|
What about James[^] or was he just the Chairman of the Bored?
---------------------------------
Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
|
|
|
|
|
I counter your James with a Leonard![^]
=========================================================
I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
=========================================================
|
|
|
|
|
Not only him, but Maurice[^] too.
speramus in juniperus
|
|
|
|
|
Are you not voting Labour this time then?
|
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------
Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
|
|
|
|
|
.. sort of. It's more of a what a stupid justice system we have type story.
I bring your attention to paragraph 5[^] of the article where it says he will be jailed for 4 years and banned from driving for 3 years. Now I';ve done the math and that's just stupid.
BTW NNOTD is not copyrighted like CCC and MQOTD, the nature of the beast is that anybody can post these whenever you come acroos a story worthy.
|
|
|
|
|
You have to remember that a four-year sentence doesn't mean that he'll be in for four years: he'll get half of that off for good behaviour, and any time spent on remand will be subtracted from it. Then there is the wonderfull "oh the prisons are full, we'll let some out earlier" bonus to consider as well. The ban however will run from the date of sentencing, and will last absolutely three years. So when he gets out, he won't be able to drive legally, and a three year ban will drastically affect his insurance costs (as if anyone from Leigh Park actually bought insurance - or a car - anyway)
Not long enough for either of them though. Should have added another zero...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
|
|
|
|
|
I love the line
"Fagan told police she was behind the wheel and said the pair had been out shoplifting when the crash happened..."
|
|
|
|
|
I know it's a bit of a not knowing all the facts comment but, as an ex-biker, I am of the opinion that it you kill someone while driving and you are shown to have caused the death by driving illegally you should lose your license for life.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
|
|
|
|
|
GuyThiebaut wrote: as an ex-biker
So they've never let you pass your driving license again  ? Who did you kill ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
|
|
|
|
|
"ex" - because I see too many numpties out there on the road to feel any where near safe.
I now prefer my 7 airbag car 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
|
|
|
|
|
Well, even without the numpties, biking is a nonsense itself. Driving faster than 25km/h with only 2mm leather as a protection is a no-go.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
|
|
|
|
|
Bicycles also go over 25, usually without even leather protection..
|
|
|
|
|
GuyThiebaut wrote: I now prefer my 7 airbag car
Your choice, but I think I'll stick with my four-wheel one.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
I don't even know if I would even want to drive again if I would have caused death to someone else... 
|
|
|
|
|
I would at least buy a bigger car, so that I don't notice the next time.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
|
|
|
|
|
GuyThiebaut wrote: you are shown to have caused the death by driving illegally you should lose your license for life
On a serious line, no. You cannot 'ban' someone at the first mistake, may it be because they killed someone.
- People killing while driving will be sentenced with a good load of jail, and even if they do only 20% of the sentenced time, nobody likes jail. This is their punishment.
- They will have a hard time passing their license again, believe me. In France, the medics have to give clearance to be allowed to pass it again, and this is rather hard to obtain.
- Banning will cause the people you want to prevent from driving with such a measure to drive without license anyway, and will prevent the few ones who made a terrible mistake once in their life from being allowed to drive gain. So you are basically punishing the wrong ones.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
|
|
|
|
|
I am not interested in punishment when it comes to this whole area - I am interested in keeping dangerous drivers off the road.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
|
|
|
|
|
My point was, among others, that dangerous drivers will drive with or without license.
I have also speeded sometimes in the past, maybe 1 out of 1000 times I take my car. If I happen to kill someone on that very day, am I a dangerous driver ? Can you tell me that you
have _never_ driven over the speed limit in your whole biker life ? Not a single time ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
|
|
|
|
|
I allegedly did over a ton and a quarter within a few weeks of getting the 600 - I never did it again.
The person killed through dangerous driving does not get a second chance so why should the person responsible get a chance to kill again?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: a chance to kill again
Every driver on the road has a chance to kill someone with their four (or two) wheeled death machine. Why do we allow it at all? Since moving to the USA I have seen more bad driving and near misses than in my entire life prior to this because people here see driving as a right rather than a privilege and the driving test is ridiculously easy to pass.
Life is a risk, live it!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
Rage wrote: My point was, among others, that dangerous drivers will drive with or without license.
The guy who was driving in the original story was already banned from driving.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
|
|
|
|
|
PB 369,783 wrote: he will be jailed for 4 years and banned from driving for 3 years
That much!
Damn, but that's Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
I mean, he only killed a guy whilst intentionally using a lethal weapon that he had no license to operate.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Quote: said the pair had been out shoplifting when the crash happened
What about charges for that?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
|
|
|
|
|
Arrg! Grr! and Feck!
Mrs Wife is away for two days at the Labour Conference [no she isn't a member, she's there as an accredited guest] and I am home with the girls. Youngest didn't want to go to school because she 'didn't feel well' today and eldest's school have just phoned that she has a mysterious 'sore tummy'. Bollocks I call it, I have told the school that she can wait half an hour and if she's no better I'll go and pick her up. I don't believe I'll be called back.
I am sure there is a large correlation between Mummy being away and the Ickles playing for Daddy sympathy. This is eating in to my sleeping on the couch time and such intrusions will not be toleratated.
speramus in juniperus
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
