Re: [ST] mandatory jail (was IDIOTS)

[david.funk@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I disagree!
I don't think having an ACCIDENT should mean mandatory jail.
I think we must accept that bad things can happen.

But an accident is NOT a drunk driver, running a stop sign, or other avoidable things.

David W. Funk
Pleasanton, CA

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> At 12:03 PM 8/9/2005 - st-triumphnet.com-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx offered: 
> >Last year a drunk pickup truck driver (.12 IIRC) killed a rider last year 
> >and messed up the passenger petty badly near my daughter's house. All he 
> >got was a slap on the wrist! 
> 
> I think *we* are partly to blame for not making our wishes known to our 
> various state representatives and the AMA by supporting a mandatory jail 
> sentence for anyone killing others on the road. As it stands currently 
> there is no such law on the books, hence sentences are light. We need a 
> MADD equivalent for motorcyclists, instead most m/c riders just don't care 
> to get involved in politics. But that is what is really needed. 
> 
> 
> Ken T. from Ca. 
> 
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> 
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