cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/57614897
Father Throws Chair at judge after Driver who Killed his Family got 120 Hours of Community Service
5 days ago by Hanrahan to c/fuckcars
Obviously.
Yeah, then he'd be fine, as long as he has insurance coverage and doesn't flee the scene.
but have a few drinks first, so he can get off.
Not until after the chair was thrown.
If that affects it at all, it decreases the punishment the father will get. If the ruling had immediately been 15 months, the throwing would have been much less justified and whatever punishment he gets would be therefore harsher.
That’s really crazy! Only 120 hours community service?
Does anyone know the details of what actually happened?
edit
I didn’t see the link to what happened at first.
The motorist killed the toddler and her 67 and 64-year-old grandparents instantly when he went off the road at 75mph in a 50mph zone.
If I were the killer in that situation, not that I ever would be, I would actually want to be given a harsher sentence than that. Because what we just witnessed in that video is the creation of a vigilante. When the government won't seek justice for people whose lives are completely ruined, those people will seek justice themselves, and I don't want to receive that sort of justice.
It has the desired effect in the society. I don't see much reason in spending money for a sentence harsher than what is needed to stop people from committing such crimes.
I’m always a bit nervous when driving in cities that someone will jump in front of my car on purpose to get hit and scam me.
When I first saw this sentencing I wondered if that was what happened and it went wrong.
But clearly the system is just broken to only get such a small offense. I wonder if the defendant is related to someone powerful.
I think they finally fixed it in Denmark. That would be called hazardous driving and someone just got 4 years for killing someone due to it. The sentence was reduced since he showed remorse, could have gone all the way up to 10 years.
Det er flettet ind i straffeloven:
§ 241. Den, som uagtsomt forvolder en andens død, straffes med bøde eller fængsel indtil 4 måneder eller under særligt skærpende omstændigheder med fængsel indtil 10 år. Er forholdet begået i forbindelse med spirituskørsel, overtrædelse af færdselslovens § 54, stk. 1 eller 2, særligt hensynsløs kørsel eller de groveste hastighedsovertrædelser, anses dette som en særligt skærpende omstændighed.
The motorist killed the toddler and her 67 and 64-year-old grandparents instantly when he went off the road at 75mph in a 50mph zone.
yeah, fuck you. you lost control while speeding and you killed people as a direct result.
straight to prison, do not pass go, loss of license for five years when you get out with mandatory training before relicensing, plus restitution to the family.
And deserves to be in a cell with Big Beautiful Bill.
How about we don't use rape as punishment
That's fucking disgusting. Pain for more pain. Blood for the blood god. MORE MEAT FOR ME!!!
i hope people stay away from you
Well the verdict has been appealed an the driver has been jailed now.
Calm down
Edit: This was meant for readers and commenters. I'm not telling the father in the video to calm down.
The new verdict is still unbelievably unjust. And even if it were acceptable, we should be just as pissed at this judge and the system.
Could have done without the calm down. It doesn't make right how the judge made such an absurd judgement the first go round. We will be calm if stupid 'punishments' aren't dished out in the first place. And if people became more responsible in the death boxes on the roadways.
No I am talking to readers and the comments around me.
I'd obviously not have said that to the father.
Ah, I see now how my comment can be read as a direct reply to the video :0
I'll specify in an edit
That was more than 10 years ago. And also changed later. Fucking ragebait.
Bummer that the judge didn't take the chair square in the temple.
In 2014. In the Netherlands, the most bicycle safe country on the planet. After which the sentence was changed on appeal to four years in prison.
This sub is turning into ragebait for those who can't bother to read articles or research.
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And now the father will get a harsher sentence than the killer?
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