Tony Stewart Cleared

It's messed up that the prosecutor with held that dude was super high until after Tony Stewart was cleared.


It’s called C.Y.A. That prosecutor was handling a very high profile case and no matter what he did it would be wrong by about 50% of the people.

By turning things over to the Grand Jury and then giving them all the details the onus is now on them. Good move on his part!
 
Funny we never heard about T.S. being tested after
the "incident".
Nascar and one of their Big Stars vs. young nobody
racer. Predictable outcome.
I Feel sorry for the kids parents. Not only does T.S.
get away with manslaughter but they smear the kid
in the process. THC can stay in the body for 30 days
or so after use. So maybe the kid smoked a joint a
couple weeks ago and it was still in his system.
Sad outcome due to a known hothead trying to teach
a youngster a lesson for showing him up.
Simply Road Rage on a race track.

Oh yeah, Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman also.

Chuck

Does anyone wonder why the US is drowning in frivolous lawsuits? Just read the above for the answer. :rolleyes:
 
The kid put every driver on that track in jeopardy.

Driving high, are you kidding me!!! Needs no further explanation.

Driving high then running into traffic in the dark in a black fire suit. Double are you kidding me.

It's a miracle he wasn't hit by a couple cars.

Now a civil suit will be filed. Tony Stewart should file a counterclaim for mental anguish and damaging his ability to earn his living. This has to affect him mentally every time he gets into a car.
 
Funny we never heard about T.S. being tested after
the "incident".
Nascar and one of their Big Stars vs. young nobody
racer. Predictable outcome.
I Feel sorry for the kids parents. Not only does T.S.
get away with manslaughter but they smear the kid
in the process. THC can stay in the body for 30 days
or so after use. So maybe the kid smoked a joint a
couple weeks ago and it was still in his system.
Sad outcome due to a known hothead trying to teach
a youngster a lesson for showing him up.
Simply Road Rage on a race track.

Oh yeah, Kennedy was killed by a lone gunman also.

Chuck

So then let's change the headline to something more correct, and see how much better it sounds: "Man, high on drugs wanders into road, killed by oncoming traffic. Film at 11."

And suddenly, viola! We find this much more acceptable an outcome.

Look, I don't like TS. I put him down there with Robby Gordon. But the guy left the safety of his car and its' roll cage, to get into the traffic lane on the track and show his displeasure with the situation. And he paid DEARLY for his mistake. Was the pot a factor?? Nah; I doubt it seriously. But he made some really bad choices, and like TS or not ( I DON'T) the guy who was walking the track broke the first safety rule. And it cost him.
 
I was happy to read this news. While I am not the NASCAR fan I used to be, the attitude some people take against Stewart are ridiculous. He drives like a proper racer, no different than Petty, Earnhardt , Foyt, and Schumacher. And while Kevin Ward's death is tragic, he acted foolish and seemed to be looking to get Tony's car. Though his drug use surprised me, usually grass does not cause one to be aggressive. While I consider it a mild drug similar to booze, it certainly has no place on the track. I wish the best for Ward's family as well as Stewart, I can tell it has affected him greatly.
 
Good point...

It is a shame the kid died. It was almost criminal the way Tony Stewart was portrayed. It was ridiculous to convene a grand jury. If you looked at the tape, the kid walked directly into the path of racers on a track.

There's no crime involved but T.S. is treated as a murderer. I suppose some want the death penalty. Nothing like having to prove your innocence when they are out for your blood.
 
Good to see the Tony Stewart "Love In" has begun now that he
has been cleared and all the blame being put on the dead kid.
I live in the connecting county that Tony grew up in and have
followed his career from when he started.
He drove Indy cars for awhile and always saw himself as the
modern day AJ Foyt but it never turned out that way.
So he moved on to NASCAR as Indy Car was fading into relative
obscurity, "just as Danica Patrick and others".
He has always been a egotistical hothead and i still say he was
trying to "brush the kid back" and went too far and the car
got away from him. But hey, he helps others and is charitable
so lets give him a pass. And Mike Tyson runs a program to
help inner city kids in Cleveland so he's not a rapist right?
Kevin Ward did "EXACTLY" the same thing Tony has done on
numerous occasions when he climbed out of his car during
"A Full Course Yellow", and attempted to point out to the
competitor he was not happy with him.
But Tony is the only driver that does'nt get the memo that
there is a full course yellow and actually accelerates when
he approaches young Mr. Ward ????
Seen it before fellas. Been to hundreds of these dirt track races.
Kevin Ward had "Flourescent" stripes on the sides of his fire
suit. Opps, guess the press did'nt make that fact known very well.
Like i said, a NASCAR 2 time champ VS. a little known local
racer and the outcome was predictable. There was never going
to be charges filed. The kid made an error in getting out of his
car and that's all the DA and GJ needed to see.
The kid having Marijuana in his bloodstream was the "coup de gras".
Even though it had zero bearing on the incident in question.
I stick with my opinion based on years of experience following this
type of racing and knowing the guy involved.
You can believe whatever helps you sleep good at night.
Like my Grampaw used to say, " opinions are like *******s
everybody's got one.

