Santa Monica Killings - Where's the Rage?
 

From www.lukeford.net:

An 86-year old man, Russell Weller, drove into the outdoor farmers market in Santa Monica 7/16/03, killing at least nine people.

Talkshow host Dennis Prager, still shaking with fury: It's not right that this old man got to go home and sleep in his bed after killing so many people. I understand the people who wanted to beat him up after pulling him his car, even though that would've been wrong.

``Mr. Weller and his family want to express their deepest sympathies to the victims and their families of the tragic accident earlier today,'' Weller family attorney Jim Bianco said in a statement Wednesday. ``This was an unintentional and unfortunate accident.''

Why did his family have their lawyer make a statement regretting what happened? Why didn't anyone from the family face the music?

This wasn't an accident. An accident implies no one is at fault. The man didn't have a heart attack. This was negligence on the man's part. Negligence means not doing what normal prudent people would do.

Killings are a big deal, even if they are negligent rather than intentional. You shouldn't be able to kill nine people and then nothing happen to you. It's not right that people are killed and then society goes on as if nothing happened.

Prager linked his arguments into the Torah's teachings on non-intentional killings.

Dennis says he got into an argument with his wife Fran over this. She says Dennis is being harsh. We don't know enough.

DP: It's not about blaming this man. It's about taking killing of the innocent seriously. When innocent people are killed, do we do nothing to the person who killed them?

We should be careful about making it difficult for the elderly to drive. No car is the equivalent of house imprisonment.

Senior Citizens need to be tested. Sad for both sides.

Don't get old and Drive, the most you'll lose is your License

I'm sure he'll get hit with manslaughter, but there are serious complications with that:

1) He may have a sickness that neither he nor anyone else is aware of.
2) What kind of sentence can you give someone for negligence anyway? Not much, but ANY jail sentence for this man will be a life sentence.

They need to test the elderly to see if there fit to drive.

Why doesn't the DMV just give licenses to blind people? Then when they run people over nothing will happen to them cause there blind...

The courts she take all of his damn money and give it to the families of the victims.

after 75, you should lose your license. if you can't drive at 14 then what's the difference

I don't wish jail om anyone,but he's free at this very moment is quite strange,i don't care how old he is,at least arrest him,then allow to pst bail..he had to going faster than 50 because they show the scence from the sky and showed the car:( fuck up shit

He was probably smokin all that Cali weed for his eye problems.

what DUC you're quite the reporter, I started a thread here minutes after I caught it on my local news.

try to keep up shitter.

http://gofuckyourself.com/showthread...hreadid=153463

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I'd hate to be his insurance company right now. They just lost a hundred mil easy.

Ouch.

Wonder how much his premiums will go up next year.

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