Posted on 08/16/2006 12:12:13 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
"for a car crash caused by a decoy deer placed in a country road"
I have to laugh.
Golly, do jocks get away with things that would land normal people in prison? What a shock!
While you are woefully short of tact, you make a valid point. Running over squirrels, dogs, turtles, even deer, is preferable to running off the road. Bad things can happen very quiclkly when you run your car off the road at anything approaching highway speed.
No, but while zipping along the highway, you have to play the odds.....There is usually not enough time to think through all of the possible outcomes.
For those in control of their vehicles, yes.
If you can steer around it you're not veering.
We hit a deer once in a tiny Ford Taurus. We must have been going 40MPH, there was no damage at all, not even a scuff mark on the bumper.
Ever notice who the press exalts football players and cheerleaders?
Headline: "Cheerleader killed in auto accident"
You never see "Math whiz killed in auto accident."
See this:
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_342185532.html
Or type "cheerleader killed" into google. Thousands of stories come up.
Hold muh deer alert...
These two jackasses should be made to pay for ALL the medical bills suffered as a result of their blatant stupidity, even if they spend the rest of their lives trying to pay those bills. And, in their spare time, they should do nursing duty for the injured people.
Agreed.
I'm not going to go nutz veering for a squirrel, turtle, or frog in the road, that is for sure.
As for a 10-point Buck, I'll veer .
If that animal crashes through my windshield, I'm finished.
OUCH!
Check my post #32
Because of the victims' lingering disabilities, Mary Roby said, it was especially hard for both families to listen as Juvenile Court Judge Gary McKinley approved special requests from three of the teenagers to play sports and attend athletic events.
"That bothers me a lot," Roby said. "This is just so awful. None of us, not one, should be in this situation."
Charged with felonious assault and vehicular vandalism and facing juvenile-delinquency counts of petty theft and criminal tools are: Dailyn Campbell, 15; Jesse Howard, 17; Joshua Lowe, 17; Corey Manns, 15; and Taylor Rogers, 17.
A Hardin County grand jury indicted them in February under Ohio's "serious youthful offender" law. That designation gives the judge the ability to create two sentences: one the teens would serve at a juvenile facility and one they could serve in an adult prison if they get into trouble again.
If the judge were to eventually impose an adult sentence, the maximum for all the charges would be 44 years.
Yesterday, McKinley agreed to let Campbell, Howard and Rogers lift weights together before school every morning.
He also granted Campbell permission to participate in track, and he said he may allow Rogers to play baseball once the season begins.
All of that was done over the objections of Hardin County Prosecutor Brad Bailey.
"We consider those luxuries, not necessities, and given the serious nature of these charges, we oppose it," he said.
Bailey asked for a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew for each of the teens. McKinley modified that request to 8 p.m., with allowances for work and the other activities.
Manns didn't enter his pleas yesterday because he must wait for a new judge, his third in the case.
The Ohio Supreme Court appointed McKinley, a retired Union County judge, to the cases after Hardin County Juvenile Court Judge James Rapp stepped off because he is acquainted with some of the families involved.
McKinley said yesterday that he knows Manns' grandfather, a Union County politician, so he, too, recused himself.
During the brief breaks yesterday between each teens' arraignment, the families of the two injured boys hugged and cried in the courtroom aisles.As the teens charged in her son's crash head off to weightlifting and track and baseball, Roby said, she must hire baby sitters for her 18-year-old son.
"I can't leave him home alone because he might fall," she said. "How is that fair?"
You obviously didnt hit it head on
"Ever hit a deer? Figure on a minimum of $3000 of body damage."
Well that depends, I smacked one last year at about 60mph, the dogs licked on my truck for days. NO damage what so ever.
But then after hitting three deer in three consecutive years I got tired of replacing intercoolers,radiators, and body work. So I plunked down a few hundred bucks.
http://www.ranchhand.com/frontbumperreplacements.htm
I can attest to two things, one it's about 200 pounds heavier than the stock front bumper, and two bambi bounces off like nothing you've ever seen before.
Driving a bradly would help there too, but I can't afford one.
I guess this is a time when a civil lawsuit after the criminal trial would be a very good thing. (Unless of course they decide to sue the school district. No way the school is liable, but plaintiffs do tend to go after the deep pockets.)
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