Exhibitionist

Last weekend we took a trip to Point Loma in San Diego and my daughter who is 19 was driving. She chose to take the I8 (12-14 lane highway) which I hate to use. While doing so we were overtaken by a car in which the front passenger was sitting on the open window ledge(?)facing backwards with a video camera pointing back at a motor cyclist doing stunts, wheelies and the like, all this while cars all around were going between 65-75mph!
Truely a scarey and thoughtless exhibitionist. One slip and who knows how many would have been killed.

I mention this because I was just reading about a young man doing 100mph and wheelies etc was killed after hitting another car and injuring the 82year old driver. I have pasted a clip from the report below:
After popping wheelies and blowing through a school crosswalk at more than 100 mph, the 21-year-old motorcyclist crashed Friday morning on Ivey Lane in west Orlando.

The Winter Garden man hurtled, then bounced and skidded 190 feet.

His high-performance machine exploded in flames behind him, as did the car he struck -- driven by an elderly motorist, who remained in critical condition late Friday.

"At impact, he probably flew 100 feet in the air," said Orlando Master Police Officer Ernie Payne, as brooms and shovels cleaned away the last fragments of the hopped-up Suzuki motorcycle. "That's how fast he was going."

Such fatal displays are becoming all too common, according to riders as well as police throughout Central Florida. END

At the time of our Californian Exhibitionist it was as if we were viewing it rather than participating in an odd sort of way, but as they rushed on out of sight I was shaking.