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RE: [ST] Re: st-digest V2004 #677



A sad story just got sadder.  Sorry for your loss, Paul, and especially for 
his kids.


dunc

STeve Duncan
Tejas
'00 Sprint-ST
"the redhead"




>From: phsammut@xxxxxxxx

>
>A few weeks ago I wrote about a friend of mine who was killed by a young
>girl SUV driver turning left in front of him.  Well, the "strong" arm of
>the law here in the U.S. swooped into action...the girl, who had neither
>license nor insurance, has been given two citations - one for failure to
>yield, and the other for driving without insurance!
>I have no desire to see the future of this naiive child destroyed by her
>mistake, but to see that the life of an individual - a husband and a highly
>skilled person (an Invasive Procedures Radiologist) - is dismissed so
>simply because he was riding a motorcycle makes me fume.
>  As long as vehicles can be purchased off the rack like a pair of jeans 
>and
>a license is handed out to children (and everyone else) after looking at a
>manual for 10 minutes, this sort of thing will continue.  We somehow have
>to instill into the culture that operating a vehicle (2,4 or 18-wheeled) is
>like carrying a loaded gun that can go off if we lose concentration and
>that if that does happen we will be punished the same way as if we had
>discharched the weapon.  I'll stop ranting, now.
>By the way, several members of the list sent very kind notices of
>condolences which I answered for the most part.  Unfortunately, 2 of them
>were accidentally deleted before I could respond.  So if you sent me a note
>and didn't get a response, I want to thank you very much and apologize for
>being an idiot who doesn't mean to be rude.
>
>Paul.



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