Roger Ebert was right. The guy was a drunken jackass

Ebert posted on his blog:

To begin with, I offer my sympathy to Ryan Dunn's family and friends, and to those of Zachary Hartwell, who also died in the crash. I mean that sincerely. It is tragic to lose a loved one. I also regret that my tweet about the event was considered cruel. It was not intended as cruel. It was intended as true....

What did I mean by that [initial Tweet]? I meant exactly what I wrote. I wasn't calling Ryan Dunn a jackass. In Twitter shorthand, I was referring to his association with "Jackass." I thought that was clear. I note that Bam Margera uses the word "jackass" in the same way in his tweet....

I don't know what happened in this case, and I was probably too quick to tweet. That was unseemly. I do know that nobody has any business driving on a public highway at 110 mph, as some estimated -- or fast enough, anyway, to leave a highway and fly through 40 yards of trees before crashing. That is especially true if the driver has had three shots and three beers. Two people were killed. What if the car had crashed into another car?

Ryan Dunn's final act in life was to kill his friend, and it was just by chance, as Ebert pointed out, that he didn't plow into another car and kill a lot more people. The roads are safer and the world is a better place without him. There's no denying it. Police now estimate that the car was going between 130 and 140 miles per hour.

I don't know anything about these people, but I doubt that Hartwell agreed to get in the car with Dunn knowing that he was going to be driving 130 miles per hour. He was murdered by that scumbag. His estate ought to sue the hell out of Dunn's estate.