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Old 11-11-2019, 03:00 PM   #1
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986 ends up on second floor

Can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.
It's supposed to be a 986.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/porsche-launches-into-second-story-of-new-jersey-building-killing-2/ar-BBWyjM9?ocid=spartandhp
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Old 11-11-2019, 03:06 PM   #2
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Wow!! They must have been flying ... literally and figuratively. Some smarter with math than me should be able to calculate the speed they were going.
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Nope. It was reported as a 2010.


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Old 11-11-2019, 06:19 PM   #4
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Something about this story grabbed me. I spent some time with Google Earth to look at the area. Fast right hand sweeper. They blew through the apex. The curbs are rolled and the median is grass/dirt. They missed the telephone pole and trees and the ditch launched them through the parking lot. I suspect the car caught the nose and cartwheeled up through the air. Two grade school friends gone.

Why are two guys in their early 20's, in a 2010 Boxster, at 6:30 in the morning, dead? We, as parents and friends of younger drivers, need to turn this tragedy into a teaching moment. This just sucks.
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Old 11-11-2019, 06:53 PM   #5
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I know it's a Porsche Boxster and all, but whatever car it might have been, this is a very sad story. Two young kids, their entire lives in front of them, get killed instantly as a result of a few seconds of very poor judgment. Sad.
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Old 11-11-2019, 09:38 PM   #6
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Must have been a Launch Vehicle. Check the VIN for option code 762.
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Old 11-12-2019, 10:37 PM   #7
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Must have been a Launch Vehicle. Check the VIN for option code 762.
Hahaha!!!! We might end up in hell, but that’s some funny ********************!
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Old 11-13-2019, 01:48 AM   #8
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Around these parts....

.....it’s called, “Death by ‘Hold my beer, watch this’ syndrome.”

Natural selection at work.

Ain’t no cure for stupid.
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Old 11-13-2019, 01:33 PM   #9
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.....it’s called, “Death by ‘Hold my beer, watch this’ syndrome.”

Natural selection at work.

Ain’t no cure for stupid.
I bow to you, mister perfect. I dare you to say that to their parents. What an ass_hole comment.

As a Dad of 4 great young men, I prayed every night of their teens and 20’s to get them one day closer to sound judgement. We were all 10ft tall and bullet proof once.
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Old 11-13-2019, 06:52 AM   #10
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Must have been a Launch Vehicle. Check the VIN for option code 762.
irreverent humor at its best.

Just sayin'...........

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Old 11-13-2019, 07:00 AM   #11
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Deaths are not funny no matter how you spin them. And...we were all stupid in our 20's. Care to open up your life story to the world?????
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Deaths are not funny no matter how you spin them. And...we were all stupid in our 20's. Care to open up your life story to the world?????
And these were two kids, just getting their lives started.

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Old 11-16-2019, 06:39 AM   #13
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Must have been a Launch Vehicle. Check the VIN for option code 762.
OMG....Too funny.
Not what happened but your comment.
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Old 11-16-2019, 08:14 AM   #14
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Ok...

....Wow.

I will refrain from any more posts.

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....Wow.

I will refrain from any more posts.

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Not a bad idea..
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I will refrain from any more posts.



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10/10ths, I hope ya don't refrain. I think there's enough room for lots of opinions around here. Even if mine is right. But that includes those (including myself) who think your comment was insensitive and in poor taste, right?

I would point-out, too, that there's only one reason to ANNOUNCE that you're going to stop posting.... as opposed to simply STOP POSTING, hahaha.

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Old 11-12-2019, 11:17 AM   #17
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Sad story. Who among us didn't survive some stupid things we did as kids? Here is a picture from one of the local articles showing the road and skidmarks.

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Old 11-13-2019, 06:46 PM   #18
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I'm a little shocked at the cavalier attitude some of you have about two young men whose lives are over. How callous you can be about at least two sets of parents grieving (you ever watch a parent lose a child? ). About a community which will feel a loss of two bright young men missing from work, from happy hour, from wherever they volunteered, from their church services, from school classes.

I'm saddened at the story. And saddened further at the lack of empathy shown here, with my online friends.

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Old 11-13-2019, 08:26 PM   #19
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I'm a little shocked at the cavalier attitude some of you have about two young men whose lives are over. How callous you can be about at least two sets of parents grieving (you ever watch a parent lose a child? ). About a community which will feel a loss of two bright young men missing from work, from happy hour, from wherever they volunteered, from their church services, from school classes.

I'm saddened at the story. And saddened further at the lack of empathy shown here, with my online friends.
Well put, Maytag.
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It's the "Darwin Theory" at work. Where can I order a "flying Boxster"? It sure would make my commute a heck of a lot easier.

Sorry but I have little sympathy for supreme such stupidity..... "high rate of speed"?!?!......I can't imagine how fast they had to be traveling to launch a 3,000 pound object 20 feet in the air..........think about all of the other people who could of been killed by these idiots......innocent men, women and children could have been killed.......sorry no sympathy here for the occupants....for their families YES but not for them.
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