April 17, 2006
Ashanti loses her cousin

Ashanti cancelled a performance in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday after her 20-year-old cousin and personal assistant were killed by a drunken teen driver.
Police said that Quinshae Snead, known as Quin, was en route to Ashanti's hotel on an errand before Saturday's concert when the car she was riding in was rear-ended. “Her body was thrown into the oncoming lane, where it was hit by another vehicle,” said West Rand police spokesperson Solomon Sibiya.
My condolences to Ashanti and her family, but there's a simple way to prevent being thrown from your car into oncoming traffic. It's called a rope. Just tie it around yourself and the steering wheel and you're good to go.
Seriously though, wear your fucking seat belts people.
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Comments
1. Posted by Italian Stallion on April 17, 2006 04:20 PM
I just can't even an asshole has his limits......
2. Posted by cbmd on April 17, 2006 04:23 PM
Is this delightfully frothy celebrity news?
3. Posted by Chrystal03 on April 17, 2006 04:24 PM
My condolences go out to them as well... :(
4. Posted by biatcho on April 17, 2006 04:26 PM
I think Mr. (or Mrs.) Superficial is trying to tell all of us to love each other because life is precious and we shouldn't take it for granted... fuck it, I still hate heifferrzzzz and a bunch of other idiots.
5. Posted by Derek Hail on April 17, 2006 04:29 PM
That is so true. Just wear your damn seatbelt and there won't be this problem.
6. Posted by Italian Stallion on April 17, 2006 04:31 PM
P.S I think this might be the first time I agree with whoever writes these lame stories. If not for a seatbelt I would have been killed 3 years ago. I got 5 broken ribs, collapsed lung, some head trauma ( which explains my retardedness) and spent two weeks in shock trauma.I could not have said it any better.......
Seriously though, wear your fucking seat belts people
7. Posted by biatcho on April 17, 2006 04:31 PM
I heard Brag & Angelina's chauffeur did it on their way to NAMBLA.
8. Posted by PapaHotNuts on April 17, 2006 04:33 PM
I'm a dick and everything, but I'm with Stallion, won't make fun of this one.
Maybe the SF editors can post something about a young child fighting cancer or maybe the murder of a nun to brighten our day. All the shit going on to make fun of, and this is what they post. Great job Superficial, I'm off to go hang myself.
9. Posted by biatcho on April 17, 2006 04:34 PM
And I am done making dumb comments about this story. It's way too graphic & sad. Really didn't need to know about this chick flying into on-coming traffic... laughing is the only way I know how to deal with tragedy.
10. Posted by Grphdesi23 on April 17, 2006 04:37 PM
Twice in one day, The Superficial has to dour my mood.
First, the news with Kylie and now Ashanti.
Besides, we shouldn't be blaming the victim here. They were killed by a DRUNK driver.
Sad.
11. Posted by bigponie on April 17, 2006 04:38 PM
I just wanna say how sorry i am, and if ashanti needs some comforting in her time of need, I am ready and willing to offer her "the cock"
12. Posted by LookAtME on April 17, 2006 04:40 PM
What a shame, my condolences... however, Did the Superficial forget his/her paxil last night?
13. Posted by oshkoshb-goshdammgosh on April 17, 2006 04:41 PM
Hey guys, poop ass vagina cock I hate MeganHarris penis racist sexist fag-tard!!! What? Where's the funeral?
Oh...
(Has this ever happened to you?)
14. Posted by RhinebeckCowboy on April 17, 2006 05:12 PM
Jeez. And this is the part of the world that Brangelina are planning to have a baby in.
15. Posted by Ez-EEEE on April 17, 2006 05:17 PM
16. Posted by GDoggie on April 17, 2006 05:25 PM
Nice grammar on this one. Her personal assistant WAS killed not 'were killed'.
17. Posted by Aimtrue on April 17, 2006 05:25 PM
Is the cousin the personal or were two people killed? Did she cancel the concert because it was her cousin or because the personal assistant failed to get her the correct spring water she demanded? If she was emotinally upset I get it, but if it is the latter, then we can sharpen out darts
18. Posted by jennyjenjen on April 17, 2006 05:31 PM
Shut the fuck up GDoggie. Two deaths.. one in gory detail.. sad.
19. Posted by Beeyotch on April 17, 2006 05:31 PM
I actually think it's a commendable use of the Superficial's exposure: to remind its wide audience of the importance of seatbelts, lest something awful like this happens.
