Is this for real??

[cognitive]

I think it's for real but as is usually the case, the story is told to be sensational. This is my take:

Woman takes H2 and some family for a ride around campus. She sees the dirt and decides to have some fun b/c it's late at night and no one is around. She doesn't realize that a 1 ft dirt wall at 45mph is not good for well... anything but figures she needs speed to get over it. She essentially wrecks on the 1 ft wall, loses control and hits the cement wall at an angle. At that point she was just trying to stop and certainly was NOT going 45 when she hit the cement. I bet when campus security and police were first on the scene, she was terrified and when asked why she did it she said it was a dumb idea and that she was sorry. But later... when the reporters came up or other officers, she jokingly said she wanted to jump the statue - a nervous statement she immediately took back. Then the reporter took the quote out of context or a policeman related the quote out of context to the press and it ended up on the forum.

Again, that's my take. Quotes in the press are for one purpose: to grab your attention. She could have said 50 other things about how it was stupid of her to endanger the lives of her family but they'll pick out the one quote that was said in jest and makes her look like a bimbo.

Anyway, I was upset reading the posts from the other thread about how terrible the H2 is. It was like hearing from someone who tells you "hey, why didn't you get a real hummer!" Where's the love?