Craig Smith
That was easy!
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- May 25, 2001
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I've been on both sides of the cop issue... as a kid I was bullied around by tough-guy cops who needed to find someone in a bind to show "who's the real man" and I've dealt with cops who were very cool, and a little respect gets you a long way with the cool ones. You never know who you are going to wind up with, but mouthing off to either one of them is NEVER in your best interest. Especially given that your buddy was risking getting YOU in a lot of trouble by flapping his jaws, he earned a trip to Crossbar Hotel IMHO.
As far as the street racing thing is concerned, it has been a lot of years since I have been around it. The way things went in my neck of the woods, it was just a matter of time before someone got hurt and I figured it wasn't gonna be me. Like dumba$$es, we would line both sides of the road from start to finish to watch people race. One night, a friend of mine spit his driveshaft out about 1000' down the race. The driveshaft went down the other side of the road where miraculously no one was standing, but had my friends and I decided to watch from that side of the road, there's a good chance some of us would have died. That was our own fault for being so close, I guess. I hope that people these days use more common sense than I did back then when they go to watch a race.
As far as the street racing thing is concerned, it has been a lot of years since I have been around it. The way things went in my neck of the woods, it was just a matter of time before someone got hurt and I figured it wasn't gonna be me. Like dumba$$es, we would line both sides of the road from start to finish to watch people race. One night, a friend of mine spit his driveshaft out about 1000' down the race. The driveshaft went down the other side of the road where miraculously no one was standing, but had my friends and I decided to watch from that side of the road, there's a good chance some of us would have died. That was our own fault for being so close, I guess. I hope that people these days use more common sense than I did back then when they go to watch a race.