The Saint is reminded of the saying: "if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck; then it is probably a duck", at the recent deaths of the three boy racers in Invercargill.
Jesse Langeveld, 19, Tylar Parry, 16, and Ethan Peek, 16, lost their lives when the modified car Jesse was driving slammed into a wall after clipping a parking meter and spinning out of control for more than 100 metres. Police say the car was travelling at well over 120kmh and the boys had been drinking.
Despite overwhelming evidence - and none more so than the Tui beer stickers adorning the coffins of the Invercargill teens - indicating in all probability that all three were indeed card-carrying boy racers; their family and friends tried to claim otherwise.
However, despite their protestations, the facts speak for themselves. Three teenagers, hooning around town in a souped-up car, fuelled by alcohol and they are not boy racers! As their favourite beer billboards say - Yeah, right!
Then to endure the site of most of the those attending the funerals; only reinforced their deceased friends bogan-itis (how about that for a new word) with their behaviour. The Saint is not sure what planet the white trash family and friends of the dearly departed came from, but on planet earth Tui beer labels plastered on coffins and a family spokesman - in a Tui cap - urging the congregation at one of the funerals to "keep cruising" and "party hard", before leading them in in a drinking song - did not do much for dispelling any rumours about their supposed non boy-racer associations.
In this case, the Saint honestly suggests the demise of these three boys is no great loss to the human gene pool. Here's an idea for a Tui billboard - which I am not sure if the deceased's friends and families would see the irony in: "Jesse, Tylar and Ethan were not boy racers. Yeah, right!"
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