re: The Crash documentary on Netflix

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They tried to blame it on being a leap year, as if that were a factor in October.

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It absolutely was, and while it is a perfectly legitimate reason, it certainly is no excuse.

It is common for legal deadlines that are short periods to be expressed in days rather than weeks or months. This begins to change past around 6 months, and IME the majority of time periods of "a year" or more are expressed in years when they are essentially whole numbers of years. You do see a lot of "364 days" in criminal sentencing statutes, but that has a whole separate set of reasons.

Lawyers keep lists of deadlines and have warning systems built in as deadlines get closer. The person who entered that deadline in their systems read 365 days as a year. This is a fatal error because 25% of the time, that is not accurate, just like this case.

The fact that the time ran over a leap year is almost certainly the cause of the error. Quite an easy one to make, but given the frequency of it happening, there should be proper safety rails built in. For this very reason, my firm has a rule that deadline periods are entered in the format that it appears in the law or other authority governing the deadline. So if it says 365 days, then it is entered in the system as 365 days and NEVER as 1 year.

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They didn't go into enough detail on him for us to know how bad he was, but I don't have a whole ton of sympathy for Dom.

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The kid was a piece of shite. Drug dealer and crypto trader was their basis for his ‘bright future’. If McKenzie didn’t kill him, he’d eventually get shot or be a drain to society.

100% when she gets out of jail, she’ll start an OnlyFans and have more money in a week than this board combined.

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The kid was a piece of shite. Drug dealer and crypto trader was their basis for his ‘bright future’. If McKenzie didn’t kill him, he’d eventually get shot or be a drain to society.

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Dom dead and Mackenzie in prison is a net positive for society, but Davion seems like he could have been pretty solid human if he had been able to get away from that group. He had a good family and just got in with the wrong group

I'm still wondering what triggered her to go from driving normal and making that turn, to accelerating like that nonstop. I don't see Dom starting the breakup conversation at 5:30 in the morning after being up all night/barely sleeping with their friend in the backseat. I'd be to tired to break up with crazy at that point.

What in the actual frick are you even talking about?

The parents were horrible garbage.

The girl was trash.

Based on the doc, there is not even close to enough evidence to prove intent of murder. It was an actual laughable case.

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Driving into a building at 97 mph is accidental?

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It was 100 mph, with no slowing down, on a curved road, after slowly and carefully pulling onto that road, with no alcohol and no shrooms in her system. It's open and shut as far as whether she intended to do it or not. She tried to kill herself and take her boyfriend and an innocent bystander with her. She failed to kill herself, but two people are dead because of her actions. She is rightfully in jail.

As was earlier mentioned, her parents are a joke. It's clear she was a spoiled brat that was never told no, so it's no surprise she turned out the way she did.

What stuck out most to me was how both she and her friend considered social media as just something that was pretend, not real. Who they portray on social media is how they want to be seen, not who they truly are. That mindset concerns me - why are you behaving in a way to get attention, if that isn't who you are? Why do you need the attention, and why do you feel compelled to deceive people in order to get it? These kids treated social media as nothing more than a video game where everything is pretend, and not real life.

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I'm still wondering what triggered her to go from driving normal and making that turn, to accelerating like that nonstop. I don't see Dom starting the breakup conversation at 5:30 in the morning after being up all night/barely sleeping with their friend in the backseat. I'd be to tired to break up with crazy at that point.

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We’ll never know, but think about some of those crazy text conversations they showed towards the end. Or the audio of her trying to break into his house and the shite that came out of her mouth.

Scenario: They want to go home to go to sleep. She feels the need to show she’s in control and defiantly takes a different route and begins her vile shite-talking.

“Shut the frick up and take me home, you crazy bitch.”

“Oh, I’M a crazy bitch? I’M crazy. I’ll show you fricking crazy, motherfricker. You wanna see crazy? I’ll show you fricking crazy!!!”

—hits accelerator

—they think she’s joking or will eventually slow down out self preservation eventually

—realize they’re running out of road. Start begging her to slow down. Put the car in neutral, she shifts it back to drive immediately. They try to turn the wheel. She’s got a death grip on it. BOOM!!!! Dead.

May not have happened just like that. But something similar to that is pretty plausible. Just like the car going from 10-100 in no time, so could that crazy, evil bitch.

Her mom just came off as dumb as a box of rocks. It was her dad and her friend that were the most disgusting pieces of shite in the doc. Besides her, of course. It took me stopping it like 4 times to finish it. Partly because I have a 17-year-old. But also because I was just so disgusted by so many people involved I could only watch it in pieces at a time. Had to keep cleansing the pallet.

The prison Shirella is kept in doesn’t sound like a prison at all. They all have tablets, message outsiders, do drugs, and just live like they are in a boarding school. I’ve listened to some girls talk about what life is like in there and it sounds way easier than what a men’s prison is