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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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I'm not angry at the headline. Just. Not a god damned thing is being done to slow down pedestrian and cyclists death on our streets and roads. Not a thing. All we get is a fucking painted line and hope that some asshole doesn't hit you. Start impounding peoples cars for traffic violations. Increase fines so luxury car drivers think twice about driving on the sidewalk.
Honestly you could do a lot by simply charging people the same as non car related crimes. Like if you or I got pissed/trashed/inebriated and killed a person we would get a totally different outcome if the tool used was a brick or a car.
If you got drunk, tossed a brick into the woods hit someone and accidentally killed a person it would be treated very similar to vehicular manslaughter in most states in the US.
Your issue is that don't bump up manslaughter charges to a second degree murder cause car?
Most times (at least around these parts I am) manslaughter hardly ever gets applied. They seem to treat it as an unrelated death. Jim has an "accident" and sadly Sue has passed away. Maybe if the police are feeling frisky we might get an "unsafe operation of a motor vehicle".
Fines should be based on economic status. A basic fine should be the greater of half a day's pay, or 0.1% of gross wealth before subtracting debt.
That would make everyone actually follow the rules.
No, no, no: manslaughter prision sentences for those who choose without real proven need to get a vehicle which is much more dangerous for pedestrians/cyclists and then end up killing a pedestrian/cyclist.
If I went around running on the sidewalk holding a fucking spear (properly sharpenned) in front of me pointing forward, with no care in the World (for no reason other than wanting to look manly), and ended up goring and killing somebody with it, I would be fucking rotting in jail for it and rightly so, so the exact same logic should apply to people who knowingly choose the vehicular option most dangerous to others and then use it without "due care and attention".
(PS: Sorry for the foul language, but the double standards of the Law on this versus every other single situation out there were people knowingly endanger the life of others with no need, really anger me).