You're cruel, submitter.
+1

Some will die in hot pursuit in fiery auto crashes.

Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes.

Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain

That was pouring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain.

Submitter is going to hell, of course, but he's in line after whoever came up with "Omg, my bff jill said u ksd my bf ur so omg a trk o no".

(If it's the same submitter, your final destination just moved in one circle.)

the eidolon Some will die in hot pursuit in fiery auto crashes.
IAMONE Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes.
vicejay Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain
Comic Book Guy That was pouring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain.

I love all of you so much right now.

Let me get this out of the way.

How can you be so insensitive they were just kids you should burn in hell subby what if your sister was riding in that bus you people are sick I can't believe Fark became such a callous uncaring community It was better in the old days.

I'm not sure if I covered everything, but it's a start.

+1 subby

VictoryCabal: the eidolon Some will die in hot pursuit in fiery auto crashes.
IAMONE Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes.
vicejay Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain
Comic Book Guy That was pouring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain.

I love all of you so much right now.


I hate the meme, but THIS.

Just reading this thread is going to cost me a brazillion hail marys.

/if i swung that way
//which I don't
///so haha

The headline and beginning of this thread have made my year. Good work, boys.

Give me a C-cup.

No more worrying about the ever-present football player rapist.

Yeah, I'm late to the party.

Strangers die every day.


...D'OH!

FTFA: Investigators believe the crash was caused in part by the slick and foggy conditions, and a preliminary report indicated none of the girls in the SUV was wearing a seat belt, said Laura McPherson, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

No seat belts?

/Still sad.

Seriously, why does the school always arrange for 'grief counseling' ? Why is the school in the psychiatry business, especially considering that this happened off school property?

/farking Nanny State

Girls aged 15-17 not wearing seatbelts? And they died you say? Good riddance to stupid people. I'm 26 and even when I was a kid [omg like totally so long ago, teehee] it was a frowned upon to not wear a seatbelt. There is no excuse for their poor decision making.

That and I like how the article is started as "the tragedy of the cheerleaders killed [mumble mumble] and some other non-cheerleader type person in the car they hit."

I would bet good money that text messaging was involved.

I thought this was going to be an article about the seminal punk band Crass.

God sure musta been pissed at them.

Cheerleader thread?

/coffee spit-take +1

Hydroplaning and flipping over means they were driving unsafe for the conditions they were in. Driver was 16. Very sad story.

Obviously not a victim of the crash.

FriarReb98: Obviously not a victim of the crash.

Feel terrible for it, but I lol'd.

"Investigators believe the crash was caused in part by the slick and foggy conditions, and a preliminary report indicated none of the girls in the SUV was wearing a seat belt, said Laura McPherson, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Highway Patrol."

Anyone else believe the crash was caused by giving 4 teenage cheerleaders an SUV?

because the girls were not wearing belts the driver (lived and had a seatbelt on), might be charged with man slaughter, people under 18 that are passengers in tennessee, become the responsibility of the driver and he will incur all fines... this is true even if the driver is under 18, law was put in the books when i was 17. also they had what 6 people and an infant in the car... and why in the world if your pregnant dont you wear a belt..

Somewhere out there, a necrophiliac mortician is WISHING he worked in Tennessee, I bet.

VictoryCabal: the eidolon Some will die in hot pursuit in fiery auto crashes.
IAMONE Some will die in hot pursuit while sifting through my ashes.
vicejay Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain
Comic Book Guy That was pouring like an avalanche, coming down the mountain.

I love all of you so much right now.


I hate the meme, but THIS.


APT!

Excellent thread opening.

4 dead teenage girls, 1 dead woman, 1 dead fetus, 1 serioulsy injured pregnant woman, 1 injured child, 1 injured guy. TFA implies most of the cheerleaders burned to death. A small community is grieving. Families are burying the mangled bodies of their loved ones. Those who survived and witnessed this will bear the psychological scars for the rest of their lives.

Yet, this horrifying event has resulted in some good. It has found its way to fark.com and been offered to the public as comedy. Some fark.com members have associated some of the words and context from the original, tragic article and posted lines from what was once an marginally popular song from a band called the Butthole Surfers.

