over the weekend actor Paul Walker died at forty in a tragic car accident in
southern california
he was in a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT driven by one of his friends from his
racing team
actually had just finished up at a charity event and unfortunately both of
them did I
in what is being called a high-speed car accident now
obviously tragic and we're gonna get to that but we do have to mention that
there has apparently been
at at point anonymous tip that implies that there was at least one other car at
the scene
and investigators are looking into the possibility that they were drag racing
at the time of the accident now
at this point we are simply relying on what is as I said an anonymous tip it
could very well
turn out to be and I imagine it will turn out to be false but at this point
it is being looked into Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant richard cohen
says
naturally for it from an investigative standpoint we need to find out if that
is one
up the issues what the tragic parts is that Tyrese Gibson who is this coast are
from several others movies
went to the location of the accident I believe earlier today
and that he was surrounded by a crowd of probable fans
all videotaping as he teared up cried
at the site of the debt that one of his friends he did post Instagram my heart
is hurting so bad no one can make me believe
this is real now so as we said we'd we don't know if drag racing
can really be implicated in this it's a tragedy in any event
I do think in your probably gonna say this in just a second
people to get involved in the personal lives a celebrity is
too far too great an extent whether it's their deaths or their weddings or
them going on vacation I am it is a doubt that is a
let me comment on that so you know when news broke over the weekend
I felt like I needed to tweet about it or write about it because I work in news
and there should be some sort of comment from someone who works in News
and I was like I don't I don't have anything to say about this yes it's a
tragedy
people die every day and and when it is a celebrity everyone
it of course warns rightfully so but the morn is though that person is more
important than
the hundreds of thousands of Americans the die I you know not not just American
but hundreds of thousands of people to die on a regular basis because it's
stupid things
right because the hunger how many people die because the hunger so whenever
celebrity dies its a front page story
everyone constantly talking about it and what I would want to focus on here
is is the drag racing angle we don't know for sure
at this point whether or not it was due to drag racing but there should be an
open discussion
about how there are movies that glamorize drag racing and that kinda
stuff should not occur not only are they putting their own lives at risk
when they're driving like that they're putting innocent people in danger that
are just standing there may be there was a bystander something like that
they couldn't get been hit by that car here you know so it's
I would want to have a national discussion about that and how
that's not cool thing to do I know people love their race cars but you
gotta be responsible on the road
yeah I mean certainly there is an irony them dying in a particular way
many between I saw were making jokes about Leonardo DiCaprio thing up a boats
and things like that
I mean people will address the tragedy in various ways sometimes people use
calmly as a defense mechanism I guess
and but yet look I don't know I don't agree that we should ban movies
that that have dragged recent even saying that no I thought that you
replied no I'm not even applied
that's ridiculous but the what I am saying just very quickly
is you know there are certain people that think it's totally okay to go drag
racing and there's like an underground
you know drag racing Bing are even know you would call community
community exactly it and it's just it's not cool you know you wanna go racing
it's totally fine just do it on a track do it in a controlled environment
where people are not going to get hurt or you know there will be an immediate
response by
by you know %um pure whatever it is as long as you're in a controlled
environment
at that started that I made 30 want to believe in you can have a larger
discussion about death right
we all want to believe that we're invincible especially when you are
a young healthy celebrity you're on top of the world you don't
you don't think about the day that you could possibly die and we do reckless
things
so having a discussion about that i think is is more helpful than
you know that discussing whether or not the movie should continue
yeah yeah ok there's a set that they're they're producing a seventh best
imperious
yes that was the one that he was working on he has another independent movie
that's coming on the 19th I believe
and that's the time when I'm not working country I but that is a fact if you are
interested involved