His funniest bit yet.

Sad coincidence. Nothing more. Bet everyone laughed when Leno made his joke, too.

He should stick to his guns and tell everyone that this is exactly what he wanted to happen. Then he can proceed to tear off his shirt, cover his face in paint, and start yelling at the top of his lungs. At least he could get away with his earlier comment by claiming to be mad.

No real rider makes a joke like that. Ain't funny.

Kinda liked him before, but that was a real douche thing to say. Gonna be hard to wiggle out from under this one.

Damn I was kinda hoping that it was Jay Leno that got run over...

That Jay Leno is one funny dude.
Wait... no, who am I thinking of?

That reminds me of an old Letterman bit.

" 'Don't drive safe.' I wanna see somebody go down. So it'll be fun. I want it to be in front or behind me and see a whole row of bikes go down. Get drunk, fall off the road. "

Why, that's comedy genius right there!

"About an hour later, Romarino Zeri, 51, of Los Angeles and Julie Cameron, 38, of Venice were killed when their motorcycle collided with a big rig....The big rig's rear tires ran over the pair"

Yeah! Hilarious! Woop-woop!

/and after two fatal accidents in motorsport in the last couple of weeks too
//moron

"love ride", "somebody go down"...I was expecting a happier ending.

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Jay Leno Killed two people in 2011!

/no rape though

This is why Fark needs an Awkward tag.

"The big rig's rear tires ran over the pair, whom paramedics pronounced dead at the scene"


He'll be here all week folks!

Hiro Nakamura [TotalFark] Quote 2011-10-25 06:36:37 AM
blackmtnmantheonly: No real rider makes a joke like that. Ain't funny.

No real rider with no sense of humor, anyway. It was a joke. Get over yourself.

Riders who have, riders who will, riders who will again. I'm in the third category.


I bet you ride a Hardley.



Go buy a Honda,

Break a leg, Jay.

blackmtnmantheonly: I bet you ride a Hardley.

I see what you did there....or was it a coincidence?

idk. some how, the hindenburg seemed to apply, and the, I found this really neat lego rendition....

Hiro Nakamura [TotalFark] Quote 2011-10-25 06:59:13 AM
blackmtnmantheonly: Hiro Nakamura [TotalFark] Quote 2011-10-25 06:36:37 AM
blackmtnmantheonly: No real rider makes a joke like that. Ain't funny.

No real rider with no sense of humor, anyway. It was a joke. Get over yourself.

Riders who have, riders who will, riders who will again. I'm in the third category.


I bet you ride a Hardley.



Go buy a Honda,

Actually, my first new bike was a Honda Shadow, but I've ridden them all. I prefer Honda dirt bikes and cruisers, but don't have enough experience with crotch rockets to have an informed opinion.

Could you tell me what all this has to do with a tragically timed lame joke, though?


It wasn't tragically timed, but it was lame. And not funny at all. Go get licensed as an EMT and scrape a few brothers off the pavement. And who wants a crotch rocket?

VTX 1800 or Fury. ;)

It's called 'gallows humor' okay?
Oh, wait. Jay Leno, right? NVM about the 'humor' part.

Can't believe there are actual riders who are butthurt over a lame-ass joke by a lame ass-joke.
You ride a bike. You know there are hazards. It's not as though anyone rode differently based on Jay Farking Leno's little speech.
Jeebus.

/VTX 1300

Jay Leno isn't funny, and never really was. Not sure why he is still employed.

FARK, in the search for outrage.

to be perfectly honest, jokes aside or not. You choose to do something dangerous, there's a price to pay. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But eventually somebody meets the Darwin. It may not be you. But seriously. It will happen.

Meh. There are millions of casualties every time I go on a Love Ride.

BarbadoSlim

He'll be here all week folks!

try the roadkill?

Bit'O'Gristle: Kinda liked him before, but that was a real douche thing to say. Gonna be hard to wiggle out from under this one.


Like it was hard to wiggle out from under the semi?

/God, I'm sorry
//really really sorry.

This joke, however stupid, was a joke with an unfortunate conincidental MVA after. Nothing more. Your Grand Marshal is a 'comedian,' what'd you expect?

awkwaaaaaarrrdddd

reubendaley: Meh. There are millions of casualties every time I go on a Love Ride.

I see what you did there.

/good to see some humour here

blackmtnmantheonly: No real rider makes a joke like that. Ain't funny.

this

This is about as funny as Jay Leno has ever been.

reubendaley: Meh. There are millions of casualties every time I go on a Love Ride.

Perfect. Thanks for the laugh.

I've been riding for 40 years, a lot of those miles long distance riding. It is dangerous but then that's why I've found it to be exhilarating, you have to pay attention.

That being said, NONE of my on the road friends ever make jokes like that. Bad karma. Jay, for whatever reason forgot that but even so if you gonna ride with 2000 people, something is going to happen sooner or later, which is why I wouldn't do a ride like that.

Watch your six.

what an asshole.

GreenSun: This is why Fark needs an Awkward tag.

AWKWARD IN 2012!!!

heavymetal: My dad always said to be careful about what you wish for. That is why I only wish for a double jointed Swedish swimsuit model with lesbian bisexual tendencies.

FTFY.

Moments before two Love Ride participants were killed Sunday in a freeway traffic collision, the event's grand marshal, "The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno, told a crowd of bikers that he wanted to see "somebody go down."

About an hour later, Romarino Zeri, 51, of Los Angeles and Julie Cameron, 38, of Venice were killed when their motorcycle collided with a big rig on the Golden State (5) Freeway in Pacoima, officials said.

An hour = a lot of moments, so I guess both statements could be technically accurate.

so - you people are blaming Leno for someone else's inattention? be it the truck driver or the motorcyclist? oh the impotent rage. meh. typical of a lot of the farkers here - blame everyone else but themselves... i can't begin to tell you the number of motorcycle retards i've had to work on because they thought the rules of physics didn't apply to them. Sure, cage drivers may not see/hear them, but I've also seen donor-cycle drivers DARE a car to hit them. slamming their brakes, swerving into the lanes, etc...

the bottom line is that it is more dangerous to ride a motorcycle - regardless of whose fault it might be. People need to accept that fact instead of blaming some mildly humorous cage collector who wasn't even on scene.

\accept the danger and move on
\\deny the danger and blame everyone else when you suddenly realize you're a squirrel in the road.
\\\If i can hear your radio - then you're not riding a motorcycle.

Whether or not Leno made a tasteless joke, the facts of the accident, as reported, are that the rear tires of the truck ran over the pair. My guess is that the truck driver changed lanes without noticing (whether it was negligence in not looking or an honest "couldn't see them in the blind spot" is irrelevant) that they were there. Cars won't win that argument. Bikes don't have a chance. Driving safe isn't enough when something the size of a truck isn't aware of you.

El Caganer: "love ride", "somebody go down"...I was expecting a happier ending.

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this.

Can this unfunny hack please recede into obscurity now?

booger42: Bit'O'Gristle: Kinda liked him before, but that was a real douche thing to say. Gonna be hard to wiggle out from under this one.


Like it was hard to wiggle out from under the semi?

/God, I'm sorry
//really really sorry.

This joke, however stupid, was a joke with an unfortunate conincidental MVA after. Nothing more. Your Grand Marshal is a 'comedian,' what'd you expect?

Teh funny?

dumb

/applies to anyone involved with the writing, subbing, or green lighting this story
//good day sir

From the LA Times:

"I don't know if they were trying to catch up with the pack," Cracraft said. "They were splitting traffic on the 3 and 4 lane and got tangled by a big rig and got run over."