While looking around on High Tech Corvette’s (HTC) pages for videos, we happened to read one of their FaceBook postings that initially left us stunned and bewildered before we said to ourselves, “what the heck was the author thinking?”. Read what it says and you’ll understand:
“Note: If you run over a bunch of motorcycles in your SUV don’t be surprised if you get chased down and have the f…k [explicit] beat out of you or killed!”
Naturally, the offensive posting supporting the beating of Alexian Lien in front of his family from the bikers angered many of the Corvette fan site’s viewers who quickly responded, and as a result, Texas-based HTC quietly removed it (that or FB intervened and took it off) from its FaceBook page, but not from our browser and our print screen button…
The comments ranged from mild disapproval, like this one from Jim Karnes who wrote, “pretty one sided and partial comment from High Tech Corvette, you might want to know all of the facts before posting something like this“, to name calling as was the case of Jason La Salle, who posted, “HTC you just lost a lot of business. Word spreads in the Vette community. Dumbass“.
The same posting was also shared on HTC’s Twitter page pointing to their FaceBook site.
We’d like to hear your thoughts on the matter in the comments below.
Note: If you run over a bunch of motorcycles in your SUV don't be surprised if you get chased down and have the… http://t.co/dtu8fLu3EB
— Hightech Corvette (@HTCorvette) October 4, 2013