Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: Driver suspended 78 times still on road with you andme

[LarryT (l02turner]

   I always wonder why they think adding more penalties will make them 
change their behaviour?   He has ignoired 78 offenses - and those are only 
the ones he was caught doing.  He's probably driven drunk dozens or hundreds 
of times and was not caught or managed not to hit anyone/thing.

   Yet they fine him and put him in jail for short times - he probably 
never paid the fines assessed as the only recourse is to suspend his 
license - which he doesn;t care about.  They could take his car and if he 
wanted to drive bad enough he'd steal or borrow a car .

   There seems to be a general denial about how and why people break laws. 
It's like having a law against murder and then adding a law saying it's 
illegal to use a gun to commit murder.  If the purpose of laws are to 
control behaviour, and people are willing to *kill* someone, adding another 
law saying it's illegal to kill someone with a gun is a collossal waste of 
time!   IMO, People who break laws fall into 3 groups - common criminals who 
choose to live on the outside of the law and those who live within the law 
their whole life but something happens and they snap and the last group who 
stay within the law usually by luck.  The people in the 2nd group would be 
like a guy who sees his 6 yr old daughter run down by a drunk driver who 
then hits a tree. The father sees his daughter is beyond help and beats the 
drunk to death.    In neither cases of these kinds of people will laws make 
them stop and say, "Oh, I can't do that, it's illegal".

   With all the money we spend on the *huge* number of legislators in this 
country - county, city, state, federal elected legislators and all the 
unelected bureaucrats assisting them , I would hope they would work on 
important legislation - not waste our time & money.

   Just heard my state - Va - will have 890 laws take effect today.  Eight 
Hundred Ninety!!  How could we as a civilized Commonwealth freakin' survive 
for 200+ years if we were missing nearly 900 laws???!!

   But I guess it's only money.  Our money, but no one cares about that.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick" <Forza355 [at] verizon.net>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:25 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] NFC: Driver suspended 78 times still on road with you 
andme


> well maybe not much longer. Should'nt he have been put in jail  say, ohhhh 
> maybe after  the 70th suspension or the12th DUI? Well i guess that would 
> mean he would'nt have had even more chances to kill someones parents or 
> kids ,and liberal judges just cant throw any reckless driver in jail for 
> no good cause.
> Rick
>
>
> Jul 1, 7:03 AM (ET)
>
>
> MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man whose driver's license has been 
> suspended 78 times has pleaded guilty to his 15th drunken-driving offense.
>
> Shaun Campbell of East Rutherford told a judge Tuesday that he had been 
> drinking "quite a bit" of beer when he crashed his SUV head-on into a 
> pickup in April. The truck's occupants, a man and his 4-year-old daughter, 
> were not seriously hurt.
>
> The 40-year-old Campbell's blood-alcohol level was .288 percent, more than 
> triple the state's legal limit.
>
> Authorities say Campbell's license has been suspended 78 times in 22 
> years. He still faces drunken-driving charges in two other New Jersey 
> cities.
>
> Prosecutors are seeking a maximum prison term of nearly three years at 
> Campbell's sentencing in August. He will lose his license for at least 10 
> more years.
>
> http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090701/D995K53O0.html
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