Do Not Laugh At This Photo

[jackshoegazer]

Drunk driver plows into cycle race

This is why I love Madison and bike paths.  Drunk drivers rarely go down them.

Comments

[kelikala.livejournal.com]

0.o

Just... wow...

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[anubis75.livejournal.com]

Holy shit!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's what everyone in that picture was saying when it was snapped.

[3starsinmyeyes.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine was hit on his bike by a guy on a motorcyle about a month ago. His face broke the fall, he broke nearly every bone in his face, and atm his jaw is still wired shut.

this is horrible. there really are no other words.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine was hit&run while on her bike and was injured pretty bad. Fucking cars, seriously.

[dakini-grl.livejournal.com]

Deeply disturbing. It took me a minute to figure out just what I was looking at.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

At first I thought it wasn't real, hence the title of the post. I thought it was photoshopped. I can't believe someone was right there to get that picture right when it happened.

[seeitbloom.livejournal.com]

My first reaction is, naturally, to think that this must be photoshopped. It's so amazing to see stuff like that. Not a good amazing. How the heck does someone run in to a group of bikers? Goodness! ):

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Apparently by being drunk and asleep at the wheel :(

[seeitbloom.livejournal.com]

Tsk, tsk. Silly people. D:

[sophy.livejournal.com]

Someone ought to take the driver of that car out back and smack the living shit out of him or her. Course, I'm a little extra-pissed at drunk drivers right now.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Drunk and ASLEEP!

[jennywho.livejournal.com]

dude, i couldn't help it i laughed.

:(

but it is sad.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I know, right? At first it looks like a scene in a movie (no bikers were harmed int he making of this film) but then (OMG) it sets in... this is real. Eeek. I shouldn't laugh. Ooops.

[cygnus.livejournal.com]

Good Christ. And that IS a police car right there, isn't it?

That photo is like the WORST DAY EVER. gah.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. This was only 15 minutes into the bike race. What a way to start. Ack.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

If this weren't backed up by a legitimate news article, I'd question it's validity.

Seriously, this is a case where I would have no problem if that crowd went vigilante.

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

Oh, DAMN.

It took me a moment to figure out what I was looking at - honestly, my first impression was that a car had run straight into a horse and wagon, because rearing horses are the only thing that I could come up with off the top of my head that are that tall.

I can understand having a photog there and ready - he/she must have been on scene to take pictures of the race.

[katachthonios.livejournal.com]

Actually, those were my thoughts, too. Weird.

Oh, and cute icon.

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Yes, I did misplace the email, why do you ask? :)

[strawdogs.livejournal.com]

i know i'm not the first to say this, but it's all i can say:

that is insane.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

That's okay. It bears repeating.

[protodisco.livejournal.com]

i bet there were a couple cutthroat racers who were still in it to win it, happy for the deus ex machina. the guy in green, for example. he almost definitely won.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

The guy in green is having a heart attack, methinks.

[westerdrumlins.livejournal.com]

Please tell me you'll be making icon(s) out of this.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Probably.

[westerdrumlins.livejournal.com]

Hoooot.

[lokis-raven.livejournal.com]

What would we laugh at that? That's horrifying. Why it's so difficult for some people to confine their drinking to a non-driving area is something I will never understand.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Some people laugh before they realize exactly what's going on there.

I don't really understand drunk drivers. Or sleeping drivers. I fell asleep driving once - nothing happened, luckily - but I will never drive tired again. Or drunk, not that I ever did :P

[blackdreams.livejournal.com]

My god, people flying everywhere! I wonder if anyone lived that.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

14 injured, 1 dead. Pretty sad.

[fortepiano.livejournal.com]

The guy in green is one lucky person.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

He's probably having a damned heart attack right there :P