I’ll be up-front about it: on the whole, I dislike GoFundMe campaigns. Why? Because for every truly worthy cause (such as the campaign to raise money for Chad and Daphne that was started by a friend of theirs that did well thanks to family, friends, racers, readers and overall good people), there are five campaigns like the one we are about to show you. Is it a joke? Is it real? I’ll tell you at the end, but for the moment, I’ll just put up the initial write-up that was the basis for the campaign:
Let’s stop for a moment and review what is here: because this guy was running late, got into some kind of pissing match and street race with a Mustang, then got mouthy with a cop and wound up slapped with a ticket, we are supposed to not only feel sympathetic to his cause, but to open up our wallets? Are you f***ing kidding me. This is the kind of stupidity that should be painful. I don’t care that he was driving a Honda. He could’ve been driving a McLaren, or Colin McRae’s 555 Impreza for all I care. The message in that writeup is simple: “I screwed up because I’ve got the collective I.Q. of warm mayonnaise, please donate!”
I’ll admit, I wanted to torch this guy in print, but I had a moment, took a breath, and checked to see if there was more to this GoFundMe than what I was seeing. Mercifully, there was:
I’m still not completely on board with the idea of a GoFundMe account for a speeding ticket, but yes, the writeup is an attempt at comedy. Did the guy’s words work? You can be the judge of that. All I’ll say is that I hope his claim of donating the over $2,000 that was donated was legitimate and that he followed through on his words.
Besides…we all know that you can’t run a Honda Civic on bald eagle piss. The pistons will burn up.
(Thanks to Scott Philbrick for tipping us off!)
Bald Eagle piss may pop the manifold weld rivets, but it should run fine on Freedom Fry oil.
and he’s driving an import from a country we had to go nuclear on…. yeah, there’s a smart one. street racers are really dumb.
Well boys, I dunno. This guy rubs me the wrong way. A Go Fund Me should be for waaaaaay more important things than a speeding ticket. I gave Go Fund Me a thought to help my wife out with my final expenses as I’m dying from a rare untreatable form of liver cancer. After giving it some thought I decided not to, because it seemed rather crass to ask strangers for money. Dunno, I maybe old school. Sid
On the one hand , what a great way to make a speeding ticket almost painless. He didn’t beg for money , I bet he had no idea he’d collect more than 50 bucks . But really when american iron blows past your foreign crap box , you should just salute and not try to make me think it would actuall take a stang with a head of steam already . And thirdly , never get cute with a cop . Nothing good can come of it . And forthly, he asked what he had in that thing . Sensing he had car guy interests he should have attempted befriending him . Being nice and sometimes pulling over before they got turned around , I’ve gotten out of 13 tickets. These were all in a red trans am or the red vette . So much for the red car syndrome.
funny thing is my experience if a patrolman starts w smalltalk theirs a chance to wiggle out or a lesser citation. for his less than respectfull approach he should get zero help.
My take on this is, he punched it while passing a girl turning into her high school in the V6 Mustang that her daddy bought her and was putting it in the win column when he happened to pass a police man and get caught.