Ryan Dunn of Jackass killed in Car Crash
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As viewers (and fans) of Jackass, Ryan Dunn is more personable to us. We feel like we kind of knew him. So that's why we say RIP. The other guy isn't a face, just a name. But I don't wish death upon him either. He also was stupid, but unfortunately didn't deserve death. It shows how easy it is to stop your existence.
That has also crossed my mind. But (and it's no defence of his wildly dangerous actions) it was 2am out in the countryside.
That has also crossed my mind. But (and it's no defence of his wildly dangerous actions) it was 2am out in the countryside.
Lauren Drain, she's the daughter of Steve Drain who directs and edits all their propaganda videos and those parody music videos that they do. She left a few years ago, and she was interviewed in the recent Louis Theroux documentary on the Church called "America's Most Hated Family In Crisis". The whole documentary is worth a watch if you can find it on a torrent or something.
I think she was interviewed on a few US news shows as well.
I think she was interviewed on a few US news shows as well.
OK AM I THE ONLY PERSON THAT CAN READ? WHY IS EVERYONE KEEP BANGING ON ABOUT "OH ITS LUCKY HE DIDNT HIT A PEDESTRIAN OR ANOTHER CAR".
IT WAS 2 FUCKING 30 IN THE FUCKING MORNING IN WEST CHESTER PA, THE OUTSKIRTS OF WEST CHESTER, AKA THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING NO WHERE. HE WAS MORE LIKELY TO KILL AN ANT ON THE ROAD THAN A PERSON.
GOD DAMN RETARDS.
IT WAS 2 FUCKING 30 IN THE FUCKING MORNING IN WEST CHESTER PA, THE OUTSKIRTS OF WEST CHESTER, AKA THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING NO WHERE. HE WAS MORE LIKELY TO KILL AN ANT ON THE ROAD THAN A PERSON.
GOD DAMN RETARDS.
So..... What you are saying is there was absolutely no possible way anyone else was driving down that same road at that time? Nobody else was out late that night and lived near that area and would have had to take that same road? Not one single person? And on top of that you are telling me Ryan Dunn in his drunken stupor knew that nobody would be driving or walking on ANY of the roads he took to get to the location where he crashed? You do understand that to get to that "deserted" road he would have had to get from the location he drunk himself 2 times over the legal limit? In your desperate effort to justify the stupidness of his actions, don't become stupid yourself.
As it stands, no one has proof of how drunk he was, nor that he was over the legal limit. Like I said, people like to point fingers and accuse people of things with no evidence, exactly like you just did there. Unless you have facts, don't criticize people. The only thing we can blame is the speed he was traveling at the moment. Yes that was a stupid idea to drive that fast. My point was there is no evidences he was doing those speeds on the streets. The road he was on was out of town. I lived in a town just like West Chester, all it is road and trees for miles, and the likeliness at evening seeing another car on a road like that at that time of day is extremely low, seeing a pedestrian is practically zero.
Instead of attacking people based on what you think you know, think about his family, his friends, and the family of his passenger. They've lost some one they've loved.
Do something constructive and look at better ways of preventing this from happening again.
Instead of attacking people based on what you think you know, think about his family, his friends, and the family of his passenger. They've lost some one they've loved.
Do something constructive and look at better ways of preventing this from happening again.
http://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com/art...kass-cheat-death-car-crash-drunk-speeding.htm
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http://sports.espn.go.com/action/news/story?id=6694143
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http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2011/06/23/dunns_death/
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http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110623/ENT/306239990/1011/FEAT
all say the same thing. If you want to ignore this and pretend that all he was doing was driving extremely fast down a deserted road then fine, I don't.
Stop justifying the speed because of the location. You CANNOT drive down a street and KNOW for a FACT that nobody else will drive down that same road. That is impossible. Somebody must have driven down that road to find the crash.
As I have said in previous posts here I feel sorry for the family, it's them that is punished the most by stupid decisions like these.
and
http://sports.espn.go.com/action/news/story?id=6694143
and
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2011/06/23/dunns_death/
and
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20110623/ENT/306239990/1011/FEAT
all say the same thing. If you want to ignore this and pretend that all he was doing was driving extremely fast down a deserted road then fine, I don't.
Stop justifying the speed because of the location. You CANNOT drive down a street and KNOW for a FACT that nobody else will drive down that same road. That is impossible. Somebody must have driven down that road to find the crash.
As I have said in previous posts here I feel sorry for the family, it's them that is punished the most by stupid decisions like these.
From Slate.com:
I'm glad Roger Ebert spoke up. Ryan Dunn killed himself and Zachary Hartwell Monday night in a car accident after leaving from a bar. Afterward, Ebert tweeted, "Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive." He was immediately set upon. How could Ebert be so crass? "I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day and this piece of shit roger Ebert has the gall to put in his 2 cents," Jackass star Bam Margera wrote.
Ebert was right. I was sick to my stomach when I read about Dunn, but not because I knew Dunn or was a fan. I was sick for his friends and those who loved him, and for those who loved Hartwell, a former Navy Seal and newlywed. You can see the anguish in Margera's face. What a waste.
