8,000 HP Speed Boat Crash at 145mph

[TheFees]

Talk about lucky. Here is a news clip fresh off of the press of a pilot of an 8,000 hp speed boat that crashed and came apart at 145 mph (capable of 200mph) and walked away with barely a scratch.
"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/26836470#26836470"

Here is the MSN article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26836394/), with video window with a launch button too.

[FlatRacer, aka BarrelBack]

Yeah, I don't get it. This stuff happens all the time in drag boat racing. Why this particular crash gets splashed all over the national news is a mystery to me. The capsule did what it was supposed to do. Big deal.
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad the guy's alright. But, why all the media?

Eric

[zelatore]

What?! This stuff happens all the time?! Oh, the humanity! We better put a stop to this now, for their own good! Why, it's little more than legalized suicide! Quick- I call for a constitutional amendment banning this sort of behavior!


Seriously, I'm guessing this made the media the way it did because it was in a big market (LA or San Diego, I don't remember) and probably a local member of a big news agency was on-hand so he ran it on his local station and it looked spectacular so the network grabbed.