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(CBS Dallas/Ft. Worth) Unlikely Man accidentally hits gas instead of brake, kills wife & mother-in-law. Suuuuuuuure it was an accident   (cbs11tv.com) divider line 84
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real shaman [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 05:48:47 PM  
Vietnamese. hmmmmm.

something something... Asian drivers.....

 
Terrx [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 06:14:22 PM  
The women who were killed, ages 66 and 41, had been cooking a meal in the two-car garage.

Well there's your problem.

 
phlegmmo 2009-07-17 06:20:46 PM  
Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the driver, a recent immigrant from Vietnam, confused the brake and accelerator pedals.

If they're implying he's an incompetent driver because he was born in Southeast Asia, I'd find tet offensive.

 
co-conspirator [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 06:25:49 PM  
That's the last time I go to a Vietnamese drive-through restaurant.

 
Purelilac [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 07:15:32 PM  
He smelled the food and thought he was at a farmer's market.

 
Polartank13 [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 07:18:05 PM  
phlegmmo: If they're implying he's an incompetent driver because he was born in Southeast Asia, I'd find tet offensive.

i149.photobucket.com

 
Epsilon [TotalFark] 2009-07-17 08:41:36 PM  
He went full retard. Never go full retard. Everybody knows that.

 
WeenerGord 2009-07-18 12:52:51 AM  
Was he driving a giant wiener?

 
farkuufarkinfark 2009-07-18 12:55:58 AM  
WeenerGord: Was he driving a giant wiener?

No, apparently only chicks mistake the brake for the gas in the Wienermobile.

 
Alwaysus 2009-07-18 12:56:53 AM  
phlegmmo: Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the driver, a recent immigrant from Vietnam, confused the brake and accelerator pedals.

If they're implying he's an incompetent driver because he was born in Southeast Asia, I'd find tet offensive.


That was awesome!

 
kroonermanblack 2009-07-18 12:57:49 AM  
Let's see if he pans out better than the woman who ran over, backed up, and ran over her husband a few dozen times, with her teenaged daughter (who testified against) in the car.

About as stupid. Why does Houston love stupid car murders?

 
GatorBill75 2009-07-18 12:58:43 AM  
i31.photobucket.com

 
accelerus 2009-07-18 01:01:28 AM  
What I find offensive is the fact this man had a car, and even worse a license to drive?

I don't care where you are from, what color you are, what language you speak... if you are allowed to get into a 3000lb weapon you'd better be damn sure you know how to use it.

The man himself and the licensing system are failures - and yes I live in Texas. We have some of the most retarded people on the roads here. So what should we do with the professional driver in this case? Lock him up for killing two people, and when he gets out he is never allowed to own or operate a car in his life. Of course all the bleeding hearts are going to say I'm racist or mean, and to you I say go on a cross country road trip with him if you survive... THEN we can have a friendly debate.

 
Fano 2009-07-18 01:04:13 AM  
accelerus: What I find offensive is the fact this man had a car, and even worse a license to drive?

I don't care where you are from, what color you are, what language you speak... if you are allowed to get into a 3000lb weapon you'd better be damn sure you know how to use it.

The man himself and the licensing system are failures - and yes I live in Texas. We have some of the most retarded people on the roads here. So what should we do with the professional driver in this case? Lock him up for killing two people, and when he gets out he is never allowed to own or operate a car in his life. Of course all the bleeding hearts are going to say I'm racist or mean, and to you I say go on a cross country road trip with him if you survive... THEN we can have a friendly debate.


You're just jealous. He was living the dream.

 
tinfoil-hat maggie 2009-07-18 01:06:34 AM  
WeenerGord: Was he driving a giant wiener?

I came to ask if he was driving a wiener mobile.
/carryon

 
Dangyou 2009-07-18 01:06:48 AM  
What, no hero tag?

/kidding
//at least about the wife part.

 
kb7rky 2009-07-18 01:09:43 AM  
accelerus: What I find offensive is the fact this man had a car, and even worse a license to drive?

I don't care where you are from, what color you are, what language you speak... if you are allowed to get into a 3000lb weapon you'd better be damn sure you know how to use it.

The man himself and the licensing system are failures - and yes I live in Texas. We have some of the most retarded people on the roads here. So what should we do with the professional driver in this case? Lock him up for killing two people, and when he gets out he is never allowed to own or operate a car in his life. Of course all the bleeding hearts are going to say I'm racist or mean, and to you I say go on a cross country road trip with him if you survive... THEN we can have a friendly debate.


Holy Mother Of All That Is Holy, THIS.

