donsrods
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My Son Dan and I live together in an apartment complex where he is one of the managers. At 2:30 this morning I was watching TV and Dan was asleep in his room. I heard a motorcycle start up, then a second one, evidently some guests of some residents were going home after a Memorial Day party. Suddenly I hear the one motorcycle start bouncing off the rev limiter and he is holding it there.
I grabbed some clothes and was going out the door when my Son blew by me and said "I'll take care of it." I went outside and my Son had the second motorcyclist stopped and was chewing him out. The first one blew out of the complex at a ridicuous speed and we could hear him cranking for a long distance. We finally let the second guy go and went inside.
Tonight my Son came home from work and said "What time was that motorcycle thing last night?" I told him I had just looked at the TV and it was 2:30 am. Then he told me that a motorcyclist ran through the toll bridge going into Cape Coral at between 90 and 100 mph at 2:35 and the guy hit the bridge construction barrels and flew over the side of the bridge into the river and was killed ! The Cape Coral toll booth is just a few minutes from our home, so it makes sense that the guy we had here was the one who crashed.
The news article I looked up said he was 21 and he was on one of those Ninja crotch rocket bikes, which is what we had the run in with. As much as I feel for his family, the one saving grace is that he only killed himself. Some poor family could have been hit head on and killed too.
I have always hated those kinds of bikes because almost every day I see some idiot driving one like there is nobody else on the road. It also makes me mad to see some young girl hanging on the back while her idiot boyfriend puts both of their lives in jeopardy. If I had a daughter and a guy ever showed up on one of those he would be leaving alone.
Here is a link to the news article.
Don
http://www.abc-7.com/story/18642257/fatal-accident-closes-wb-lanes-of-cape-coral-bridge
I grabbed some clothes and was going out the door when my Son blew by me and said "I'll take care of it." I went outside and my Son had the second motorcyclist stopped and was chewing him out. The first one blew out of the complex at a ridicuous speed and we could hear him cranking for a long distance. We finally let the second guy go and went inside.
Tonight my Son came home from work and said "What time was that motorcycle thing last night?" I told him I had just looked at the TV and it was 2:30 am. Then he told me that a motorcyclist ran through the toll bridge going into Cape Coral at between 90 and 100 mph at 2:35 and the guy hit the bridge construction barrels and flew over the side of the bridge into the river and was killed ! The Cape Coral toll booth is just a few minutes from our home, so it makes sense that the guy we had here was the one who crashed.
The news article I looked up said he was 21 and he was on one of those Ninja crotch rocket bikes, which is what we had the run in with. As much as I feel for his family, the one saving grace is that he only killed himself. Some poor family could have been hit head on and killed too.
I have always hated those kinds of bikes because almost every day I see some idiot driving one like there is nobody else on the road. It also makes me mad to see some young girl hanging on the back while her idiot boyfriend puts both of their lives in jeopardy. If I had a daughter and a guy ever showed up on one of those he would be leaving alone.
Here is a link to the news article.
Don
http://www.abc-7.com/story/18642257/fatal-accident-closes-wb-lanes-of-cape-coral-bridge