Presented without comment, except that I've seen this car all over the local C&C FB for a while now. It doesn't look like I'll get to see it in person.
Presented without comment, except that I've seen this car all over the local C&C FB for a while now. It doesn't look like I'll get to see it in person.
My only comment is that guy was stuck between a rock and a hard place given the death threats to employees and threatening calls to his wife.
Irregardlessly (
), it sucks to see a beautiful car end up like that.
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/lamborghini-recalls-1500-gallardos-for-fire-hazard/?_r=0
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/lamborghini-aventador-catches-fire-after-needlessly-revving-its-engine-in-dubai-trafic-video-100737.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/lamborghini-recalls-1-500-gallardo-coupe-spyder-vehicles-due-engine-fire-risk-article-1.1158410
Hmm, I wouldn't say it was arson, unless you count the possibility of factory-provided arson.
At least no tasteful cars were harmed.
That should buff out, let me get the turtle wax.
Or...he was over his head in payments and wanted it to go away, with profit.
Damn confederates, always burning something in someone's yard!
"A Lamborghini found burned to the ground Tuesday belonged to the owner of a Baton Rouge company that only last week pulled out of a New Orleans contract to remove Confederate monuments after he had received death threats."
Wait, there's a contract to remove all Confederate monuments? I understand the flag may be upsetting to some, but now this era of our country's history never happened?
In reply to 914Driver:
Yes. It is pretty much what the same people criticize ISIS for doing, but when it is happening 'over there' we need to do something to stop it, here, they actively support it.
914Driver wrote:"A Lamborghini found burned to the ground Tuesday belonged to the owner of a Baton Rouge company that only last week pulled out of a New Orleans contract to remove Confederate monuments after he had received death threats."Wait, there's a contract to remove all Confederate monuments? I understand the flag may be upsetting to some, but now this era of our country's history never happened?
Yeah, that was my reaction at first. I was reading 1984 and A Brave New World at the same time I was in high school starting into JROTC, and at the same time The X-Files was starting. I'm hella paranoid about revisionism in government.
On the flip side, and increasingly my sentiment as time passes, is that we're not teaching history so much as honoring people whose views have created social problems that we are today struggling to resolve. A monument doesn't really teach, it reminds and references. It's like an Xzibit meme image - it has no content, meaning, or narrative on its own. I don't think I could shift my feelings so easily if the plan was to eliminate civil war history from schoolbooks.
I'm increasingly in favor of the removal, but I can see why this would be controversial.
Maybe it's a Southern thing, I disagree with removal. It happened, the money was spent and it's up.
A flag represents something, a monument honors.
Nice thread jack.
Not a thread jack, the car is suspected to have been burned due to the confederate monument removals. Discussion is good.
I think this is nothing like what Isis does because the people removing the monuments haven't beheaded people for their views. I assume they've had some sort of public discussion and/or vote, but I'm not invested enough to read about it. But I know I'd hear about it if they started by beheading all confederate sympathizers.
I am not sure how removing monuments helps anything except people to forget about history - and those that forget are doomed to repeat.
I'm from the north, do not appreciate the flying of the confederate flag, think hillbillies up here don't even understand what it means before slapping the sticker on their jacked up rusty truck, but at the same time these monuments are part of the history of our country. I want to be able to see them when i visit the south, and explain to my children what they mean and what growing pains our country went through when it was younger. I don't want to have to visit one place where all these monuments would get dumped like the Communist monument graveyards in russia where all the old Stalin statues got put.
On a side note, I wish someone would steal my avalanche and light it on fire. My wife even forgets to take the keys out and nobody takes it.
Mike wrote:914Driver wrote:Yeah, that was my reaction at first. I was reading 1984 and A Brave New World at the same time I was in high school starting into JROTC, and at the same time The X-Files was starting. I'm hella paranoid about revisionism in government. On the flip side, and increasingly my sentiment as time passes, is that we're not teaching history so much as honoring people whose views have created social problems that we are today struggling to resolve. A monument doesn't really teach, it reminds and references. It's like an Xzibit meme image - it has no content, meaning, or narrative on its own. I don't think I could shift my feelings so easily if the plan was to eliminate civil war history from schoolbooks. I'm increasingly in favor of the removal, but I can see why this would be controversial."A Lamborghini found burned to the ground Tuesday belonged to the owner of a Baton Rouge company that only last week pulled out of a New Orleans contract to remove Confederate monuments after he had received death threats."Wait, there's a contract to remove all Confederate monuments? I understand the flag may be upsetting to some, but now this era of our country's history never happened?
that's the next step
the civil war is part of our history .. the reasons, and the results are what have made us what we are today ... remove it from the history (though we don't really teach much about it ... now the real whys it happened, or the modern day results we're still dealing with) and we REALLY won't have anything to hang our hats on as to what's going on (then) and now
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