[dennisw]

DeWine should have forked over the $80 plus pay for the new cell phone. He was already committed by then.

I find it amusing that DeWine was in control and thrust the medical exam and some money onto the cyclist. But once the cyclist veered from that script he got slapped down

[buccaneer81]

DeWine should have forked over the $80 plus pay for the new cell phone.

Why? He already had given the punk $70 and free medical care. Demanding another $80 and a new phone or else going to the media is extortion, pure and simple.

[Nickname]

If I was at fault in an accident, it wouldn’t have occurred to me to ask for anything from the other person involved.

Well, except that they please accept my apologies for probably scaring the hell out of them.

.....must be something wrong with my thinking.

[The Theophilus]

I find it amusing that DeWine was in control and thrust the medical exam and some money onto the cyclist. But once the cyclist veered from that script he got slapped down

The article said that DeWine stopped after advice from his attorneys. In today's culture, juries wouldn't care about the facts of the collision, they would presume that DeWine must have been guilty of ordering the driver to chase the bicyclist and run him down. The guilt is "proven" by DeWine "not wanting to see it in the press" (must be something to hide) and because DeWine went out of the way to help the cyclist (trying to rip the cyclist off by hoping that seeing his personal Phys he could fix the result and make it look like the cyclist wasn't injured when the cyclists's lawyers doctors say he was massively injured with lifelong disabilities.)

You have people with money, and you have people who are trying to get that money via the mechanism of our court-based lottery

[Hot Tabasco]

didn't want to go to a hospital emergency room and left the scene to make a scheduled appointment with his parole officer.