One Cyclist Killed; Another Seriously Injured

Ken

"Bill" <bill@nospam.com> wrote in newslWec.39039$M3.27062
@twister.nyroc.rr.com:
> Here's an update on this sad story:
> http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/...ashfolo_b1.html
> Turns out the driver is a lawyer.

This is a real sad story. The victim was a young MIT graduate who raced in
triathalons and volunteered as a swimming and water polo coach. His
girlfriend (and fellow triathlete) remains critically injured with spine and
skull injuries. What kind of lawyer is drunk before noon?

Pete

"Ken" <nospam@spam.no> wrote

> What kind of lawyer is drunk before noon?

The regular kind?

Pete

Just zis Guy, you know?

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:48:40 +0000, Ken <nospam@spam.no> wrote in
message <Xns94CA7828C5A10jy99@216.251.47.166>:

>What kind of lawyer is drunk before noon?

One with a guilty conscience?

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"Bill" <bill@nospam.com> wrote in message
newslWec.39039$M3.27062@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Here's an update on this sad story:
>
> http://www.pressdemocrat.com/local/...ashfolo_b1.html
>
> Turns out the driver is a lawyer.

Oh, now there's two two reasons to hang him

S o r n i

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:48:40 +0000, Ken <nospam@spam.no> wrote in
> message <Xns94CA7828C5A10jy99@216.251.47.166>:
>
>> What kind of lawyer is drunk before noon?
>
> One with a guilty conscience?

Oh, c'mon! There'd be no room in rehabs for 'em all...

Bill "sorta like the lips moving thing" S.

Rick Onanian

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:48:40 +0000, Ken <nospam@spam.no> wrote:
>skull injuries. What kind of lawyer is drunk before noon?

I don't think it was before noon, but probably the same kind of
lawyer that does this:
http://www.madd.org/victims/0,1056,5073,00.html

After the hit-and-run, the dying kid dragged his mutilated body off
the road to avoid being run over by anybody else. 11 hours later,
the lawyer went back to see what he'd done. He proceeded to claim
that he thought he had hit a deer.
--
Rick Onanian

Zippy the Pinhead

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:32:35 GMT, "xkred27" <NS_v0ny0rk@s0nic.net>
wrote:

>(Note quote: "He had not realized that he struck the
>bicyclists")

I'll bet this guy is a repeat DUI, or 502 in California.

I have lost friends to drunk drivers, and I say this with all
sincerity.

One offense, and you become a lifelong pedestrian.

Do it again -- even ONCE again, and your eyes get put out. Poked
right out of your head.

That is the ONLY deterrent for these morons.

Dennis P. Harris

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:48:40 +0000 in rec.bicycles.misc, Ken
<nospam@spam.no> wrote:

> This is a real sad story. The victim was a young MIT graduate who raced in
> triathalons and volunteered as a swimming and water polo coach. His
> girlfriend (and fellow triathlete) remains critically injured with spine and
> skull injuries. What kind of lawyer is drunk before noon?

probably the kind with previous DWIs. someone should do an
online search of his records to find out. if he has multiple
convictions, the bike coalition, the parents of the kids he
coached, and his friends should be calling the DAs office every
20 minutes to find out when they are going to press manslaughter
or 2nd degree murder charges.

the penalties for dwi resulting in death should be at least 10
years. the penalty for the second dwi or driving without a
license due to dwi should be 5 years and a lifetime license
revocation. there wouldn't be very many 2nd offenses.

Mike Schwab

Hey, I saw that on Quincy, ME a couple of decades ago (My mom and two
sisters are RNs). The driver hit his accountant, about to blow a scam,
then blamed him for stealing the money. But he hit his knee on the
dashboard, and blood filled the hematoma, which they drained and kept
the blook, which Quincy tested and found he was not drunk when he had
the accident.

"Michael J. Klein" wrote:
<snip>
> If you wanna kill someone - just spill vodka all over your shirt,
> drink some and then park your car at an intersection you know this
> person will eventually cross. Then just run them over (while leaving
> the bottle on the front seat) - presto! OTOH, shoot a rapist while
> attacking your wife in your own home (well, in Amerika anyway) and see
> what happens to you!
<snip>

Mike Schwab

New Orleans about 6 years ago.
<snip>
> I seem to recall a case in Texas where a young man knocked on the door of a
> house to get directions to a Halloween party and was summarily executed by
> the homeowner. He escaped punishment entirely.

Allister

Just Zis Guy wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 18:48:40 +0000, Ken <nospam@spam.no> wrote in
> message <Xns94CA7828C5A10jy99@216.251.47.166>:
> >What kind of lawyer is drunk before noon?
> One with a guilty conscience?



A lawyer with a conscience? There's a turn-up.



--

Bruce Frech

Another data point:

A father of a friend of mine was in a canoe with two others in the middle of
a lake in Maine. A 13 year old claimed he was aiming at a deer and with one
shot from a rifle killed my friend's father. He got off free, and both he
and his father didn't even lose the right to own guns. How many deer ride
in canoes?

Bruce

Curtis L. Russell

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:26:29 -0800, NO_SPAM_TO_dpharris@gci.net
(Dennis P. Harris) wrote:

>the penalty for the second dwi or driving without a
>license due to dwi should be 5 years and a lifetime license
>revocation. there wouldn't be very many 2nd offenses.

One would wish. But the record shows that people that drive
irresponsibly tend to drive whether their license is revoked or not.

They won't drive when they are in prison, but they'll be driving,
license or no, when they get out. Unless you start using some sort of
lock-out key on cars that works off of valid licenses (not altogether
impossible down the road, so to speak), they will be driving.

Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...

W K

"Mike Schwab" <MASchwab@Wamusa.com> wrote in message
news:407CCB69.786D6E98@Wamusa.com...
> New Orleans about 6 years ago.
> <snip>
> > I seem to recall a case in Texas where a young man knocked on the door
of a
> > house to get directions to a Halloween party and was summarily executed
by
> > the homeowner. He escaped punishment entirely.

There was a similar case with a scottish man, trying asking directions.