When A Game Of Chicken Goes Horribly Wrong

I know its a week old, so sue me!

Florida Man?  Pshaw!  Alabama Man, not to be outdone by his panhandly (it could be a word) neighbors, decided it was a good idea to play chicken at 4:00 am.  His son, rather than talk him out of the plan, decided to participate in the festivities.

This is not how they did it.

An Alabama father and son were killed in a head-on collision with each other on Saturday morning, police said.

Police said that alcohol was a factor in the crash that killed Jeffrey Morris Brasher, 50, and his son, Austin Blaine Brasher, 22, but they are continuing to investigate.

The crash occurred at around 4:10 a.m. when the 2006 Ford pickup the Brasher was driving collided with his son’s 2004 Chevrolet pickup, according to police.

Neither Brasher was wearing a seatbelt, according to reports.

Neither was available for comment.

Comments

72 responses to “When A Game Of Chicken Goes Horribly Wrong”

  1. RBS

    Neither was available for comment.

    Ouch.

  2. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Jesus Christ, that’s just…RIP fellas.

  3. Hyperion

    Well, this is one way that genetic lines come to a sudden end. That’s terrible. Couldn’t they have just built a catapult and tried to see who could get hurled the farthest, like ordinary rednecks?

    1. commodious spittoon

      Like a catapult on the moon?

    2. waffles

      Are you the Fort Wayniac? I’m in your borough eating the finest sushi this hovel has to offer. And god bless this nation of immigrants, it’s actually pretty damn tasty.

      1. Sushi is an excuse to eat wasabi like lobster is an excuse to eat garlic butter.

        … Hobbit

      2. Hyperion

        Umm, Fort Wayniac? No. I own some property in Kosciusko county. I used to have 2 clients in Ft. Wayne, so just curios. I live in Baltimore now. Paula’s on Main was pretty good last time I was there.

  4. NoDakMat

    How much you wanna bet this was a Chevy is better than/worse than Ford argument gone horribly wrong?

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Could have been. When I was in high school I saw a Camaro guy get cracked over the head with a Maglite for talking shit about Mustangs-rednecks can get worked up about that shit.

      1. NoDakMat

        Yeah, I’ve witnessed many stupid, alcohol-fueled arguments about Ford/Chevy, John Deere/Case-IH, Arctic Cat/Polaris/Ski-Doo.

        1. Homple

          Peaceful city folk argue about Apple vs. Android.

          1. Rhywun

            I, too, raise my hand. Car/tractor/water vehicle fanatics are weird.

    2. ArchieBunker

      I w

      1. ArchieBunker

        I wouldnt bet against that.

    3. Swamp Think

      Last words
      Driver 1: Roll Tide!
      Driver 2: War Eagle!

    4. Juvenile Bluster

      I thought that was usually decided by Calvin pissing on Chevy Logo/Ford logo window stickers.

      1. NoDakMat

        No, those are just used to signal to potential adversaries that there’s someone in that bar that’s willing to argue about it.

  5. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

    Neither Brasher was wearing a seatbelt

    In the librarian land of the beltess, Brasher bashes Brasher.

    1. westernsloper

      Once again. I knew better but clicked anyway.

      1. commodious spittoon

        Whore, children
        She’s just a click away
        Just a click away

  6. Swamp Think

    “panhandly”? The term, sir, is Lower Alabama. Emerald Tide!

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      I always called it East Alabama. Everything west of Tallahassee no longer counts as Florida.

      And Jacksonville counts as Georgia. Please. Take it.

      1. You do that, you turn Florida into a pretty blue state.

        1. With half the EVs.

  7. Rufus the Monocled

    I figured to just get my picture in early because comments swell up pretty fast around here.

  8. Derpetologist

    In other news:

    Fierce Debate Raging Over Whether Garfield is Male or ‘Gender Fluid’

    By William Hicks | 4:10 pm, February 27, 2017
    An edit war is underway on Wikipedia between good traditional Americans and the cultural marxist, post-modern nihilists who want to destroy America.
    “Destroy how?” you may ask. By relabeling Garfield’s gender as “gender fluid” on Wikipedia. Yep, the social justice cabal wants to turn a high T man like Garfield into a genderless, progressive blob.

