Aswad
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ORIGINAL: selfbnd411 [...]70 MPH in a 35 MPH zone WITH NO HEADLIGHTS! Someone could easily have been killed: I'm pretty sure everyone here gets that part. In 4 hours, I'm off for a baptism, that of my younger sister's baby. In one of the places my sister walks around with his wagon, a guy I knew (past perfect tense) got caught doing 85mph; that's right beside a residential area, and it's a 30mph zone. Now, I've seen a teenage girl get hit by a car from literally about 2 meters away, and was looking right at her when it happened; ogling, in fact. I don't have have a clear idea of the speed, as I drop into f/f mode, but it was a 35mph zone. If it hadn't been real, it might have been funny in slo-mo, what with the crumpling, rolling over the car, then dropping to the ground like a ragdoll while doing the most amazing spin ever at an odd angle. It was real, however, and I had the dubious distinction of being first on the scene (2m is apx 6ft). The driver had made a bad judgment call about considering that someone could be stupid enough to try to cross over where that girl did. People who are drunk make these kinds of mistakes. And driving without the headlights does not, obviously, make it any better ... Now I don't particularly feel like applying that mental film-reel to my sister, to her kid, or to anyone I've lost to traffic. I don't need a reminder that someone could have been killed. I know that firsthand. But in an area where the average person doesn't do any more time than Paris did, according to what others here have said, then what the judge did in that case was a blatant and arrogant mockery of justice. He could just as well have said "I don't like her, and as the the hand that moves the puppet of justice, I'm taking my grudge out on her right now. Take her away!". And he got away with it; he was applauded, in fact. The only argument to support the notion that Paris should do more time than the average is that she had no regard for the law. Paris' mental faculties sometimes seem borderline retarded, and she's been shielded enough to have no clue. The judge has neither of these "excuses". He knows the law and its purpose. Tell me; which is the greater mockery of, disregard for, and insult to, the law and justice?
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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