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Originally Posted by Bill Koski
I suppose the nanny staters are equating it with an accomplice bank robber who is there when his partner shoots someone to death?
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If the dude who lost control and plowed into people, and then fled the scene, didn't have anyone to race, there wouldn't have been a race. Then there wouldn't have been an accident that killed 2 people. That's how its supposed to work to discourage people from doing "harmless" crimes that just so happen to Kill 2 people. If you commit a crime and that crime directly leads to someone's death, then you are responsible. That's how its should work. I don't see how anyone can see it differently. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. The risk are obvious. He had to have known it was possible to lose control and plow into the crowd. It's like flinging a loaded weapon around during an armed robbery. If it goes off and kills someone, your going to jail for murder.
NHRA did the right thing distancing themselves from the show before the media gets a hold of Street Outlaws and relates it to stories like these.