Posted on 05/19/2010 11:06:18 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW
It’s always open season on bikers.
[We’re the equivalent of pit bulls, on wheels]
The article says another car was -stopped- in front of them.
The had no choice but to stop, too.
Their killer apparently made the choice not to.
A *lot* of cops around here are Blue Knights.
They care a whole helluva bunch when bikers get hit.
If I'm sitting at a light, and I see a car coming up behind me, I usually hit the front brake caliper a few times to flash my brake lights- unless they're obviously paying attention and approaching with due caution.
Install an “easy pull clutch”.
http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/2/9/192/4223/ITEM/Moose-Racing-Easy-Pull-Clutch-System.aspx
Right, the car in front of the bikes just happened to stop in time for the light. The bikes stopped for the light, and this ass-hat couldn’t bother to pay attention to the traffic STOPPED in front of his vehicle to stop.
All the other traffic seemed to be able to “stop on a dime”, why couldn’t he?
Wilson said one witness told police she was driving beside McDonald’s SUV and grew concerned that the Explorer wasn’t slowing down with the rest of traffic as it approached the light.
The woman blew her horn to alert McDonald, but it didn’t help. After the crash, the woman asked him what happened and McDonald said, “I couldn’t stop it,” Wilson said.
Other witnesses also heard McDonald make that proclamation, Wilson said.
Read more:
http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/05/20/1484754/2nd-wreck-for-man-in-fatal-crash.html#ixzz0oTQwdQ9W
On Wednesday night, 9th Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said police had informed her Tuesday that McDonald was involved in another recent rear-end collision, in which he said his brakes malfunctioned.
“I know that he was involved in another collision back in December,” Gragg said. “It had nothing to do with this investigation.”
Read more:
http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/05/20/1484754/2nd-wreck-for-man-in-fatal-crash.html#ixzz0oTSlyZYk
Good God! So now he’s killed two people and he’ll still be driving?
That's just what I need for my carpal tunnel...
I’ve had my easy-pull for 5 years now and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
It’s so wonderful and smooooth........:)
[and you can speed shift like a maniac with it]....LOL
Some people have all the luck.
If I bumped another car in a parking lot, a SWAT team would probably shoot me dead while I was exchanging insurance information.
I find this unbelievable. He has hit people from behind before. He’s not old so that’s not an excuse. He kills two people and gets away with it. It’s just jaw-dropping!
I may gripe about the “soap operas” that go on in our local ABATE chapter but they *did* get tougher ‘automatic fines/penalties’ state laws passed specifically for hitting bikers.
All of us on the “Hooligan” list might want to say a prayer every day for each other.
I know I think of y’all, often.
Just last week I was backing into a parking space at Borders and a teen bimbo yapping on cell phone nearly slammed into me as she zipped into the space I was headed for.
I’ll spare you the details but by the time I was done, she was crying and begging *me* to take the parking space, instead.
I didn’t...there was another one across the aisle and _the space itself_ ~wasn’t~ the damn point.
Until her little pea brain loses the short term memory of of me, I bet she won’t be “ignoring” motorcycles for a while.
ARTICLE 23. RECKLESS HOMICIDE; RECKLESS DRIVING; DRIVING WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR, DRUGS OR NARCOTICSI cannot imagine what excuse they could possibly have for ignoring the law in this case.SECTION 56-5-2910. Reckless homicide; penalties; revocation of driver's license; reinstatement of license; conditions; consequences for subsequent violations. [SC ST SEC 56-5-2910]
(A) When the death of a person ensues within three years as a proximate result of injury received by the driving of a vehicle in reckless disregard of the safety of others, the person operating the vehicle is guilty of reckless homicide. A person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or pleads nolo contendere to reckless homicide is guilty of a felony and must be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. The Department of Motor Vehicles must revoke for five years the driver's license of a person convicted of reckless homicide.
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