But it wasn't Ebert's gall that bothered me. It was Dunn's. He was driving 130 to 140 mph in his Porsche, endangering not only his life but Hartwell's and that of anyone else on the highway. It takes gall to be that cocky with other people's lives. It takes gall to be that careless with the love and friendship of your friends and family. Dunn, who'd been busted for speeding and drunk driving before, was also drunk. His blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. That takes gall, too.
Maybe Ebert spoke too soon, especially since at the time all he knew was that Dunn had been drinking, not that he was legally drunk. We withhold immediate judgment on the dead for a reason: We don't want their last foolish act to be all that defines their life. We also want to be sensitive to the loved ones who are experiencing such pain.
But all of this pain is exactly why Ebert was right to speak up. This is the kind of pain that is caused by acting selfishly. Let the moment pass, and the lesson fades away. Maybe it's insensitive to make a lesson of death, but when you break the public trust by driving at murderous speeds and you further break that trust by doing it at twice the legal drinking limit, you lose the protection of privacy.
We just spent several weeks hearing thousands of opinions about Rep. Anthony Weiner's lewd tweets. No one worried about crossing lines then, and few seemed to care about what the effect of the snickering commentary on Weiner or his wife or his family.
It was as if his behavior opened the door to anything.
All Weiner did was send pictures. The stupid behavior underlying the sad deaths of Dunn and Hartwell is so much worse, and yet somehow Ebert isn't supposed to speak up? If only someone had the courage to speak up and keep Dunn off the road before this awful thing happened.
I'm glad Roger Ebert spoke up. Ryan Dunn killed himself and Zachary Hartwell Monday night in a car accident after leaving from a bar. Afterward, Ebert tweeted, "Friends don't let jackasses drink and drive." He was immediately set upon. How could Ebert be so crass? "I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day and this piece of shit roger Ebert has the gall to put in his 2 cents," Jackass star Bam Margera wrote.
Ebert was right. I was sick to my stomach when I read about Dunn, but not because I knew Dunn or was a fan. I was sick for his friends and those who loved him, and for those who loved Hartwell, a former Navy Seal and newlywed. You can see the anguish in Margera's face. What a waste.
But it wasn't Ebert's gall that bothered me. It was Dunn's. He was driving 130 to 140 mph in his Porsche, endangering not only his life but Hartwell's and that of anyone else on the highway. It takes gall to be that cocky with other people's lives. It takes gall to be that careless with the love and friendship of your friends and family. Dunn, who'd been busted for speeding and drunk driving before, was also drunk. His blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. That takes gall, too.
Maybe Ebert spoke too soon, especially since at the time all he knew was that Dunn had been drinking, not that he was legally drunk. We withhold immediate judgment on the dead for a reason: We don't want their last foolish act to be all that defines their life. We also want to be sensitive to the loved ones who are experiencing such pain.
But all of this pain is exactly why Ebert was right to speak up. This is the kind of pain that is caused by acting selfishly. Let the moment pass, and the lesson fades away. Maybe it's insensitive to make a lesson of death, but when you break the public trust by driving at murderous speeds and you further break that trust by doing it at twice the legal drinking limit, you lose the protection of privacy.
We just spent several weeks hearing thousands of opinions about Rep. Anthony Weiner's lewd tweets. No one worried about crossing lines then, and few seemed to care about what the effect of the snickering commentary on Weiner or his wife or his family.
It was as if his behavior opened the door to anything.
All Weiner did was send pictures. The stupid behavior underlying the sad deaths of Dunn and Hartwell is so much worse, and yet somehow Ebert isn't supposed to speak up? If only someone had the courage to speak up and keep Dunn off the road before this awful thing happened.
/\ Too bad that's not true. My old man is a coroner. There is a higher level of detail in the later reports, yes. But blood alcohol level is one of the more simple things to get determined and can be done within 24-36 hours.
Anyway, that's moot, unless you want to refute this:
Still don't believe it? Here's the document then:
Anyway, that's moot, unless you want to refute this:
Still don't believe it? Here's the document then:
Speaking up after the fact is pointless.
Hopefully the reckless behaviour of Dunn will highlight the danger of drink driving and speeding inparticular. Both are dangerous seperately. It will also highlight to young fans of the show that they aren't bulletproof and that life is precious and easily ended.
It was a country road in the middle of no where, so it is an over reaction to say he many endangered lives. But Artistic Girl is also right, there is still a possibility someone else could be coming home late from somewhere else, and there lives could have been ended too. It's a small chance, but it's a chance none the less.
He shouldn't have had a licence after his poor driving history and his friends shouldn't have allowed him to drive, or entered the car with him.
Hopefully the reckless behaviour of Dunn will highlight the danger of drink driving and speeding inparticular. Both are dangerous seperately. It will also highlight to young fans of the show that they aren't bulletproof and that life is precious and easily ended.
It was a country road in the middle of no where, so it is an over reaction to say he many endangered lives. But Artistic Girl is also right, there is still a possibility someone else could be coming home late from somewhere else, and there lives could have been ended too. It's a small chance, but it's a chance none the less.
He shouldn't have had a licence after his poor driving history and his friends shouldn't have allowed him to drive, or entered the car with him.