"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:47:43 -0400, said:
Try to imagine, difficult as that might be for you, that the sailboat
was drifting unmanned and unlighted, except for two children under the
age of 7. Their father is below decks, incapacitated, becasue he is
dead from a heart attack. If a powerboat struck it at an estimated 40
mph, don't you think that possibly the powerboat would be at least
partially to blame for the collision? I think there is an excellent
chance that they would be found to be more to blame than the unmanned
sailboat.
I'm finding it hard to follow your argument here, Not at All. Are you
suggesting that the sailboat operator is absolved of all responsibility
because he was dead drunk?
You are stupid beyond belief. Ignorant, stubborn and opinionated, too.
The operator of the power boat was drunk too. But, in his case, the
authorities didn't even test him (because he was a fellow crony and a cop)
with the breathalyzer because they knew he would read drunk. Then a couple
hours later they gave him a blood test which test they then completely
blotched the transport. Whose blood was it they finally tested?
Then they squelched any and all evidence that should have been presented in
court in order to clear the off-duty cop who ran his boat into the sailboat
from behind at a high rate of speed. Your thinking is warped and typical of
a suck-ass, police state lover and advocate.
The state of sobriety of the sailboat helmsman was not the problem. The
reckless, high speed operation in limited visibility of the powerboat was.
The facts are what matter. These are the facts. The very most the sailboat
helmsman should have been convicted of was operating under the influence.
The crime of manslaughter is the sole responsibility of the careless
motorboat operator.
And, you're such a hypocrite. I bet if your wife got run over by some idiot
going 70 mph down a 20mph residential street and she happened to be slightly
inebriated you would be singing a different tune. Oh yes you would. It would
be all the motorists fault and you know it.
You disgust me. Get lost.
Wilbur Hubbard.