I hope that judge looses her family. What a fucking sick joke.
I would run her down in my car for the low low cost of 120 hours of community service
Necessary contempt of court is awesome and rarely heard of. Chair throw was justified.
Didn’t even hit her
Should have thrown it faster.
The easiest ways to get away with murder is to hit someone with your car or be a cop.
And I wonder why I have so much anxiety while driving while other fuckers seem to be totally cool being insane.
I’m terrified to drive a car.
Honestly, I want a car driven by (a smart) AI, with the vehicle itself designed to be heavily armored and without windows. Just cameras, each put in a spot to allow the car to see around corners, to have a high view of the roads in every direction, maybe some echolocation and infravision.
I don’t want to ever drive, because it makes me feel ill. Trying to figure out how to not cause some sort of disaster, is just not fun.
If it were possible, I would use a teleporter to skip driving outright.
Or sick a dog on them
Don’t even have to be a cop. Just shoot an unarmed kid wearing a hoodie.
Right, the easiest way to get away with murder is to be white and have your victim be black. All the others are heavily contingent on skin colors too, but the next easiest one would be to be wealthy, followed by being a cop.
2013?!
It took 13 years from incident to sentencing! Jesus!
The story is from 2014
Whodathunkit
From the linked articles, the killing took place in 2013, the sentencing and chair throw happened in 2014, and in 2015 an appeals court changed the sentence to 15 months in prison.
I assume she won’t give him any punishment… If vehicular homicide is 120h community service, and the chair this guy threw didn’t even hit anything, I mean.
(Someone else in the comments section found this article not me)
She will give him 10 years for attempted murder on public official.
You’re probably right. I don’t think it’s a matter of a judge punishing him just like that. He will probably have a trial and some other judge with sentence him.
No, he’d only avoid getting punished if he hit her with a car.
Vehicular homicide turned out to be over one year in jail. Please read both links in the post, not only the first one.
Look, obviously the convenience of a person in a car is worth many times the life of a person not in a car. That’s just science!
If you make people in cars responsible for the mayhem and death they cause, people will drive slower and more responsibly, and then traffic will be too slow and I can’t zoom-zoom in my pollution powered people crusher!
/S, obvs.
People who use cars for personal transportation are sick, and need to be institutionalized for everyone’s safety.
Most normal lemmy.ml user.
Behavior like this is going to drive people away from your cause.
And behavior like a carholes is going to destroy human civilization. Fuck cars and the assholes who drive them.
Do you really think you’re changing people’s minds by being a cunt?
It’s worked so well for PETA.
I don’t really fucking care, tbh.
If you’re an ecocidal narcissist, then the sweetest plea I could make will fall on deaf ears. You’ve already decided your convenience is more important than the environment or anyone else’s safety. I just want to make sure you know how much contempt decent people have for you.
You don’t care about your own cause?
Okay then, fuck off then troll.
You do realize that many people do not have access to public transportation, right? Having a personal vehicle isn’t always a choice.
But being a cunt is a choice.
You do realize that many people do not have access to public transportation, right?
And yet the politicians preventing that sleep soundly in their beds every night. Sounds like a skill issue to me.
There is no version of the automobile as personal transportation you can convince me is ethical. Anyone who thinks they’re being forced to drive and isn’t fighting tooth and nail against the system “forcing” them to drive is just another ecocidal narcissist who values their convenience above anyone else’s life.
You need to get out of your echo chamber. Life isn’t black and white like that.
Ah, someone who hates rural people.
Lol, depends. Do you mean farmers, miners, loggers, and other people doing important jobs that can’t be done in the city? Not at all.
Do you mean wannabe hermit fuckwastrels who live in the middle of nowhere but insist on easy access to all the convenience and safety of modern society and want to force the people living in cities to buy it for them? Then absofuckinglutely.
farmers, miners, loggers, and other people doing important jobs that can’t be done in the city
Still need cars to get to and from work, and in the case of farmers, their rural homes, dipshit.
I can’t tell if you’re so illiterate and incurious that you genuinely don’t know that for most of human history those jobs have been done by people living where the work is,not if you’re just a disingenuous fuckhead who was hoping I didn’t know that. Either way I’m pretty sure that any further conversation had with you would be boring and pointless.
