the family of the owner blamed the person in the passeringer seat for the death of the owner.

It sucked, the passenger suffered sever burns and permenet scars, yet he was publicly blamed for the death of his best friend.

such is life (and death) I guess.

soap, fair enough…I take your point. However, somewhere there’s a line where an “accident” crosses over to a “crime”. Of course, the appropriate punishment should always fit the crime and the various mitigating factors surrounding the same. Off to an AAU hoops tournament in Texas, so off-line for a long weekend. Have a good one my man.

It still haunts him to this day. By the logic of some people here, should my brother be punished forever and ever and be forced to relive an accident because some people think he got off easy? (by the way, the family of the lady forgave him). My brother will never ever run for office of anything and will never be in any way powerful, but perhaps he got “special treatment” because oh, I don’t know, his parents were poor dirt farmers from the middle of nowhere. Ahhh, logic….

I think I answered your question. But I will try again.

First, I NEVER DRIVE AND TALK ON THE CELL PHONE. If I did run a light or stop sign and t-boned you, you have every right to take me down and, I am sure that you would.

To put this in perspective. When I was 17 I was involved in an accident causing injury to a man on a motorcycle. I was charged but, I was not at fault. The guy was riding in the blind spot of a van (he couldn’t see me and I could not see him). I, being a rider myself, always watch for motorcyclists. I pulled out slowly looking for the guy while the van pulled into the turn lane. The motorcyclist saw me, panicked and slammed on his brakes and slid into the median, flipped and was hurt pretty badly. Later in the hospital I visited the guy (mind you I am 17) and talked with him. He asked what happened and I told him. He said he was at fault but the “law” didn’t agree. I paid for everything.

Now, here is the part where I am supposed to admit I committed a crime. The truth is if I had not been the guy looking for him and it was the average Joe, that man would be dead. Any other person would have pulled right out the cyclists would have t-boned the car and it would have been the end.

Things happen and so do accidents. Ask Ted K.

Pure, unadulterated garbage.

One more question: would your opinion be the same if the driver had been Hillary? An illegal alien? A Muslim guy?

Dakin, you don’t need to be a mental heavyweight or even a Montblanc toting body builder to know how vile the posts on this site would be if we were discussing an accident were Hillary, an illegal alien or Muslim guy accidentally killed someone.

Chap and I do not need your help. To answer your question:

I hope you would forgive me but I know you would take me to the cleaners.

Oh, the kid that hit me – got a pass and I fixed my car. So, you can forgo, “I would not put my money where my mouth is”.

What some of you are missing is that this, just like that stupid cartoon Little Bush, is a direct attack on a sitting President and his family.

That it is to be released during the Rep convention tells me all I need to know about their intentions.

In my view? TREASON, pure and simple. Dragging down the President for no other reason than pique, or money, makes his job HARDER.

I don’t like Bush… but I will NOT attack the character of a sitting President… or his family. He’s got a hard enough job to do without the snipeing attacks from our own country.

Haven’t heard back yet…

This isn’t the first time he’s taken cracks at the First Lady either.

Hey, does anyone which reporter it was who looking at Rudy Guiliani’s daughter’s facebook?

Some of that stuff is really weird, like you’d expect to find in the Sun.

It’s like Rush and Bill O’Reilly have been saying: most of the newspapers in this country have had trouble and are losing subscribers. I don’t subscribe to any newspaper, and if I ever did, it would only be for coupons.

The MSM newspapers are becoming like a game of “Paper Boy” gone bad. They’re like that kid on the bike who keeps crashing into stuff.

So, McDonalds was reckless in making their coffee hot and the woman who dumped it on her lap deserved the 6 figure settlement.

Actually, McDonalds in that case was willfully making their coffee far hotter than what was safe and standard, even though they had lots of evidence that people were getting burned and deserved to be punished accordingly. But let’s not stir that pot.

I think reckless has something to do with willful intent.

That is almost the exact opposite of what reckless means. And our criminal law system (and tort system) as well as just about any other you will find in the world, punishes careless behavior when someone is hurt. Is it fair to punish the careless, especially when we all are at some point and the consequences of such is really a matter of luck? That is a far more philosophical question than I want to get into. Should the punishment be commensurate with the intent? Sure and in almost all cases, it is.