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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with a kid like this is what is to prevent him from doing the exact same thing as soon as he is out of prison?
He's clearly shown that he's habitually reckless.  Is he suddenly going to be a model driver?

Who in their right mind would drive 115 (or was it 110?) on RIVER ROAD?  I guess I could see doing it on 95 or 495 but River road?
It's just a total and utter lack of judgment.  You can't change that in someone.  
I don't ever want him on the road again.  
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This was what I was thinking. How could you even get enough of an unobstructed gap on River Road to attain that speed? It happened in the dark but it wasn't the middle of the night and it's not exactly a sparsely trafficked road. How did he even manage it? And what the hell was going through his brain? The judgment and risk assessment was just a complete and utter failure on every possible level--he didn't even have the "excuse" of being drunk or high on something to explain making such a catatonically stupid decision. Someone decides to floor it in their luxury German car at 3:30am on the Beltway, I can at least sort of comprehend the rationalization process that might lead a person to think they could get away with it safely--it's a wide, flat, very gently curved road designed for high speeds, limited access, barriers between opposite-direction traffic, at a time when there wouldn't be many other drivers or cops around. It's still extremely stupid, criminal, reckless, etc. but I could at least fathom how someone might think that way. This? Utterly baffling. 115 MPH on River Road? What?

So senseless and inexplicable.[/quote]

The M4, which he was driving, is the street version of BMWs 4 series race car. It is very very powerful and going from 45-115 would not take long at all. [/quote]

Not that this detail really matters, but he was driving an M235, not an M4.  M235 is obviously still very fast, but not nearly as fast or expensive as an M4...different league.  [/quote]

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