Why do I get the feeling that you've been called this so much in your life that it's all but your middle name?
Posted on 12/11/2007 5:39:22 PM PST by McCoMo
The ditzy little chick is dead. Not much more can happen to her.
My father died in a one car accident 30 years ago. He had been drinking and he left the house after one hellacious family argument. Happened about 1/4 mile from the house at 5:30 am or so. He had been in a free for all for about 12 hours. This was 2 days after Christmas.
He was my father and I love him to this day. I was 23 and the oldest. We are all adults now, with kids of our own. Interestingly, I am the only one who can look back and not pretend.
So when you make flip comments about a ditzy, little chick whose decapitated body should be part of the public domanu, remember, it is no longer about her. It is about the ones left behind.
A thousand words, my ass. How about a knife in the heart.
I don't. I think its awful what happened but fail to see the logic in yet another "lawsuit". I would prefer that if procedures weren't followed then discipline be performed on those involved.
The only logic in a lawsuit is that sometimes the threat of monetary damages are about the only thing that will prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
I'm no fan of lawsuits but sometimes they do serve a purpose since decency, civility, and common courtesy are no longer enough to have an impact on people's decisions and actions.
I hope so in order to get a handle on this = there needs to be a law forthwith to criminalize this so this doesn't become a trend.
First off, I wonder if someone on the inside didn't take a bribe to do this heinous thing
I don’t have much of a problem with CHP or with bloggers who posted the pictures. The individual CHP employee(s) who knowingly violated policy and sent these photos outside authorized circles should be fired and have their names made public so people will know not to hire them for anything more attractive than cleaning toilets. The people who sent the photos or links to the family via e-mail should be on the paying end of some serious civil judgements — harassment, stalking, intentional infliction of emotional distress, whatever; I’m sure there are laws on the books that could back civil suits against them and require lower standards of proof than criminal prosecution.
I've been appalled at what I've seen freepers defending recently. It's a pretty poor reflection of a person's character.
Better pray it never happens to you.
I suspicion you’d have a different view - but then, maybe not. Some people have no empathy - sad people, them
Why do I get the feeling that you've been called this so much in your life that it's all but your middle name?
I have spent my professional life (23+ years) handling fatal auto wrecks and have seen, up close, just about everything that can happen to a person in a wreck. Many times I’ve also had to interact with the families left behind. Virtually every family I’ve dealt with has been devastated by their loss, and I think it is reprehensible to circulate ‘gore’ photos to satisfy the prurient interests of people who don’t care one iota about the poor girl or her family. I really get discouraged over the lack of basic human decency in the world today.
at approximately 1:45 p.m. last Halloween, 15 minutes after taking her father's Porsche 911 for a drive without permission, Nikki Catsouras was traveling 100 mph on State Route 241, near Lake Forest, Calif., when she clipped another car and lost control, slamming into a concrete tollbooth, killing her instantly.
I have mixed feelings about whether to make such accident photos public.
She was driving 100 mph, collided with and wrecked a Honda she was trying to pass, lost control, and hit a tollbooth. Any number of innocent people could have been killed, the whole event happened on public property.
Perhaps releasing all accident photos would make people think twice about their driving.
Personally, if someone sent pics like this of my child to my family members... they that person had better worry about buying a bullet-proof vest. Getting sued would be the LEAST of their problems.
So, let's see...you're not sympathetic toward a girl does something stupid and gets herself killed, but if someone pisses you off, it would be okay for you to take the law into your own hands and commit pre-meditated murder? Yikes, I hope I never meet you.
Photos sent to family members are done so in bad taste but it’s no crime. Inflicting emotional pain on the family? The daughter's act alone initiated that.
We all have a story about a loved one who died a tragic death. Yet none of us has earned the right to interfere with the truthful depictions of public occurrences. Who or what pictures would you like to censor next?
Yep, that's the way of today's Liberal Democrat PC-Crowd's Anti-American Way of Life. It is never the fault of the person doing the damage.
I feel for the family, but it looks like they failed in raising their daughter with proper values. She stole her father's car, broke the law by speeding over 100 mph and almost taking other lives in the process of killing herself.
Had she killed others in the wreck and lived, would she be guilty of the felonies of Grand Theft Auto and Vehicular Manslaughter?
Of course not... 
it is never the fault of the person doing the damage. As Pelosi and her cohorts in the MSM say, it is always easier to blame it all on George W. Bush and those evil Republicans.
It is NOT the function or purpose of the law to get involved and stop pictures from being printed that might hurt somebody’s feelings.
As sorry as I feel for the family, I get sorrier and sicker over all the slippery slope BS.
What’s next? If you publish a horoscope and it makes somebody feel bad, then the presses should be burned?
Now alot of folks might say that my comparison was not even close or mean spirited or whatever.
To those folks who believe that they have a right (or worse yet, they don’t have the stones, but they are ready to ask the government to do it with guns) to control what I say or publish, I will put this as clear as I can.
Go to hell, you feel-good nanny state tyrants!
Go back to DU
Understand. But I disagree and don’t believe in lawsuits by citizens against the government - where does it stop? Hopefully this will be thrown out of court.
The government is supposed to represent the citizens. Without any way to keep it in check, we will end up in a despot tyranny where it can do anything it wants. And where does IT stop?
I don’t think the government should be above the law.
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