Man Threatens to Blow up Darlington Race Track
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Man jailed after allegedly leaving message threatening to blow up Darlington Raceway
A man is currently being held in the Darlington County Detention Center after he allegedly threatened to blow up Darlington Raceway.
Per the Darlington County Sheriff’s office, Michael Donavan Avin left a threatening message on the answering machine at Darlington Raceway on April 27. Per the investigators, Avin “did leave a message on the answering machine describing a possible explosive device and the results it may create to further his cause. Since this event took place, the defendant has delivered a letter to another location in Darlington County, advising that he has access to 125 tons of bomb making materials.”
Avin has been charged with possession and threatening or attempting use of a weapon of mass destruction for an act of terrorism.
Darlington Raceway has hosted Cup Series races since 1950 and is the traditional Labor Day race weekend site for NASCAR’s Cup Series. The track is hosting Cup Series races on Sunday, May 17 and Wednesday, May 20, as NASCAR restarts its season during the coronavirus pandemic.
Darlington was selected as the site of NASCAR’s return because of it’s close proximity (approximately 90 miles) to the greater Charlotte area where most NASCAR teams are based and because of South Carolina’s willingness to host a sporting event in the months after the pandemic began in the United States.
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Did he say what his “cause” was?
nascrap was years ahead of the rest of the world in social distancing. 😂🤣
Zing !!
What’s better – car racing… or horse racing?
You know what makes me sick? You know what makes me so mad I just wanna go to the north pole… an’ beat a penguin senseless?
This is my once a year commentary I do every May… what’s better – car racing… or horse racing? That’s because the biggest horse race… AND the biggest car race of the year are both this month.
Obviously – both types of racing got their fans. You got your hoity-toity, nose-in-the-air, yuppie, mint-tulip sucking, stupid big-hat wearing Hollywood dandy, Triple Crown horse racing fans. And then you got everybody else – that likes car racing.
Us car racing fans like to point out… a horse never hits the wall in turn three and explodes into a fireball. And we like to remind those Triple Crown swells your average NASCAR racing car has 750 horse-power. Your average Triple Crown horse – has … one.
Now – your average car racing… like the Indy 500… takes about 3 to 5 hours to complete – depending on speed, wrecks, caution flags and the occasional tornado or whatever else weather phenomenon is gunning through Indianapolis at the end of May. Your average Triple crown horse race… takes about two minutes. Hell – that don’t even give you time to find your seat. Yeah – in car racing you’re following the leader poll… watching the pit crews in action. Going an’ buying maybe five beers.
Horse racing is… “And they’re off. And… they’re finished.”
And now… your average car racing is a thinking man’s sport. Your driver is making split second critical decisions. Do I draft? Do I have enough gas for two more laps? Do I take the high line on the turn or stay on the apron. Do I pit for two tires… or all four? Your average Triple Crown jockey is making decisions, too. Do I whip this horse on the left butt cheek… or the right butt cheek?
Wake up, America! I’m gonna have to go with car racing this year. Now – you find me a horse that can smoke his horseshoes doing donuts on the track after he wins… and maybe we’ll talk. I’m Earl Pitts, American. Pitts Off.
I am bored with you now
I don't like terrorists.
Publicize it and the race would outdraw the Super Bowl.