If the Darwin Awards are just, he's...toast.

[Sooga]

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By the time I passed the scene of the car fire, the car fire had become a car-and-brush-and-maybe-soon-to-be-forest-fire.


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It's been a while since I've been on the 105... didn't know they'd gone and planted a forest right off the shoulder.

[Josh W]

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I would get as far off the road is possible. Better to light some [censored] shrubs than damage other cars

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Is it better to torch ten thousand homes or damage a car? And, how do you think another car would get damaged? Were they suddenly going to drive into a burning car, just for giggles?

[Josh W]

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By the time I passed the scene of the car fire, the car fire had become a car-and-brush-and-maybe-soon-to-be-forest-fire.


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It's been a while since I've been on the 105... didn't know they'd gone and planted a forest right off the shoulder.

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Maybe I shouldn't have said that. It seems to have massively confused you.

[emon87]

OP you're an idiot, his car was on fire.

[Duke]

In principle I see where you're going, and agree that lack of forethought is retarded.

In practice, I don't think it would be possible to set LA ablaze from the 105 with one car exploding.

[Josh W]

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OP you're an idiot, his car was on fire.

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I disagree that I'm an idiot, but I do see that I'm in the minority.

I guess I'm unusual because other people are always in the front of my mind, much moreso than I am. I know that if I have time to drive off the road into the brush, I have time to pull to the side of the road (since it's closer) and it will endanger roughly infinitely less, thats what I'd do.

I guess I'm disheartened by the selfishness shown by others here, but ultimately not surprised.

[Sooga]

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OP you're an idiot, his car was on fire.

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I disagree that I'm an idiot, but I do see that I'm in the minority.

I guess I'm unusual because other people are always in the front of my mind, much moreso than I am. I know that if I have time to drive off the road into the brush, I have time to pull to the side of the road (since it's closer) and it will endanger roughly infinitely less, thats what I'd do.

I guess I'm disheartened by the selfishness shown by others here, but ultimately not surprised.

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Doing something that may endanger you in order to avoid the infinitesimal risk of starting a brush fire in downtown Los Angeles is not selfish - it's idiotic.

[Josh W]

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In principle I see where you're going, and agree that lack of forethought is retarded.

In practice, I don't think it would be possible to set LA ablaze from the 105 with one car exploding.

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It's not an explosion that concerns me...it's a fire when the big news storying on CNN and other outlets all week has been the heatwave in the west. I'm not worried about all of LA burning...but a couple square miles could be ablaze very quickly, no problem.

I guess I feel like, when you live in a part of the country where wildfires are so common, you should do your part to prevent them.

If the driver were on fire, and he bailed out of a burning vehicle while it was still moving, and then the car rolled up the embankment, I can begin to justify it. I think that there is way less than a 1% chance of this being the case (based simply on the fact that in all of the car fires I've ever seen, the driver has never been on fire, including a handful of friends who have been in them. So, it's unlikely the driver was burning. It's also unlikely that he bailed out of a moving car. It's unlikely that, if he had bailed out of a moving car, that the car would veer towards the side of the road. It's unlikely that it would not hit any other cars. It's unlikely that the car went up the embankment).

I mean, he almost had to TRY to put the car up there. He drove farther than necessary, endangered more than necessary, and was probably in the car longer than necessary. I'd say that's stupid. Most here seem to think it's smart.

[Sooga]

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I mean, he almost had to TRY to put the car up there. He drove farther than necessary, endangered more than necessary, and was probably in the car longer than necessary. I'd say that's stupid. Most here seem to think it's smart.

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Smart, no. Unavoidable, yes.

[Josh W]

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OP you're an idiot, his car was on fire.

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I disagree that I'm an idiot, but I do see that I'm in the minority.

I guess I'm unusual because other people are always in the front of my mind, much moreso than I am. I know that if I have time to drive off the road into the brush, I have time to pull to the side of the road (since it's closer) and it will endanger roughly infinitely less, thats what I'd do.

I guess I'm disheartened by the selfishness shown by others here, but ultimately not surprised.

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Doing something that may endanger you in order to avoid the infinitesimal risk of starting a brush fire in downtown Los Angeles is not selfish - it's idiotic.

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This was on the green-lined 105, not downtown.

I mean, he almost had to TRY to put the car up there. He drove farther than necessary, endangered more than necessary, and was probably in the car longer than necessary. I'd say that's stupid. Most here seem to think it's smart.

Are you saying it wasn't idiotic to stay in his car longer than necessary?

He could have parked on the friggin road and saved himself and the city danger. He basically had to try to do something as stupid as he did.