5 Run Over at Ga. McDonald's; 3 Are Tots

Associated Press ^ | May 23, 2006 | CHARLES ODUM

[Doe Eyes]

Another notch in jimmmah carrrters legacy -he closed the mental institutions and put these people on the streets and/or unable to get the help/incarceration needed until there are innocent victims...

And 25 years later we still can't undo it?

[TSgt]

Twenty? I'd have it done in about five...

Depends on how thick his skull was.

[MAexile]

The extra fifteen is just to make sure.

[LdSentinal]

Unbelievable. Prayers for the victims and their families.

[paul51]

Only police should have cars

[EEDUDE]

Most bipolars are not violent even in their manic phases.

Frankly psychotic and delusional sounds more like it.

Very sad. I don't understand why the young innocent ones have to die so often.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Sad.

[ASOC]

"Witnesses described the car running over a curb as the victims left the restaurant, then hitting them and the building before backing up and hitting them again, police said."

New changes to Alaska Deadly Force Law would allow passerby to eliminate the "backing up and hitting them again" When the driver put it back in gear would have been a good time to stabilize the sight picture....

http://www.akrepublicans.org/therriault/24/news/ther2006050101p.php for more.

[I still care]

I know several violent bipolars who were diagnosed initially as depressed. They all did jail time partially because they were not being handled properly.

At least a couple went wild after being giving antidepressents. They jumped over into mania and became agitated and delusional.

I don't know this case at all, but just made a guess based on some of the things I've seen. Not saying all bipolars are like this, but i've seen enough tough ones to know it can happen.

[decimon]

I like the Alaskan law. I'm for proper legal proceedings after the fact but during the fact a guy like this should be stopped, if possible.

[ASOC]

That's the idea. One of the 'incidents' which was used as an example - a drunk (multiple convictions, no license) drove his pickup truck on a bike path - no big deal....until he hit an old woman - just out from hip surgery and using a walker to get around. Oh, and he hit her husband as well. Granny wound up face down in the pond next to the trail and grandpa was thrown the other way.

Did the little SOB stop to help?

Nope - but fortunately passerby stopped and helped hold the woman's head out of the water till medics arrived and other passerby 'detained' the drunk and his buddy.

One wonder what the outcome would have been had granddad been packing.....