donsrods
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Did anyone catch the first episode of a new TV show on Discovery called Street Outlaws ? It is about a group of street racers in Oklahoma. I watched it, at least most of it, but some things disturbed me about the people on it.
Most of them are grown men with wives and children, and a lot of them have been caught racing and some have even done time over it. Yet they keep doing it and one guy proudly says he makes his wife work extra hours to make enough to pay the bills so he can keep racing. He also has them living in an RV on their property because he is too busy with his racing to finish fixing up the house so his family has something more than an RV bed to sleep on at night.
His wife says she has been married to him for 20 years, and she must be as dumb as him to put up with a life like that.
I finally couldn't take it any more and switched channels. How any TV producer can think people who A) Break the law by street racing, and B) Are such bums that they think of themselves before their families, are something we want to look up to, I can't imagine. They said one of the guys who was featured on the show met an "untimely death" before the program aired, and I bet it had something to do with his street racing. For any mature married man to expose his wife and kids to the possibility he will die and leave them alone is simply irresponsible.
Yes, I realize street racing goes on, and yes, we all like to have a little fun at red lights occasionally, but I bet every man on here puts his family first and their dumb hobbies second. I just can't watch people who I have no respect for. I realize it is a show, but it is based on what these guys are actually doing.
Don
Most of them are grown men with wives and children, and a lot of them have been caught racing and some have even done time over it. Yet they keep doing it and one guy proudly says he makes his wife work extra hours to make enough to pay the bills so he can keep racing. He also has them living in an RV on their property because he is too busy with his racing to finish fixing up the house so his family has something more than an RV bed to sleep on at night.
His wife says she has been married to him for 20 years, and she must be as dumb as him to put up with a life like that.I finally couldn't take it any more and switched channels. How any TV producer can think people who A) Break the law by street racing, and B) Are such bums that they think of themselves before their families, are something we want to look up to, I can't imagine. They said one of the guys who was featured on the show met an "untimely death" before the program aired, and I bet it had something to do with his street racing. For any mature married man to expose his wife and kids to the possibility he will die and leave them alone is simply irresponsible.
Yes, I realize street racing goes on, and yes, we all like to have a little fun at red lights occasionally, but I bet every man on here puts his family first and their dumb hobbies second. I just can't watch people who I have no respect for. I realize it is a show, but it is based on what these guys are actually doing.
Don
