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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: John WrightJohn Wright Date: Jul 12, 2008 15:54
Doug wrote:
> On 10 Jul, 08:24, JNugent NPPTG.com> wrote:>> Doug wrote:
>>> On 9 Jul, 21:57, "DavidR" 4bidden.org.uk> wrote:>>>> "David Hansen" spidacom.co.uk> wrote>>>>> As one might expect with the Daily Wail, the headline bears little
>>>>> relationship to the contents of the story
>>>> In the Telegraph there was another story on the same page about a person
>>>> deliberately droving a LandRover at someone. The victim leapt of the way
>>>> but the driver was charged with assault. My thought was "why wasn't it
>>>> attempted murder?"
>>> Good point. Why aren't cars treated like any other lethal weapon?
>> Good point. Perhaps motor cars should be taxed and regulated like those
>> lethal weapons kitchen knives (even daggers), hammers and plastic bags.
>> Not to mention sleeping pills.
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> Any of which would involve a manslaughter charge if they inadvertently
> caused a death but why not a car? If a car is deliberately used to
> kill then that is treated as murder, just like any other weapon, but
> not if it is an involuntary cause. Obviously killer drivers are
> treated preferentially.
You posted something in another thread showing how a driver of a van had
been charged with murder. So its no so impossible as you like to portray.
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John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple Grandin
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