And don't worry, as long as the Simpson sisters and the Lohans and Parisites of the world are still with us, we'll never want for stupid celebrity news...
20. Posted by hotterthanyou on April 17, 2006 05:32 PM
i'm usually all for making fun of someone else's misfortune but in this case - you just can't. my condolences to the family. and i hope whoever hit them is punished for their insanely stupid behaviour.
#17 - think it's just one person who was killed. although the grammatical mistake in the article makes it seem like two.
21. Posted by jennyjenjen on April 17, 2006 05:36 PM
oops.. sorry GDoggie. But still shut the F up!
22. Posted by GDoggie on April 17, 2006 05:38 PM
I do think it's sad, it's not really normal Superficial material, that's why I commented on the bad grammar on top of the inappropriate story.
23. Posted by shell on April 17, 2006 05:42 PM
Car accidents, cancer victims and that hideous creature they call Katie Holmes. I'm not sure I can take much more today.
24. Posted by Binky on April 17, 2006 05:44 PM
Cancer, pregnancy, strap-on aliens, death.
I think the Superfish guy is in a bit of a funk as the Pulitzer's were announced today and...well...there's always next year... type of thing...
25. Posted by Binky on April 17, 2006 05:47 PM
# 23 - Get off this wavelength. What's the frequency Kenneth ?
And #15 - I couldn't agree more.
26. Posted by mamacita on April 17, 2006 05:50 PM
@12
Man, I think I need to get on Paxil after the shit that passed for stories today. The editors are trying to control what they like to call the "infighting", so they post a bunch of sad shit so that all we can do is post things like "wow, I can't say anything mean about that" or "ohhhh, boohoo, so sad". Well, I reject their reality and replace it with my own. Ya know, I watched Punk'd once and Ashanti was on there being a complete asshole to this driver when the car broke down. I wanted to punch her in the labia. If only she knew then that by being such a total cunt, she was actually sealing her cousin's fate. Karma is a merciless and unforgiving bitch. That's right. I don't blame the victim, I blame Ashanti. Drive your own car bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!
27. Posted by MeganHarris on April 17, 2006 06:03 PM
Sad news.
28. Posted by HughJorganthethird on April 17, 2006 06:11 PM
Maybe Ja Rule will rap at the funeral, cause you know it's not like he's gonna be busy and shit.
29. Posted by ohyeahallie on April 17, 2006 06:58 PM
way to just make a joke. I personally did not finnd this funny.
30. Posted by ohyeahallie on April 17, 2006 06:59 PM
way to just make a joke. I personally did not finnd this funny.
31. Posted by biatcho on April 17, 2006 07:03 PM
you didn't find it funny #s 29 & 30 - but you did find it appropriate to go back & make sure we could all click on your screename & check your shit out. classy!
32. Posted by Sister Morphine on April 17, 2006 07:24 PM
My sincerest condolences to Ashanti's family. I can't imagine losing anyone to something that tragic and preventable.
33. Posted by ohyeahallie on April 17, 2006 07:40 PM
uhm to biatcho, just so you know the thing told me I couldn't post unless I had a link, and that's the only link I have. I would delete it if I hadn't known it was posted twice.
34. Posted by Penny Woods on April 17, 2006 07:47 PM
I can't make fun of this one even though I'm a former Ashanti fan. Not only was the guy drunk, he was 17, he stole his mother's car and he didn't have a licence. I'd advise Ashanti and family to sue if they could.
35. Posted by NewGuy on April 17, 2006 07:50 PM
Quinshae Quiche.
Swerves 38... Whoops! I mean "Serves"
36. Posted by Effey203 on April 17, 2006 08:11 PM
I've been reading the superficial for a while, and frankly ...the material and jokes for the past few weeks/months have sucked. Theres TONS of celebrities out there just begging to get made fun of, but you choose someone dying and a cancer patient to write about? ...on top of that just being insensitive, your puns weren't even funny.
37. Posted by xAgonyxScenex on April 17, 2006 08:33 PM
It sucks that she died but it's hard to feel worry for people when they bring that shit upon themsevles. How hard is it to wear a seatbelt for people. Honestly do people find it THAT uncomfortable.
38. Posted by ning_ning on April 17, 2006 09:10 PM
Superficial has reached its limitations...
It's sad but to all of the drunkards don't drive drunk. I guess the teen driver survived as usual, kill a whole damn family and the drunks always survive. sad...
