{"id":7151,"date":"2011-06-22T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2011-06-22T20:40:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T03:40:17","slug":"sometimes-a-dead-jackass-is-just-a-dead-s-o-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/06\/22\/sometimes-a-dead-jackass-is-just-a-dead-s-o-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes a Dead Jackass is Just a Dead S.O.B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/winding_road1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7153\" title=\"winding_road\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/winding_road1-296x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/winding_road1-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/winding_road1.png 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>Hey, it&#8217;s never too early to call a jackass a jackass, is it?\u00a0 No it ain&#8217;t.\u00a0 Leave it to a prick like me if you want.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/SHOWBIZ\/celebrity.news.gossip\/06\/22\/ryan.dunn.drunk\/\">jackass driving drunk at 132 miles per hour<\/a> who suddenly goes to zero is better for everybody, that&#8217;s what I think.\u00a0 Whatever his dim friends might say about it, a jackass in a Porsche going 132 mph is simply firing his gun into a crowd.\u00a0 Just like the soldiers in Syria who probably swallow some good shots down before pumping bullets out into a crowd of innocent people.\u00a0 When a jackass gets drunk and puts a friend in his car and drives 132 mph down a road and crashes and kills himself and his passenger I call it manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this dick&#8217;s friends thought it might be a good idea to call movie critic Roger Ebert some nasty names for Tweeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2011\/jun\/21\/roger-ebert-defends-ryan-dunn-twitter-comments\">&#8216;Friends don&#8217;t let jackasses drink and drive&#8217;<\/a> shortly after the &#8216;accident.&#8217;\u00a0 They thought somehow it might be too early for such harsh criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Would it have been too early for me to have thrown a rock through Ryan Dunn&#8217;s windshield?\u00a0 Because I surely would have if he&#8217;d driven past me that night.\u00a0 You betcha.\u00a0 I do lots of windy mountain road bike stuff and nine times out of ten its some jerkoff with a beard in a Porsche that comes speeding through and nearly misses a curve.\u00a0 I kid you not.\u00a0 These guys with the Porsches have some issues, it seems.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got a very bad attitude about these people.\u00a0 If one of them takes me out while I&#8217;m on the road, I give everyone permission to beat the guy to death with a rock.\u00a0 You can also smile at his dead body if you like &#8211; just like I&#8217;m doing now.<\/p>\n<p>I had a friend in high school back in the seventies who decided to drive 100 mph down Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 He crashed into a tree.\u00a0 Killed his best friend and his lovely little sister who was a year behind me in school.\u00a0 I ran into this prick several years later in a burger joint.\u00a0 He looked like a homeless broken nut at the age of nineteen.\u00a0 I said &#8216;Hi&#8217; and shouldered him out of my way at the door.\u00a0 Forgiveness is for twits.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just the kind of nightmarish guy I am.<\/p>\n<p>So Ryan Dunn&#8217;s friends can bend over low and kiss my ass.\u00a0 A dead jackass is better than a live one any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, it&#8217;s never too early to call a jackass a jackass, is it?\u00a0 No it ain&#8217;t.\u00a0 Leave it to a prick like me if you want.\u00a0 A jackass driving drunk at 132 miles per hour who suddenly goes to zero is better for everybody, that&#8217;s what I think.\u00a0 Whatever his dim friends might say about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,163],"tags":[1942,1943],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","tag-jackass","tag-porsche"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7156,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions\/7156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}