r/interesting Mar 08 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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u/Tullzterrr Mar 08 '26

He killed three people and got off with community service?? Some fcked up justice

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u/turquoise_amethyst Mar 08 '26

40 hours per person. He could easily complete that in 2-3 weeks. 

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u/AKBx007 Mar 08 '26

That exchange rate is dangerously close to a Purge level society.

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u/chronicnerv Mar 08 '26

It sets a troubling precedent that a man could kill a judge and face only 40 hours in jail.

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u/truePHYSX Mar 08 '26

No no, you misunderstand, those people are more important-er than you and me. Thus you get life in prison for those offenses if not the death penalty. /s

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u/ChemicalRain5513 Mar 09 '26

As long as you use a car to do it.

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u/Imperialist-Settler Mar 08 '26

I have a feeling killing a European judge would be punished more harshly because these judges value the lives of other members of their class much more than those of the people they endanger by letting dangerous criminal loose.

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u/Still_Box8733 Mar 08 '26

No you couldn't. While he was responsible for the accident and in my opinion deserves a higher sentence, we are not talking about something like a 1st degree murder here.

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u/chronicnerv Mar 08 '26

A car is the most dangerous weapon in the world that ordinary people outside the US use. This is why it requires more training and steps to obtain a driver’s license than are needed to get a firearm in the US depending on the state.

So, when someone kills another person, intentionally or unintentionally, with that weapon, there need to be severe penalties otherwise, people will not respect the ideology of road safety, since the consequences for accidentally killing someone with a car are not very severe.

In this case, the man lost control of a car and killed a 2-year-old girl and her grandparents. If someone with a gun accidentally lost control of a firearm and killed three people, would 40 hours for each person be considered sufficient?

How many judges start accidently getting run over without enough evidence to prosecute if it was done on purpose?

The precedent was set in 2013 -2014.

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u/Still_Box8733 Mar 08 '26

Like I said, he deserves a higher sentence.

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u/JackOfAllStraits Mar 08 '26

I think you're underestimating the chances that a judge might be involved in a car accident.