• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    The motorist killed the toddler and her 67 and 64-year-old grandparents instantly when he went off the road at 75mph in a 50mph zone.

    yeah, fuck you. you lost control while speeding and you killed people as a direct result.

    straight to prison, do not pass go, loss of license for five years when you get out with mandatory training before relicensing, plus restitution to the family.

  • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    That’s really crazy! Only 120 hours community service?

    Does anyone know the details of what actually happened?

    edit

    I didn’t see the link to what happened at first.

    The motorist killed the toddler and her 67 and 64-year-old grandparents instantly when he went off the road at 75mph in a 50mph zone.

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      If I were the killer in that situation, not that I ever would be, I would actually want to be given a harsher sentence than that. Because what we just witnessed in that video is the creation of a vigilante. When the government won’t seek justice for people whose lives are completely ruined, those people will seek justice themselves, and I don’t want to receive that sort of justice.

      • Linda R@nord.pub
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        20 hours ago

        The good thing is, as the second link in the post says, the driver eventually did get a jail sentence of over one year.

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            15 hours ago

            It has the desired effect in the society. I don’t see much reason in spending money for a sentence harsher than what is needed to stop people from committing such crimes.

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              4 hours ago

              What nonsense are you basing that on?

              15 months in a nasty, unairconditioned, Texas jail doesn’t stop people smoking weed. It’s certainly not enough of a deterrent.

      • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        24 hours ago

        I’m always a bit nervous when driving in cities that someone will jump in front of my car on purpose to get hit and scam me.

        When I first saw this sentencing I wondered if that was what happened and it went wrong.

        But clearly the system is just broken to only get such a small offense. I wonder if the defendant is related to someone powerful.

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      22 hours ago

      I think they finally fixed it in Denmark. That would be called hazardous driving and someone just got 4 years for killing someone due to it. The sentence was reduced since he showed remorse, could have gone all the way up to 10 years.

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          21 hours ago

          Artikel

          Det er flettet ind i straffeloven:

          § 241. Den, som uagtsomt forvolder en andens død, straffes med bøde eller fængsel indtil 4 måneder eller under særligt skærpende omstændigheder med fængsel indtil 10 år. Er forholdet begået i forbindelse med spirituskørsel, overtrædelse af færdselslovens § 54, stk. 1 eller 2, særligt hensynsløs kørsel eller de groveste hastighedsovertrædelser, anses dette som en særligt skærpende omstændighed.

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    1 day ago

    In the Netherlands as well it’s fucking egregious. This is a country which places exceptionally high standards on driver behaviour and has, for decades, had a concerted effort to discourage car use full stop.

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    22 hours ago

    Well the verdict has been appealed an the driver has been jailed now.

    Calm down


    Edit: This was meant for readers and commenters. I’m not telling the father in the video to calm down.

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      19 hours ago

      Could have done without the calm down. It doesn’t make right how the judge made such an absurd judgement the first go round. We will be calm if stupid ‘punishments’ aren’t dished out in the first place. And if people became more responsible in the death boxes on the roadways.

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      The new verdict is still unbelievably unjust. And even if it were acceptable, we should be just as pissed at this judge and the system.

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    1 day ago

    Most of judges are merely tools nowadays, laws are compromised, we need to revolt

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      20 hours ago

      Well, in this case the next level of the court system did increase the sentence to over one year of jail. As should be.

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          1 day ago

          So maybe comments about school shooters don’t belong on a thread about someone killing a child and their grandparents with a car…

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            This person’s implication was that somebody should shoot that judge.

            (It’s not my opinion, but clearly I have to spell it out for you since you missed it.)

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              I get the implication. I am just fairly certain they didn’t watch the video or read the corresponding linked articles. So their comment makes them seem lazy or stupid since they couldn’t even be bothered to pay attention to what they commented on.

              Shoehorning unrelated shit into this isn’t clever.