39. Posted by Pez_D_Spencer on April 17, 2006 09:32 PM
So who wants to bet what the lead song from her next show is:
Dead Man's Curve? (or pretty much anything by Jan & Dean)
Leader of the Pack?
Oh Where Oh Where Can My Baby Be?
I suppose a cover of anything by "The Cars" or "Crash Test Dummies" would work, too.
Um, Kiss' "Detroit Rock City" might work, too.
40. Posted by NewGuy on April 17, 2006 10:08 PM
I've survived every crash I've been in usually because I am so friggin HAMMERED that I barely even notice the impact. If I was sober I probably would have tensed up and been hurt, maybe even killed instead of those whiny, bleedy, screaming little brats and their mom in the mini-van.
Who wants some quiche?
41. Posted by katlady12 on April 17, 2006 11:42 PM
Holy crap. Ashanti must be be feeling like shit right now. I would never want to be anyone's personal asst no matter how famous. The poor girl was proby running errands for her royal highness when it happened.
42. Posted by HollyJ on April 18, 2006 12:07 AM
I was about to be all sensitive, but then I realized this was The Superficial and bitch-slapped myself (saved you peeps the trouble). Now that I'm conscious again, I have to say:
Let me get this straight...
Someone hit her car from behind, and somehow she managed to fly out of the side of the car into oncoming traffic? I've been rear-ended a couple of times, and I've never flown like Peter Pan out of the car and landed smack in the center of on-coming traffic. Did the car have no windshield? Is her body shaped like a torpedo? How did a rear-hit result in her flying out sideways???
If someone hits you from directly behind, your trajectory will be forward, and even if you DO go through the windshield (highly unlikely nowadays), you'll go over the front of your own car, not diagonally into oncoming traffic.
This story goes against every possible law of physics. I'm NOT BUYING THIS STORY. Sounds like a PR cover-up for something else to me.
43. Posted by Tom McKenzie on April 18, 2006 12:44 AM
@42 HollyJ -- You're an idiot. I know the laws of physics and nowhere does it state the drunk driver braked (or did not brake) or hit the car squarely in the back. If she was not wearing a seatbelt (not a lot of people do in SA) and the car hit her with enough force toward the corner of the car, she would have flown through the windscreen and into oncoming traffic.
Guys, feel free to be dicks about this whole issue, but at least know what you're talking about if you do.
44. Posted by A Nobody on April 18, 2006 02:44 AM
Let's gather together and just... Cry.
Somebody died, but that doesn't mean we have to go gay.
45. Posted by maggixial on April 18, 2006 08:43 AM
(#36) Effey203, start your own site if it hurts your feelings that much. Sweet Zombie Jesus, don't just whine about it, do something. Nobody has a gun to your head and is forcing you to be here. There are countless other celebrity gossip sites.
46. Posted by oshkoshb-goshdammgosh on April 18, 2006 10:41 AM
In other news: Ashanti is spoon-lickin' hot.
47. Posted by biatcho on April 18, 2006 11:25 AM
New Guy sucks manpenis
48. Posted by Land-Man on April 18, 2006 11:31 AM
I smiled when I read this. Nice work drunken teen driver. Whoot! Whoot!
49. Posted by Land-Man on April 18, 2006 11:31 AM
I smiled when I read this. Nice work drunken teen driver. Whoot! Whoot!
50. Posted by The Mad Scientologist on April 18, 2006 11:43 AM
Kind of ironic when you work for a record label called "Murder Inc."
51. Posted by cinnarose on April 18, 2006 11:45 AM
I always laugh at the "OMG it's too soon" people. If it was a celebrity that had died because of something stupid (say, flying in a plane that's overloaded with luggage and a pilot that's high on cocaine), people would put on their lollerskates and ride. Yes, it's tragic, but my initial reaction was "whatever, that's what you get for not wearing a seatbelt." It's sad for Ashanti, but I don't really care.
52. Posted by oshkoshb-goshdammgosh on April 18, 2006 11:45 AM
Land-Man is awesome. You can tell he's totally trying to get everyone riled up with weakly offensive half-sentences. How original! Here's a lesson for you, Land-Man: Offensive shit is funny when it's A) self-deprecating B) over the top or C) subtly understated in a way that people understand. Other than that you might as well log on just so you can type the word "nigger" or perhaps "I molest children" and then log back off. Clearly you're some kind of genius or idiot-savant.
53. Posted by jugsgirl on April 18, 2006 11:50 AM
I molest children
54. Posted by jugsgirl on April 18, 2006 11:51 AM
i molest nigger children
55. Posted by Land-Man on April 18, 2006 11:58 AM
At least I'm not stupid like you.
