A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan should serve eight months in jail for reckless driving.
Nick Bollea was led off to begin his sentence immediately after Friday's ruling. He will be on five years' probation and lose his driving privileges for three years. Authorities say Bollea was racing a friend in his father's sports car when he clipped a curb, spun out of control and slammed into a palm tree in downtown Clearwater, Florida, last August.
The impact left his friend critically injured and in need of lifetime medical care. Bollea pleaded no contest to the reckless driving charge.
Source: USA Today
26 Comments on this Article
Better keep your ass covered Nick! Your in for a rude awakening. 
Oh wait he might like it LOL!
THAT'S IT? Should have been at least one year. And being a little spoiled rich boy, he will be going to a nice cebrity prison.
Not nearly harsh enough. You would think he would have learned he couldnt drive fast after wrecking a Viper drift car twice in the same day. 
We all love speed on this site. He's young enough to still be considered "stupid" my default and not know any better. I'm sure all of us could have lost control at one point or another to end up in the same boat. Thankfully not! Him being rich doesn't change the fact you all also drive fast on the street. Just not as fast a car. Still.. a good lesson to be learned by all.
@Louvered97GTP: Thank you. I have done some STUPID stuff in my younger days, we all have. Who cares that hes rich, doesnt make him any smarter at 17 than we were. It really sucks what happened, hes a fellow gearhead like us and the whole scenario just sucks. Which is why I really dont drive like an a-hole these days when someone else is in the car with me. Sorry to hear hogans but its the risk you take when you give a young kid a race car to drive on the street.
so since he's 17, and got 8 months, is he getting release when he turns 18? Anyone know when his birthday is?
I've done stupid shit on the roads before, with and without passengers. I'm lucky I never got in a wreck like he did. Then again, I was never driving as fast as a car as him
they went easy on him
he should be required to care for the injured friend the rest of his life.
that kid had everything in the world. he was given every resource available including a mopar drift viper which aided him in getting his prof license as drift car racer. He had a huge advantage over anybody else in becoming a racecar driver and he actually did it, he got his prof license; I think anybody that's into cars or racing would have given anything to be in his position and THIS is what he does with his extremely lucky opportunity. His racing dream is undoubtably over and he's got 8 months. i think the sentence is deserved considering what happened to his friend. he never should have been racing on the streets, especially since he has so much access
@Louvered97GTP:
@CamaroZach:
While I agree with you both, you simply can't say that everyone is the same at the same age. Not trying to start an argument or anything, but at 17, there are some 17 years old who ARE smarter. I'm not saying book sense or anything, but there are some 17 year old kids who have a lot more common sense than he had at the time.
I agree though, that stupid mistakes usually come with young age and inexperience. Just don't classify everyone that age as inexperienced, some kids are either fortunately or unfortunately put through more than they should be during 17 years. ^.^
Yea, he should have gotten a lot more time. But that's the perks of being rich, sad to say.
Cheers!
@Hiro: Oh of course dude. Naturally there are smart and dumb people of any age. I'm just sayin that in my opinion, I hate to say it, it was his dads fault. When I was being dumb at 16-18 I had a 245hp (at best) v6 camaro. That kid had an 800+ hp race car. So while I did the "same stuff" I was lucky to hit 60-70 where as he could hit 150 in the same amount of time. Regardless, I'm sure this stuff happens all the time, its just he was famous and we all heard about it.
It's interesting to see the arguments and comments regarding this situation on various different car forums and websites.
One argument I keep seeing, and it makes me sad, is people making excuses for Nick because "we all street race at one point or another" or "we all like speed" or any variation of those. Bad_ss has an excellent point in that this kid had the money and connections to get track time probably anytime he wanted. If he wanted to race his supra, why not go spend a whole day at the track? Then he can show off for his buddy and, hopefully, come away from it without a scratch.
There are dangers at the track to. IMO, part of racing is the risk. If there's no risk, what's the point of pushing yourself and your car to the edge?
Still, it comes down to two aspects...personal respect and respect of your vehicle. Personal respect would have lead Nick to not race with a good friend in the car because of the dangers. If you want to go out and kill yourself then by all means...it's America after all. The moment you include someone else in that mission the situation changes.
Indeed, Nick will have to live the rest of his life knowing his actions may have cut short the life of someone who REALLY contributed to society with his military service.
Respect of your vehicle is another aspect. I believe that its the driver's responsibility to learn the car and be able to understand what it does well and what it does badly. You should strive to become an expert of your own vehicle if you wish to push it like Nick did.
Clearly either he made serious mistakes or wasn't prepared for how his car would react. Either situation could be handled by pacing yourself, and good racing instruction.
He had all the tools avaliable to him and he squandered it. Let's race it, if you want to be a race car driver you either need to be rich or REALLY damned good. Nick has the money, too bad he clearly doesn't have the smarts.
If I were the judge he'd have lost his license for life. He'd never drive a car on the street again. Maybe a message like that would help show that street racing is plain retarded.
I agree with shadyninja - He should be required to care for the injured friend the rest of his life.
AND ALSO pay his medical bills for LIFE
THE SHITTY PART IS THAT JOHN IS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL, HE IS STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION- AND HE IS A MARINE THAT BEFORE THAT ACCIDENT RECENTLY RETURNED FROM AN OVERSEAS TOUR IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
NICK JUST WASHED HIS HANDS CLEAN, ON A BULLSHIT PUNISHMENT..
THIS ISN'T FAIR FOR ANYONE THAT HAS KNOWN JOHN. THATS ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
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