[sammyg2]

There is a difference between make-believe and real life, but too many folks don't know what that difference is or don't live long enough to figure it out.

Making movies about street racing is supposed to be entertainment but it was adopted as a lifestyle by many, with predictable consequences.
I can't help but wonder how many other unknown boy racers have been killed indirectly as a result of those F&F movies.

I'm not saying the movies were to blame at all, the people who made the decision to act out fiction are to blame for the consequences.
But the movies did increase Darwin's work load.

BTW this isn't a new thing ironic-wise, it reminds me of Jan and Dean's song "dead man's curve.
They came out with the song in '64 and two years later Jan Berry was paralyzed and suffered severe brain damage in a crash on Whittier blvd in his vette, just a little ways from dead man's curve due to excessive speed.

I can't count all the hot rod movies I saw growing up that involved street racing, and I loved em all.
American Graffiti was the only one I can recall that didn't over-glorify it or at least displayed it honestly as far as what could happen.
Seeing them both walk away from the crash was a little over the top but at least they had the balls to show them crash.

We're all hypocrites to a certain extent when it comes to driving fast on the street. More so when we're young, less as we get older.
We say it's a tragedy, we get mad when someone races around the streets in our neighborhood, but we have a thead thats a go-zillion pages long about the king of mullholland.
We've all gone a little to fast at one time or another. Most of us don't have a CGT to do it is so we get away with it.
Maybe it's just a part of life here in so Cal and we should just accept it and say "oh well, it was bound to happen eventually".