/professional driver
//have seen more than my share of farktarded idiot drivers within a 300-mile radius of where I live
///defensive driving, my ass...offensive driving!
////watch out for the other guy, because they're most likely yakking on their farking cell phone WHILE they're driving, DESPITE it now being illegal to do so...

 
tinfoil-hat maggie 2009-07-18 01:09:58 AM  
i31.photobucket.com
Your picture both startles and amuses me.
/otherwise
//wtf?

 
Smeggy Smurf 2009-07-18 01:10:28 AM  
In other news, divorce is down but spousal murder is up

 
tinfoil-hat maggie 2009-07-18 01:12:56 AM  
kb7rky you seem tense. Could it be because you are a professional driver?

 
Walker [TotalFark] 2009-07-18 01:14:46 AM  
You think that's bad, I accidentally the whole thing.

 
DigitalDirt 2009-07-18 01:18:15 AM  
I have a theory about Asian drivers. The younger drivers are pretty good, it seems like the older drivers are bad.
But in Asian cultures you are supposed to respect anyone older than you, so the younger ones don't tell the older ones that they drive like crap and what to do better!
Things like, get out of fast lane when only doing 55mph, or look over your shoulder when changing lanes, or my favorite, when you do something wrong acknowledge it and wave sorry rather than stare straight ahead and pretend you didn't just do something stupid.
I lived next to Little Saigon in SoCal for 10 years so I had a lot of time to think about this.

 
RammaLamma 2009-07-18 01:18:59 AM  
phlegmmo

Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the driver, a recent immigrant from Vietnam, confused the brake and accelerator pedals.

If they're implying he's an incompetent driver because he was born in Southeast Asia, I'd find tet offensive.


I predict that the win in this thread will dominate. Carry on.

/Canadian
//Hates what they've done to our shellfish industry.

 
Enemabag Jones 2009-07-18 01:21:16 AM  
Sounds like a Very Bad Thing.

 
kb7rky 2009-07-18 01:22:20 AM  
tinfoil-hat maggie: kb7rky you seem tense. Could it be because you are a professional driver?

Oh, I'm fine...just needed to vent...sorry if I went overboard...

 
AuCinaoaMie 2009-07-18 01:29:18 AM  
I wonder what the chances of getting him to stop by my ex and her moms house would be...

 
gregscott [TotalFark] 2009-07-18 01:32:50 AM  
The article didn't say if the driver was a liberal or conservative, so I'm not sure which way to point my flamethrower when I light it up. Please advise.

 
Slick Johnson 2009-07-18 01:34:11 AM  
Why didn't I think of that years ago. Would've saved me a lot of grief this past year.

/not bitter much
//okay, really bitter
///biatch lost her job 3 months after she moved out
////karma's a biatch
//so are too many slashies

 
Harry_Seldon 2009-07-18 01:35:24 AM  
Who writes this shiate?

..."when the driver returned from a driver's license office with his father-in-law, a passenger in the car."

 
Enuratique 2009-07-18 01:44:11 AM  
The women who were killed, ages 66 and 41, had been cooking a meal in the two-car garage when the driver returned from a driver's license office with his father-in-law, a passenger in the car.

Awkward!

 
MentalMoment 2009-07-18 01:44:32 AM  
What's Vietnamese for "Ta-Da"?

 
Bocanegra 2009-07-18 01:49:18 AM  
I would immensely regret killing my wife and mother-in-law.

My father-in-law, not so much.

 
tchau 2009-07-18 02:00:19 AM  
probably making Pho in the garage. Poor thing.

Reminds me of when I was 16, and my friend drove me to his work with his mom in the car. When we parked, he accidently pressed the acelerator and hit the cart area in front of us.

It happens...fortunately no one was hurt. He was pissed, but finally got over it. People make mistakes. Sometimes though we make a mistake and it royaly farks something up...which is what happened in this vietnamese guys case.

/my friend was a white guy.

 
davynelson 2009-07-18 02:01:57 AM  
What a completely stupid farking tool.

I hope he chokes on his ineptitude and hangs himself
so that he doesn't kill anybody else.

 
Tempted 2009-07-18 02:09:18 AM  
This thread is just full of Nguyen.

 
picturescrazy 2009-07-18 02:17:28 AM  
tchau: /my friend was a white guy.

What color is he now?

 
tchau 2009-07-18 02:18:32 AM  
picturescrazy: tchau: /my friend was a white guy.

What color is he now?


hard to say, haven't seen him in 6 years and he was going the crazy with tanning and getting fit. Might be black now.

 
Ni 2009-07-18 02:20:39 AM  
Vietnamese? OMG, go fetch the trolls from Cronkite's thread!

