I've seen that before, and as I recall, the kid did NOT die. they play it several times over in the video, and he catches a face full of rear bumper, and gets yanked off the door he had swung out on....but you don't see any blood, or anything like that. he probably took a broken jaw, and possibly neck.

regardless: It's not nice to laugh at retards. not even mean retards.

Wow, it looked like a smashed head to me. Glad not.

Though, wp was waxing on the premise that kid was smashy-head.

As you were...

maybe you read it too fast

I know Ive had a few close calls...but I was lucky. Sometime life just isnt forgiving. Sometimes being stupid can kill you.

Did I ever mention the time I was a teenager and my friend and I tried to get rid of a stump by pouring gasoline all over it and throwing a match at it? Then, when it wasn't burning enough, my friend poured gasoline directly from the tank onto the open flame? But I was never stupid in my youth.

I may have read that part too fast, but I was dwelling on this part! :p

edit: I took it to mean you couldn't see blood or brains in the video...but watching the video it sure seems to me it would do some hurtin' on a skull.

Sure, and I was once literally inches away from getting run over by a motorcycle because I darted out into the road like a moron. But there's a difference between being stupid and being malicious. This kid wasn't doing something dumb to himself a la "Jackass," he was deliberately trying to injure a bicyclist for the fun of it. That's not a prank to me, that's very different.

let's look at this from a kids POV. he wasn't trying to INJURE anyone. it was apparently kids on the way home from school, and the kid swatted another kid on the ass as they drove by. hitting him hard enough to injure him in that way probably would have broken his arm. the problem was that the driver swerved and the kid lost balance, and then he swerved again, tossing him right into a parked car.

AHA - the point I was about to make.
I don't think the kid deserved the payoff - I'm against the death penalty after all.

But to me it's a long way from just being stupid.
Leaning out of a train window is stupid (with potentially similar consequnces, which is why you can't opn them now).
Deliberately doing something to injure another person for your own amusement is not stupidity. I can only hope there are three less malicious people in the world now - because his friends changed their idea about physical injury being funny after something bad happened to their friend.

Perhaps I misunderstood then. I thought the intention of the prank was to open the car door into the biker as they passed, knocking him off his bike at a minimum of 30 mph.

no, if you watch, he leans out the door....past the door, by holding onto the open window and reaches out and smacks the kid in the red shirt on the ass. but, then, he loses balance, and the door swings out, and he falls.....chin first into a parked car's bumper.

Yeah, I saw the impact, but crap was moving too fast for me to follow what was happening before that.

I'm not sure whether the intent was to hit cyclists with the car door or by hand. Surely the most likely to cause injury to the smacker would be to hit them personally - arm extended outside of the door would take the impact, while the door would be providing an ongoing force. Really badly expressed, perhaps someone could do better. I think it's more likely that the door was intended to take the hit, but the driver would surely have had an issue with damage in that case.

Anyway, even the slightest pat to a cyclist can result in injury - just falling off your bike can leave inches of skin on the road (major ouchie!) and depending on how you land, broken ribs and collar bones are not uncommon. I know from being friends/ related to cyclists.

However they were hoping to disrupt the cyclists' trips, it was still unacceptable and dangerous rather than amusing.