Post by Clipper on Sept 10, 2008 9:46:00 GMT -5
I just read on the OD page that the kid that ran from Wcup in August, got off with a $1000 fine, some surcharges, and pleaded the rest down to 76 in a 55 zone. Jeez. Here is a kid that should not be allowed back on the road period. His license should be revoked for at least a couple of years or more, and then he would have time to reflect on his idioscy.
Lawyers and plea bargains are getting crazy. It is obvious that the DA is afraid he will either plug the courts, or has no faith that he can make a case for a stiffer punishment at trial. Andy Donovan got off with a fine and slap on his little wrist. Politics and plea bargaining is crazy in many cases.
This kids parents will be proud that he was pleaded down, when he repeats his stupidity on his rice rocket and kills himself. He needed to pay the fiddler in order to learn the lessons. He put a lot of people at risk. Thank God Wcup had enough sense to slow the pursuit and call for help. Could have been another incident like the kid that killed his friends when he drove them through the wall at Joel's Steakhouse.
We used to have a kid that went by our house on Herkimer Rd every night at about 100mph and that is not an exaggeration. He finally came up out of the dip by Mt Zion ministries one night as a girl backed out of her driveway, and he became part of her backseat upholstery. Sad, but a deserving end for a repeat offender that did it night after night. Now the girl has that nightmare in her head for the rest of her life. It was not a pretty accident scene.
Lawyers and plea bargains are getting crazy. It is obvious that the DA is afraid he will either plug the courts, or has no faith that he can make a case for a stiffer punishment at trial. Andy Donovan got off with a fine and slap on his little wrist. Politics and plea bargaining is crazy in many cases.
This kids parents will be proud that he was pleaded down, when he repeats his stupidity on his rice rocket and kills himself. He needed to pay the fiddler in order to learn the lessons. He put a lot of people at risk. Thank God Wcup had enough sense to slow the pursuit and call for help. Could have been another incident like the kid that killed his friends when he drove them through the wall at Joel's Steakhouse.
We used to have a kid that went by our house on Herkimer Rd every night at about 100mph and that is not an exaggeration. He finally came up out of the dip by Mt Zion ministries one night as a girl backed out of her driveway, and he became part of her backseat upholstery. Sad, but a deserving end for a repeat offender that did it night after night. Now the girl has that nightmare in her head for the rest of her life. It was not a pretty accident scene.