 
Fuggin Bizzy 2009-07-18 02:26:43 AM  
MentalMoment: What's Vietnamese for "Ta-Da"?

Whatever it is, it sounds like a bunch of springs falling out of a box onto concrete.

/boing yong yang yong wing ying oy king....

 
johndalek 2009-07-18 02:28:27 AM  
serves 'em right for cooking dinner in the garage

 
HappyLittleTree 2009-07-18 02:37:48 AM  
gregscott: The article didn't say if the driver was a liberal or conservative, so I'm not sure which way to point my flamethrower when I light it up. Please advise.

Don't you know anything about FARK? Here, I'll help you out:

1. Don't read the article
2. Make broad, inaccurate generalizations based on the headline alone
3. ???
4. Flamewar

Make sure to argue whatever position you chose regardless of its relevancy, and when you find yourself getting owned, criticize their grammatical mistakes.

 
No Such Agency 2009-07-18 02:43:04 AM  
tchau: picturescrazy: tchau: /my friend was a white guy.

What color is he now?

hard to say, haven't seen him in 6 years and he was going the crazy with tanning and getting fit. Might be black now.


Is this him?

www.guidofistpump.com

 
Fuggin Bizzy 2009-07-18 02:43:54 AM  
No Such Agency: Is this him?

I wonder if that guy knows he's famous.

 
tchau 2009-07-18 02:49:27 AM  
No Such Agency: tchau: picturescrazy: tchau: /my friend was a white guy.

What color is he now?

hard to say, haven't seen him in 6 years and he was going the crazy with tanning and getting fit. Might be black now.

Is this him?


Lol nah, if he was gonna be a guido, he would be a fun and cool guido like Guy Fieri from food network.

 
Raspil 2009-07-18 02:50:54 AM  
i will NEVER understand how someone can mistake the gas for the brake.

 
Stay Cool Babylon 2009-07-18 02:57:53 AM  
Busy playing William Tell and unavailable for comment:

www.librarything.com

 
Lumoclear 2009-07-18 02:58:08 AM  
You Farkers make me sick.

Here we have a new immigrant from exotic Vietnam... the crown jewel of Southeast Asia. Probably a very interesting and stimulating person of an ancient culture...

He comes to America and lives the American dream killing his wife and mother in-law in an "accident". Can't we all just learn from this?

 
Delay 2009-07-18 03:08:44 AM  
I can understand not including the child's name in the article. The child is a minor and protected. However, since the supposed driver and father-in-law are adults and the wife and mother-in-law were adults, why were their names not included?

Where? Some random garage in Houston where people cook food; that's not specific.
Who?
When? 10am Friday; you mean July 25th?

There's no story. This could be just random filler.

 
myinternetname 2009-07-18 03:09:36 AM  
phlegmmo: Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the driver, a recent immigrant from Vietnam, confused the brake and accelerator pedals.

If they're implying he's an incompetent driver because he was born in Southeast Asia, I'd find tet offensive.


Hahaha holy shiat

 
Jimmy Devil Rocket Science 2009-07-18 03:11:10 AM  
Fuggin Bizzy: MentalMoment: What's Vietnamese for "Ta-Da"?

Whatever it is, it sounds like a bunch of springs falling out of a box onto concrete.

/boing yong yang yong wing ying oy king....


Does it make me racist if I laughed at that? Because I laughed at that hard.

 
DeadMouseTails [TotalFark] 2009-07-18 03:17:22 AM  
Raspil: i will NEVER understand how someone can mistake the gas for the brake.

OK, I'm going to put myself out here. I made that mistake once, after my ex-girlfriend and I had a big blowout right before she left for work. I had to move my car, since it was behind hers in the garage, so she could leave. I was so farking pissed at her that I put the car in drive and started to "back up". Realizing my mistake I took my foot off the gas and went to break hard, but never actually moved my foot and crashed into the garage gate. Dumbest thing I've ever done driving, but I would have killed someone if they were in front of me. All cause I let the biatche get to me.

 
Delay 2009-07-18 03:31:54 AM  
How difficult is it to report news? Besides not identifying anybody here are the reports of the child's age and condition, source:

9 years old, not injured (Fox Houston)
8 years old, trapped under car (KUTX)
6 years old, seriously injured (Houston Chronicle)
6 years old, hospitalized, no condition given (tex cable)
6 years old, hospitalized, serious/stable condition (KHOU)

 
Cytokine Storm 2009-07-18 03:47:34 AM  
Delay: How difficult is it to report news? Besides not identifying anybody here are the reports of the child's age and condition, source:

9 years old, not injured (Fox Houston)
8 years old, trapped under car (KUTX)
6 years old, seriously injured (Houston Chronicle)
6 years old, hospitalized, no condition given (tex cable)
6 years old, hospitalized, serious/stable condition (KHOU)


I heard that she fell to her death in New Zealand.

