Post by Lenny on Aug 28, 2007 18:39:25 GMT -5
In our local news is the story about the son of famed wrestler Hulk Hogan. (Terry Bollea)
The 17 year old son was speeding in his expensive souped up sports car provided by daddy Hulk and lost control hitting a palm tree, totaling out the car and seriously injuring himself and a 22 year old friend who just returned from Iraq. The friend may have brain damage.
Last month, the son was stopped for speeding in three different county's in the same night by the Florida Highway Patrol. The first two troopers who stopped him did not issue tickets because they recognized the name and gave the kid a break. The third trooper who knew of the two previous pull overs finally issued a ticket. In other words, this kid got away with what the rest of us would have been ticketed for the first time because of the fame and fortune of Hulk Hogan. Records indicate that there were previous pull overs by local police for speeding in the last few months. Every time, the speed was in excess of 100 mph.
Florida allows the loss of 12 points and then suspends the license and people now want to know how many points Hulk Hogans son has accumulated without having his license suspended and if special treatment or the old double standard is being given to the rich and famous which no one else would get.
I can tell you on a personal level that when I drove the school bus for 20 years for St. Cecelia's Parochial School, both Hulk Hogans children rode the bus. They were well behaved kids but when in the 5th grade, Hogans son wrapped his wave runner into a pier and was seriously injured here on Clearwater Beach. That's when he was 10 years old.
This is a prime example of young kids with rich parents who are given all the big expensive toys but no instructions on the proper and responsible use of those toys.
If this kid at 17 continues this irresponsible driving, he's going to wind up killing himself and perhaps some other innocent person and we'll see yet another roadside memorial in their honor erected. It never ceases to amaze me that with his past driving record that these parents would reward him with this new expensive and powerful car.
It should be interesting with all this coming out in the news since Sunday nights accident, what charges they will place against this irresponsible young man.
Just another example of the rich and famous who think they are above the law and double standards for the affluent.
The 17 year old son was speeding in his expensive souped up sports car provided by daddy Hulk and lost control hitting a palm tree, totaling out the car and seriously injuring himself and a 22 year old friend who just returned from Iraq. The friend may have brain damage.
Last month, the son was stopped for speeding in three different county's in the same night by the Florida Highway Patrol. The first two troopers who stopped him did not issue tickets because they recognized the name and gave the kid a break. The third trooper who knew of the two previous pull overs finally issued a ticket. In other words, this kid got away with what the rest of us would have been ticketed for the first time because of the fame and fortune of Hulk Hogan. Records indicate that there were previous pull overs by local police for speeding in the last few months. Every time, the speed was in excess of 100 mph.
Florida allows the loss of 12 points and then suspends the license and people now want to know how many points Hulk Hogans son has accumulated without having his license suspended and if special treatment or the old double standard is being given to the rich and famous which no one else would get.
I can tell you on a personal level that when I drove the school bus for 20 years for St. Cecelia's Parochial School, both Hulk Hogans children rode the bus. They were well behaved kids but when in the 5th grade, Hogans son wrapped his wave runner into a pier and was seriously injured here on Clearwater Beach. That's when he was 10 years old.
This is a prime example of young kids with rich parents who are given all the big expensive toys but no instructions on the proper and responsible use of those toys.
If this kid at 17 continues this irresponsible driving, he's going to wind up killing himself and perhaps some other innocent person and we'll see yet another roadside memorial in their honor erected. It never ceases to amaze me that with his past driving record that these parents would reward him with this new expensive and powerful car.
It should be interesting with all this coming out in the news since Sunday nights accident, what charges they will place against this irresponsible young man.
Just another example of the rich and famous who think they are above the law and double standards for the affluent.
