southern interstates, speed limit 70, traffic might go 80-82 in normal times. I was hitting 90 quite often. And still getting passed.

tristor 5y ago

Weird, I'm a huge car nerd, and I stayed inside during the times when I was supposed to and attended HPDE and other track events when it became possible again. Like many other folks, I used the extra time at home to order parts online and upgrade my car in my garage during my free time. I don't know anyone that used this opportunity to go out on the public roads and do anything dangerous, and I find that suspect, but it could be regional differences (or socioeconomic differences) between different groups of car people.