The law is a joke!
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BlackLabel said:
According to the Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3101081/Pi...
"A friend hired it on behalf of Haroon as he only held a provisional licence and he had been giving lifts to a number of his friends."
Hope he gets same sentencehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3101081/Pi...
"A friend hired it on behalf of Haroon as he only held a provisional licence and he had been giving lifts to a number of his friends."
marmitemania said:
I don't think driving at 80 through a residential was taking much care to avoid an accident. Hang the fu@ker high.
Neither of the roads concerned (Bury Rd and Sandy La) are residential roads (as described by el beeb ) - though they both have houses adjacent the road, they are main drags; one runs straight in to the town centre from the west and the other is a north-south-town-centre-westerly-bypass-of-sorts.But when did the facts ever get in the way of a good story??
I'd be looking at hanging the BBC "reporter" who posted this drivel, personally - but that's a thread for NP&E.
D'oh!
B'stard Child said:
BlackLabel said:
According to the Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3101081/Pi...
"A friend hired it on behalf of Haroon as he only held a provisional licence and he had been giving lifts to a number of his friends."
Hope he gets same sentencehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3101081/Pi...
"A friend hired it on behalf of Haroon as he only held a provisional licence and he had been giving lifts to a number of his friends."
Blakewater said:
Lots of people have done stupid things as teenagers and got away without doing harm. I daresay a few people on here have. They've all had the chance to grow up and become more sensible and most have. I don't condone what this guy did and nothing will bring back the person he killed, but should he really have the rest of his life taken away because of it?
There are degrees of stupidity though. Doing 80 on a motorway is breaking the law, as is 80 through a residential street and going through a red light. One is very stupid indeed.Driving like that was going to end badly at some point, it was just a matter of when. He deserves a long sentence.....actually he deserved to die in the accident rather than the innocent victim.
98elise said:
Blakewater said:
Lots of people have done stupid things as teenagers and got away without doing harm. I daresay a few people on here have. They've all had the chance to grow up and become more sensible and most have. I don't condone what this guy did and nothing will bring back the person he killed, but should he really have the rest of his life taken away because of it?
There are degrees of stupidity though. Doing 80 on a motorway is breaking the law, as is 80 through a residential street and going through a red light. One is very stupid indeed.Driving like that was going to end badly at some point, it was just a matter of when. He deserves a long sentence.....actually he deserved to die in the accident rather than the innocent victim.
aw51 121565 said:
Neither of the roads concerned (Bury Rd and Sandy La) are residential roads (as described by el beeb ) - though they both have houses adjacent the road, they are main drags; one runs straight in to the town centre from the west and the other is a north-south-town-centre-westerly-bypass-of-sorts.
Are you taking the piss? Sandy Lane not residential? Sorry? It's got hardly any straights, it has busy caaaahncil houses on either side. Bury Road has - all in the proximity of said junction shops, cemetary, petrol station, pub, many houses and junctions to many, many more houses.
There's a reason I know all this.
Funnily enough I was once in the Cemetary Pub one night and there was a tremendous screech and a bang. Went outside and there was a crashed car and a body lying with it's head against the kerb with all the brains coming out. I went back into the pub. That driver was a person, innit, bruv, who had steamed through the lights, on red, at about 80.
There's a reason that neither I nor any of my mates will drive in certain areas of Rochdale at night - it's all of the idiots, innit, tooling around in brand new RS4s, M3s etc etc with their mates hanging out of the windows wanting a race or just driving like utter tools.
AlexC1981 said:
Not defending him, but when you are 19 you don't really think about the consequences of driving fast. When I was 19 my car had 47bhp. Looking back, I'm glad that's all it had!
Rubbish.I'd say most 12 year olds know the risks and consequences, let alone an 18 year old.
I can't believe how people can come on here and defend a fully grown MAN who willfully took risks with other peoples' lives. Innocent lives.
Driving uninsured - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving unlicenced - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving dangerously - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving through a red light - 18 year olds don't do this.
Driving obscenely fast (80+ in a 30) - 18 year olds again don't do this
This poor excuse of a human managed to do all of the above - at the same time. Age is no excuse. He is human vermin.
As someone else said, what sentence would someone get for spraying bullets randomly down the street and killing someone? Why is it so different when a vehicle is involved?
oyster said:
Driving uninsured - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving unlicenced - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving dangerously - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving through a red light - 18 year olds don't do this.
Driving obscenely fast (80+ in a 30) - 18 year olds again don't do this
I'd probably agree with the "not many" which means an absolute st load do. Also they occasionally do drive obscenely fast and they do go through red lights, I don't know what world you live in but it ain't the same one as me.Driving unlicenced - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving dangerously - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving through a red light - 18 year olds don't do this.
Driving obscenely fast (80+ in a 30) - 18 year olds again don't do this
StottyEvo said:
oyster said:
Driving uninsured - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving unlicenced - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving dangerously - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving through a red light - 18 year olds don't do this.
Driving obscenely fast (80+ in a 30) - 18 year olds again don't do this
I'd probably agree with the "not many" which means an absolute st load do. Also they occasionally do drive obscenely fast and they do go through red lights, I don't know what world you live in but it ain't the same one as me.Driving unlicenced - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving dangerously - not many 18 year olds would do that.
Driving through a red light - 18 year olds don't do this.
Driving obscenely fast (80+ in a 30) - 18 year olds again don't do this
As to the world I live in, not a place where many teenagers kill innocent people for fun.
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