In before "God's revenge for the Wisconsin shootings" douchebaggery.

Metal stands, buttloads of water, probably enough lightning to light up Mt. Doom... yeah, not a good combination.

(tonight's highlight reel)
Pocono's been...

THUNDERSTRUCK...

(Cue AC/DC)

So the 9 others weren't race fans?

People actually pay money to sit in stands and watch cars go in circles?

How retarded or Southern do you have to be to do that? lol

Why wasn't the race postponed when lightning was coming into the area?

You heard it here folks, even God thinks NASCAR is retarded.

The lightning strike occured in the parking lot. They had already evacuated the stands.

And seriously NASCAR haters? A person enjoys something you don't enjoy, get over it. You think there's assholes in the world, but the biggest one is you.

Plasma's a biatch.

Actually, the race had ended and people were leaving due to the severe weather. Not much you can do to stop that from occuring and there is really no place to shelter that many people that wouldn't be at risk.

in before the... aww nevermind.

Pachelbel: The lightning strike occured in the parking lot. They had already evacuated the stands.

And seriously NASCAR haters? A person enjoys something you don't enjoy, get over it. You think there's assholes in the world, but the biggest one is you.

I don't know, have you ever seen the Goatse?

Must have taken Earnhardt's name in vain.

Drink, Drink, drink. Vrrroooom. Drink, drink, drink. Vrrroooom. Drink, oh shiat its raining real hard. Drink, drink. Man's voice in sky says race is over. Guess its time to go drive home. Drink, drink, KABOOOOOOOOM.

/Next week at Nascar: Lower yer heds fer tribute to the fallen fans.
//Drink, vrrroooom, drink, drink.
///All organic matter dies at some point in its life span. Get over it. Unless its redneck dave shooting them fereners. Then f*ck you.

Pachelbel: The lightning strike occured in the parking lot. They had already evacuated the stands.

And seriously NASCAR haters? A person enjoys something you don't enjoy, get over it. You think there's assholes in the world, but the biggest one is you.


For all you haters out there, remember that this man died doing what he loved: being electrocuted in the parking lot of a half assed race venue during a half assed race.

Grave_Girl: Must have taken Earnhardt's name in vain.

Fark Earnhardt. He made thousands of left turns and everyone thought he was an asshole. Then he missed one right turn and those same people tried to make him a goddamn saint.

Newsflash, Dipshiat, you're supposed to prevent the car from hitting the wall.
How does it feel to know your dad was a moron, Dale, Jr?

Captain_Ballbeard: Pachelbel: The lightning strike occured in the parking lot. They had already evacuated the stands.

And seriously NASCAR haters? A person enjoys something you don't enjoy, get over it. You think there's assholes in the world, but the biggest one is you.


For all you haters out there, remember that this man died doing what he loved: being electrocuted in the parking lot of a half assed race venue during a half assed race.

Donations to his common law wife/sister can be made at any participating Wal-Mart location.
I hear Skynyrd's flying in for the funeral.

The NASCAR ambulances transporting the injured took forever getting to the hospital, considering the fact they had to find an all left hand turn route..

stoli n coke: Captain_Ballbeard: Pachelbel: The lightning strike occured in the parking lot. They had already evacuated the stands.

And seriously NASCAR haters? A person enjoys something you don't enjoy, get over it. You think there's assholes in the world, but the biggest one is you.


For all you haters out there, remember that this man died doing what he loved: being electrocuted in the parking lot of a half assed race venue during a half assed race.

Donations to his common law wife/sister can be made at any participating Wal-Mart location.
I hear Skynyrd's flying in for the funeral.

No Skynard cant make it
not enough gas

10 Trolls, and not one of them has made an original joke.

Where's your hate for every other sport? Even ethnically and financially, the fanbase for NASCAR extremely close to every other major sport in North America.

bluorangefyre: Metal stands, buttloads of water, probably enough lightning to light up Mt. Doom... yeah, not a good combination.

nascar fans aren't quite bright...

