Michigan teens' dumb prank injures biker

N8N wrote:
> Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:
> >
> > I'm all for locking these doods up for awhile but then the same should
> > be done to reckless drivers like speeders that maim people. You're the
> > CC.
>
> Wrong, maggot-brains. I speed nearly every day and I've never so much
> as given another driver a hangnail. However it's pretty obvious that
> there's a high potential for injury when blocking a road with
> industrial plastic.

High potential for injury?? Same thing is true with speeding. Stop
being a criminal coddler.

On 15 Jul 2005 23:48:20 -0700, "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend"
> was understood to have stated the following:

>
>High potential for injury?? Same thing is true with speeding. Stop
>being a criminal coddler.

Getting drunk and driving off a bridge can be hazardous to your
health, too.

Er, your passenger's health, that is.

Laura Bush murdered her boy friend wrote:

> High potential for injury?? Same thing is true with speeding. Stop
> being a criminal coddler.

Espescially in a school zone. Anyone going 16 mph or more over in a
school zone should be in jail too, right?

Dave

On 15 Jul 2005 10:30:14 -0700, Laura Bush murdered her boy friend , said
the following in rec.autos.driving...


> I'm all for locking these doods up for awhile but

And why would that be? Need some new butt buddies??

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N8N wrote:
> "Laura Bush murdered her boy friend" wrote:

> > Felonious assault???? 15 years??? But if they had been speeding
> > and crashed into this cyclist, all they'd do is pay a fine.
>
> Are you saying that you don't think 15 years is fair? Personally I
> think it might be a bit much for what appears to be a simple case of
> excessive dumbass; but then again, the message has to be sent that
> behavior like this can't be tolerated.

AIUI, the sentence handed down is (in the UK, and in all but the
most exceptional circumstances) an *upper limit* to the time to
be served behind bars for the offence.

With parole and early release for good behaviour, the *actual*
time served can be substantially less than the nominal sentence.

Again AIUI, the idea is (at least partly) to allow some degree of
flexibility dependent on such things as how well the perpetrator
behaves in jail and whether he comes to his senses after a while
and shows appropriate signs of contrition and reformation.

A "headline" sentence of 15 years should give others pause for
thought, even if it does end up more like five years behind bars
followed, perhaps, by a three-year driving ban.