Chuck
 
The kid having Marijuana in his bloodstream was the "coup de gras".
Even though it had zero bearing on the incident in question.

And you know this to be true? I do agree with your Grampaw, though.
 
The kid may have had reflective stripes on his fire suit.......but I have yet to ever see a sprint car equipped with headlights. Just sayin'.
 
The accident was clearly a combination of bad luck and extremely foolish actions on Wards part. I can see no reason for a lawsuit.
 
If it isn't settled pre trial,I'll bet a percentage of the blame will be assigned to TS because he maintained his line expecting the kid not to do something dumb instead of dodging him.
 
It's Nascar, what do you expect? :rolleyes:


Actually, NASCAR does random drug tests through out the season on all it's drivers. This was a local Sprint car race, nothing to do with NASCAR!!

In addition, I have seen a number of differing opinions on the indecent and some are saying that it's may be that Mr. Ward actually grabbed onto the wing of Tony's car, then fell under the right rear tire, thus causing the injuries and his own death. My guess is we will never know the whole story.
 
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I worked for 39 years for an organization that required a C.D.L. be held and we fell under a random testing requirement plus post accident whether we were at fault or not. Random drug testing is b.s., I have personally had my manager pull me into his office and ask me "Can you pass a drug test?" I told him I wasn't 100% sure, he told me to clean up my act and that I was going to be tested in two weeks. I'll admit to having smoked a little herb in my life, I was always real careful and only smoked the first weekend of a vacation then hydrate, hydrate, hydrate the rest of the week. On at least three or four occaisons I got "random tested" when I came back from vacation, I always beat them because I never partook after that first weekend, never in between vacations. One year they "random" tested me twice in one year, the testing gal said "Weren't you just in here?" I told her "They are never going to get it that I'm smarter than they are." Another one of the guys had the same thing happen to him, we used to joke about it. Funny thing is I knew guys that had worked there for 30 years and never had a random drug test...and they weren't choir boys either.
Now that I'm retired I pretty much never smoke anymore, it makes me really stupid and my wife says gives me early onset altzimers...I forget too much stuff like the code to get into my garage without setting off the alarm, stuff like that.
Those NASCAR guys should have to be tested before they set foot on the grounds, this accident is just another reason why...of course I could say the same thing about any major league sport but thats been beat into the ground. A simple P-test and the machines are so fast today the results are nearly immediate, they are so good they can tell if your right or left handed and whether or not you wearing glasses. We used to love to have somebody hit us in the winter because that meant getting pulled out of service until the drug test came back, used to be if you got hit on a Wednesday and had weekends off, it was an automatic five days off. You'd hear it on the radio, one of your buddies involved in a non-chargeable accident, it would be Wednesday and you'd give him b.s. for being a punk and taking five days off...the the time he's kicking back and having a nice paid five dayer. Now the results are really almost immediate, your back to work the next day...even on a Thursday if it happens early enough, back to work on Friday. We had State's Rights concerning taking our bodily fluids against our will, but they hit us with Federal Funding Witholding that would have meant job loss for at least 25% of the workforce, they got their way and originally post accident or reasonable suspicion but eventually random testing came along, they had their foot in the door and all in all its a good thing. We did loose quite a few people over the years, mostly high functioning alcoholics that were lit up when they came to work and never had an accident for years until someone hit them and led to post accident testing where they showed up way over the limit and lost their career jobs of over 25 or 30 years. I still think its a good idea, how else are you going to have any control over the situation. I say test them before the race, put an end to it...if there is an accident, test them again just to prove they didn't take a bong hit in the crapper before going out on the track.
 
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