/where is their god now

stoli n coke: Grave_Girl: Must have taken Earnhardt's name in vain.

Fark Earnhardt. He made thousands of left turns and everyone thought he was an asshole. Then he missed one right turn and those same people tried to make him a goddamn saint.

Newsflash, Dipshiat, you're supposed to prevent the car from hitting the wall.
How does it feel to know your dad was a moron, Dale, Jr?

Rawr biatch, put the claws away. Dale Sr broke your parents marriage up as a teenager didn't he?

Somacandra: In before "God's revenge for the Wisconsin shootings" douchebaggery.

Came here to say; 'In before some asshole douchebag makes some stupid comment.'

Damn! Too late!

bel4sucks: stoli n coke: Grave_Girl: Must have taken Earnhardt's name in vain.

Fark Earnhardt. He made thousands of left turns and everyone thought he was an asshole. Then he missed one right turn and those same people tried to make him a goddamn saint.

Newsflash, Dipshiat, you're supposed to prevent the car from hitting the wall.
How does it feel to know your dad was a moron, Dale, Jr?

Rawr biatch, put the claws away. Dale Sr broke your parents marriage up as a teenager didn't he?

No, alcoholism and Dad's adultery did that.
However, on his way home from his girlfriends, Pop always made the correct turns. Take notes, superfan number 3.

stoli n coke: Grave_Girl: Must have taken Earnhardt's name in vain.

Fark Earnhardt. He made thousands of left turns and everyone thought he was an asshole. Then he missed one right turn and those same people tried to make him a goddamn saint.

Newsflash, Dipshiat, you're supposed to prevent the car from hitting the wall.
How does it feel to know your dad was a moron, Dale, Jr?

Did someone steal your binky? Or get it stuck in your ass and just can't can't it out?

Zeus, you got some 'splaining to do.

Meh, just a NASCAR fan. It is not like we lost a Doctor or Rocket Scientist.

Pachelbel: The lightning strike occured in the parking lot. They had already evacuated the stands.

And seriously NASCAR haters? A person enjoys something you don't enjoy, get over it. You think there's assholes in the world, but the biggest one is you.

You must be new around here.

I don't know why Stoli n Coke is saying nicer things about Earnhardt than most Fark NASCAR fans have when the guy is brought up, but that's no reason to pick on him, folks.

mc_madness: People actually pay money to sit in stands and watch cars go in circles?

How retarded or Southern do you have to be to do that? lol

People actually pay money to to sit in stands and watch some guys in armor and running some ball up and down some field?

How retarded do you have to be to do that? LOL

Jensaarai: I don't know why Stoli n Coke is saying nicer things about Earnhardt than most Fark NASCAR fans have when the guy is brought up, but that's no reason to pick on him, folks.

No worries. I watched NASCAR as a teenager, and always thought it was funny that Earnhardt was almost universally hated until the one day he didn't do his job correctly. Then suddenly, he's on farking commemorative plates and idiots everywhere are in tears.

An actual soundbite from his death was a fan moaning "He drove a car till the day he died!" You know who else does that? EVERY person who is killed in a car wreck when they're behind the wheel. Doesn't make you special.

stoli n coke: Jensaarai: I don't know why Stoli n Coke is saying nicer things about Earnhardt than most Fark NASCAR fans have when the guy is brought up, but that's no reason to pick on him, folks.

No worries. I watched NASCAR as a teenager, and always thought it was funny that Earnhardt was almost universally hated until the one day he didn't do his job correctly. Then suddenly, he's on farking commemorative plates and idiots everywhere are in tears.

An actual soundbite from his death was a fan moaning "He drove a car till the day he died!" You know who else does that? EVERY person who is killed in a car wreck when they're behind the wheel. Doesn't make you special.

Personally, I find the fact that so many "sports journalists" credit him with certain safety advances to be the biggest joke. Half of those advances were things he actively fought against being required, like full faced helmets and head restraints. The guy is truly lucky that he was the one who had a head on collision like that before it was his son, who also picked up a lot of his bad habits before he was old enough to know better.

