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Originally Posted by Avatard
And while the above is correct, you're still wrong for the reason I stated:
It doesn't fucking matter who's at fault. If a child is involved, and ESPECIALLY if you are driving a sports car, or motorcycle, YOU ARE SIMPLY MADE OUT TO BE AT FAULT, BY THOSE IN POWER.
That was MY POINT.
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Case in point: One of the two big "racing" incidents that led to our recent racing and stunting incidents involved two young guys in ricers, who hit the car of a couple who were out celebrating their anniversary while their young daughter was at home with a sitter.
The papers were full of how these evil racers had been doing almost 100 Kmh (60 MPH) over the limit, while racing on city streets, and had robbed this little girl of her parents. Police played it up every time that they were interviewed. Politicians remarked on it while proposing the law.
Several things came out in court, that were rather interesting. The two "racers" weren't racing, and were doing perhaps 30 Kmh over the limit, which in that area was IIRC 70 Kmh. In addition the couple who were killed while innocently celebrating their anniversary had been drinking. In fact the husband, who was driving, was significantly over the legal limit for alcohol.
Very few people seem to know those facts, but everyone who watches the news or reads a newspaper remembers how evil street racers left a poor little girl an orphan.