IS IT YOU?

I read something that made me scream out loud. It was a case involving yet again, driving and stupidity.

I think that drunk driving should be met with jail time. First offense, suspension one year. Second offense, 24 months IN JAIL and permanent loss of your privilege to drive. I don't think there should be any wiggle room. This is being said having spent enough of my own time in the can.

The story that got me was to say the least tragic, and avoidable. Some asshole in the mid-west several years ago was texting his girlfriend while driving down a highway. Witness's would later report he was swerving minutes before the accident. Two people died because he crossed the double yellow line, hitting the on coming car enough to force it to spin out of control.

On the way to the hospital, the driver was in the patrol car of an officer, in the passenger seat, texting. The cop asked him," Were you texting when the accident happened?" The response was an emphatic NO!!!

This dick weed moved up to Canada to push his Mormon beliefs and get on with his life for several years. The cop though, was suspicious and filed a sub-peona for his phone records of that night. He eventually got it three years later. There was the truth. He had been texting his girlfriend from fifteen minutes prior to the accident, and seconds before impact. He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and did no time. He was inconvenienced with community service.

What killed me was that recently, this jerk-off had the nerve to tell the widow and families of the people he killed, that he was sorry, and didn't understand at the time the dangers of what he was doing. If that were true, and I couldn't see how it would be, why deny it when asked?

He should hope we never cross paths, for I will show him the dangers of what he was doing. We have had auto's in this country for one hundred years. When in that time did anyone say paying attention while driving was optional???

There has to be something to stop this. Alaska I must say has some progressive ideas in this area. To paraphrase,

'Any driver causing an accident while having any visually distracting component within the periphery of the drivers vision will go to jail for a significant amount of time. It does not include GPS, but does include most LCD screens.'

I am really fucking tired of people like this claiming ignorance and the court system allowing that excuse. "I didn't know" or "I didn't understand what I was doing was against the law", should add time onto your sentence. It is high time we really get a leash on this shit. Think about the people you see while driving and what their doing. People watch dvd's, play video games, put on make up, read the paper, text. WAKE UP YOU FUCKING MORONS!!! YOUR DRIVING!!! Your stupidity turns a car into a weapon. People, it's not just the drinks anymore. Is it you?