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To begin with, I offer my sympathy to Ryan Dunn’s family and friends, and to those of Zachary Hartwell, who also died in the crash. I mean that sincerely. It is tragic to lose a loved one. I also regret that my tweet about the event was considered cruel. It was not intended as cruel. It was intended as true.

…I don’t know what happened in this case, and I was probably too quick to tweet. That was unseemly. I do know that nobody has any business driving on a public highway at 110 mph, as some estimated — or fast enough, anyway, to leave a highway and fly through 40 yards of trees before crashing. That is especially true if the driver has had three shots and three beers. Two people were killed. What if the car had crashed into another car?

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Film critic and writer ROGER EBERT, responding to the backlash against his “Friends don’t let jackasses drive drunk” Tweet about Ryan Dunn.  Dunn and a passenger were killed after Dunn’s car, driven at speeds around 130-140 mph at the time, veered off a Pennsylvania highway and into a tree.

Dunn’s blood alcohol level at the time of the crash?  0.196 — more than twice Pennsylvania’s legal limit.

Don’t drink and drive.

(links via the Chicago Sun-Times and the LA Times)

OKAY already.  WE GET IT.  Let the poor man rest in peace.  Stop judging him and what he did the last hours of his life.


(Source: inothernews, via maudeloves)

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    OKAY already. WE GET IT. Let the poor man rest in peace. Stop judging him and what he did the last hours of his life.
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  7. itselzoido said: People are so quick to judge, but what if someone they loved had been driving that car, drunk, speeding? I wonder what they all would say then. Rest in peace, Ryan Dunn.
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    I didn’t find it cruel. I understand that when you lose a loved one it’s incredibly hard to look at it objectively, but...
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  17. helveticafutura said: Knowing the exact area where the crash happened (I’ve driven on that part of 322 many times), I can tell you that at night it’s dark, straight and generally empty, which opens it up to hammerheads. Hopefully this stops them for a little while.
  18. matthewkomar reblogged this from inothernews and added:
    I can’t believe that there has been such a hullabaloo over this. Move along nothing to see here. Back to things that...
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