Now, I'm going to leave this thread and listen to the Butthole Surfers, a band which is friggin awesome and I haven't listened to in years. So thank you, dead, injured, and suffering people. You have inadvertently made me happy!

Well if they were dying, they wouldnt bother to write down AAAIIIIIEEEEEIEEE they'd just say it.

Why wasn't the 39-year old driving?

politica: because the girls were not wearing belts the driver (lived and had a seatbelt on), might be charged with man slaughter, people under 18 that are passengers in tennessee, become the responsibility of the driver and he will incur all fines... this is true even if the driver is under 18, law was put in the books when i was 17. also they had what 6 people and an infant in the car... and why in the world if your pregnant dont you wear a belt..

are you talking about the victims in the car the Cheerleader Express slammed into, or the Cheerleaders SUV?

eliasvict: Why wasn't the 39-year old driving?

It's Tennessee. Great-grandparents rarely drive there.

If my sister were one of the cheerleaders, I would be saddened by the loss of a loved one. Of course, I'd also be really confused as to why my 36-year-old, mom-of-two sister was a) still in high school and b) a cheerleader. And I would be incredibly embarrassed that she would be stupid enough to ride w/o a seatbelt.

Jeezum Crow:

Yes, they died tragically, but the way we deal with it is through humor.

If we got sad every time we heard about this kind of thing we'd be sad all the time.

NoxNoctus: Well if they were dying, they wouldnt bother to write down AAAIIIIIEEEEEIEEE they'd just say it.

Maybe she was dictating it?

Damn. Just when they went usable.

/window seat please

some people need to work on reading comprehension.

potatomonkey: some people need to work on reading comprehension.

really

politica: ... also they had what 6 people and an infant in the car... and why in the world if your pregnant dont you wear a belt..

Someone needs to re-read the article.

fuzzwell: Jeezum Crow:

Yes, they died tragically, but the way we deal with it is through humor.

If we got sad every time we heard about this kind of thing we'd be sad all the time.

The way you deal with tragedy is to make it humorous. I deal with tragedy by thinking about what happened and how that affects my thought process. I don't feel the need to immediately mask my sadness and fear with jokes. Having said that, I honestly was not being sarcastic with my previous post. I was just thinking out loud about how this tragic event led to me currently listening to the Butthole Surfers, a band I really like but haven't thought about in a long time. I probably should have been more obvious about that. It was a thought, not a thread commentary.

Sixteen thousand US teenagers die EACH year on the highways.
All part of the landscape I guess, because no one is raising a stink about it.



/40,000 citizens dead per year in the US.
//Some naked men stacked on one another at Abu Graib and there's outrage.
///Backwards if you ask me.

Joe The Plumber2008-10-26 09:48:46 AMI thought this was going to be an article about the seminal punk band Crass.

So did I, and I was coming to say that they SUCK. So now I had to say it.

Seriously sad story though. But good headline, if only for the balls it took to be so inappropriate about such a sad event.

The Laughing Kookaburra: eliasvict: Why wasn't the 39-year old driving?

It's Tennessee. Great-grandparents rarely drive there.

The article is poorly structured, but from what I can see the four teens were alone in their car. The 49 year old and others were in the car the teens slammed into. I came to this conclusion because the last names of the 49 year old and 22 year old are the same as the people in the other car hit.

A good samaritan probably saved a life or two:

McPherson said investigators believe passengers were still trapped inside the second vehicle when the SUV caught fire a few feet away. A passing motorist used an all-terrain vehicle to pull the Taurus away from the burning SUV, she said.

michaeld52008-10-26 10:13:00 AMSixteen thousand US teenagers die EACH year on the highways.All part of the landscape I guess, because no one is raising a stink about it.
/40,000 citizens dead per year in the US.
//Some naked men stacked on one another at Abu Graib and there's outrage.
///Backwards if you ask me.

Difference being of course, that this was an accident. We are never going to be so insulated from the world around us that there is no chance of our enviroment killing us. Even if we could, where's the fun in that?

When I first read the headline I thought, given this is Fark after all, that subby was going for C-R-A-S-S. I was right. About subby.

/walked away, had seatbelt on
//Got some sympathy lovin' from my friend Ginger
///Uber-rare 1986 Pontiac 2+2
////Have 4 more of them