Posted on 12/31/2007 3:07:00 AM PST by ShadowDancer
5 voluntary manslaughter counts, 1 OUIL, 1 reckless driving charge, permanent license revocation, fines, court fees, lawyer fees, vehicle forfeiture, prison, and the civil lawsuits. Happy 2008 you murderous azzhole.
(we call it Operating Under the Influence of Liquor in MI)
Nor does Gagnon (the drunk).
Doesn’t look like a immigration thread here. No hijacks.
We have home-grown idiots, as well.
OMG! We drive this all the time going home to Cleveland.
In fact, we are leaving on the 2nd. It’s scary.
God Bless all of them.
True. Their names weren’t mentioned in the original article . . . I didn’t see them until another post later in the thread.
I think they are probably just a blended family which is completely traditional nowadays. It was just weird wording on the author’s part.
Coming soon to roadways near you, as soon as we get the new "environmentally correct" fuel standards recently mandated by our "representatives". I saw a car body on a restoration rotisserie this past weekend. It's nothing but a spindly box of air. It's a miracle that anyone survives a head on in an automobile, especially a small unibody car.
This guy is probably going to wish he didn't. Imagine the horror of waking up in a jail cell with a crushing hangover and then being informed that you just killed 5 people.
This guy is going to have a long time to sober up.
Too common these days. Or maybe just faster access to news.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0dcbda33-0018-4640-966e-7522b8de65ac
Suspect it means the parents aren’t married.
(But apparently the coursework in journalism school consists of nothing these days.)
I was involved in a 5 fatality drunk driving accident in 1978.
My wife was driving our 1972 Impala and broadsided a car that had run a flashing red light at a rural intersection. Her brother and his wife, their eight year old daughter, our 6 week old daughter, and I were also in the car.
The other driver was a 16 year old boy, with a 16 year old girl and two other boys, both 17, as passengers. They had been to a party and the driver was extremely drunk, BAL of .16, more than twice the legal limit.
My sister-in-law and all three passengers in the other car were killed outright. The other driver died the next day. Everyone else was injured except our baby daughter, who didn’t have a scratch.
The parents of the party’s teenage host had provided the booze. They were jailed briefly and eventually plea-bargained for a probated sentence. The dead driver’s insurance company eventually got a court judgment against them but it was overturned.
Oh my God, that’s horrible. I am so sorry.
Why is it always that the drunk driver is never killed?
RIP.
Thanks.
It was a long time ago but I still have some vivid memories of it, especially the amazingly strong impression of things happening in slow motion right after the impact. The car spun twice and came to rest facing the opposite direction. I had always heard about that kind of impression but didn’t realize that it was actually like that. I also remember my over-riding concern for our baby and trying to reach for her before the car had even stopped.
The first person to stop and get out of his car took a couple of steps toward us, then just stood there and started screaming. I cursed him for being such a useless wienie. Eventually a lot of people did stop to help. Someone forced a door open and I got out of the car with the baby but the others were too seriously injured to move.
I was dizzy and my head and arm were starting to hurt. It turned out I had a concussion and a broken arm. I just sat on the ground and held the baby until the ambulances and fire trucks got there. It seemed like a long time but it was really only about three minutes. The rest is a blur of flashing lights and the emergency room and all the rest.
We try to plan our trip around Rush Limbaugh.
I always feel that we have a safer trip at 12:00 than at night.
I pray I’m right.
FYI - not all drunk drivers are illegal aliens. And not all families with more than the average 2.5 children are polygamists or illegals.
Please note that my comment about illegal aliens was not an attempt to hijack this thread. I -- along with a lot of other folks here -- was merely speculating about what the hell the following statement from the article could possibly have meant:
Police say the family appears to be non-traditional.
Yes, I realize that Griffin, Burkman and Gagnon are not exactly the kind of names one would expect to find among illegal aliens. But those names don't appear in the original article. And I know that not all drunk drivers are illegal aliens . . . my comment was speculation about the FAMILY involved (there's no indication of any suspicion about the driver of that vehicle being under the influence of alcohol), not the DRUNK DRIVER.
My hubby was hit from behind the day before Christmas Eve. There is 5000.00 in damage to his Ram pickup. The other guy driving a Ram as well, had it totaled. My hubby was in so much shock that he never got the driver’s information.
My hubby slowed down for someone turning right. The other driver doing 40 miles an hour did not.
Hubby has learned what a “No-fault” state is. He wanted the barest minimum in insurance. We now eat the 5000.00. The cheap becomes expensive.
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