Low Lives Part Two : God Bless "PISS HEAD" Kevin Ward Jr.

One of the dumbest, stupidest pastimes in the world is auto racing.

NASCAR and the rest of that shit...attracts the world's low lives...both as observers and participants.

What would be more boring, to normal people, than being at a gas-smelly, noisy event like the Daytona 500 and watch cars go around and around and around and around for hours? What's everyone waiting for? A CRASH. What fun.

Low lives have to do something. Fine. The guy who pumps gas, tends bar, cleans the sewer...he isn't likely to spend his free hours reading Marcel Proust. And yes, I can change the channel and NOT watch a race on TV or go to one in person. BUT...

This shit DOES make the news.

Usually for some sad stupid shit.

The other day, a race car driver known to be a hot-head and an idiot, struck and killed another hot-head and an idiot.

This was all over the news. You couldn't avoid it. Stewart bumped Ward's car. This happens all the time, out of jockeying for position or even out of malice. Ward's car spun, a tire blew, and he was out of the race. What happens next, is the "yellow flag" goes up, the drivers have to reduce speed, and wait till the fucked up car is taken off the track.

This time, as an amateur's video reveals, Ward chose to get out of his car...onto a very live track of cars still going at pretty good speed...and walk into the path of incoming traffic. He was dressed in black and wasn't easily visible. He began pointing down toward the oncoming Stewart who was about to compete another lap.

WHAM. What wasn't shown (remarkably, there's still SOME decorum in news broadcasts) was Stewart slamming into Ward and killing him.

Tragic. Stupid. The question now is whether Stewart, hot head that he is, deliberately clipped the guy, or if it was an accident. Some say Stewart could not have seen a guy dressed in black, and his peripheral vision and the angle of the car made it impossible. Others think maybe this nutjob lost his mind and deliberately bashed into his rival.

What turns this into "Low Lives Part Two" is the response from Ward's auntie.

Now, you expect the family of the deceased to be bitter. But what, in our low, low world of stupidity and classlessness, do you think Auntie would do? Sure, go on FACEBOOK with it. And instead of eulogizing the lost Kevin Ward...Auntie acknowledges he was a "PISS HEAD."

What class. Who can't have sympathy for a jerk who gets out of his car and gestures angrily in a "come on, let's fight" way...and who is acknowledged by his own family as a "PISS HEAD."

I hope the funeral is televised. I can't wait to hear the priest declare..."Ashes to axle grease...dust to gasoline fumes...God Bless the Piss Heads, for the Piss Heads shall inherit the Earth..."