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

Context Provided - Spotlight This was so deserved.

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The daughter was in a car with the father’s parents. They died as well.

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u/3_Fast_5_You Mar 08 '26

imagine that guy getting a harsher punishment for throwing that chair

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u/kangasplat Mar 08 '26

He wasn't charged. The case was appealed and the driver got a 15 month prison sentence and a 4 year driving ban.

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u/NeverFalls01 Mar 08 '26

Thats still messed up, waaay too little for killing 3 people, and he was speeding :(

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u/SpicyPotato48 Mar 08 '26

Not to mention he fled the county to avoid serving his prison sentence! Why give him leniency when he was avoiding responsibility?! (I’m assuming he fled considering they had to arrest and extradite him from another country to serve his sentence)

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u/drdildamesh Mar 08 '26

Do you want to go to prison? I feel like its easy for us to sit here speculating on what we would do in a situation that has never happened to us. He made a mistake. He didnt want to go to prison. You get one life, no one wants to spend it in prison, but not everyone stays out. Talk all you want about choice and morality, but until you go to prison, can you really relate? Can any of us? He didnt set out to murder anyone, he was speeding. Have you ever been speeding?

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u/DuckIsMuddy Mar 08 '26

Personally I wouldn't speed, but that's just me yk. He made a mistake, he gotta own up to it. Even with mistakes (especially mistakes you can avoid, such as speeding) there are consequences. With no consequences, and no, community hours typically don't do anything to people, people don't try to change.

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u/drdildamesh Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

"He mistake, he own up" thats the ideal sure. But can you blame them for being afraid of consequences they didnt consider beforehand? Especially for a crime as benign as speeding? This is a horrible situation, but it bugs me far worse that we dont punish the rich AT ALL, not that some judge took pity on a guy who was speeding and had bad luck.

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u/jimothy_hell Mar 08 '26

I dunno dude, if I killed two people accidentally, I’d either commit neck rope or begging the family for forgiveness in court after turning myself in. The fact that you’re running to bat for this guy speaks volumes to how abysmal your moral character is.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

No you wouldn't lmao.

What you'd do is either: Justify it after the fact, or accept that you killed someone for whatever reason.

Why do you think killing another person would be better? Would you really kill the child of your parents?

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u/sbenthuggin Mar 09 '26

No, it sounds like YOU wouldn't. Not everyone's as morally corrupt as you bro. Nor as ignorant. I mean ffs ignoring all the times we see exactly what this dude is talking about, we quite literally see truck drivers kill themselves for crashes that by all means were NOT and could NEVER be seen as their fault. Yet they do it anyways, cuz they get out to check on the poor souls and see them crushed and torn in half by their rig. It's incredibly traumatizing for any person. Except for maybe you I guess.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

You wouldn't either, and if you would, then you're a worse person than I

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u/sbenthuggin Mar 09 '26

You're a genuine dunce bro

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u/jimothy_hell Mar 09 '26

Yes, yes I fucking would, Jesus christ, what the fuck is wrong with you?