The founder and Curator of the Houston Art Car Museum was killed on Saturday night. Houston has the largest and oldest Art Car parade in the world. Completely grass roots, a fun and whimsical and great event. Friday there is a giant party, on saturday there is the official parade through downtown houston and allen parkway, and on saturday evening there is an informal parde of the art cars (over 200 now) through neighborhoods in Houston. (21st annual)
The man, Tom Jones was his name, had taken his art car back to the museum, and locked it up. he went outside (around 2:00AM) and sat on the curb with his friend, and just talked about what a great weekend it had been so far.
a 24 year old drunk driver at that moment was barreling down Heights Blvd., jumped the train tracks, slammed into a parked car, which then flew about 25 feet and crushed Tom Jones and his friend. OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE
he died of massive internal injuries later that Sunday. His friend is ok. the drunk fuck was not injured in any way and is out on bail .
this was his car
Swamp Mutha
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this is the Art car museum in Houston