    As of publication, the God-fearing patriots are winning, with Garfield’s Wikipedia page still labeling him a man, but multiple gender warriors are trying to change that.

    Many responded to Texas’ claims pointing to the Garfield straight to DVD movie Garfield’s Pet Force, in which Garfield is portrayed as a ripped superhero, with a unmistakably male body.

    Texas responded to his critics on Twitter by asserting that Pet Force was not canon.
    When asked by Heat Street to comment, he responded *tolerantly* with, “Go f**k yourself and your s***head libertarian website.”

    I, for one, *prefer* to read shithead libertarian sites.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      I hate every single person involved there.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      WHY IS THIS EVEN WORDS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

    3. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Jon had him neutered long ago. What would that make him, post op trans or something else?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Whatever a eunuch is.

        1. R C Dean

          A eunuch?

      2. Rhywun

        What do we call what I did to my two female cats?

        1. R C Dean

          What exactly did you do?

          Wait, don’t answer that.

    4. John Titor

      Jim Davis is going to get some interesting phone calls eventually.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Jim Davis is going to get some interesting phone calls eventually.

        Statement made in ignorance of Lasagna Cat or from knowledge of it?

        1. John Titor

          HM, it’s probably a safe assumption to assume I’m totally ignorant of most of the random bullshit you find on youtube.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            I forget that not everyone is a weirdness magnet.

        2. Pomp

          Hahahaha the best part is easily the clarinet.

    5. Rufus the Monocled

      Heathcliff or die.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Or Fritz the Cat.

        1. What’s it take for Tom to get some love around here?

    6. Marty Comanche

      The article seems to be tongue-in-cheek in tone. Talking about a cartoon cat as a high T individual is pretty lolsy. But, is “Virgil Texas” trolling as well? How would we know? Poe’s law.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        I recommend visiting his Twitter feed.

        1. Jimbo

          That was barf inducing.

    7. Jimbo

      This is why I keep coming back: News I can use!
      It is a “pussy” cat, correct? Where’s the “fluid” there?! (Don’t answer that, HM or SF…or, god forbid: WARTY!)

    8. commodious spittoon

      I was hoping, at the very least, this was an argument over historical revisionism about President Garfield, a la Lincoln.

      Imagine my disappointment.

    9. waffles

      To be clear, they’re talking about a cartoon cat, right?

    10. Suthenboy

      “Go fuck yourself and your shithead libertarian website”

      I may have judged too quickly. Perhaps the TSTSNBN is correct in courting the left. It may turn out well after all.

  9. The Fusionist

    Chatham County [GA] grand jury declines to indict Savannah woman for assaulting police officer

    “The no bill for Tiffany Lashawn Chisholm, 25, means the grand jurors did not find sufficient cause to send the charge of aggravated assault on a peace officer in the Dec. 18, 2015, incident….

    “Police said the woman drove toward Kent, a reserve deputy sheriff who was standing outside of an unmarked government vehicle

    “Kent fired his weapon, striking Chisholm twice. She was taken to a local hospital and later released.

    “She later told investigators she did not know the vehicles in the area were being driven by police officers.”

  10. Mad Scientist

    I want to know if the elder Brasher had any other children. If he had just the one, I think he qualifies for a Darwin award on a technicality since he killed his own kid with this stunt. And if he wasn’t a grandfather yet, they both win Darwin awards!

  11. commodious spittoon

    New Yorker editor: Russia wasn’t trying to get Trump elected, they were trying to delegitimize Clinton’s presidency. Granted, it’s speculation on his part, but it makes a lot more sense than Putin conspired with Trump for one-in-a-thousand gamble on Trump’s becoming president.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      That makes a lot more sense. Very few called it correctly and most of those just thought it would be closer than projected, not that Trump would actually win. The Russians don’t really have any insight to the American political system that the rest of the world lacks.

    2. Viking1865

      I’m not overthinking the Russian thing.

      Clinton called for us to shoot down Russian jets over Syria. Clinton’s husband had himself a splendid little war in the Balkans to distract from domestic concerns. Clinton is a full throated member of the Bipartisan Eternal War Caucus. There’s a decent amount of evidence that her health is failing, and she is mentally not all there.

