GAINESVILLE, FL - Last Tuesday, families gathered for Drag Racing Story Hour, put on weekly at the Alachua County Library by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA). But local mother, Nance Schmidt couldn't help but feel as though placing her six year-old son, Devin, in the middle of a 1,000 ft racecourse with two fire-spewing top fuel dragsters running him down at speeds in excess of 300 mph, might make her a bad parent.

"I mean I know this is the hip new thing, and I'm as PC as the next gal," said Schmidt tearing up in an interview, "but are we just exploiting and endangering our children so that we can pat ourselves on the back and fit in with a culture rapidly spiraling out of control at the hands of extremists?"

The taxpayer-funded event was started by famed racer, Craig Sanderson,

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