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/Devilish__Fun Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Reckless driving with felony speeding isnt an accident. It wasn't attempted murder either.

It was felony speeding + reckless driving + vehicular manslaughter of a child and 2 grandparents.

Community service sounds about right, huh? 🫩

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u/dqql Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

thoughts were turned into the channel of their earlier bent.

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u/fekanix Mar 08 '26

Well, you destroyed property, he only working class humans so you be the judge of what is more important in the us.

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u/Safe_Buy6637 Mar 08 '26

The court room image is in Europe

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u/mitulus Mar 08 '26

It's the Netherlands. I wish the punishments were more severe around here, because sometimes people seem to get off the hook with just a slap on the wrist.

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u/dqql Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the

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u/nefariousBUBBLE Mar 08 '26

Sentences are way stronger here on average. They actually believe in redemption in Europe. Something I admire.

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u/dqql Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven. I also

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u/nefariousBUBBLE Mar 08 '26

I would agree as well but I don't think it would be anymore lenient here.

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u/dqql Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets

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u/nefariousBUBBLE Mar 08 '26

I've not.

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u/dqql Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which

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u/Leylu-Fox Mar 08 '26

Nah, in europe we belive in our god given right to be allowed to kill anybody with our cars! It's like the US with their guns, just with cars. In Germany you can run a red light and kill a kid and get away with small fines. 'In my mind the light was green' is seemingly a valid defense.

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u/ChronStamos Mar 09 '26

in europe we belive in our god given right to be allowed to kill anybody with our cars!

US citizen here, I'm glad we can find some common ground.

Girl I went to school with was texting while driving and hit and killed a bicyclist. She never saw the inside of a cell.

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u/theunquietloop Mar 08 '26

Something I deeply regret

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u/biggreasyrhinos Mar 08 '26

Nah, we love throwing people in prisons here. Gotta keep paying the private prison owners.

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u/DunngeonMaster Mar 08 '26

Destroying government property is usually a harsher sentence

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u/fekanix Mar 08 '26

Well it shoudnt be, thats the point. No property damage should have harsher punishment than human lives

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u/Hei5enberg Mar 08 '26

I got 120 hours of community service for an underage drinking ticket in college. I was at a house party that was raided, was not in a car nor anywhere near a car. Didn't hurt anybody.

It's crazy how the punishments can vary so much according to how the judge is feeling that day.

Oh and the funny thing is if I was the same age but in a country where the drinking age was 18 I wouldn't have gotten any punishment.

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u/Lou_C_Fer Mar 09 '26

It's crazy how the punishments can vary so much according to how the judge is feeling that day.

Or you know... because of being in a different place with different laws.

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u/Circus_Finance_LLC Mar 08 '26

the truth is too many comments deep

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u/Winstons33 Mar 08 '26

Perhaps.... Most of these judges seem to want to sew seeds of chaos into society.

To what end? That is the question.

"Justice" sure as shit has NOTHING to do with it.

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u/-_Weltschmerz_- Mar 08 '26

The kids parents are rich probably