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WAGGZ on November 07, 2006 at 7:07 PM |
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Street Racing... posted by Mikeys300zx on November 07, 2006 at 05:36 PM |
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About 8 to 5 years ago(Age 16 to 19), I belonged to a club called NightRaven Racing. We as a group would go out and race on a particular stretch of secluded, wide, straight, smooth road with a large field on each side of the road with no worries about trees, other traffic, or the police. We would gather on this road several nights(nights only) a week and was very popular on Friday and Saturday nights. There were some members of our club that were either family or friends with the County Sheriff's deputies and we would hardly EVER get bothered. There was a couple of times the there were sheriff deputies there (off duty) racing with us or watching and even my high school principal showed up with his vette. We had the road blocked on each end of our "area" in case of regular traffic were to come driving up. It was as safe as it could be on the "street". NightRaven Racing had rules that there would be NO racing anywhere other than our road and we all stood by that until we had a new member join us that was a relative of one of our other members. He was IMO, an arrogant piece of shit. H e was always pissing someone off, trying to start fights, blah, blah, blah. Some of us wanted to kick him out but that never happened.
This dip shit in mention, decided that he was going to race someone in the middle of town one day. he managed to broadside a Western Maine Transit bus(small bus for disabled people) at what the police stated over 80MPH. Two people in the bus were killed and his girlfriend in his car also passed away a day later.
Because he had a "KnightRaven Racing" decal on his windshield, we as a group were targeted as a "street gang" in the eyes of the DAs and we all were facing harsh penalties. I was actually let off easily since I had been enlisted into the delayed entry program for the Air Force. Even though there was only one member of our club that was involved in this wreck, some of our other members got jail time and big fines.
I learned alot from that and from then on I never joined a street racing club or any club for that matter. I do admit that I have done some highway/country road pulls at night since then, but there was NO other traffic around. Stupid, yeah not the smartest thing, but certainly not as retarded to the extent that it was done in the middle of a well traveled street with tons of people watching or traffic driving by.
All in all, it is very dumb. It serves no purpose and I have no excuse for my past. I have grown more mature since then and I always think about the deaths of those who never knew what had happened when they were killed, or the kids who paid the ultimate price when they wade the stupidest mistake of their lives, and the families that have to remember their loved ones in photographs for the rest of their lives.
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