56. Posted by RobotAttack on April 18, 2006 12:00 PM
okay well... I keep seeing everyone posting "this wouldn't have happened if she just wore her seatbelt!" and yes.... that's true, she should have worn her seatbelt. but it ALSO wouldn't have happened if whoever hit her hadn't been an idiot drunk driver. It's tragic no matter which way you look at it... and a pretty awful way to die.
57. Posted by jugsgirl on April 18, 2006 12:08 PM
ooooh osh kosh ............. land man called you stupid.
58. Posted by jugsgirl on April 18, 2006 12:09 PM
well at least i think he called you stupid. he could have been talking to that mad scientist.
59. Posted by Aaronmalamend on April 18, 2006 12:28 PM
I want to shout out to Itallian Stallion... I too was hit by a drunk driver and suffered neck and brain injury, which accounts for some of my stupidity. I had a car with one of those automatic seatbelts, so I was spared my life. If I was not wearing it, I would have been roadkill. I never go without my seatbelt nowadays... I don't feel that the webmaster here is making a joke out of a tragic event, he is just illustrating a point... I mean, look at all the responses already. Also, drinking and driving is as gay as Tom Cruise.
60. Posted by Lauren on April 18, 2006 12:45 PM
I'm missing something here. Where does it say that she wasn't wearing her seatbelt?
Thanks for the pro-seatbelt statement, but I don't think you should be using it in this context. You're making the (dead, no less) woman sound like an idiot for not wearing a seatbelt, when there's no word on whether or not she was.
Why not make fun of drunken teen idiots instead? We at least know one of those was involved.
61. Posted by gogoboots on April 18, 2006 01:54 PM
Uhm...honestly though, if she were wearing a seat belt she wouldn't have gotten thrown from the car and hit by other cars. That's just plain awful and sad...but you really need to wear your seatbelt, even if you're just going to the store to pick up beer or something...
62. Posted by sassy on April 18, 2006 01:58 PM
HEY JUGSGIRL, CLAIMING YOU MOLEST NIGGER CHILDREN IS NOT COOL...THAT'S SO NOT COOL THESE DAYS...IN FACT IT'S LAME.
63. Posted by jugsgirl on April 18, 2006 02:21 PM
sassy,
you must be one of those nigger children i molested. did u get too old? did i not give u enough attention?
64. Posted by jugsgirl on April 18, 2006 02:26 PM
sassy-
go eat a fucking placenta, i was kidding. read post 52, is it too long, can you only read the posts that are short and use small words
65. Posted by Kbartender on April 18, 2006 02:26 PM
#25 You make me LAFF! What's the frequency Kenneth... I think I peed myself.
#27 Shut up you dumb slut.
#55 Wow, did you go to college?
I love jugsgirl. There, I said it.
66. Posted by oshkoshb-goshdammgosh on April 18, 2006 02:34 PM
#55 - I stand corrected - that was hilarious!
67. Posted by Jacq on April 18, 2006 02:43 PM
Land Man needs to be eaten by the Land Shark.
My ex-fiance was also almost killed in an accident, except that it was no one else's fault and he was the drunk one. The driver's side from tire blew and he went upside down between divided highways and landed on the passenger roof. I was supposed to have been in that car. The only thing left was the roof on the driver's side. He did however have his seat belt on and broke his back in 3 places.
I must admit though, that I have had 2 other friends who definitely would not be with us today if they had been wearing seatbelts. They were both thrown from the cars that would have killed them. I'm wearing mine, though.
68. Posted by jugsgirl on April 18, 2006 02:49 PM
Drunk Driving is NOT a crime where I live, the virgin islands.
Driving without a seatbelt IS a crime.
69. Posted by bunnyhugger on April 18, 2006 03:04 PM
my husband, too, was nearly killed in a single car accident, when the car decided to commit suicide. no one knows what happened w/ the car, they said it was too demolished to tell (i still don't buy that...). due to somebody's stupidity at the GM plant, the seat belt was faulty and the shoulder harness broke, leaving only the lap belt. he spent 4 weeks in the hospital, and was close to death twice. he is fine, now, but it was absolutely the most harrowing thing we've ever been thru. so, to stallion and jacq, i'm with you guys. even a half a seatbelt can save your life.
70. Posted by biatcho on April 18, 2006 03:10 PM
too bad a seat belt couldn't save my dad from dying of lung cancer. That was harrowing. Wow, I feel so much better now.
move on...
