There is a definite 'Too Cool For School" attitude among some of the quad racers on the ZMR250 thread on rcgroups. This is reflected in the user names that some of them give themselves. I asked the 'fatcnt' user a while back where he shot a video as it looked like a good location, but just got a flippant response.
This particular video was shot in the Woodcroft shopping centre carpark, south of Adelaide.
He certainly has a very "couldn't give a sh!t" attitude to other people's property. If he had a 'flyaway' he could have injured people walking around the carpark, flown into vehicles, or damaged other property at the shopping centre.
Yep there are some threads I figure I'll just stay out of, I rarely look at that one. It's sad that they don't realise the implications of what they are doing, not only to them but to others. If they can find a safe place to do it, ie indoors in a controlled location (ie: nets to keep people out). I wonder how many of them have seen what a prop does to a person if they hit someone. I bet if you ask them they'd say they were safe the other night at the woolies. I strongly disagree with them, sadly laws are only followed by law abiding citizens and the rest just do what they and and complain when they get in trouble.
I remember the clip of the Canadian film / photography crew and then suddenly it flies in to the car in the car park. People were claiming, oh there's no way that octo did that much damage to the car. If I recall correctly, it wrote the car off, that's several thousands of dollars of damage. Imagine if that was a person, it could be $100,000's in medical bills.
I bet he doesn't have public liability insurance for it, and if he does and I was the insurance provider, I'd be saying well we don't cover 'stupid', your on your own sunshine. Then the poor person who was hit is out of pocket because he'll just declare bankruptcy.
His handle says it all, I wonder if he's just trying to get a rise out of people with the name or thinks he's clever. You'd think the mod's would look at the name and go, hmmmm, you are trying to say something which people may find offensive, we should get that changed or suspended.
Unfortunately since the costs have come down more people are getting into it. It is fun after all, it's just that they need to understand the local shops isnt the local racetrack.....
Chris
