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Driver who killed child tells victim’s family ‘life goes on’
Global News ^ | June 17, 2014 | Irene Ogrodnik

Posted on 06/17/2014 12:34:42 PM PDT by rickmichaels

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1 posted on 06/17/2014 12:34:42 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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Well, the guy has a point. I mean this took place back in April.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Sickening. He gets to see his kids before he goes to prison?

2 posted on 06/17/2014 12:37:04 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I’d have strangled him with the strap of my purse. I chose that purse for a reason.


3 posted on 06/17/2014 12:37:20 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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Payne is the right name for this guy


4 posted on 06/17/2014 12:37:22 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: rickmichaels

If this douchebag had used the phrase ‘s**t happens’ in reference to him running over a relative of mine like this, they’d have needed every court bailiff in the building to drag me off him as I beat him to a pulp.


5 posted on 06/17/2014 12:37:49 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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“S**t happens, life goes on.”

And thus Moveon.org was born.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 12:40:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: rickmichaels

“S**t happens, life goes on.”

And sometimes when shit happens, you die.


7 posted on 06/17/2014 12:42:15 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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Maybe if he spent the rest of his life paralyzed from the neck down he’ll remember it every day ...


8 posted on 06/17/2014 12:42:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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...and that’s when the fight started.
9 posted on 06/17/2014 12:43:24 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?)...R.I.P.)
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5 YEARS! 5 stinking years for killing a kid and seemingly having no remorse!
Pathetic! No wonder the arabs are over-running the UK!


10 posted on 06/17/2014 12:44:14 PM PDT by vpintheak (I will not comply!)
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This POS is all to prevalent in his ‘thinking’. He’s fine. His children are fine. So what if he broke the law? I am tired of the lawlessness that seems to have infected what used to be decent (maybe I should say polite) society.


11 posted on 06/17/2014 12:45:06 PM PDT by Nifster
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"...life goes on."

Not for Cameron Ward.

A judge bailed Payne on “compassionate grounds” for the weekend so that he could see his two daughters before serving his sentence.

A courtesy not extended to Mr. and Mrs. Ward.

12 posted on 06/17/2014 12:52:43 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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Payne was sentenced to five years in prison and was also banned from driving for five years.

Concurrent or consecutive?

13 posted on 06/17/2014 12:55:55 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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I think someone could have killed the guy, right there on the spot and gotten off later with a textbook “temporary insanity” defense.


14 posted on 06/17/2014 1:02:07 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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Hey! Don’t think we do any better!

I post this every so often when the message seems relevant, sort of as a memorial to Mom, as well as to let people know what the justice system is really like.

December 5th, 2001, my mother, Shirley Norkunas, was killed in a car wreck. She was on her way to a Dr.’s appointment. The roads and weather were clear, it was about 9 in the morning, the place was just south of Superior, WI on State Hwy 35. She was driving north toward Superior.

A fellow named Thomas Frankot was heading south that morning, driving on a suspended license. He crossed into my mother’s lane, she was killed instantly in the resulting crash.

Thomas Frankot lived. He was essentially judgement proof, no insurance and with very few assets.

He, after much wrangling, finally pled guilty in September 2002 to driving after suspension and driving left of center.

Previous relevant citations (there are half a dozen or so others)

DWI.
DWI/OAS (Operation After Suspension)
OAS
No Valid License
OAR (Operation after Revocation)
OAR

That was six offenses BEFORE he killed Mom, so you know he was really in trouble this time.

Was he ever.

He was fined $363, license suspended for six months, and given sixty days to pay.

That’s not even the funny part.

Years, much more than the sixty days lapsed. I asked the clerk of courts what happens when the fines aren’t paid.

They suspend his license.

Now, that’s justice for ya.

Oh, it might not any surprise there have been several violations since. He’s walking around to this very day.


15 posted on 06/17/2014 1:03:32 PM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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I should note that he eventually paid the fines.


16 posted on 06/17/2014 1:05:40 PM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: USMCPOP

aka sometimes the sh1t happens..to you.


17 posted on 06/17/2014 1:09:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DCBryan1

>> I think someone could have killed the guy, right there on the spot and gotten off later with a textbook “temporary insanity” defense.

Here, maybe. But not in (formerly) Great Britain.


18 posted on 06/17/2014 1:12:42 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

>> I chose that purse for a reason.

I like the way you think.

I guess they haven’t outlawed lethal purse-straps in California (yet).


19 posted on 06/17/2014 1:15:11 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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wow... he didn’t get vehicular homicide?


20 posted on 06/17/2014 1:18:44 PM PDT by Tuxedo (Forget Gold - buy Lead!)
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