Thank you, good sir. It has been far too long since I have listened to this album...

"safety factor" lol

My thoughts exactly. Oh, you hired a "celebrity lawyer" instead of a real one? I'll go ahead and assume that means even you think you have no chance of winning in an actual court, and are just going to attempt to try this in the court of public opinion.

You can't equate not deserving to be paralyzed, with Lien being liable for Mieses's injuries. They are simply two completely separate questions. Of course no one deserves to be paralyzed as a punishment for any crime, Mieses included. That does not mean, in any way, that Lien should be liable for Mieses's injuries.…

Um... did you miss the whole part of the video where he DID stop at the scene of the accident, and then only left when he was confronted by an angry mob?

The problem with "tort reform" is that it is a fantastic concept on a very general level, but surprisingly hard to actually define, once you get down to the details. People seem to have a general "I know it when I see it" sense of what lawsuits are frivolous, but trying to write a precise rule that weeds those…

"Stand your ground" doesn't have a single thing to do with this. This is just plain old self-defense. The traditional rule (i.e., the alternative to "stand your ground") states that, before using deadly force, you must attempt to retreat, if possible under the circumstances. If you are literally surrounded on all…

How would setting the parking brake do anything to solve that problem? If the tires don't have any traction, it doesn't matter whether the parking brake is preventing them from turning or not.

Cummins diesel Viper?! Now THAT is the kind of craziness that I would expect from a true Viper! Just imagine the possibilities!

Wow. I think that illustrates my point pretty well!

I would fully support that.

Yeah, if they choose to go that route (stop trying to make it the pinnacle of bat-shit crazyness and instead turn it into a refined supercar) they have a lot of work to do.

I can understand that argument, but if they are going to go that route, they really need to step up their game on the quality and performance side. The original Viper had plenty of flaws, but they were easily overlooked because the car was so outlandish and bat-shit crazy. The bar for being bat-shit crazy has been…

Same here. I prefer the older car, as a whole.

There is nothing else like the 911 on the market, but plenty of cars like the Viper, so I would think that has a lot to do with the 911's ability to continue with minimal changes while the Viper struggles. Also, the 911's performance and quality stand on their own, regardless of styling. The new Viper, well, not so…

Neutral - plenty of good answers already, so I won't repeat them, but let me add a couple:

Damn it! This is not how I wanted to see my hometown make the front page of Jalopnik :(

I always thought of its failure having more to do with the Mazda 6 generally being a failure to. It the styling was caught somewhere between "forgettable" and "ugly" and the interior was also rather sub-par for the price. Adding all the performance bits on the Mazdaspeed simply wasn't enough to make up for the fact…

The beauty of it, you don't even need complicated laws like RICO - it is just plain ol' criminal conspiracy, which has been a mainstay of criminal law much longer than RICO has. Criminal conspiracy is an additional charge that you can add almost anytime a crime is committed by more than one person, and, just like…

If I were the New York prosecutor handling this, I would take the position that coordination of the biker's actions shows an agreement among them to disrupt the public order and intimidate other drivers, and thereby charge this as a criminal conspiracy (say, for instance, conspiracy to commit criminal nuisance).