Either way, this really sucks for the fan who was hit and the fans who were hurt. Fark herp-derp aside, I hope they look into the timings of official warnings etc. to try to prevent a repeat. Anyone whose actually been to a NASCAR event, especially in a non-traditional area like Pocono, knows folks of all sorts go there for different reasons. This could've been someone just going for a day out, or to drink with friends, or a resentful teenage son with future plans to troll the Internet about the type of event he was dragged to.

Freschel: mc_madness: People actually pay money to sit in stands and watch cars go in circles?

How retarded or Southern do you have to be to do that? lol

People actually pay money to to sit in stands and watch some guys in armor and running some ball up and down some field?

How retarded do you have to be to do that? LOL

"Up and down" at least changes directions.

A: A good start.

(Sorry, Pachelbel, it was too easy not to make)

Somacandra: In before "God's revenge for the Wisconsin shootings" douchebaggery.

Actually, if Wisconsinites would just rally around Gov. Walker, it's clear that his plan to remove the collective bargaining rights for lightning would prevent future lightning strikes and serve as a model to prevent future strikes across the US. Clearly this was preventable, if we just had the wisdom to listen to Walker sooner!

Wisconsin douchebaggery indeed!

lightning!

Jensaarai: stoli n coke: Jensaarai: I don't know why Stoli n Coke is saying nicer things about Earnhardt than most Fark NASCAR fans have when the guy is brought up, but that's no reason to pick on him, folks.

No worries. I watched NASCAR as a teenager, and always thought it was funny that Earnhardt was almost universally hated until the one day he didn't do his job correctly. Then suddenly, he's on farking commemorative plates and idiots everywhere are in tears.

An actual soundbite from his death was a fan moaning "He drove a car till the day he died!" You know who else does that? EVERY person who is killed in a car wreck when they're behind the wheel. Doesn't make you special.

Personally, I find the fact that so many "sports journalists" credit him with certain safety advances to be the biggest joke. Half of those advances were things he actively fought against being required, like full faced helmets and head restraints. The guy is truly lucky that he was the one who had a head on collision like that before it was his son, who also picked up a lot of his bad habits before he was old enough to know better.

Either way, this really sucks for the fan who was hit and the fans who were hurt. Fark herp-derp aside, I hope they look into the timings of official warnings etc. to try to prevent a repeat. Anyone whose actually been to a NASCAR event, especially in a non-traditional area like Pocono, knows folks of all sorts go there for different reasons. This could've been someone just going for a day out, or to drink with friends, or a resentful teenage son with future plans to troll the Internet about the type of event he was dragged to.

No doubt, he was a Dinosaur in regards to safety. I think the fact that it was finally a successful and well known driver died after so many recent deaths was the straw that broke the camels back in regards to safety measures. Remember before Earnhardt's death, NASCAR had lost two other drivers the previous year (Kenny Irwin Jr. and Adam Petty) due to similar injuries when their throttles stuck at New Hampshire. NASCAR has always had danger, but it was turning into a bloodsport and given the larger than life personality Earnhardt had, he was made into a symbol for safety regardless of his own views in life, to push for changes. Personally, I was sad to see him go out like that as he was a colorful asshole in life who was one of the last old school drivers before it morphed into a more corporate bland era, but it certainly wasn't unexpected given his views on safety devices.

Those of us who are of proper breeding, find ourselves electrocuted largely at golf tournaments.

So who got the Lucky Dog?

This just in:
Lightning does'nt care what you are doing when it nails you!

Bongo Blue: This just in:
Lightning does'nt care what you are doing when it nails you!

Natures rapest?

Rapist. Damn keyboard

Pachelbel: 10 Trolls, and not one of them has made an original joke.

I disagree, I thought this one was original and funny.

stoli n coke: Donations to his common law wife/sister can be made at any participating Wal-Mart location. I hear Skynyrd's flying in for the funeral.

Although, I don't get the Skynyrd part. I guess I could Google it.

