I'm Sickened By What I Just Heard On The Radio
 

holy shit - this news story i just heard on the radio just made me so angry I had to post it here. The news chick reads this story and she does it in that annoying voice radio news chicks have like this is some funny story - it's about a drunk driver who was sentenced yesterday to a stiff sentence of 15 years in jail. I'd put him in for 25 minimum but 15 years is a long sentence. Then the news chick adds on to the story that the reason he got this tough 15 year sentence is .................. IT'S HIS SECOND FUCKING DRUNK DRIVING CAUSING SOMEBODY ELSE TO DIE CONVICTION!! TWICE HE'S KILLED!!!
And then she adds the guy is 35 and the judge has also prohibited him from every getting a license again.

IS THIS INSANE? HE'S KILLED TWO FUCKING PEOPLE WITH HIS STUPIDITY AND HE GETS 15 YEARS AND HE'LL BE A FREE MAN AT 50???

damn that pisses me off. he should get the fucking electric chair.

He'll serve less than half for good behavior and overcrowding.

I agree, if you kill someone you should die, if you steal you should have your hand cut off. I am not being sarcastic a bit either, I truly feel that way. People would think twice about doing stupid shit if the sentences were more severe. :2 cents:

I did it once 8 years ago... DUI that is, I didnt kill anyone - and my ban finished 6 years ago, but I have never driven since and I will never drive again.

Its just not worth it

So he has a license when he killed the 2nd person? :(

If you can afford to buy drinks, you can afford to call a cab. :2 cents:

yes - second time - that's the unbelievable and outrageous thing. i'm still fuming about it. let me go see if i can find the news article online.

He didn't kill 2 people.

The first time he was just caught DUI.

The second time he was drving drunk, he killed someone.

Drunk drivers who kill people should be treated as murderers. It's so careless and preventable... ugh :Oh crap

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can't find the story, do you have it?

if you're right the news lady wrote the story really poorly because it sounded like this was the second DUI homicide for this idiot.

Whether he technically "killed" 2 people or not, it doesn't make it anymore acceptable.

The "killed 2 people" version doesn't make any sense.

If he was drunk and killed someone the first time - there's no way he'd walk from the trial.

you are overestimating how retarded society and the justice system is these days. i thought you had heard or read the same story. As ridiculous as it sounds he could have killed somebody when he was 18 - got a 10 year sentence, probably did 5 years and suspended his license for 10, and now 8 years later he gets plastered and kills again.

So.. If you flick people off you should have your finger cut off as well?

Hello anybody here from the civilized world???

That other loser that killed the little girl in Florida several weeks ago John Cooey had 24 prior arrests.

WTF? If someone's been in jail 24 times, they should never be let free again.

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Not true. My cousin and her 2 children were killed by a drunk driver the driver got 10 years probation.

Not worth it? Would be just easier not to drink anymore than not drive for the rest of your life. Seriously, everyone makes mistakes. No reason to punish yourself forever over it.

Shit, where do you live ?

but if you find me with a sack of crack, I'll get 50 years....Then people will come with the bullshit about how more blacks are in jail.

Im a drinker and perhaps one day I will do something about that, but in the mean time it is easier not to drive at all... ever.... period.

To be honest it was a problem in NZ but here in Central London it dosnt bother me... Its often easier to use public tranport, and a lot safer/cheaper.

If that pisses you off, check this out: (you may have to copy and paste the URL)

mms://wm.univision.speedera.net/wm.univision/Mexico%202005/Mayo/0506/050506motos300.wmv/

This is just like the drunk politician that creamed a Harley rider, Nothing happened to the cager. So, if you'll allow it in one area, you must allow it in all areas. Right?

Oh, the above video? The cager is out on bail and probably won't be facing any charges. This happened last Thursday in Mexico City. But, it happens everywhere, including the US, all the fucking time!

Drunk drivers who cause someone else to die should be treated as the murderers they are. :2 cents:

amazes me that everything will somehow be turned into a race issue, wtf??

A guy in this town sodomized 2 girls, 9 and 11. Spent 5 years in prison.

When he got out he moved right across the street from an elementary school and a junior high. And the system allowed it.

I don't know wtf you're talking about...I'm talking about crack cocaine sentencing. Just because I put the word "black" in the sentence, the whiners come out asking why race was brought up?

