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To: Altariel
If one is properly observing *all* the rules of the road, one will *not* hit pedestrians crossing the street. Period.

Yeah, tell that to the guy who hit and killed a little kid who ran out from behind a hedgerow in my hometown.

He was not speeding, he was not impared, and he still hit and killed the kid.

No charges were filed.

Again offer proof he was speeding, or shut up.

132 posted on 06/19/2013 10:02:35 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: IYAS9YAS

“Not speeding” does not automatically mean “was traveling at safe speed for the conditions”, as your example reminds us.

You seem to believe that going 28 in a 30 and still hitting a child or 33 in a 35 while hitting a child is acceptable.


139 posted on 06/19/2013 10:05:11 AM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: IYAS9YAS

My older brother was hit by a car as as a six year old kid because he ran out into the road between parked cars at dusk, and a man hit him, severely injuring him with a compound fracture of his femur. My brother spent 6 months recovering, and fully recovered but bears a huge purple scar on the outside of his right leg from his hip to his knee, two inches across at the top tapering down to a point at his knee, with purple suture lines crossing it at regular intervals.

The man was doing under the speed limit, less than 25 MPH, and was guilt ridden. Everyone, including my parents tried to ease the conscience of the poor man, but he never got over it. My mom told me he became an alcoholic and later committed suicide.

Fact is, the guy wasn’t at fault. It was an accident, a kid got injured. My parents didn’t attack the guy like this POS did the off-duty police officer.

I read the quote by that poster, and realized that the person has an issue unrelated to reality.


156 posted on 06/19/2013 10:16:40 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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