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Article #681Re: 23 yr. Old Gets 51 yr Sentence for Traffic Infraction
From: Roger Shoaf
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00
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Jon <asterix@wam.umd.edu> wrote in message news:8c2oq4$p08$1@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu... > mred (mred@netrover.com) wrote: > > Lets say you are driving home from the car dealer's in a brand new > car. On the way home, you hit a large nail, or a field of nails. Your > car skids out of control (no more tire left on any of the wheels), and you > spin off into oncoming traffic, hitting another car. Let's say that that > other car's passengers are unbelted, they fly through their windshield and > are decapitated (which usually results in death). Now, should you be > ckilled because you caused the accident that killed the other > passengers? or should the person that left the nails on the road be held > responsible and be killed? Then the next question would be if this happens to a sober person, and also person who is at .11 BAC, should the latter be penalized signifigantly more than the sober person? -- Roger Shoaf --reply address contains a riddle to separate those who can from those who can't.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11299e,ea0a0d8b11db2d80 X-Google-Attributes: gid11299e,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,944ccffe8d49b9f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: fb785,975a4f09270a26c3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,944ccffe8d49b9f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,944ccffe8d49b9f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public From: "Roger Shoaf" <shoaf@nospamsyix.com> Subject: Re: 23 yr. Old Gets 51 yr Sentence for Traffic Infraction Date: 2000/04/01 Message-ID: <954617756.377177@webhost1.syix.com> X-Deja-AN: 605365360 Cache-Post-Path: webhost1.syix.com!unknown@pm3-2-d28.syix.com References: <38DD9CE9.9584A07D@compuserve.com> <38E4358A.8FC04F5C@ix.netcom.com> <a11F4.1993$HG1.56673@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <rY1F4.2168$pR.23338@carnaval.risq.qc.ca> <3J3F4.2030$HG1.58139@nnrp1.uunet.ca> <8c2oq4$p08$1@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: teamSYIX X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Reply-To: "Roger Shoaf" <shoaf@nospamsyix.com> Newsgroups: va.general,dc.driving,dc.general,alt.law-enforcement.traffic,rec.autos.driving