Enough Dead Cobra Owners! Enough Wrecked Cars!

[CSX 4039]

Originally posted by Mongoose



If there is a "fault" to be found, it was in making a poor choice of when to mash the peddle. Call it a moment of enthusiasm, call it a moment of fun winning over judgement, or do as we are doing and call it an accident... [/b]

My personal definition of an "accident" is an undesired result that is unforseen and unavoidable. This, an illegal drag race down a narrow suburban street, with houses close to the curb on both sides, and two hot rod cars travelling at a high rate of speed after dark, is an utterly predictable outcome. An "homeowner's accident" would have occured if one of those cars had flown through somebodies house and landed on someone in the living room. That would have been totally unforseen and unavoidable by the homeowner. You may see it all as being the same, but I see a huge distinction. For instance, if you drink booze all your life, and then get cirrhosis, that is no accident. If you play recklessly with loaded shotguns and blow your head off, some might see that as an "accident". I don't. I see it as an almost mandatory eventual outcome. All of us with Cobra owners with beer bellies, who don't exercise, have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and borderline diabetes are going to have a heart attack, and raise the medical insurance rates for the rest of the Cobra owners who don't. This is no accident, this is a near medical certainty. No different, really. My opinion.