  12. Lachowsky

    Libertarian moment!
    Two individuals entered into a voluntary contest with one another and saw the contract out to the end.

    1. John Titor

      I don’t care for this new form of dueling, takes all the class out of it.

      1. westernsloper

        Damn straight. Neither one was driving a Dodge.

  13. mr simple

    From the It’s Just A Fucking Phone file:

    The Night They Locked Up All the Smartphones

    Tl;dr: They have bags anyone can rent to seal up peoples phones during a party/concert/schoolday/whatever. You keep the bag on you and unseal it at the station at the end of the event or anytime you step outside. At the event the reporter went to, 3 people destroyed their bags to get to their phones.

    1. waffles

      That’s the kind of stupid idea that is actually worthwhile. Sometimes I disgust myself with how dependent I can be on 16 square inches of LCD real estate.

      1. Rhywun

        I’m past the age where I give a shit about being “social” so I just want all you motherf*ckers walking around like zombies with your eyes glued to your phones to just GTFO of my way. Thanks.

        1. John Titor

          Rhywun proceeded to yell at the nearby cloud, and then tell two people in their thirties to get off his lawn.

  14. Rufus the Monocled

    ‘Hey, remember when we used to play Smash up Derby? Let’s do it for real!’

    Too soon?

    1. John Titor

      If anyone wants to see more classic Canadian white trash media, I highly recommend this documentary on an Ontario demolition derby.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Da….fuh…..ck.

  15. Suthenboy

    Obligatory: What was the last thing that went through their minds before they died?

    A: Their asses.

  16. Heroic Mulatto

    Come on, run away
    You don’t have to stay
    We’re nearly out of time
    But you’re doin’ fine

    So stay on track
    And don’t look back
    Just feel the pace
    Come on now race

    Everybody’s Super Sonic Racing
    Try to keep your feet right on the ground
    When you’re Super Sonic Racing
    There’s no time to look around
    We’re just Super Sonic Racing
    Runnin’ to the point of no return
    Everybody’s Super Sonic Racing
    Come on, let the fires burn

    Everybody, everybody, everybody…
    Everybody, everybody, everybody…
    Everybody, everybody, everybody…
    Everybody… Everybody!

    Everybody’s Super Sonic Racing
    Try to keep your feet right on the ground
    When you’re Super Sonic Racing
    There’s no time to look around
    We’re just Super Sonic Racing, Super Sonic Racing
    Runnin’ to the point of no return
    Everybody’s Super Sonic Racing
    Come on, let the fires burn (Let’s go!)

    Don’t you know
    We really have to go
    To a place
    Where you can feel my heart just race

    (Oh… yeah…)

    (Let’s go!) Everybody’s Super Sonic Racing
    Try to keep your feet right on the ground
    When you’re Super Sonic Racing
    There’s no time to look around
    (Let’s go!) We’re just Super Sonic Racing (Super Sonic Racing)
    Runnin’ to the point of no return
    Everybody’s Super Sonic Racing
    Come on, let the fires burn (Let’s go!)

    Everybody, everybody, everybody…
    Everybody, everybody, everybody… (Let’s go!)
    Super Sonic Racing
    Everybody, everybody, everybody…
    Oh, yeah… (Let’s go!)
    Oh… yeah…
    Oh… yea-eah…
    Super Sonic Racing (Let’s go!)

    Come on, yeah…
    Come on, yeah…
    Come on, come on (Let’s go!)
    Everybody, everybody, everybody…
    Yeah, everybody… (Let’s go!)

    Super Sonic Racing
    Oh, yeah…
    Super Sonic Racing (Let’s go!)
    Oh, yeah…
    Everybody, everybody…
    Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
    Let’s go!
    Everybody, everybody, everybody…

    [Fade out]

  17. Francisco d’Anconia

    See, this is why I never had kids.

  18. Gustave Lytton

    I know its a week old, so sue me!

    And for failing to HT Derpetologist (post #45) too.

  19. Floridaman

    Shine on ‘Bamaman, shine on.

  20. Grumbletarian

    Both were making brash claims, but they had to find out which Brasher was the brashest.