Wish

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Well i feel sorry for the owner of the car .....

Brendan Hughes

You feel sorry for someone who bought a Metro???

That IS an extremist viewpoint!

shaunywrx

Yes, poor fella had to drive around in a Metro, please let us show some compassion for our fellow man.

Patt@firstime

He may be overjoyed that it is gone now?

Jay m A

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Unless of course it had a defective tyre or something, they'll be dragged through the courts by the 'victims' families

JamieMacdonald

Have read a bit of this thread, and although I can see where some people are coming from, I am astonished at the "celebration" of the death of 5 naughty kids.

Big Den

I wouldn't go as far as saying people are 'celebrating' the deaths.

We're just not all members of 'Do gooder' squad who think people like this should just get told they're naughty and be allowed to do exactly the same over & over. The opinion being that had they not died they would have probably continued to repeat this crime/behaviour until either one or more of them was killed or worse they killed or seriously injured some innocent people.

Bluie

I know that road very well as I use it to travel to the Shell garage. Went passed there yesterday and all I can say they hit that lamppost at a fair lick of speed seeing the shape of it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...es/4390038.stm

As someone said earlier I hope the car was road worthy

Ken 275

Reality check.

Fair Dos, the kids were untimely killed.
They were taking a car without consent, hence criminals.
I've seen RTA's and they're not pretty.
It's not Just if someone is out pushing a pram and is smacked by a Twocker.

Dunno about the rest of you but I work hard to be able to enjoy my car; it's a priviledge, not a right, as someone mentioned previously.

Sure, it would gut me if any of my kids were on board, but my point is that they wouldn't be.

K.

Flatcapdriver

Then why express such outrage when others don't rush in with tea and sympathy for car thieves who pay the ultimate price?

Diablo

"Naughty kids"????

Do me a favour....

An innocent bystander could have been killed or seriously injured.

"Naughty" isn't even close....

Diablo

LOL

If that is an attempt to make me feel revulsed at the propect of ending the life of yet another of societies scum, it was not even close......

2 minutes of suffering?

Sod using a slit to the throat - far to humane.

unclebuck

So they were drunk in charge of the stolen vehicle then.

And they were endangering the lives of inncoent members of the public. The cyclist could easily have been killed by them.

Hey, but it's just a bit of 'naughty' fun though... a bit of *joy* riding. What's wrong with that?

Listy

I'll 2nd that.

Personally I am completely devoid of sympathy for the victims. If that makes me some sort of Beast in the eyes of many then so be it.

We were all that age and we all had the power of choice. They made a bad one and paid the highest price. Cest La Vie.

I'm just Glad they didn't take any totally inocent people with them.

These people Cannot Keep getting away with this kind of behaviour without getting caught out once in a while.

drumsterphil

iTrader: (1)

Why does that matter?!

This is about a bunch of toe-rags stealing a car. The condition of the car is not an issue - if they hadn't stolen it then they wouldn't have been in it!

Reality

My guess is the original poster is concerned that the family of the criminals will have some sort of claim on the owner and end up getting £5million compo for their loss !

drumsterphil

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Obviously, I didn't read it that way. The problem is that's the kind of thing the 'little darlings' scummy parents will be considering before the phrase 'bald tyre' has been uttered.

That scenario just sums up this country - somebody has to be to blame, no personal responsibility for a person's actions.

scoobfan

No sympathy, if they were stealing cars at that age, what would they

be up to later on in life??

Saves us tax payers keeping them in a few years when their banged up

for armed robbery or such like !!!


Rob

brihoppy

im finding it fascinating how this issue has polarised opinion to such an extent on here...and it amazes me that the some of the 'what if...?' brigade suggest the possibility that maybe the occupants of the crashed car or at least some of them may have been victims themselves (peer pressure, drunk/incapable, etc)...?!

whilst it is a tragic outcome, isnt the lack of sympathy understandable when you apply a little common sense...?

