The ability of brothers/stuntmen Mark & Michael to survive two penalties in leg seven of "The Amazing Race 14" is the best argument possible for making TAR14 penalties much, much more severe.
TAR's equivalent of a double major came down after Mark & Michael took two illegal shortcuts for the rickshaw driving Detour, one in tampering with the tire pumps to impede other teams and the second in following a taxi around on the two mile course, a violation of specified rules for the task.
Through luck (and more luck), Mark & Michael had victory for the leg within their own grasp. Through an inability to understand how to follow basic rules, they forfeited that victory.
At some point, good luck or the ongoing misfortunes of other teams would have to run out. Their must be some leg out there in which Mark & Michael can be cleanly defeated once and for all. I hope that leg is before the finale because their presence in any final leg would likely make it a two-way battle between the other teams.
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