Posted on 05/21/2018 4:39:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A wedding day celebration ended in tragedy Sunday.
It happened in the town of Shandaken in Ulster County Sunday at 11:23 p.m.
Two NYPD officers, one of whom was a groom celebrating his wedding day, were killed when their rental Maserati left the road, police said.
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Its harder to prove tangible personal defamation damages from libel when you are a long-time public figure. My educated guess.
Cops? Wedding day? Rented Maserati? 1 car collision? No seat belts? 40mph speed limit?
A good time cost them a bunch.
Have you met lawyers? Do ya live in the most litigious country in the world where people/legal groups bring up lawsuits for literally anything?
The Groom would be alive if her with his wife I suspect.
I am one.
"When their rental car left the road" is actually the correct way to write it. It would also be correct to say, "when their rental car hit a tree." I suppose you would have preferred the author to have written, "when the driver crashed his car into a tree." That would not be a correct way to report it. What if he had been pushed off the road by another car? What if the car malfunctioned and hit the tree through no fault of the driver? I think we can all infer what caused this accident, but until that has been finally determined it is not appropriate to report that the driver crashed the car.
That said, it is silly to think that a suit could be brought against a newspaper reporter for tainting a jury pool by reporting that a driver crashed his car, though it would certainly be poor journalism in most cases.
Its the very same reason they put “alleged” in front of killers for which there is irrefutable evidence they did the murder or crime.
She allegedly murdered her boyfriend as the videotape clearly shows her driving over him several times. That is ridiculous reporting yet thats how they do it, to cover their asses.
Same stupid thing here.. if thy did real reporting if it was some mechanical malfunction they could si,ply report the mechanical malfunction. But no one does research and newpapers take ads from car companies and dealers too. Guess who would not have reporters blaming car crashes on auto malfunctions and defects?
BTW, the officer “died” because she was (allegedly) shot and ran over by the suspects.
I don’t know about you, but at 11:23pm on any day after my wedding for some time, I was not driving into trees with my buddies.
I remember early in my first year of law school my professor asked me to write a description of a car accident. I, of course, wrote something like, "the guy in the green car hit the red car." The professor marked me down for that saying, no, that I should have written that the green car hit the red car. He said I would have done better by saying that the driver of the green car caused the green car to hit the red car, or the driver of the green car allowed the green car to hit the red car, or the driver of the green car failed to keep the green car from hitting the red car, but that I couldn't say that the guy in the green car hit the red car. It's all about precision in writing.
I get your,point, but they write it such that the events unfold without any human input at all. Like the cars are autonomous. Like all those stupid articles where they write it like the gun shoots the person, not the person holding the gun and puling the trigger. It may be technically correct but its written to obscure a bigger point.
Its like the witness helping a criminal leting them run thorugh their house and tells the cop I didnt see him come through here, because they were in another room. A partial truth that obscures whats really being asked or reported on.
Technically correct but also deliberately misleading.
I guess we will never know if it did 185.
Prayers for the families.
That this accident happened in Shandaken and police were the victims...is ... just.... ironic? Then again a Maserati was involved... shrug
Shandaken, a quiet town, is known for being a speed trap town.
Maybe they swerved to prevent hitting a deer.
“Rental Maserati” - no wedding is a funeral without one.....
At 11:23 PM, I still had my tuxedo on because my dad told me that I would be going to town about that time...
I brought my hammer on my wedding night because the minister said I’d be pretty busy nailing something.
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