Crazy. Story: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/mother-whose-son-killed-hit-run-faces-two-201219312.html For one, why are the crosswalks so far apart? Is it an area with undeveloped streets or residences? Most of these days, pedestrians are still lazy and can't walk to the next crosswalk or intersection. This incident reminds me of people being hit at the NE 82nd bus stop and MAX station. Report. http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2010/02/new_peoples_department_of_tran.html For the problem at 82nd I am glad the wall is up, and before that I always honked at people all the time running across the road against the light.
One reason taxes are high is that the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world. In our prison nation, the sentences are outlandish. In Cobb County, jaywalking gets you up to 2 years in prison. Imagine the personality traits it must take to be a prosecutor. Monsters.
I see people cross 50 feet from a crosswalk though heavy traffic. That sort of laziness I can't understand... and I have seen mothers run across with their kids plenty of times. I seriously have no idea what they are thinking.
That's the part of the story that got me. She was being irresponsible with her kids, but watching your son get run over and die about covers it in terms of punishment for me. Going to jail longer than the drunk who ran over your kid while drunk driving for at least the third time that we're aware of is overkill.
Agree. If you just started cutting off limbs for theft, and killing people for rape or murder or armed robbery, then there'd be a few less people in prison.
