By Steven Symes 
Back on Thanksgiving Day in 2011 a man recorded using his phone the predictably horrible result of a C5 Corvette and C6 Corvette racing each other. The two drivers ended up crashing, making internet history as millions watched the video and howled at their stupidity.
C3 Corvette driver uninjured in horrific crash.
The short-lived street race took place in The Woodlands, a community north of Houston. According to the guy who recorded and uploaded the video to YouTube, he pulled behind the two American sports cars while on his way to pick up the turkey for his family’s dinner.
Looking at the two ‘Vettes, he started “feeling something bad was going to happen” so he pulled out his phone and started recording. His prediction was right, probably because he’s seen incidents like this in the past, as have we.
But he probably wasn’t expecting the exact results he recorded. In the video, we see the C5 torque steer left towards the C6. The driver swerves right, overcorrecting, then overcorrects again, doing a sharp 90-degree turn right into the other Corvette.
That collision pushes both Chevrolets onto the grassy median, ending the ill-advised imitation of the Fast and Furious. As many have pointed out, that day there were two turkeys caught on camera.
For their trouble, both men were hit with felony charges. Roy W. Bowden, then 45-years-old, and 24-year-old Brian A. Hebert both earned a third-degree felony charge of racing on highway causing bodily injury. They were facing a possible two to end years in prison and a fine up to $10,000.
While a story almost a year later in local newspaper The Courier of Montgomery County about the two drivers’ felony indictment quotes Hebert’s attorney saying a deal was likely within a few days, we can’t find anything indicating what eventually happened.
Regardless, this video is a great example of why street racing is dumb, dangerous, and selfish.
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