Un-freaking-believable....

[William]

It baffles my mind that they let people like this continually walk and don't follow up & enforce sentancing guidelines. :butt:

My condolences to Kathryn Black's family.

http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050406/NEWS/504060305/1033/NEWS01

Stay safe out there.

William

[Kevin]

Maybe they have the 7 strikes and your out poilicy. :crap:

Kevin

[Needs Help]

On Tuesday, legislation that would prohibit anyone who is convicted of three DUIs from driving again passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee.Three DUI's??!! What the??! If you've been caught once, there is probably a 99% probability, you've done it 10 other times when you didn't get caught. So, essentially a person is going to be able to drive drunk 30 times, before getting their license yanked.

Here is evidence of a similar sad state of affairs:

I just saw a news magazine story about some high school sweethearts who got married, but the husband become very controlling and mentally abusive towards his wife, enough so that her parents and brother thought the husband might be physically abusing her. He wasn't, but eventually she had enough and filed for divorce. He moved out, and he sought sole custody of their kids. She wanted joint custody. He invited her to his apartment to discuss the matter, and in the days prior to the meeting, he plotted her murder, and in great detail he wrote down an extensive check list. She arrived at the meeting whereupon he clobbered her over the head with a heavy flashlight, splitting her skull and dazing her. She crawled for the door, and then he clobbered her again cracking her skull in another place, and she blacked out. Subsequently, he dragged her into the bathroom and tried to drown her in the bathtub. A neighbor heard strange noises and called the cops. The cops arrived, and the husband answered the door drenched in blood from her head wounds. He told the officer an assailant had just attacked him and his wife, and they had been robbed. The officer drew his gun and trained it on the husband, and then the officer saw the wife's body lying in the bathtub with blood everywhere. The police photos showed what looked like blood filling up half the bath tub. The cops called 911, and searched the husband. He had all her credit cards, id, etc., along with his murder check list, so they arrested him for attempted murder. The next day, he was released on $2,000 bail!! At his arraignment a few days later, they upped the bail to $100,000, and he made bail once again. I think you only have to put up 10%, or $10,000 to get a bail bondsman to front you the rest. You can get out of jail for $10,000 after a vicious assault like that??

The rest of the story(really OT):

In the meantime, his wife got out of intensive care, and by all accounts she was making a miraculous recovery. She kept busy caring for her children, which kept her mind off the horrific attack she suffered. As her husband's trial date approached, one day she went out to her SUV and got in it to go pick up her kids from school. Her husband was hiding in the back seat, and he put a gun to her head and told her to pull out of the driveway and drive down the street. She did as she was told, and a short while later she heard a gun shot and then blacked out. Her husband shot her twice in the back of the head, but as she blacked out, she floored the gas pedal. The SUV crashed into a ditch and her husband broke his hip in the accident. The police arrived and arrested the husband. This time, he wasn't given bail. The wife was still alive, and she was rushed to the hospital. The doctors told the police she wasn't going to make it, so they got a statement from her. She couldn't talk, so the cops told her to blink her eyes once for yes, and twice for no. When they asked her if the man in the car with her was her husband, she blinked once. When they asked her if her husband had shot her, she blinked once again. Then, she was rushed into surgery. Another miracle: she survived brain surgery, and eventually got out of the hospital and into rehab. But that still wasn't the end of the story. While she was convalescing, her husband was in prison awaiting trial, and he hired a prison inmate to kill his wife!! Lucky for the wife, the hitman was a snitch, and he alerted the cops, and the murder for hire plot was foiled.

The U.S government can drop $200 billion at the whim of a President to fight a war in Iraq, but the U.S can't afford to build enough prisons to keep monsters like the DUI killer or that other madman off the streets. What a shame.

[Needs Help]

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