FP content worth sharing: Driver Gembella'd in the wrong direction [Updated w/ video of crash]

"Nom De Plume" (unlistedusername)
04/10/2020 at 08:45 • Filed to: None

I’ve been careful to restrain my witty repertoire to venues off the fp here even when I did frequent it. So the string of months old comments being replied or liked there the last few days has been uncommon. After visiting “J” more times in one morning than I have in the last year they got a click to see what the place is like.

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Wow, now that was a fun read and the video evidence just kept getting wilder. Since nobody got hurt a little punting of the driver commenced. Granted this was very NYC’centric where most of them are located. If they only had a network of sources that let them report on important news like this in a timely fashion. Unfortunately I clicked through to read the comments and the honeymoon was over.

[Update] Not sure what I expected after seeing the carnage left in the aftermath of his drive that day. Speculative assertions of drug use in the finale still strike me as ill determined given the almost certain fact of head trauma resulting from this.

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DISCUSSION (22)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Nom De Plume
04/08/2020 at 12:08

I’m still disappointed in the law enforcement response. He was doing what... 60 ish when he hit the Sienna? And tried to run. And they just let him loiter behind the car with his hands in his pockets for a while. Even let him go back into the car. They should have put his sorry ass on the ground.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Nom De Plume
04/08/2020 at 12:09

It’s so weird going to the front page and reading articles from people I’ve never heard of. That being said, I’ve been reading Jalopnik since like 2012 so I’ve seen a ton of people come and go. I read maybe 50% of the posts, and have only recently started commenting on any of them. It is funny to get a notification or reply from a comment I made weeks ago though ....... who does that?

Nom De Plume > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI
04/08/2020 at 12:13

I went investigating thinking they were recycling old content from a year or two back. Maybe there was encouragement to drop linkbacks to old articles in new ones that I missed.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Nom De Plume
04/08/2020 at 12:15

Yeah, could be. They do that mostly on holidays.

Nom De Plume > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
04/08/2020 at 12:16

He literally has nowhere to go and they have no reason to initiate contact/ a confrontation. Notice he got stopped by a NG roadblock. No way anyone gets stopped in that situation and has that type of response in any other scenario.

fintail > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
04/08/2020 at 13:36

Rich kid, rules don’t apply.

I’d love to see the reaction if this was a kid from Paterson who crashed his 99 Civic and behaved similarly.

It’ll be interesting to see what kind of slap on the wrist is given to the notorious shitbag driver.

fintail > Nom De Plume
04/08/2020 at 13:44

I love how the author, the font of knowledge that he is, fails to actually name the shitbag driver.

This is yet another case for ending pay for play residency.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > fintail
04/08/2020 at 14:18

Well with a functioning justice system he’d never drive again.

fintail > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
04/08/2020 at 15:36

With a functioning system he’d likely not have been (legally) able to drive during his latest incident.

Tripper > Nom De Plume
04/10/2020 at 09:20

Damn he SMOKED that minivan! IMHO Gemballa is/was? as bad as AC Schnit zer stuff for bimmers. BARF! A bsolute hooker jewelry. The colors, ok yeah some of those are nice, otherwise I’ll just take a regular CGT.

interstate366, now In The Industry > fintail
04/10/2020 at 10:08

He does list his Instagram handle, which is arguably just as relevant since the guy was probably doing it for future follows.

ClassicDatsunDebate > Nom De Plume
04/10/2020 at 10:44

That’s probably the case. Last week I had two replies to comments I made a few years ago. Must have been a link...or lottery level coincidence.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Nom De Plume
04/10/2020 at 11:32

The authors actually can’t control what posts are linked at the bottom anymore. I think an algorithm controls it and has been the subject of significant backlash among the writers there.

fintail > interstate366, now In The Industry
04/10/2020 at 11:58

But why not name the guillotine fodder outright? Fear of legal consequences based on Gawker history?

interstate366, now In The Industry > fintail
04/10/2020 at 14:50

Maybe. Maybe his family has dirt on someone. I don’t know.

fintail > interstate366, now In The Industry
04/10/2020 at 14:54

Everyone else is naming him though (and everyone knows who it is just by the unfortunate car) . Funny that jellopicnic was the only holdout.

Maybe dad owns part of the kinjaverse.

interstate366, now In The Industry > fintail
04/10/2020 at 15:26

Could be. I’m curious as to what drugs he was on. When he was being arrested he seemed too calm for it to be coke.

fintail > interstate366, now In The Industry
04/10/2020 at 16:10

I was thinking it might just be shock, but he has such a long and storied history of being a shitty driver that he should be used to crashing by now.

Coke is popular among the monied crowd, could be, could also just be a weird guy.

interstate366, now In The Industry > fintail
04/10/2020 at 16:48

One of his charges was driving under the influence of drugs. Everything else about it does scream coke fiend: the money, the thrillseeking.

fintail > interstate366, now In The Industry
04/10/2020 at 17:04

It adds up.

I know NY authorities sometimes like to nail people, it’ll be interesting to see if that happens, or if daddy greases some palms.

Victorinoo > Nom De Plume
04/10/2020 at 18:28

It suddenly broke traction just like Paul Walker’s crash.

Nom De Plume > Victorinoo
04/10/2020 at 19:20

Whatever he allegedly was under the influence of certainly didn’t impair his ability to square up perfectly on the minivan while fighting control. Front c rumple zone to rear crumple zone with barely enough room between the parked cars to walk is something I’d rate a sober and alert drivers chances at pulling off with low odds.

All we can do is speculate lightly and observe the frankly large amount of video from multiple scenes surrounding the incident that have surfaced. Ruling out mechanical or electrical system failure is certainly not possible.