DiscussWorldIssues - Socio-Economic Religion and Political Uncensored Debate - View Single Post - Women jaywalks with kids, driver kills one

**MadMark** · 07-26-2011, 10:12 PM

Reckless endangerment?

[rolleyes] Seriously? Everything is reckless endangerment if something bad results from it. She left the house that day with her kids. If she wouldn't have left the house her child would be alive to day. Maybe the courts should tack on a few more years.

I agree it seems extreme to punish her further after she's already had a child die, but she was in the wrong, for the sake of a 10-15 minute walk.

Ever walk half a mile with kids? 100ft or half a mile...If the child wouldn't have gotten hit and killed, would anyone have called anything she did reckless? Pretty sure crossing the street is normal even without a crosswalk. This mother shouldn't be in the news at all, other than crying on camera. The public should be crying out for the driver's blood. (That's usually how it works in America.)

07-26-2011, 10:12 PM	#29
MadMark Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 491 Senior Member	Reckless endangerment? [rolleyes] Seriously? Everything is reckless endangerment if something bad results from it. She left the house that day with her kids. If she wouldn't have left the house her child would be alive to day. Maybe the courts should tack on a few more years. I agree it seems extreme to punish her further after she's already had a child die, but she was in the wrong, for the sake of a 10-15 minute walk. Ever walk half a mile with kids? 100ft or half a mile...If the child wouldn't have gotten hit and killed, would anyone have called anything she did reckless? Pretty sure crossing the street is normal even without a crosswalk. This mother shouldn't be in the news at all, other than crying on camera. The public should be crying out for the driver's blood. (That's usually how it works in America.)
	Quote