This pandemic is quickly turning into an irrational war on enjoyment.<p>Criticisms should focus on relative risk compared to other activities.<p>I see similar judgements about other activities that can be done with little to no risk like hiking and fishing.<p>Times are hard, but that doesn’t mean that everyone has to be miserable.
> "If you hit a truck moving medical supplies and people die because of it, that's on you," he said. "People are counting on those trucks moving around right now. It's not funny."<p>This can’t be a serious argument, there is always something more important happening than whatever record someone is breaking or whatever fun they are having.
What a weird thing to take issue with. "Getting out" isn't a problem if you stay in a car the whole time. You're still socially-distanced. Of all the "runs", this one probably presents the <i>least</i> danger to society.
Not sure how familiar everyone here is with cannonball runs, but from more than 50% of comments so far being in favor of the driver I get the sense that some commenters may not be. I didn't see speed numbers for this run, but the first previous run that came up in my Google search had a top speed of 193 miles an hour.<p>Personally I think this cannonball run was a very bad decision and posed increased danger to the drivers and to everyone on the road around them, including the noted issue of possibly hitting a truck carrying medical supplies. I take no issue with them going for a drive, but going for a potentially-near-200mph drive is a very, very different thing.
Any reporting about this should focus on dangers and law-breaking, while completely obscuring times and names of the involved. I realize that this is a website that's likely pro-cannonball that's reporting on this, but my question is: is it legal to do this, or could you potentially be held accountable for this in the US?
The early Cannonballs were run when the interstate speed limit was 55; so, quite a speed differential passing. With a 75 limit in most western states and lots of drivers fudging 5-10 over, the speed differential has come down considerably.<p>While there seems to be a "we should all don sackcloth and ashes" mentality among many, we may as well do what we enjoy so long as we maintain physical separation.