Posted on 12/18/2014 10:38:59 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Peter Fedden was picked up by police the night of July 30, 2013, after drunkenly plowing his car through a fence, across a couple of lawns, and into the side of a house in Commack, NY. It's at this point that Fedden's mom, Kathi Fedden, thinks police should have arrested her 29-year-old son for DWI, according to a $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit she filed Monday against the police, Newsday reports. But instead, cops dropped a "severely intoxicated" Peter off at home, where he got right into his mother's car sitting in the driveway and crashed it minutes later into the side of an industrial park building. He died from injuries sustained in the second crash. Kathi Fedden says the police let Peter off the hook the first time because of his rapport with them at the deli he owned in Commack.
"Peter served many Suffolk County police officers at his deli, and it was known throughout the local officers that Peter charged only $1 for officers to eat at the deli no matter what they ordered," the suit says.
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” To protect, and be SERVED”
(almost) free food for the coppers? I definitely support that, but that shouldn’t lead to special privileges in any case. It’ll be interesting to see how the lawsuit ends up.
Just exactly HOW did he get right into his mothers car???
Sounds like Peter had lots of enablers.
I want a Police State, but I don't want a Police State.
Sorry, lady - your kid won the Darwin Award. STFU and move along. We thank him for playing!
so... who owns the deli now...
You are exactly right. Where was mom? How did he get the keys to her car? Didn’t she teach him to never drink and drive?
This is not the cop’s fault and she is very lucky he didn’t take anyone else with him when he died.
The cops should probably have arrested him for breaking the law, but I don’t see this lawsuit going anywhere. It ain’t their job to stop people from being stupid in advance.
It’s somebody else’s fault...
It’s somebody else’s fault...
It’s somebody else’s fault...
My life will change when others behave differently!
I suppose I could see the owner of the Industrial Park building having a case. Sue for the costs of cleaning off the scrapes off the side of his building.
Otherwise, I'm glad no innocent bystanders were killed.
He was trying to help out the cops on LI who average 150,000 a year and get quarter of a million goodbye kiss.
Sorry, she’s right on this...the cops SHOULD have arrested the drunk driver.
Not saying it’s worth the lawsuit, but those cops ARE responsible for allowing the lawbreaking.
At least he only killed himself; what if he had killed others from the 2nd joyride?
You're right. BUT, then again, SCOTUS says that police have no responsibility to protect citizens, but are merely obligated to clean up the mess AFTER something has happened, something that dawned on me after I originally posted. The cop could have been in the wrong in the first place, but, due to the SCOTUS ruling, I don't believe anything will come of it. Perhaps Mom should have taught her son better. Perhaps her son shouldn't have been such a darwin competitor.
They should have arrested him, although it’s pretty common practice in small towns or places where the local drunk (regardless of color) is known to simply drop that person off at home.
The only person he killed was himself, though, and frankly, I think Mom should almost have been relieved. What was she doing to get him into AA?
Schrödinger's Police State. The perp is both dead and alive. Arrested and let go.
It sure sounds like he should have been arrested. Not sure about the suit, but I hope they learn a lesson and haul the next guy or gal in to spend the night, at least.
I feel for her, but this is just her anger lashing out. The cops did their best for him, they got him home safe. Too bad he was too drunk to stay put. Very sad.
29 y/o male, owns a business, lives with mom...
In their mid-50s...
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