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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To 17:41... I'm happy your brothers never killed anyone. However, if they had, they would have been guilty of a horrific offense. Not a terrible lapse in judgement.

I'm happy your brothers never killed anyone not for their sake. Or yours. Or your parents. But the INNOCENT PEOPLE who would have paid the price for their dumb-assness.

And many more than 4 lives were ruined. The 3 people who paid the ultimate price. The daughter. The grandparents she is now living with lost a child & their spouse and grandson. The many friends that Tommy must have had at school. He had a bright future. Perhaps the citizens of our state/country lost out as well.

Have you ever been through loss? You don't "get over" people being gone. You just learn to deal with it.

Hopefully, other lives that have been ruined include this dude's parents who enabled him time and time again. And the family's attorney who got him off so many charges.  Oh, and this dude, too. But honestly, he is a waste of air.

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I have been through loss. I said all their lives were ruined, does that imply getting over it?

I don't know what the difference is between "offense" and "lack of  judgment." Acting recklessly is simply not the same as acting with intent.

I find it strange that someone expressing sadness over the entire situation makes you all so angry. None of you have ever texted while driving? Drove home after one too many? Took your eyes off the road while your kid screamed at you? Drive too fast? I'm not saying the kid should get off or get a light sentence. But you all should be grateful that in one of your less attentive moments you didn't accidentally kill someone. It happens everyday. Acknowledging this persons' humanity isn't a betrayal to the victims. He should pay, but he's also a person.[/quote]
You're going out of your way to defend this turd. Any sympathy people might have had is undone by the habitual nature of his speeding. If you're not his family then you've probably been planted by the lawyer who said his client was only doing the speed limit after the crash, implying the Volt was at fault. It's hard to imagine you're just a disinterested party. [/quote]

Wow. No I am a completely disinterested party actually. I've never implied the volt was at fault.

One of those brothers I mentioned was killed as a teenager when a car hit him on a bike. The car was going too fast on a residential street and she was distracted by the kids in her car as she approached an intersection where he was coming out of. The car was driven by a middle aged  white Potomac mother (who knew my brother, he was friends with her son). The only person more distraught than us that day was her. Maybe a middle aged white woman is a demographic you can sympathize with more? She'd had tickets before too.

So I'm not a plant, but I am someone who has experienced loss due to shitty driving and someone who knows first hand how every single person involved feels forever changed. And someone that has worked very hard to feel forgiveness. Part of that is realizing that anyone can do a terrible thing in single moment of recklessness. And that it doesn't mean they are a terrible person. And having known a bunch of 20 year old boys intimately as my other brothers grew up I can tell you they are stupid and feel invincible and the culture of  Potomac parenting just bolsters this.

The only point I've actually tried to make is that I don't think the driver is the devil. Just that I think he is also one of his own victims. Why is the idea of having empathy for someone so completely disgusting to you?[/quote]

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I'm very sorry for your loss, but your empathy is misplaced. The situation you describe  is very different then the accident we are talking about. This guy wasn't having a bad moment. He willfully took everyone's lives in his hands with his decisions. That fact he wasn't distracted actually makes it so much worse. He intended to drive that speed on that road. [/quote]

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