OT NBA star Isaiah Thomas' sister killed in Federal Way I-5 accident

We had a Ford Raptor towed in that looked like it got hit by a garbage truck. We were sure the owner was dead or on life support. The owner was a small woman who woke up in the hospital. She said all she could remember was a small car barreling towards her. I actually googled a vehicle fatality in Las Vegas before we found out she was alive.

 

What bodyman said. I witnessed a double-fatality car accident about 4 years ago, which occurred about 60 feet from my apartment. Both the passenger and driver had been drinking, and speed had also played a factor.

The Ford F150 they were driving took out a light post and snapped a tree entirely in half in the center median, and the passenger side looked just fine. But the driver's side was completely blown outward, and the passenger was hanging out of the car. The driver was killed on impact, and had to be cut from the vehicle.

One angle of a picture does not always tell the whole story. Thoughts and prayers to Thomas's family.

 

Seatbelts people. I had a girlfriend that wouldn't wear hers because she had a friend in highschool who was riding in a Jeep Wrangler that flipped upside down in a creek and she drowned. The exception to the rule.

Years ago when I lived in Vancouver my wife, then girlfriend went to the mall. Live on the news was that accident where a bus rearended a pickup and pushed it into a Subaru that went under a flatbed truck. She had an S10 with ugly custom wheels. I saw that it was a silver or gray Ford Ranger. All you could see of the truck was the bed sticking straight up to the sky. I knew the passengers were dead, if it had been my wife's truck I'd have known she was gone before the cops. I hate when the news shows current accidents.

 

Really sad story. Tragic in that her death would likely have been prevented if she had simply worn her seatbelt.

Irrelevant, but is anyone besides me surprised that the younger sister of an NBA star was driving a 20 year old car?

RIP

 

Not at all.

 

Celtics have always been my team from the East. Only amplified by their genius drafting of the Klynyk Kelly Olynyk

 

And she worked as a package carrier for like FEDEX or something like that.

 

Some rich people want to see their family make it on their own.

 

IT doesn't make the money of an NBA star.

 

first thing I thought

 

Yes and he's not responsible to give new cars to his family.

 

My brother's wife's parents have tons of cash. Rental properties up the wazoo. When she was in highschool they let her drive an 86 maxima. She graduated in 1999 and they made her give it back if she didn't want to buy it.

My poor ass family would have given it to her. I guess that's how wealthy people get and stay that way.

 

A 2011 Avalon that is safer than shit would be a million times safer and he wouldn't notice the money from his account. She could have still had to work.

 

Gordon Ramsey came out recently and said exactly that; that he wants his kids to make it on their own. He's not leaving a penny of his fortune to them.

On one hand, I completely understand it, and a part of me even agrees with the reasoning behind it. But on the other hand.....man, that must suck being the offspring of a wealthy person and knowing that you aren't getting a penny of that money.

I long ago decided that if by some miraculous luck I won the lottery one day, I'd give my parents $5 million of it and wish them a happy life. Perhaps it's different giving prize money to your family as opposed to earned money, which you worked hard for.

There could be any number of reasons why Thomas's sister was driving a 20 year old car. And while I'm not suggesting that this was the case for her, it should be a sad note that often times the families of celebrities turn out to be less-than-admirable characters who fleece off the wealth of their loved one. Many are the stories of pro athletes who let their families in on the wealth, and they ended up either being completely irresponsible with the money, or downright criminal with openly stealing it.

 

I always thought Gordon Ramsey was a true asshole. More proof.

If you want to tell them you aren't giving them anything so they don't expect it, fine. Otherwise why have the money? Give it to charity now, you too Warren Buffett.

 

Link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/fatherhood/gordon-ramsay-fortune-wont-going-children-will/

LOL, wow. You might be right about the "asshole" part.

 

Marshawn Lynch brother was my uber driver before

 

Will be interesting to see how he plays. Could totally see how this could wreck his play but also wondering if he will go out there and put on a show for his sister type mentality

 

How much money did he make this year? How much did he pay in taxes? How much did he pay his agent? Now divide that by the 40 years he hopes to live after his NBA career and that's how much money he has and he would notice the money for a new car leave his account. Unless he just wants to go broke 5 years after he retires.