 
Delay 2009-07-18 03:57:13 AM  
How difficult is it to report news? Besides not identifying anybody here are the descriptions of the driver:

60 years old, a recent immigrant, new driver confused by instructions of his son-in-law. (KIAH)

49 years old, driver with a recent driver license, was the husband of one victim he was driving with his father-in-law, who is the father and husband of the victims. (KWTX)

Who was driving the car?

 
Delay 2009-07-18 04:01:45 AM  
Cytokine Storm: Delay: How difficult is it to report news?

I heard that she fell to her death in New Zealand.


Probably after contracting bird flu. He became confused and attempted to fly across the river instead of walking over the bridge.

 
CombinedEffort 2009-07-18 04:05:33 AM  
Stay Cool Babylon: Busy playing William Tell and unavailable for comment:

I LOLd at your obscure and relevant post.

/Back to ODing on Nutmeg

 
gunther_bumpass 2009-07-18 04:18:38 AM  
Enuratique: The women who were killed, ages 66 and 41, had been cooking a meal in the two-car garage when the driver returned from a driver's license office with his father-in-law, a passenger in the car.

Awkward!


Awkward? He's probably the one that jerked the wheel.

 
OgreMagi 2009-07-18 04:37:33 AM  
AuCinaoaMie: I wonder what the chances of getting him to stop by my ex and her moms house would be...

Beat me to it.

 
OgreMagi 2009-07-18 04:39:44 AM  
Raspil: i will NEVER understand how someone can mistake the gas for the brake.

Your shrew wife and her biatchy mother and standing in front of you. How can you not confuse the two?

 
nebjammer 2009-07-18 04:45:58 AM  
Yeah? It was also an accident when I accidentally nailed my wife in the head with a hammer...


/Should I be saying this in a public blog?

 
This space intentionaly left blank 2009-07-18 05:02:48 AM  
she wouldn't shut the fark up!

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2009-07-18 05:23:25 AM  
kroonermanblack: Let's see if he pans out better than the woman who ran over, backed up, and ran over her husband a few dozen times, with her teenaged daughter (who testified against) in the car.

About as stupid. Why does Houston love stupid car murders?


There are smart car murders?

 
mobby_6kl 2009-07-18 05:25:05 AM  
nebjammer

It sure as hell wasn't an accident when I nailed your wife shortly before that!

 
cobes 2009-07-18 06:20:11 AM  
I will be following this case closely to see if this defense works.


....For the sake of curiosity only, of course.

 
Mr. Right 2009-07-18 06:40:30 AM  
cobes: I will be following this case closely to see if this defense works.


....For the sake of curiosity only, of course.


I also will be watching. Just wondering if there is an instructional video?

 
fark from home 2009-07-18 07:12:55 AM  
rlv.zcache.com

webpages.scu.edu

 
frankencj 2009-07-18 07:43:42 AM  
Stay Cool Babylon: Busy playing William Tell and unavailable for comment:

I would at the least think that he would have followed gun safety rules by now....finger on the trigger?

 
ihatedumbpeople 2009-07-18 08:04:57 AM  
I'll never understand the gas/brake thing. Same situation with the Weinermobile yesterday.

Gas-right, brake-left. Has been on every vehicle I've ever driven. And don't these people have reaction times under 5 seconds? Heck, I'll periodically 'pull through' in parking lots if it's not busy so I can pull straight out. Every now and then I'll shift into reverse out of basic habit and touch the gas. i near instantaneously realize I'm going the wrong way, it happens.

These people would push the car behind them for 6 blocks and kill 10 people before they realized it.

/drtfa

 
Broktun 2009-07-18 09:07:29 AM  
Delay: How difficult is it to report news? Besides not identifying anybody here are the descriptions of the driver:

60 years old, a recent immigrant, new driver confused by instructions of his son-in-law. (KIAH)

49 years old, driver with a recent driver license, was the husband of one victim he was driving with his father-in-law, who is the father and husband of the victims. (KWTX)

Who was driving the car?


I thought Who was playing first base?

 
Fuggin Bizzy 2009-07-18 09:27:58 AM  
If this was intentional, the guy's a retard. All he had to do was kill his wife, and then he'd automatically be MIL-free. But no, double your pleasure, double your time.

 
neobluejeans 2009-07-18 10:03:44 AM  
Tempted: This thread is just full of Nguyen.

