Driver Who Hit Cyclist: "I Just Don't Care"
04-15-14, 07:29 PM
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Driver Who Hit Cyclist: "I Just Don't Care"
"A texting motorist who slammed into a bicyclist and injured his spine told police she had some regrets—about the dents in her car."
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04-15-14, 07:34 PM
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"A texting motorist who slammed into a bicyclist and injured his spine told police she had some regrets—about the dents in her car."
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Texting Driver Who Hit Bicyclist: "I Just Don't Care"
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Texting Driver Who Hit Bicyclist: "I Just Don't Care"
04-15-14, 07:41 PM
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Can the mods give us special license to let loose on language, just for this thread?
Every time I think I've seen the dumbest of the dumb, people like her prove I'm wrong.
I'm curious about the range of possible sentences for what she actually plead to. Given that the judge had her statement a an indicator of her attitude, I'd have hope he said he didn't care either and gave her the max.
Every time I think I've seen the dumbest of the dumb, people like her prove I'm wrong.
I'm curious about the range of possible sentences for what she actually plead to. Given that the judge had her statement a an indicator of her attitude, I'd have hope he said he didn't care either and gave her the max.
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04-15-14, 08:03 PM
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.......was fined $4,500 and lost her license for nine months.
Hardy scot-free, but I would have hoped for something more. But I am not sure what.
I think the general public, the law-makers, and the courts accept that accidents are normal. I think... they also expect pedestrians and cyclists to accept the higher risks they face. I can live with that I guess. But I am not sure about how I feel about the newish added danger of text/search phone distraction.
Hardy scot-free, but I would have hoped for something more. But I am not sure what.
I think the general public, the law-makers, and the courts accept that accidents are normal. I think... they also expect pedestrians and cyclists to accept the higher risks they face. I can live with that I guess. But I am not sure about how I feel about the newish added danger of text/search phone distraction.
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Then you can justify that a cyclist might once have caused her to swerve and hit a tree while he cycled away scot-free, hence her 'I just don't care'.
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i never said every motorist.
04-15-14, 08:54 PM
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Maybe it would be fair if she had to spend 10 times the time the cyclist has to wear his spinal cage in jail.
04-15-14, 09:33 PM
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However one might feel in the situation, it is entirely correct that there are aholes in every form of transportation. This one does not represent motorists as a group. The cyclist who killed an innocent pedestrian in San Francisco while trying to set a Strava time and who considered the innocent pedestrian as basically a nuisance does not represent cyclists in general.
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Apparently the judge has tacked on 9 months more time without a license... Of course not the same as the life long sentence the cyclist will have with spine problems...
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Duh
How DUMB do you have to be to say-admit- to something like that??
It borders on unbelievable -we are sure it happened-
sure she ACTUALLY said something soooo against her own interests?
Normally when people do "something bad"
they LIE about it-and pretend to give a shoot about the injured person??
Are we sure she is THAT DUMB??
Is she a BLOND??
Just curious?
How DUMB do you have to be to say-admit- to something like that??
It borders on unbelievable -we are sure it happened-
sure she ACTUALLY said something soooo against her own interests?
Normally when people do "something bad"
they LIE about it-and pretend to give a shoot about the injured person??
Are we sure she is THAT DUMB??
Is she a BLOND??
Just curious?
04-17-14, 09:32 AM
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Duh
How DUMB do you have to be to say-admit- to something like that??
It borders on unbelievable -we are sure it happened-
sure she ACTUALLY said something soooo against her own interests?
Normally when people do "something bad"
they LIE about it-and pretend to give a shoot about the injured person??
Are we sure she is THAT DUMB??
How DUMB do you have to be to say-admit- to something like that??
It borders on unbelievable -we are sure it happened-
sure she ACTUALLY said something soooo against her own interests?
Normally when people do "something bad"
they LIE about it-and pretend to give a shoot about the injured person??
Are we sure she is THAT DUMB??
Los Angeles doctor gets 5 years for injuring cyclists - Los Angeles Times
04-17-14, 09:34 AM
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Here you have type the words correctly and let the censor take care of them. Trollheim is the only forum where you can cuss without using the censor.
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A few years ago there was the case of the ER doctor in Los Angeles who was convicted largely on the basis of his own statements both to police on the scene and in his initial call to 911.
Los Angeles doctor gets 5 years for injuring cyclists - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles doctor gets 5 years for injuring cyclists - Los Angeles Times
Yeah amazing but people-even very smart people-are stupid when angry-foot in mouth disease
when pissed.
No doubt this girl said dumb stuff against their own interests
Doesn't ANYONE watch TV??
Crime shows??
First lesson-say NOTHING to cops but "I want a lawyer"
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It was a rhetorical question, letting people know what I felt, and using their own imaginations about the words I might have used.
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Yep. Never say you've seen it all, because someone will always come along to prove you haven't.
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