I'm not sure if this is a re-post.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/19/1925.asp
Soo-deep
I'm not sure if this is a re-post.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/19/1925.asp
Forum whore
He shoulda just pulled over...... It's a legal requirement. Now he's dead and really it's his own fault. Sounds heartless but if he'd run wide and taken someone innocent out we'd all be condemning him for running.
Andy.
Hardcore Biker
F@#K yeah, if youre stupid enough to run for a minor traffic violation??
here comes the red stuff
Tsar Bomba
Sure she was..."Diane Davis, who drove the front vehicle in a line of three or four vehicles passed by Abney, testified that she was 'literally scared to death.'"
I'm kinda with the run and you take your chances thing but using deadly force to stop someone is wayyyyyy over the top. It wasn't even a high speed pursuit!
Kinda like saying it's ok to use deadly force to stop a shoplifter that runs off without paying.
Lets just shoot everyone before they all commit a crime. No people = no crime. Woohoo
Forum whore
believe it or not i have seen the same thing here in NZ guy wasnt killed luckily....
young fella tried to do a runner on a pitbike down morrin road panmure....
cop eventually caught up and the guy was doing about 80kph .....and the cop rammed his bike...guy went flying....bike went flying...bike dent in undercover cars door
i don't know what damage the guy got but he was limping.
it's not just the USA
deploy the yak!
thats ridiculous.....
crossing the double yellows constitutes the death penalty?? ah, no....
F M S
Deep in the heart...
This is the bit that bothers me.
"Appeals Court Authorizes Lethal Force in Low Speed Chases"
That is a legal precedent for future chases, fuck that!
"If you can't laugh at yourself, you're just not paying attention!"
"There is no limit to dumb."
"Resolve to live with all your might while you do live, and as you shall wish you had done ten thousand years hence."
Hardcore Biker
No - running from police and endangering everyone elses lives you sign your own death warrant.Originally Posted by yod
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Well, it does seem excessive compared to the crime.
Lets face it, the woman a few weeks ago resp. for the death of a motor biker that got a 6 mnthy ban and $3000 in reps vs. an unsafe manoevre (although the article does not establish that the original going across the centre line was dangerous) vs. death.
I posted this in another forum, but its another example of disproportionate responses. In about '87 when I was living in Belgium a morroccan kid was pulled over on his moped for doing what they all did - wear his helmet over his arm rather than wear it. Stupid yes, but oas he then panicked and 'sped' (ie. 50cc) away from the cops they shot him 7 times, once through the head. Ironically I reckon the helmet would have saved him ... twice over. Anyway, it was a huge case over the police (who were, the court accepted, apparently not aiming at him directly and therefore accidently shot a moving target through the head).
Would prefer the police shoot and ram burglers and taggers caught in the act.
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Forum whore
he didnt exceed 55mph....aty 55 mph you hit a car......wtf's gunna happen...
why the hell r u riding a thou.
Hardcore Biker
Pedestrians and potentially anyone else on the road on a bike or in a vehicle.
Id like to see you hit a car at 55mph, now that would be funny.
Tsar Bomba
But they didn't run. The article states they kept to the speed limit.
My reading of the article is that they were killed for failing to stop after overtaking on double yellow lines. It's quite clear that it's not a high-speed pursuit or anything of that nature.
I've seen plenty of cages not pull over on the motorway but wait until the next exit where it's safer to pull over. Should we start ramming them off the road?
deploy the yak!
and you agree with that?
its acceptable to have your life taken by a police officer for a traffic infringement?
jeezus christ on a crutch, im glad you're not a cop....are you?
F M S
Forum whore
Just more examples of macho egos overtaking common sense.........
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
.....your time is coming
Old argument.....this guy was not speeding, it was on a mountain road so little chance of pedestrians. He did not hit anything / anyone and he did not crash on his own like most runners.Pedestrians and potentially anyone else on the road on a bike or in a vehicle.
Id like to see you hit a car at 55mph, now that would be funny.
If the cop got close enough to run him down he was close enough to snap the bikers plate number, give up the chase and visit his home.
If you run a biker off the road, it is obvious that serious injury / death may occur.
But that is the yanks for you......shoot first, ask questions.
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