A little close to home...

[froggyfrenchman]

As many of you may have heard, through my constant ranting, ive been quite worried by the problem of Hastings' kamakazi boy racers.

The history..... My younger brother has been living at my house for a few months now, he is really tight with that crowd of youth delinquants. They have been pulling up at my house in these festering shoitpackers they call cars for ages now, i know who most of them are and so their constant deaths on the road have been strange to deal with.

The most famous of these being the 5 boys that died hitting the tree a few weeks ago. Now, my brother was in the car behind them. Was first on the scene and watched his friends die (well the three he could recognise, the other two were just goo on the windscreen)

Since that night, he has lost 7 friends on the road and yet still learned nothing... That is until last friday.
12midnight- my aunty sees him pissed in town and takes his keys, leaves him cab money.
1am- his mates have sober driver so he gets a ride with them
1:15am- Cop pulls car over. Driver has just gottnoff home detention, freaks out and takes off.
1:20am- Honda civic rolls 6 times while trying to run from police.
3:30am- Hospital calls me.
3:35am- I get to hospital. Brother is still unconsious
4am. He comes round. Is really beaten up but will be ok.

[froggyfrenchman]

All i can do now is hope he learned something this time!
Feel much better with this rant off my chest.
I have worried that he would be involved in something for this, but was so unprepared for that phone call, then had to drive for 1/2 an hour to wake up my mum and tell her. Not easy, hope i never have to be in this position again

[SPORK]

Woh shit. Motherfuck.

How old is he? Is he in a stable condition? I hope he's ok...

[ZorsT]

I hope he does learn something. I aslo hope he is okay.

I hope they stop their wreakless behaviour.

But I can only hope

:spudwave:

[2much]

Sounds like that "it'll never happen to me" theory. Hope he learns the lesson and takes his 2nd chance seriously. I couldn't put my mother thru that.

[Colapop]

I don't know how to respond to this but to say that as much as you want to rant - go for it. We all (KBers and people) have got to do more than hope I think. I don't want to come across like some "heal the world tree hugger" but, FUCK ME!! Something has to happen. I suppose I'm ranted up about it too now (I got a 15 year old home)

[froggyfrenchman]

Hes out now, just really sore and nursing minor cuts and brusies. VERY lucky, the car took out a power pole and the roof was flat at bonnet level over the whole car. Took fireservice bout an hr with jaws of life to get the boys out

[heavenly.talker]

As many of you may have heard, through my constant ranting, ive been quite worried by the problem of Hastings' kamakazi boy racers.

The history..... My younger brother has been living at my house for a few months now, he is really tight with that crowd of youth delinquants. They have been pulling up at my house in these festering shoitpackers they call cars for ages now, i know who most of them are and so their constant deaths on the road have been strange to deal with.

The most famous of these being the 5 boys that died hitting the tree a few weeks ago. Now, my brother was in the car behind them. Was first on the scene and watched his friends die (well the three he could recognise, the other two were just goo on the windscreen)

Since that night, he has lost 7 friends on the road and yet still learned nothing... That is until last friday.
12midnight- my aunty sees him pissed in town and takes his keys, leaves him cab money.
1am- his mates have sober driver so he gets a ride with them
1:15am- Cop pulls car over. Driver has just gottnoff home detention, freaks out and takes off.
1:20am- Honda civic rolls 6 times while trying to run from police.
3:30am- Hospital calls me.
3:35am- I get to hospital. Brother is still unconsious
4am. He comes round. Is really beaten up but will be ok.

Dude...real sorry to hear that tradegy is so close to home!
Am sending positive vibes and best wishes to you and yours.

[inlinefour]

I hope he does learn something. I aslo hope he is okay.

I hope they stop their wreakless behaviour.

But I can only hope

:spudwave:

and hopefully frogs brother can learn quicker than the rest b4 its too late...

[NotaGoth]

froggy i'm really sorry to hear that, I do hope that for his sake he learns from all this.. sadly.. some people don't learn.. hopefully he's one of the brighter ones..

[froggyfrenchman]

heres hoping

[Macktheknife]

Hey Froggy, much sympathy to you and yours. I would love to hear about your bro smartening up after this experience. I know you will be trying anyway but talk some sense into him in strong terms before he also becomes a statistic. If he really loves the speed thing maybe you could help him get into kart racing or something and get him some skills to try and catch up with his ego. Best of luck anyway.

[yungatart]

Froggy, sorry to hear about what you've been going through. Life can be tough and deal some pretty nasty curve balls at times (none of us are really prepared for them BTW). At the end of the day your brother will do what he wants and he will face the consequences. Not much you can do about it either except hope he learns before its too late. Thoughts are with you.

[avgas]

Sorry to hear that man.
Hope he gets well soon.....and i also hope his injuries heal

[SPman]

Its a shit of a position to be in..(I've been there)
You can but hope it will be a wake up call - but, as you've found, you can only tell him as you see it.He has to want to change, or you're only pissing in the wind.................
Here's hoping........good luck'
SP