Posted on 08/17/2013 11:30:48 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian
He's only 25 but Justin Timothy Mack has already racked up a fearful record of terrorizing his fellow motorists in Edmonton.
Mack was arrested July 31, and charged with several offences after allegedly chasing another car and allegedly trying to run it off the road with his large SUV, CBC News reported.
According to police, the early-morning incident began when a motorist tried to pass Mack, who was driving erratically at half the posted speed limit and hitting the curb.
Mack allegedly started throwing garbage at the other vehicle and challenged the driver to a fight. When the other motorist tried to escape, it's alleged Mack kept pace and swerved at him in an apparent attempt to force him off the road. The other driver managed to get a photo of the SUV's licence plate before it fled.
CBC News said it had obtained documents showing Mack had two previous road-rage convictions and was on probation for one of them when the latest alleged incidence took place in April.
According to a police affidavit connected with this case, Mack has been involved in eight other reported road-rage incidents dating back to 2005, the Edmonton Journal said.
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This is a simple matter... don’t steal his car. Take away his DL for LIFE. Some people just don’t belong on the road. Some people don’t belong in a civil society. This guy is probably both for one reason or another.
“People generally feel there’s a lack of courtesy, there’s a lot of anger out there and people are concerned about running into aggressive drivers,” John Vavrik, a psychologist with the Insurance Corp. of B.C., told CP.
Copying their neighbors to the south.
“Mack, who’s being held without bail pending next court appearance a week from now, hasn’t killed anyone, so far. But he clearly needs to be taken off the road.”
He needs to be introduced to some baseball bats.
Is this Yukon Denali’s name “Christine” by any chance?
This may be an evil SUV.
civil forfeiture law — an offense to 500 years of Anglo-American jurisprudence.
I've found that a digital camera is one of the most effective tools in my but out bag. There have been a couple of occasions where I have snapped a photo of an aggressive driver and his plates - and had him respond by getting the hell away from me ;-)
The fight goes right out of them.
CBC News said it had obtained documents showing Mack had two previous road-rage convictions and was on probation for one of them when the latest alleged incidence took place in April.
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe I've spotted the flaw: probation. A dose of jail time might have made a deeper impression on him.
Taking away the drivers license works with some people, but others will continue to drive anyway.
If someone is using their vehicle as a weapon and has been caught not once, but eight times - that person has mental issues and should never be behind the wheel for a long, long time. If the vehicle has a co-owner, release it to that owner, but otherwise how is it sensible to release it back to this nutcase?
If someone uses their own gun to kill someone, do the police have to give the gun back to the murderer?
If the perp is the sole owner of the vehicle, I don’t see why it is an issue to impound the vehicle until something is figured out where the perp will spend his time - jail or mental rehab.
I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know how it works in Edmonton, but if a guy has been caught by the cops doing this eight times before, isn’t there some law about this kind of thing? How does this work with someone who has several dui’s?
He tried to run someone off of the road. (maybe more than one) Why not charge him with attempted murder? Assault with a deadly weapon? They seem to be afraid to charge him directly for his crimes.
In any event, he needs to spend a long time serving at "Her Majesty's leisure" here.
That does look like a good place for him to think things over.
In a CBC clip I saw, they interviewed his neighbors in a middle class section of town, so he does not currently live on a reserve.
He just might be a regular, local jerk. Perhaps he is related to somebody in authority.
In any case, he looks to have committed three or four felonies in the past couple of years and not served a day.
Both in Canada and stateside, it seems that if you have enough money to hire a halfway decent lawyer you can ruin several people's lives before the law finally puts you away.
A ‘rig pig’ is a highly paid, often poorly educated oilfield worker. It is a derogatory term for many 18 YO (sometimes older) high school drop outs who goe to work on the rigs making $25+/hour to start, working 12+ hours daily, doing shifts of 3 weeks in and 2 weeks out. Often, doing dope while on the rigs and coming back out of the muskeg and blowing $6-10K in a week.
There are many decent oilfield workers who do not do dope, save money for their families, provide good homes, etc. Unfortunately, there are enough of the young, single, immature farmboys who get on the rigs and get into all kinds of trouble, that the phrase ‘rig pig’ sticks.
I knew a fellow, now about 35, who started working on the rigs in the mid-90s. His first year, as a single 18 YO, living at home when he wasn’t working, he made over $120K in his first year. At 21, 3 years on the rigs, he met the woman of his dreams and wanted to settle down with her. Of the almost $400K he had made in three years, all he had to show for it was a two year old 1 ton dually 4x4 pick up truck, some clothes, a VISA with $15K owing and a $20K loan against the truck. The bankers loved him!
That woman did change him and his life. He very soon stopped being a ‘rig pig’ and started acting like an oil field worker, acting like a man, not a spoiled boy (like Timothy Mack, the subject of this article, acts). Now, this man is a team lead for drilling at a mid-sized energy company in Calgary. They have a beautiful home, a couple of kids, involved in church, etc. The difference between a ‘rig pig’ and an oil field worker!
Oh Canada....
Wimpy legislators, liberal judges, and a bozo possibly on steroids. The solution is more armed drivers.
Yes it is.
I may have met this guy. I accidentally cut of a red truck one night and the owner of the truck literally chased me half-way across the city trying to instigate an accident with me.
This is the sign I saw.
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