And I don’t know if you’re just a moron who thinks they’re being funny, or if you really are that horrendously uneducated. Even farmers need to go to town from time to time for supplies, and perhaps to sell their produce. And towns generally aren’t where farms are, since farms, require, y’know, acreage.
As for loggers, they generally worked where they lived because of company towns, which if you’re ignorant of that charming part of human history, were very, very bad.
And thanks for proving there’s no point in even discussing what’s possible with you since you can’t imagine anything different from what is.
‘Different from what is’? I thought we were talking about
People who use cars for personal transportation are sick, and need to be institutionalized for everyone’s safety.
If that’s the difference you want, to lock up farmers, loggers, rural mail carriers, and the like, then I’d rather not imagine that, thanks.
Curious on your take on what to do with commercial truck drivers. Or do you think things like cut trees and the bulk of most farmers’ produce just magically teleports itself to where it needs to go?
Yeah that’s a real privileged stance you have and you’re not a good person for having it.
As an environmental advocate, I beg you, please keep your opinions to yourself, you’re making it harder for change.
As an environmental advocate
You can advocate for the environment or the status quo. Pick one.
But the fact that you even felt the need to say this means you already have, and you picked wrong.
You blame people for being in a system they did not choose and would have them slain rather than build a new system. How old testament.
Never said that, but it’s a cute straw man.
I guess it’s easier to imagine everyone who disagrees with mainstream thinking as Hitler when you assume they just want to kill everyone who disagrees with them the way you do.
Oh sorry, you just want to have them institutionalized for the rest of their life for driving a car. Yeah. That’s way better. My b.
Hi. Have you considered that many people literally got priced out of cities? No, of course you haven’t.
I’d cut my penis off and mail it in protest, but I’ve got it out at the cleaners today. Gotta get it pretty for when my AI Malfoid femboy girlfriend bedazzles her puckered anus on stream. Y’know how we do in the Slenderville external prison system, yea?
Crikey, if I were that judge I’d be very cautious for the rest of my life for handing out such a sentence.
Can the parents/family appeal? Because if not then life isn’t worth much.
I’m coming to the awareness perhaps it never was. And I’m not sure where that leadsbeyond, “What makes human life more valuable than plant and animal life (other than the fact we’re humans and kind of biased)?”
The driver got 15 months in jail and a 4 year driving ban in the end. Which is still pretty low, especially since the article said he didn’t show any sign of remorse.
Shit like this is why a TV series like Dexter could exist. Some people are walking around just fine with themselves after committing a heinous act. If it was an accident, fine, don’t hate yourself forever, forgive yourself eventually, but showing no signs of remorse is something only a trashfire of a person could do
Watch him get a worse punishment, too. (Not saying what he did is okay.)
Maybe judges should get some accountability for letting murderers get away with murder
If I were a judge, I would fear for my life to hand down a sentence like that for someone that killed that guys family. Do you want ants?
at his sentencing he could say “I’m sorry, I’ve learned my lesson. next time, instead of throwing a chair, I’ll run over the judge’s family instead, since that’ll only get me 120h of community service.”
(what he did was 100% ok)
On one hand I am glad the something closer to justice was eventually served, on the other hand I don’t like the idea of prosecutors being able to appeal verdicts. I think appeals in criminal cases should be reserved for the defense. I don’t like the state being able to try over and over again.
There are only so many really skilled judges. Also here in Finland it’s visible that in many cases the lowest level of the court system makes outright ridiculous rulings in any case that isn’t completely clear-cut. It’s not nice at all that big-time idiots are allowed to work as judges at all, but since that seems to be an international phenomenon, it’s probably something more or less unavoidable.
For the basic stuff even the worse judges will do. But for anything more serious, it’s good that the case can be escalated to someone actually competent! Finding really good judges is by far not easy.
And i can understand that father 100%.
A friend of mine, Jessica Bullen was killed by a driver looking at the roof of their mouth in the rearview mirror when he plowed into her. The facts were not dispute. No jail time for the driver.
That one woman laughing her ass off. Probably the stenographer, thinks the judge is a cuntface.
Sounds like crying
Def sounded like crying to me
I assumed that had to be crying given the context, but it sure sounds like laughter. I’m confused.