I spit my coffee out on this one. Nicely done!

 
vodka 2009-07-18 10:15:03 AM  
A vehicle is like a gun, don't point it at anything you don't want to kill. Also, don't stand in front of one even if you think the person using it knows what they are doing.

 
Maul555 2009-07-18 10:48:08 AM  
Terrx: The women who were killed, ages 66 and 41, had been cooking a meal in the two-car garage.

Well there's your problem.


That's what I was thinking... Who the fark cooks in the garage, that is weird behavior even for immigrants. In any case, that poor guy must feel horrible.

 
Praise Cheesus [TotalFark] 2009-07-18 11:30:16 AM  
Maul555: Terrx: The women who were killed, ages 66 and 41, had been cooking a meal in the two-car garage.

Well there's your problem.

That's what I was thinking... Who the fark cooks in the garage, that is weird behavior even for immigrants. In any case, that poor guy must feel horrible.


Why would someone cook in a garage? I did that for 6 months while my kitchen was being remodeled from the wall studs out. Why? Because we already had a 220V line run to the garage for the dryer.

 
tchau 2009-07-18 12:01:26 PM  
Maul555: Terrx: The women who were killed, ages 66 and 41, had been cooking a meal in the two-car garage.

Well there's your problem.

That's what I was thinking... Who the fark cooks in the garage, that is weird behavior even for immigrants. In any case, that poor guy must feel horrible.


Some vietnamese families do that for pho. It's a huge stock pot (probably about 10 gallons) cooking for about 6~8 hours. So they cook it in the garage while the kitchen is used to prep other foods.

 
Loren 2009-07-18 12:01:34 PM  
phlegmmo: Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva said the driver, a recent immigrant from Vietnam, confused the brake and accelerator pedals.

If they're implying he's an incompetent driver because he was born in Southeast Asia, I'd find tet offensive.


Recent immigrant very well might mean inexperienced driver.

DigitalDirt: I have a theory about Asian drivers. The younger drivers are pretty good, it seems like the older drivers are bad.
But in Asian cultures you are supposed to respect anyone older than you, so the younger ones don't tell the older ones that they drive like crap and what to do better!
Things like, get out of fast lane when only doing 55mph, or look over your shoulder when changing lanes, or my favorite, when you do something wrong acknowledge it and wave sorry rather than stare straight ahead and pretend you didn't just do something stupid.
I lived next to Little Saigon in SoCal for 10 years so I had a lot of time to think about this.


You might very well have something there. Their automatic respect for their elders most certainly causes problems.

ihatedumbpeople: I'll never understand the gas/brake thing. Same situation with the Weinermobile yesterday.

Gas-right, brake-left. Has been on every vehicle I've ever driven. And don't these people have reaction times under 5 seconds? Heck, I'll periodically 'pull through' in parking lots if it's not busy so I can pull straight out. Every now and then I'll shift into reverse out of basic habit and touch the gas. i near instantaneously realize I'm going the wrong way, it happens.

These people would push the car behind them for 6 blocks and kill 10 people before they realized it.

/drtfa


Yeah--I've started to go with it in first instead of reverse (driving a stick you generally leave it in gear when parking) but I don't think I've ever gone more than a few inches before slamming on the brakes. I can understand the confusion, what I don't see is how people get into serious accidents this way unless they are inexperienced drivers. Trouble = automatic foot-to-brake reaction!

 
Maul555 2009-07-18 12:38:48 PM  
alright then. Who tries to drive a car into the garage while someone is cooking in it? And don't give me that 2 car garage excuse, they where directly in the parking path apparently...

 
gunther_bumpass 2009-07-18 01:59:17 PM  
Comin through! Comin through! Hot soup!

 
Control_this [TotalFark] 2009-07-18 02:12:34 PM  
Definition of a Texas divorce.

 
belhade 2009-07-18 07:21:54 PM  
Must not post...
Must not post...
Must not post...


/wife reads Fark
//may need to get a new handle

 
xander450 2009-07-18 07:43:29 PM  
I have no idea what the point of posting this is, but...

Seriously folks, the guy killed two members of his family accidentally. If it were my wife, my mother in law, I'd never be a normal person again - how do you come back from that?

That's it, you can go back to thrashing him now.

 
nuclear_asshat 2009-07-19 12:24:44 AM  
Maybe he'll get a hung jury???
www.counterpoint-music.com

/ashamed

 
Chinchillazilla [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-07-19 01:28:08 AM  
Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake
Stepped on the gas instead of the brake

 
j0ndas 2009-07-19 10:59:48 AM  
I did this once, only I went backwards and totalled the neighbor's fence. Of course, I hadn't finished driver's ed yet.

 
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