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Originally Posted by Slither
I will have to step in and dissagree with you on this one Greg. You do not know the girl so I think it is wrong to say she was spoiled. Just because someone has a nice car does not mean they are spoiled. Yeah it was a Porshe but she was going no faster than we can in our Mustangs. Maybe if she would have been doing 180 miles per hour we could say something but 100? I am sure many of us go that fast or close to it at some point during the day, week, month. Fact is, we shouldn't call her stupid, spoiled, or dumb twat because we didn't know the girl and we don't know what the situation was. Have a little respect. It's not like she was running from the cops like PureStangs friend that died.
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I have to side with you on this one.....read my earlier post. We do NOT know the facts, so we should be careful jumping to conclusions...even ones that might seem obvious.
BUT, I will also add that any teenager that has a high-powered, newer car could easier be called "spoiled" if it was given to them. As apposed to a 17 year-old that saved-up his whole life for one. Being "spoiled" is relative and what one person would think spoiled might not be for someone else.
I also think that parents that buy high-powered cars for teenagers are demostrating a form of child-abuse. This may sound harsh, but I can tell you 100% that this will never happen in my house. Will I teach my girls to drive the stang? Sure. Will I toss them the keys and tell them that it is theirs, no f'in way. They can buy one on their own when they are done with college and have their own jobs.
Behind every parent who utters the words "I trust my kid" is a parent being fooled. Kids should never be trusted, You need to give them space to learn and grow and experience life, but trust....never, not completely. Even the best kids screw-up is given enough latitude.
This young lady could have been an NHS student. She may have even been given the car from her parents because she had survived a life-threatening illness (by the way, I know a kid personally who at 15 was given a Mustang by his parents. He died from cancer a year later). We don't know her situation. We just know that she was going fast, in fast car, and is know dead.
Cars are the #1 killer of kids in this country.