71. Posted by oshkoshb-goshdammgosh on April 18, 2006 03:14 PM
Seat belts couldn't save my brother from his crack addiction, which led to the break in at the petting zoo, and seat belts couldn't save the anuses of those poor baby goats either. Fuck seat belts.
72. Posted by mamacita on April 18, 2006 03:17 PM
@70
He probably caught the cancer from Kylie Minogue. That toothy, cancer-having bitch.
73. Posted by mamacita on April 18, 2006 03:17 PM
@70
He probably caught the cancer from Kylie Minogue. That toothy, cancer-having bitch.
74. Posted by mamacita on April 18, 2006 03:28 PM
Filth flarn filth!!!!!!! This bitch ass comment posting error shit is pissing me off.
75. Posted by biatcho on April 18, 2006 03:36 PM
Yeah, the error messages are almost as annoying as every little fuckstick who keeps saying Tom Cruise Loves the Cock.
jokes are funny at one point & then they get as old as the crust in meganharris' underpants.
76. Posted by mamacita on April 18, 2006 03:38 PM
@75
Don't hate on MeganHarris' crusty panties. They're just old cause it's hard to find underwear for hermaphrodites.
77. Posted by Land-Man on April 18, 2006 03:47 PM
Everyone yakking about surviving a car crash should shampoo my crotch, then get in another car crash and not walk away from it. God knows how to take out the trash.
78. Posted by biatcho on April 18, 2006 03:54 PM
#76
OOOOOHHHHHH (removes cigarette from mouth in the vain of Andrew Dice Clay)
79. Posted by jugsgirl on April 18, 2006 04:05 PM
sure some jokes get old, but meganharris hating will never die
80. Posted by Miss_Marple on April 18, 2006 05:02 PM
YOu know... all this time I thought MeganHarris was a guy... then I see something about crusty panties and holy shit...then I saw the hermaphrodite statement. So, is MeganHarris a boy, a girl, or a HeShe? OR does he/she just stink?
81. Posted by bunnyhugger on April 18, 2006 08:09 PM
yeah, and apparently seat belts didn't help me keep my fucking mouth shut.
*violins playing*
sorry.
82. Posted by joeqpublicus on April 19, 2006 01:37 AM
Pretty harsh advice but it's true people wear your seat belts or end up street pizza.
83. Posted by Hara on April 19, 2006 04:20 AM
Yep. 82 posts and it's still not funny.
Number 71 is pretty darn close though. If I weren't on the phone with my sister thanking her for not being dead I probably would have laughed.
84. Posted by justsayno on April 19, 2006 05:33 PM
okay, for the retards at the superficial, and those on here that agreed: Hundreds of people die every day due to drunk driving, WHILE wearing seatbelts. I CANNOT believe he said the problem would be solved by wearing a seatbelt. Um, so what about the drunk-drivers? Maybe the better solution is don't drive while your smashed. hm..just a thought. seriously. i'm stunned. While we're at it, why not let the drunk driver go free and encourage him to drink and drive more often. And lets take all the victims of drunk-driving and lock them up for life.
85. Posted by LaydeeBug on April 19, 2006 05:45 PM
I'll go there.......sorry for the dead but thats what the M F seatbelts are for. Christ, she got thrown into traffic....if anything, her death will show us reading here that seatbelts are the shiz-nig. In other words, BUCKLE UP CRACK-HOLES!!!! Dead or alive, I have nothing but contempt for those who don't wear them.
It's exactly like Britney and the baby in her lap. Same Effing thing.
86. Posted by DonLes91 on April 20, 2006 10:19 AM
To 84 - since you want to be heard - I caught your post on that Lindsay Lohan kitty-hat post - I'll say this:
The chances of Ashanti's cousin being alive would be much greater if Ashanti's cousin wore a seat belt. Drunk drivers will always be out there and if you think with all of the "Hundreds of people die every day due to drunk driving" is going to stop that, then you're looking at the world through rose-colored glasses. People are going to drink and drive. Fact. Face it. It's not a good thing, but that's how it is. Wear a seat belt and the chances of you becoming "street pizza" (stole that from #82) are reduced.
So buckle up, dumbass.
And welcome back, Laydeebug! : D
87. Posted by LaydeeBug on April 20, 2006 12:53 PM
Thanks for the welcome! And Ashanti looks like a monkey, and not a cute one. I still think she's a nobody, but now she's gonna win more pity votes.