The stuff of nightmares. Just … awful.
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Damn. R.I.P
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Damm
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Just an awful story. He was likely heading to prison as well.
Four months of mayhem. What a waste all the way around.
Hard for me to feel sympathy.
I guess cause of death will matter. I feel terrible for his family. I can’t how I’d feel if he was my son, regardless of his recklessness.
I felt sympathy for the 78 year old guy.
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I am so grateful none of the batshit crazy hijinks my friends and I got up to between the ages of 15-25 resulted in the death of innocent bystanders, let alone any of us. A miracle.
We would have had to accept the consequences of taking innocent life, just as this young man was about to. Probably decided to check out to avoid that, like he avoided it at the scene.
Coupled with just being on the verge of a shot at NFL success and all that brings, man what a dark night of the soul that must be.
What a terrible waste all around.
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Unfortunate.
Sad … prayers for all
Want his death to mean something?
Mandate that very graphic photos of the crash scenne, the 78 year old and Lacy after his suicide be given to Every Single “student athelete” one on one as part of their signing documents with their school.
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That would be effective, I think. I wonder if Lacy’s family would allow it for the good it could do. Man, reckless (including impaired) driving can cause so much suffering in so many directions. Don’t do it, kids.
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Oh God. How horrible. You said it best, just a nightmare. It’s easy to judge from afar, sad all the way around.
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It’s ok to feel sympathy for both, kid made such a big mistake then made it worst. But in the end he couldn’t live with what he did. The remorse was to much. Just a traject story altogether. I feel sorry for all involved .
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One night, when I was about 17, my parents were away on vacation. So naturally my friends came over and we got very drunk. Some of us badgered the only one there with a car (his father’s brand new T-Bird) into driving to Burger King around midnight. He finally relented but was pissed, both literally and figuratively.
On the way back, the driver was still annoyed at having been basically bullied into driving and decided he wasn’t going to stop for any stop signs on the way home. He flew through three without incident. On the fourth, he hit head on into a car trying a left turn in front of him, with the right of way, not seeing this car speeding into the intersection.
Totalled his dad’s new car. The rest of us were mostly uninjured, with bruises and a few stitches each. The driver of the other car got messed up, separated his shoulder and suffered other injuries. Lucky he wasn’t killed.
The car I was in deflected off the oncoming car and went straight into a huge oak tree on somebody’s lawn. Totaled the car. For years afterwards I’d see the scar on the tree and thank my lucky stars no one was killed.
Honestly, this is just one of many dangerous sequences in my life that could have turned out tragically.
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TBird pinball is not a good game, fo sho. I had a 78 TBird, freaking land yacht…but smaller than the 77 Cutlass Supreme we had. Detroit metal mosnter with a 454 in it. Called it the Argo. Basically a lane wide missile at 80+mph and floated like you felt it was going 35
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We show death scenes to the students we teach motorcycles too …
Our primary goal is to hopefully inspire safety conscious riders … understanding you can become a human luggie in a second hopefully helps in that
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Ha, this was an 82 TBird. The first of the new age models, I think. Ugly as sin. But brand new and still big enough.
I had an 87 Caprice Classic with velour seats. That was a boat too. Drove that SOB all over North America, half of it on cruise control. Miss that thing. Sniff.
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It’s an all around tragic story. It is so, so important to have positive mentors in life.
This is a dead ringer for the one I had. Same dark purple, brougham model. WTF is a brougham anyway? One really well-built automobile, I’ll tell you, bumper to bumper. Legend has it that the Caprice was killed because they just wouldn’t die. Half the taxicabs and cop cars in America were the base model. The hydramatic transmission was smooth as butter.
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