[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.....