Posted on 12/18/2012 7:27:17 AM PST by TigerClaws
The Vancouver Police Department arrested a man for Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana in connection with a deadly crash in Vancouver.
Investigators said the driver hit and killed a pedestrian around 5:50 p.m. on East Mill Plain Boulevard and Andresen Road.
Police say the victim, a male in his 50's, was believed to be walking back from Safeway and stepped out into the middle of traffic.
The driver, Scotty Rowles, was driving westbound on East Mill Plain Boulevard and could not stop his car in time, according to police.
Detectives says Rowles cooperated with the investigation, but after interviewing him they determined there was enough evidence to arrest him on suspicion of driving under the influence of marijuana.
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Implied consent laws control.
Also pot stays in the body for at least a month.
Baked drivers are screwed. That’s a good thing.
This is what the spandex wearing leftist do, the ghetto dwellers, the stupid among us...I watch these people start across a crosswalk without even looking etc, just because they have the right away...How stupid is that?
Step out in front of a 5,000 pound steel swinging hammer?
I call these people stray dogs...Actually my dog has more sense.
Of course, once these human morons see someone go under the wheels, it seems to stick in their little stray dog brains.
Aww geez! not that sh*t again!
The consequences of what policies? Stupid people walking into traffic rather than crossing the street at a marked intersection? What ever happened to "cross at the green, not in between?"
Here's a question for you: A guy takes two bong hits of Maui Wowie and then gets in his car to drive to the local mini-mart for Pringles and Haagen Daz. As required by law, he stops at a red light, but illegally makes a cell phone call. Just as the light turns green, a person illegally steps into the intersection against the light while smoking a cigarette and eating a donut. Notwithstanding the green light, the stoned guy remains stationary while he finishes his cell phone call. However, he is hit in the rear by a sober, designated driver with two drunk people in the car, one of whom has an illegal open container. The impact pushes the stoned driver into the guy illegally crossing the street, who sufferes a fatal injury. Which person is at fault and how does the government classify the death?
The consequences of what policies? Stupid people walking into traffic rather than crossing the street at a marked intersection? What ever happened to "cross at the green, not in between?"
Here's a question for you: A guy takes two bong hits of Maui Wowie and then gets in his car to drive to the local mini-mart for Pringles and Haagen Daz. As required by law, he stops at a red light, but illegally makes a cell phone call. Just as the light turns green, a person illegally steps into the intersection against the light while smoking a cigarette and eating a donut. Notwithstanding the green light, the stoned guy remains stationary while he finishes his cell phone call. However, he is hit in the rear by a sober, designated driver with two drunk people in the car, one of whom has an illegal open container. The impact pushes the stoned driver into the guy illegally crossing the street, who sufferes a fatal injury. Which person is at fault and how does the government classify the death?
There's no such thing as jaywalking laws - except I've gotten a ticket for it and the story says that's what he was doing.
The story clearly doesn't say it was the pedestrian's fault for ignoring the crosswalks and stepping into traffic - except that it does.
Good lord, you progressives will say anything to make something fit your little tiny world view.
You can be sure it goes in the statistics as “alcohol related”.
lol, no kidding.
Stupid commie ~ believing anything you find in the news. Everybody knows reporters are no good anymore ~ not only can’t they spell right, they can’t even count.
if you’re DUI you should never be there.
BWAAAAHAHAHA! Have a good one.
Then why do they put out the peanuts in the shell ~ and sometimes popcorn ~ at the grit bars with the dirt floors? Hunh, tell me that!
Teach those smart tokers they ain't so smart.
But let the fact be facts more people are killed every year in non drug/drunk driving crashes every year.
Then in crashes that the drivers have some impairment.
The government would probably classify this single death as caused by alcohol, marijiuana, cell phones, tobacco, and junk food. The one factor that will not be blamed is the stupidity of the person who illegally stepped into the intersection. Of course, if the designated driver was legally carrying a concealed firearm at the time to the accident, then the government would declare this to be a firearm related death and the liberals and RINOs would use the death as an excuse for a ban on assault weapons.
does not change the fact that nobody should be driving and using ANY amount of marajuana.
Then, it is worth pointing out that the voters of Washington State voted to legalize recreational pot in November -- about 6 weeks ago.
I'm trying to be polite here. I should have liked to say that the IDIOTS in Washington State voted....But, it is the Christmas season, so I shall restrain myself. After all, 'tis the season to teach the mentally ill how to shoot guns and to provide them with all the violent video stimulation that they should desire. What's a little pot? (sarc/off)
May Christ have Mercy on us all.
It goes further than that in CA. Any place a pedestrian chooses to cross a street becomes a crosswalk -- marked, or not. I noticed in my old home town last summer that they have constructed immpermeable fences down the median strips to prevent people from crossing in the middle of blocks.
The problem that I see is that cannabis stays in your system for a long time, while the effects of it are over in hours. So if you smoke a joint on Friday night, it’s still technically in your system on Monday, even though you are no longer feeling the effects of it.
This is unlike alcohol, where we have the technology to say to someone, “you are legally drunk!” by testing them and finding alcohol in your system.
One of the challenges for law enforcement would be to have a field kit that can test for “current” THC levels.
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