Showing posts with label accident. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accident. Show all posts

Friday, March 19, 2010

Lance Armstrong On Kornheiser: ‘Punkass Chump’







Fresh off his ESPN double secret probation for mocking Hannah Storm's 1960s-inspired go-go outfits, Tony Kornheiser is at it again; letting his mouth lead him where he probably shouldn't go.

"When three or four of these people start riding abreast, I swear to you, it's all you can do to not run them down! Like Wile E. Coyote! Run 'em over! Get the hell out of my way!", some people took it the wrong way.

Like, for one, Lance Armstrong. From his Twitter account:
Listening to Tony Kornheiser's comments/rant on ESPN radio re: cyclists. Disgusting, ignorant, foolish. What a complete f-ing idiot.

And this all happens the same day we have four cyclists killed by a frikn tractor here in Belgium. It happened in Flanders in Bochholt, which is near Tongeren, so what I can gather with my limited Dutch from this news story is he was transporting those bales of hay you see in the picture and had limited visibility. He drove right over a pack of ten cyclists, killing four of them. There is video in French below the pictures.




Saturday, February 13, 2010

Luge Crash video from Vancouver Olympics


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Hey guys, you know what would be really great? If we lined the track with some huge steel beams. When a bad day at work involves slamming into a metal pole at 90mph, it's probably a good idea to look into a different occupation. Nodar Kumaritashvili, from the country of Georgia, died in a luge training run this morning.

The Winter Olympic version of NASCAR relies on pushing the envelope. How close can we get these people to the edge? Luge and skeleton, and to a lesser extent bobsleigh, will now go through the same crisis as NASCAR after every driver's death.

It's one thing to design a track that is so fast that it ends up being dangerous.... another thing entirely to have huge exposed metal poles right next to that track and to not put any padding around them.

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

The Walk of Shame



This morning's news that Morgan Freeman has been seriously injured in a car accident reminds me of perhaps his finest work, The Walk of Shame.