Daedalus27: Jensaarai: stoli n coke: Jensaarai: I don't know why Stoli n Coke is saying nicer things about Earnhardt than most Fark NASCAR fans have when the guy is brought up, but that's no reason to pick on him, folks.

No worries. I watched NASCAR as a teenager, and always thought it was funny that Earnhardt was almost universally hated until the one day he didn't do his job correctly. Then suddenly, he's on farking commemorative plates and idiots everywhere are in tears.

An actual soundbite from his death was a fan moaning "He drove a car till the day he died!" You know who else does that? EVERY person who is killed in a car wreck when they're behind the wheel. Doesn't make you special.

Personally, I find the fact that so many "sports journalists" credit him with certain safety advances to be the biggest joke. Half of those advances were things he actively fought against being required, like full faced helmets and head restraints. The guy is truly lucky that he was the one who had a head on collision like that before it was his son, who also picked up a lot of his bad habits before he was old enough to know better.

Either way, this really sucks for the fan who was hit and the fans who were hurt. Fark herp-derp aside, I hope they look into the timings of official warnings etc. to try to prevent a repeat. Anyone whose actually been to a NASCAR event, especially in a non-traditional area like Pocono, knows folks of all sorts go there for different reasons. This could've been someone just going for a day out, or to drink with friends, or a resentful teenage son with future plans to troll the Internet about the type of event he was dragged to.

No doubt, he was a Dinosaur in regards to safety. I think the fact that it was finally a successful and well known driver died after so many recent deaths was the straw that broke the camels back in regards to safety measures. Remember before Earnhardt's death, NASCAR had lost two other drivers the previous year (Kenny Irwin Jr. and ...

NASCAR was always retardedly stupid about safety advances.

IIRC, they wouldn't even make the roof flaps legal, even after the major crashes at Talladega and Michigan in 1993, and wanted to use restrictor plates on even more tracks, because roof flaps were new and scary and restrictor plates were already proven technology (that never worked worth a damn and made things even more dangerous).

In fact, the fact that restrictor plates are still being used, 25 years after they were instituted as a temporary safety measure, shows how dumb NASCAR really is.

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Rapist. Damn keyboard

Sure. Blame the victim.

JoeyJoJo: Although, I don't get the Skynyrd part. I guess I could Google it.

Grave_Girl: Must have taken Earnhardt's name in vain.

That was me. I did that bit where I look at a poster of Dale Earnhardt and wonder why it's not over there next to the posters of Marx and Lenin.

over 25 years ago i met Chuck, a hardcore alcoholic NASCAR fan. Chuck had been following the track way before it got popular. went to the races, made them vacations, loved it.

from my observations Chuck had a very active social life and circle of friends. he had more fun than most people i knew back then.

/knew Chuck 9 years before i saw him eat food

Ban assault lightning now!

stoli n coke:
No worries. I watched NASCAR as a teenager, and always thought it was funny that Earnhardt was almost universally hated until the one day he didn't do his job correctly. Then suddenly, he's on farking commemorative plates and idiots everywhere are in tears.


What you are missing is that for most of his career, every kid who ever dreamed of driving a race car dreamed of one day beating Earnhardt to the line. Not Petty, not Allison, not Elliot, not even Gordon when he had God on his side. It was always Earnhardt, even when he was slumping. He was the Steelers in the 70's, the Patriots of today, the Yankees, the Bulls with Jordan...for 20 years. It took him 20 tries to actually win Daytona and every year the new rookies would go to bed the night before the race dreaming of either passing passing him out of turn 4 or holding him off to win the race.

When he died, the perennial "Man to Beat" was lost. These days, kids wanting to get in the sport dream of beating Stewart or Johnson or Busch or a half dozen disliked drivers out there. Hated? The Busch brothers couldn't hold Earnhardt's jock if each one grabbed a strap.

That is why Earnhardt was hated while alive but revered today. It's as if Lex Luthor died in a lab accident and was never caught by Superman.

/"I wasn't trying to crash him, I was just tryin' to rattle his cage"