• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Sits with phone in hand while driving super car in the overtake lane in the rain.

    Crashes car

    Online commentators criticized Doherty for appearing to be more concerned about his wrecked car than his injured friend.

    Not a person i’d want others to be influenced by really. I hope sponsors eventually realise

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    9 days ago

    Stop making stupid people famous.

    this guy is a real prick appearently, he got famous by assaulting people (calling it pranks).

    The world doent need people like him.

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    “Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.

    Purely theoretical question. Just how big a catapult would you have to build to actually launch an average sized human male into the sun?

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      I asked the Guh-Puh-Tuh monster to break it down like Randall Munroe and the results were surprisingly amusing.

      The short version is that the catapult needs to be many, many kilometers long, the human will be liquefied almost immediately, and there are much better ways to get to the Sun—namely, rockets.

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    “Dumb rich kid crashes really expensive car. More at 11”

    Who cares?

    And perhaps my least favorite part, aside from him walking away relatively unscathed, was that this shitty article goes on to just use other YouTubers and influencers for reaction quotes.

    It’s like the they tried to directly convert a 90 second YT local news story, into an article.

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      9 days ago

      Imagine being so annoyed by someone you have zero obligation to pay attention to that you wish them physical harm.

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        You mean someone who’s endangering the lives of the public for views…?

        Someone whose actions could have easily killed someone… for likes and hearts…?

        For the record, I’m not annoyed by them, I detest them. Not for their job, but because of their actions, you know, like a normal person would.

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            No, a normal person would hope that a shithead who is endangering the lives of the public, and who will eventually kill someone if they aren’t stopped, would have learned a lesson.

            Walking away unscathed, and continuing to stream for hearts and likes, while your friend is bleeding from the head, does not impart that lesson upon them.

            I didn’t say I wish they were dead, I said it’s unfortunate they weren’t hurt, because that might have saved someone else’s life in the future.

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              Okay, admittedly ‘a normal person’ is a quite low bar. A reasonable, ethical person then.

              They totaled a several-hundred-thousand-dollar car in front of a million people, and the insurance won’t cover it because they were texting. If he’s capable of learning from mistakes, I’m sure he has.

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                What? You think his parents mortgaged their house for that car? Or that he paid for it, and his lifestyle, entirely from his streaming earnings? lol no.

                If he hit a triple to get there, you might have a point. But he was born on third base, and something tells me his parents aren’t going to send him back to first.

                But maybe you’re right, maybe we’re in the dawn of a new day where rich kids crashing expensive cars, and walking away unharmed, will actually make them better people and help them grow…

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                  What a time to be alive when suggesting we shouldn’t wish physical harm on an idiot teenager / young adult who we’ve all been at one point, is met with such fierce opposition.

                  How unreasonable of me.