Open your eyes and your mind for a minute.

edit....and I can make anything I want a race issue.(even though I wasn't doing it here). So wtf are YOU going to do about it?

don't get me started on drunk driving...i used to say I was living with a man that was disabled for life because of a drunk driver. Now I can say that those injuries contributed strongly to his death even if it was 12 years later.

he should get fucking run over as well, that's real pain...the chair is the easy way out!

shut up douche

You're saying that 90% of prison population are minorities because white men are prejudiced towards them and specifically come up with harsh drug sentences ?

You got to be fucking kidding me.

What am I going to do about it? LOL. Meet behind the bike racks after 3rd period.
Thank you jebus for freedom of speech.

It'll never be a capital crime. If you kill someone at best it would be considered manslaughter and not murder 1 or something of the likes...sad but true...

It's pretty sad though that you can destroy the lives of countless people and only lose 15 years of yours.

This was in Texas where they execute you for fun.

Where do you draw the line, though. I'm sure you haven't been an angel your whole life.

Actually... the politician (Bill Janklow, South Dakota) wasn't drunk but did blow through a stop sign doing 75 in a 55. He claimed to be suffering from a sugar imbalance at the time. He did resign from the House and served some time but not much.

And please don't get me wrong, here... I am not trying to defend drunk-driving, plowing through stop signs or getting light sentences because you are well connected. All are fucking wrong. Just getting the facts straight.

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As far as drunk driving goes... I don't agree in the death penalty but there should be WAY stiffer penalties for DUI offenses in this stupid country. We are way to lax about alcohol use. Especially when compared to the sentences dolled out for drug offenses (particularly pot).

Yep its a fucked up world. Similar story happened to a friend of mine. She was hit and killed by a drunki driver with previous DWI convictions. This time he gets a whopping 3 years max. Please dont drint and drive. She was 18 and about 6 months out of high school.

Go spend a couple of days in traffic court. The number of people on their 2nd, 3rd, etc. DUIs who get nothing more than a slap on the wrist is pathetic. Last time I was there a lady had gotten her 3rd DUI when she ran away from the recovery facility the courts demanded she go to. She got a small fine ($1000) and required to return to the same facility and her license was suspended for a whole year. Wow. A whole year for someone who had 3 DUIs and obviously shouldn't have been driving. Sickening.

yeah i cant believe they didnt hit him with manslaughter charges

He has killed two people on separate occasions while driving drunk.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...tory/National/

insanity - this mutherfucker is a fucking cancer to society, just kill him - slowly.

Waste of electricity. Just shoot him.

But on the posistive side he'll be anal raped during those years so there's a good chance he'll gets AIDS, HEP C or maybe he'll get shanked.

that's ridiculous..he needs to be run over by a car a number of times.

I lost a cousin in a drunk driving accident. He and 5 others were thrown from a van while the driver survived and everyone else died one by one :(

Where did you get a 90% minority prison population statistic way over there in the ukraine? I'd like to see where that is true.

What I'm saying is that there is NO REASON that a person should get 15 years for killing two people while others (black or white) rot in jail over bullshit drug charges.

It's not a black or white thing...it's a MONEY and POLITICS thing. What can the government seize from some poor basterd drunk driver? Now what can they seize from your average dope dealer?

I had bought an ounce of weed once but it was divided into 12 seperate bags...I got caught with it and charged with intent to distribute...Even though I just got paid that day and could prove that I made the few hundred dollars in my wallet from my shitty ass job, they STILL confiscated it.

HOw hard is that for people to understand? It's FUCKED UP.....Harsh drug laws are stupid and are filling up our prisons with people who don't deserve it while drunk drivers and child molesters get to walk the streets after a few years.

The dude who just killed those two little girls was just released from prison last month..HOwever that woman allowed him to act as a father figure towards her own daughter?...Now the kids are dead and the dude is trying to say that one of the girls pulled a knife on HIM...

idiocy is idiocy no matter what color the person is who got prosecuted.

You actually think that I'm challenging a woman to a fight over a messageboard comment? I'm at a higher level than that sweetiepie. I spar intellectually.

sucks, ived heard similar cases before and none was convicted to death.
sometimes, i fear of getting hit and run at a highway

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a guy killed my mother on her birthday driving home in the wrong lane at night with his lights off on the highway. he got 5 years for vehicular manslaughter (i believe) and was out in 2.

that was his 3rd collision where he killed people. in one of them, he killed a woman and her two kids while driving drunk.

Right on the MONEY!

I can't bother to look for it online right now, but it's there.

Here's an excerpt from a book "Street Justice" by Chuck Zito

Hardcover, page 228, line 10.

sorry to hear that... if that happens to me, i wouldn't mind spending 5 years
in prison to get justice by getting back at him. i will advise him to stay away from the highway

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