Christina Lam's Car Tampered With at CMP - $30K Damage

In reply to docwyte :

I read it as, 'because she's involved law enforcement it's NOT a witch hunt and has definite grounds' but maybe I'm wrong.

In reply to docwyte :

"witch hunt" just means "criminal investigation" nowadays.

docwyte said:

In reply to iansane :

"She's good people, and would not instigate a witch hunt without cause."

To me that reads that involving the law means a witch hunt.  Which is a concerning statement on multiple levels.

I did not interpret it that way.

docwyte said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

No it doesn't.  "Witch hunt" means specious investigation and is definitely the way "The Cheeto" is using that phrase

I think you guys are overanalyzing ddavidv's statement, and that it's more likely he meant it the way that iansane suggests even if he's using the phrase incorrectly.

And this type of petty bickering over semantics for outrages sake, that only serves to detract and divert attention away from the real issue at hand, is exactly why I totally understand her disabling replies to her post. 

I would love to know more about how they determined that fuel contamination was the cause.  The garages at CMP are wide open, so it's a ballsy move to be poking around at night.  And who would have a motive?  Other club racers?  Just a crappy situation all around.

Obviously, a quality fuel analysis should be in order...

Tyler H said:

I would love to know more about how they determined that fuel contamination was the cause.  The garages at CMP are wide open, so it's a ballsy move to be poking around at night.  And who would have a motive?  Other club racers?  Just a crappy situation all around.

Obviously it would've been done when the car's team was out of sight, but unless most of them know each other's crews, some rando filling up a car with a fuel jug wouldn't look out of place

Christina is absolutely not a person who would make E36 M3 like this up. She's a very kind and good human being. That someone would berkeley with her makes me sad and angry. 

docwyte said:

In reply to ddavidv :

I'm curious about your choice of wording.  So anything that involves law enforcement is a witch hunt?  Meaning that it's unwarranted?

You're reading things into my post that aren't there.

People earlier were accusing it of being a witch hunt, though not using that language. I made the point she would not go to the authorities without cause. If my wording was confusing, I'm sorry.

Driven5 said:

And this type of petty bickering over semantics for outrages sake, that only serves to detract and divert attention away from the real issue at hand, is exactly why I totally understand her disabling replies to her post. 

Came here to say this. 

ddavidv said:

docwyte said:

In reply to ddavidv :

I'm curious about your choice of wording.  So anything that involves law enforcement is a witch hunt?  Meaning that it's unwarranted?

You're reading things into my post that aren't there.

People earlier were accusing it of being a witch hunt, though not using that language. I made the point she would not go to the authorities without cause. If my wording was confusing, I'm sorry.

You are not the one that should be apologizing here. 
 

After reading the comments here it makes me regret starting this thread. 

Here, let me hand you this giant stick so you can beat that dead horse some more.

Curious why contaminated fuel is suspected. Gas cap found on the floor? A puddle found below the filler? In the past, I've unintentionally changed something on an ECU tune, then been very surprised when it started running poorly. If I had also just added fuel, it wouldn't be a big leap to think that it was contaminated. Curious what the very last thing done to the cars was before being parked the night before. Was it an ECU adjustment? Were the tanks topped off that morning? Agree that the fuel should be analyzed, if for no other reason than to possibly rule out the contamination theory.

Huh.  Another GRM forum thread devolves into a pissing contest.  Who woulda thunk?

In reply to kb58 :

Completely guessing here but I imagine the fuel analysis is why Law Enforcement is involved. Pretty difficult to start calling the fuzz if you don't have a smoking gun. Or a smoking block as the case may be...

I spoke to Christina. Not going to say much, because it's an ongoing investigation and it was a private conversation. I can tell you a fuel analysis was done, and there was definite contamination while at the track.

It was likely not random, and there is a suspect.

BMWCCA basically whined that everyone should just get along and just wants it swept under the rug. 

In reply to docwyte :

You're really hung up on that phrase, "which hunt".  Go talk to Elsa and let it go.

ddavidv said:

I spoke to Christina. Not going to say much, because it's an ongoing investigation and it was a private conversation. I can tell you a fuel analysis was done, and there was definite contamination while at the track.

It was likely not random, and there is a suspect.

BMWCCA basically whined that everyone should just get along and just wants it swept under the rug. 

Ooph.  That sucks.  This is literally worst case scenario.

I was really hoping for just some sort of mistake.

Poo.

1988RedT2 said:

Huh.  Another GRM forum thread devolves into a pissing contest.  Who woulda thunk?

Ya.  Instead of, I don't know, showing support to someone that could use it. It devolves in to this.  
 

I can not wait for the thread where it is proposed that Eric Magnisson set his own car on fire on at the start finish line doing 130 mph so he can get more popular on the internet.  Oh and all the fire was cgi and the kill switch melted to his glove was really superglued there. Yup I am getting out the popcorn for this one.   WTF is wrong with people these days. 

All this proves is that she was 110 percent correct is locking comments down on her FB post because people just plain suck  
 

I'm a keyboard hero.

Prove me wrong.

a competitor would do this? would you want to beat someone at their best and not with a technicality?