Bluie

That is the reason why I made the comment, I'm sick and tired of the Bull$hit Blair society that encourages people to have kids even if they cannot afford them or love them and are the first to jump on the Compensation band waggon.

mart360

one salient fact missing there.... you assume he would be out late.. h,es my son and he and i both know where he will be when he goes out. and you really think i,m goiung to let a 14 year old out until 2 in the morning..

reality check... I take responsibility for my son, and certainly know where and when he goes out

sounds like you are the one with the probs

Mart

Brendan Hughes

Mart - do your maths. I said in a year's time. Hell, make it two, some of the kids involved were 16.

Good luck in being the perfect parent. No-one else has been so far, we'll look forward to your user's manual.

mart360

who said i was perfect, my parents did an ok job with me, and i certainly know the differance between right and wrong, and knew that if i went out yobbing and got caught it was my fault and i payed the penalty,s involved.

and hopefully my eldest knows the same..

mart

scoobynutta555

It is sad that lives have been lost in a pointless manner. I'd be gutted if my car was stolen, and I'd like the thieves to have appropriate punishment as well, not the ****e "punishment" most of them get. It is the ultimate punishment to lose your life for a crime. If anybody deserves harsh treatment then the driver/thief of the car must be held responsible. I have no kids, but I do have a friend who lost a sister in a similar incident. She was a passenger in the car, she paid the ultimate price of being killed. She wasn't a bad person, a thief nor a scumbag, just had the misfortune to be with the wrong people at the wrong time. Yes it is a cliche, but it happens.

I find it pretty cruel for people on here saying they all deserved to die, even henious murderers in this country do not get killed by the state.

I'm no angel myself, but I never stole a car or joyrided in my life. Some people find themselves in situations like these. For the people openly saying they deserved to die, I hope your daughter isn't merry with her mates one night (of course they're at a mates watching videos and making cakes) and isn't in a state to make rational decisions. Gets into a car for a lift home, realises too late that something God Almighty fecking serious is going to happen. You can bet your **** the passengers in that car were screaming for that ******* total **** driving to stop when they realised their lives were flashing before them.

You can bet your **** the hang em high preachers on here would soon change their tune if a relation was in that car.

New_scooby_04

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Wouldn't that be their fault for not checking whether the car they were about to steal, drive under the influence of alcohol and in a reckless fashion endangering the lives of everyone around them was in a roadworthy condition first?!

I think there is a difference between people say they don't feel much sympathy for those involved (understandable) and "celebrating" the death of 5 kids. The latter would be regrettable as I think everyone would have much preferred if those kids hadn't have made some very bad choices in life and ended up thinking it was ok to steal someone else's car and go for a drink fueled joyride!

The only thing to "celebrate" about this is the vague possibility that it might dissuade some other kids from doing the same thing!

NS04

Huxley

Who givs a toss he stole the fecking car tuff **** and as for the passengers, they all could have said "NO" we don't want to get in the car FFS They new it was knicked tuff ****


Next

Move along nothing more to say

Sticky Stuff

I think it's a terrible shame that the theiving ***** that nicked each of the FOUR red cars I've owned didn't end up in the same way.

Worst sentence handed down to the ONLY one's that were ever caught (after my own bit of detective work) was 30 hours community service.

Shoot the fookin' lot

Sympathy? Why?

fast bloke

Gary -If you had the option -
scenario 1 - they hit the wall and die, or
scenario 2 - they narrowly miss the wall and get back on the road, only to kill the occupants of another car 200 yards down the road - turns out that the occupants of the other car are your wife picking your kids up from a late night out after your kids behave in a responsible fashion and call mum for a lift home instead of stealing a car

Which would you prefer?

Ennoch

It shouldn't have happened but it did. The parents don't seem to think that their children nicking cars was a problem.

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. This is the ultimate of that saying.

They all had the option to not go along with it. It's like drinking and driving. I will not get in a car with anyone who has had a drop of alcohol. In the past I have actually ended up calling a friend etc to get me after my supposed designated driver has 'only' had a pint or two. I used my ability to say no and choose another option. They all had the ability to say no but chose not to. They paid the ultimate price for that stupidity.

Reality

Well I've had a night to mull over this.

And I still couldn't give a toss at the loss of 5 "naughty kids" !