Driver Who Tweeted '2 Drunk 2 Care' Sentenced To 24 Years For Killing 2 In Wrong-Way Car Crash

[spookyturtle 9,465]

I think jail time is for the victim's family. I have sons and if one of their friends was responsible for their death, I'd think jail time would be appropriate. 24 years, I think she might get way less than that for good behavior.

If your son was out drinking with them you'd still feel that way? I don't think I would. These girls were supposedly close friends.

I find that hard to believe.

I don't think this is the same as a cold blooded murder.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

If your son was out drinking with them you'd still feel that way? I don't think I would. These girls were supposedly close friends.

If he killed someone by drinking and driving, I'd expect him to get some jail time. His carelessness cause someone to die. You can't replace that.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

It's the universe's twist sense of irony. The drunk driver usually lives while someone else pays the ultimate price....

It's actually because they're drunk that they usually live. They're limper than the sober people. The sober people tense at the impact so their bodies don't absorb the impact as well. The drunk people are limp during the crash and their bodies absorb the impact better. Same reason that if there's a major accident and someone in one of the cars was asleep at time of impact, they have a better survival rate.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I don't think this is the same as a cold blooded murder.

No, it isn't. But the victims are equally dead.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

If he killed someone by drinking and driving, I'd expect him to get some jail time. His carelessness cause someone to die. You can't replace that.

You'd expect it because of the law. I put myself back to my younger days with my closest friends, things like this could have easily happened. There is no malice or ill intent. IMO, it's not the same type of crime.

The real problem is alcohol. It should be banned then deaths like this could be prevented.

Edited May 5, 2015 by spookyturtle

[Ban Hammer 12,839]

who's got the scorecards? i can't tell who is what race yet.

[Boiler 43,436]

No mention of status.

She will be out in 10.

[Operator 1,925]

When I was a teenager my Dad had a young carpenter that worked for him. He was late 20's married and a really skilled cabinet maker for his age. One Saturday night after too many beers he hit a car on a mountain road in the Berkshires. The passenger was a pregnant woman who ended up having a miscarriage caused by the accident but there were no other injuries. He ended up doing 7 years of a 15 year sentence in Walpole for vehicular manslaughter. If I remember correctly at the time it was the first conviction of that kind in Mass. on an unborn baby.

Drunk driving is always wrong and it ruined that guys life. His wife divorced him after a year inside, lifetime driving suspension in the state, not to mention the difficulty of being a convicted felon.

My dad would go and visit him in prison every few months, testified at his parole hearing and gave him a job when he got out but the guy was never the same. Disappeared into Alaska after he was released from parole and we never heard from him again.

This type of ####### happens way too often. In Korea there was a service where you could call someone to drive you home in your car, it cost a bit more than a taxi but in the morning you didn't have to go find your car. I'm sure the insurance companies in the US wouldn't allow something like that.

[Boiler 43,436]

There is a similar service in London, the use collapsible scooters.

[Operator 1,925]

The service in Seoul was awesome. You call the number and the service put your location on an app and all their registered drivers got a notification. The person who got to you first got the fare. I remember guy running into bars and KTVs to be the first one. Most of these guys worked on foot I think.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

When I was a teenager my Dad had a young carpenter that worked for him. He was late 20's married and a really skilled cabinet maker for his age. One Saturday night after too many beers he hit a car on a mountain road in the Berkshires. The passenger was a pregnant woman who ended up having a miscarriage caused by the accident but there were no other injuries. He ended up doing 7 years of a 15 year sentence in Walpole for vehicular manslaughter. If I remember correctly at the time it was the first conviction of that kind in Mass. on an unborn baby.

Drunk driving is always wrong and it ruined that guys life. His wife divorced him after a year inside, lifetime driving suspension in the state, not to mention the difficulty of being a convicted felon.

My dad would go and visit him in prison every few months, testified at his parole hearing and gave him a job when he got out but the guy was never the same. Disappeared into Alaska after he was released from parole and we never heard from him again.

This type of ####### happens way too often. In Korea there was a service where you could call someone to drive you home in your car, it cost a bit more than a taxi but in the morning you didn't have to go find your car. I'm sure the insurance companies in the US wouldn't allow something like that.

And that shows how messed up our prison systems is. They put him in Walpole with all the hard core murderers, rapists and violent offenders. They had some real animals in that prison.

[Boiler 43,436]

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Just one of many

[Operator 1,925]

And that shows how messed up our prison systems is. They put him in Walpole with all the hard core murderers, rapists and violent offenders. They had some real animals in that prison.

I was in the Marine Corps when he got out and i remember seeing him when I was home on leave visiting my family, you could tell he had been lifting weights 8 hours a day for 7 years. He was a happy, smart dude when he went in but that guy never made it out of prison. He was someone completely different when he came out. As bad as I felt for that family that lost the baby this guys life was lost that same night. The whole deal was real shame.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I don't know if jail serves any purpose in cases like these. Maybe a couple of years and then try to get your life together? 24 years and there was no malice or premeditation involved. Just three friends out for the night partying. I know if my best friend was driving and I got killed, I wouldn't want him in prison, if that makes any sense since I'd be dead. If it was my child who was killed I don't think I'd want their friend in jail for 20 years either.

To me a case like this is different than a drunk driver plowing into a group of people at a bus stop.

I agree.

Sad all around.

[GandD 5,966]

When I was a teenager my Dad had a young carpenter that worked for him. He was late 20's married and a really skilled cabinet maker for his age. One Saturday night after too many beers he hit a car on a mountain road in the Berkshires. The passenger was a pregnant woman who ended up having a miscarriage caused by the accident but there were no other injuries. He ended up doing 7 years of a 15 year sentence in Walpole for vehicular manslaughter. If I remember correctly at the time it was the first conviction of that kind in Mass. on an unborn baby.

Drunk driving is always wrong and it ruined that guys life. His wife divorced him after a year inside, lifetime driving suspension in the state, not to mention the difficulty of being a convicted felon.

My dad would go and visit him in prison every few months, testified at his parole hearing and gave him a job when he got out but the guy was never the same. Disappeared into Alaska after he was released from parole and we never heard from him again.

This type of ####### happens way too often. In Korea there was a service where you could call someone to drive you home in your car, it cost a bit more than a taxi but in the morning you didn't have to go find your car. I'm sure the insurance companies in the US wouldn't allow something like that.

Really? No one's gonna say something about this?