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Footballer drunk-driver jailed for killing

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    #11
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    If you start giving life for these then those people won't have anything to lose - they'd know they get life anyway, so they'd kill some other people as well.

    The wrong thing is release before tariff is fully served - there should not be such thing as early release at all, if you don't behave in prison you should get extra years on top of sentence.
    Could we send them to Gulag?

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      #12
      Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
      The Toyota Previa:

      http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...33_468x325.jpg


      The Range Rover:

      http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...91_468x286.jpg


      I wonder why middle class moms drive giant 4 tonne bull-bar coated 4x4's these days?
      To be pedantic, that is actually a Range Rover Sport. Smaller than a Range Rover. A Range Rover would probably have been damaged even less.

      Rule #76: No excuses. Play like a champion.

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        #13
        Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
        I wonder why middle class moms drive giant 4 tonne bull-bar coated 4x4's these days?
        Bull bars are illegal, due to the damage they did in pedestrian collisions
        The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

        But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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          #14
          Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post
          Bull bars are illegal, due to the damage they did in pedestrian collisions
          Are they? I ask because I've seen quite few 4x4's and pickups here with them fitted. Big 2 inch diameter chromed steel jobbies. Good for killing children even at 10 MPH.

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            #15
            Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
            The Toyota Previa:

            http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...33_468x325.jpg


            The Range Rover:

            http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...91_468x286.jpg


            I wonder why middle class moms drive giant 4 tonne bull-bar coated 4x4's these days?
            When why gf walks the kids to school white van man is always curteous and polite. It is the mothers in their 4WD who try to run them down.

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              #16
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              Are they? I ask because I've seen quite few 4x4's and pickups here with them fitted. Big 2 inch diameter chromed steel jobbies. Good for killing children even at 10 MPH.
              http://www.whatcar.com/news-special-...420&EL=3195928
              The court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.

              But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”

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                #17
                Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                The Toyota Previa:

                http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...33_468x325.jpg


                The Range Rover:

                http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...91_468x286.jpg


                I wonder why middle class moms drive giant 4 tonne bull-bar coated 4x4's these days?
                Nice bit of sensationalism there.
                The Toyota will have been cut to pieces by the fire service to get the bodies out.
                There is nothing to say the Range Rover was responsible for the damage to the Toyota.

                FWIW I think he should have got longer. I suspect if he was facing life he would have pleaded not guilty and got Mr Loophole to represent him.
                I am not qualified to give the above advice!

                The original point and click interface by
                Smith and Wesson.

                Step back, have a think and adjust my own own attitude from time to time

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                  The Toyota Previa:

                  http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...33_468x325.jpg


                  The Range Rover:

                  http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/...91_468x286.jpg


                  I wonder why middle class moms drive giant 4 tonne bull-bar coated 4x4's these days?
                  Yes it's a real pity that that poor family probably couldn't afford the same level of protection.

                  More of a pity that the footballer could afford a RR, I’m not saying I wanted him to die or anything but great power comes great responsibility and all that.
                  Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by AtW View Post
                    If you start giving life for these then those people won't have anything to lose - they'd know they get life anyway, so they'd kill some other people as well.

                    The wrong thing is release before tariff is fully served - there should not be such thing as early release at all, if you don't behave in prison you should get extra years on top of sentence.


                    He's hardly likely to try to kill more people as this was an 'accident' anyway.

                    The most reduction anybody gets should be no more than 10% IMO.

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                      #20
                      This doesn't stop owners fitting aftermarket bars to their cars, though.
                      Everyone has them here. It's almost mandatory. I'm sure some of them have blades fitted. It's like Mad Max in Swindon.

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