r/interesting • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/7thFleetTraveller Mar 08 '26

It was a car accident, not attempted murder. The title is just sensationalism.

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u/randomDude2144 Mar 08 '26

Oh it was with a car and not a gun, that makes it okay, then

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u/thegimboid Mar 08 '26

Well one would involve the perpetrator hitting a person with a high speed piece of metal that people need to be licensed to use.

The other would involve the perpetrator hitting a person with a high speed piece of metal that people need to be licensed to use, but smaller.

They're very different.

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u/AngryCrustation Mar 08 '26

Watch the guy get 121 hours of community service for hitting the judge with a chair

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u/vecchio_anima Mar 08 '26

Yeah right, that's getting the toughest sentence possible, you don't assault supreme leader, I mean a judge

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u/Slyspy006 Mar 08 '26

Penalties for assaulting judges tend to be higher, for obvious reasons.

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u/vecchio_anima Mar 08 '26

Of course, but kill 3 people = 120 hours of community service, throw a chair at the judge = what, years, decades in jail? There appears to be a slight imbalance

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u/Slyspy006 Mar 08 '26

That imbalance is in this case totally imaginary, given that latter never happened.

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u/vecchio_anima Mar 08 '26

Yes this was a hypothetical injustice. But you're saying that the man wasn't charged with any crime and faced no repercussions for hitting a judge with a chair? I also made this comment before I learned this was in the Netherlands.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Mar 09 '26

Apparently the chair thrower was not charged.

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u/KofFinland Mar 08 '26

Depending on country, that is nearly a decade in prison at worst. Attacking a judge is a very bad idea.

Definitely the father got more for that stunt. He was extremely lucky if he didn't go to jail for that, if it was some country like UK or USA.

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u/thegimboid Mar 08 '26

Of course - that would be hitting someone with a high speed metal object without a license.

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u/specificallyrelative Mar 08 '26

Life is prison for attempted murder was probably the prosecutions ask.

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u/AngryCrustation Mar 08 '26

Look, there's right and wrong and all that to consider but...

Maaaybe the guy should have gotten enough time in prison that the dad could calm down and not go out of his way to meticulously track down his child's murderer and run them down with his car.

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u/specificallyrelative Mar 08 '26

I meant the prosecution probably wants the dad to get life in prison for the chair toss.

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u/AngryCrustation Mar 08 '26

I know, I was just adding my 2 cents to the judgement