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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 06:44 AM
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29. Drive drunk, kill somebody and you go away for years.
Kill somebody while having a cell phone in your hand, go away for days, ooo, and write an essay :eyes:
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  -Sentence for distracted cell phone driver: 30 days, 1000 word essay, pay funeral expenses, 10k fine Liberal_in_LA  Oct-09-09 08:22 AM   #0 
  - Texas Justice  discocrisco01   Oct-09-09 08:24 AM   #1 
  - Show me a person on life for a DUI  TxRider   Oct-09-09 01:22 PM   #11 
     - There is almost certainly no such person.  armyowalgreens   Oct-10-09 12:39 AM   #26 
  - If that were Bush  PATRICK   Oct-09-09 08:25 AM   #2 
  - shared stupidity?  thesquanderer   Oct-09-09 09:14 AM   #3 
  - You left out "10 years probation in the title." It was a fair sentence.  TexasObserver   Oct-09-09 09:16 AM   #4 
  - an essay?? my mind flashed on Bart Simpson  SoCalDem   Oct-09-09 09:21 AM   #5 
  - well...it does say that she was humble- so much so that they capitalized it.  dysfunctional press   Oct-09-09 09:24 AM   #6 
  - You do understand that "Humble" is the name of a town in Texas, right, and therefore capped?  REP   Oct-09-09 01:28 PM   #13 
     - you do understand the purpose of the sarcasm smilie, right..?  dysfunctional press   Oct-09-09 06:40 PM   #14 
     - And to make things more confusing  KatyMan   Oct-09-09 06:48 PM   #17 
  - The sentence may be light, but it's a violation of her 8th Amendment rights.  Towlie   Oct-09-09 09:31 AM   #7 
  - I agree  gopiscrap   Oct-09-09 10:44 AM   #9 
  - She killed someone  Confusious   Oct-10-09 12:33 AM   #22 
  - Negligence is negligence. It doesn't matter that there is no precedent for cell phone use.  armyowalgreens   Oct-10-09 12:38 AM   #25 
  - Thats funny  Confusious   Oct-10-09 12:32 AM   #21 
  - I think you are misinterpreting the Constitution...  armyowalgreens   Oct-10-09 12:36 AM   #24 
  - Ultimately, she was convicted for criminally negligent homicide, which is in TX law.  Selatius   Oct-10-09 12:48 AM   #27 
  - 1000 words is not an essay. It's an introduction to an essay.  BlooInBloo   Oct-09-09 09:32 AM   #8 
  - thanks BlooInBloo  Liberal_in_LA   Oct-09-09 01:18 PM   #10 
  - Agreed. What is that, a page and a half?  NYC Liberal   Oct-09-09 06:45 PM   #15 
     - No 4 pages. Each page, double spaced, is 250 words. Check your next paper on Word  Nikki Stone1   Oct-09-09 06:56 PM   #18 
        - I've never been given papers with a word length  NYC Liberal   Oct-09-09 11:03 PM   #20 
        - That's a pretty light paper depending on the subject matter.  armyowalgreens   Oct-10-09 12:35 AM   #23 
           - Oh definitely it is  NYC Liberal   Oct-10-09 06:32 AM   #28 
        - As an English instructor, you ought to know that "double-spaced" is hyphenated.  Chef Eric   Oct-10-09 07:03 AM   #30 
  - And motorcycle riders across the state rejoice...  TxRider   Oct-09-09 01:23 PM   #12 
  - Can she text the essay to the judge?  Blue-Jay   Oct-09-09 06:47 PM   #16 
  - link to the story please?  Nikki Stone1   Oct-09-09 06:57 PM   #19 
  - Drive drunk, kill somebody and you go away for years.  MadHound   Oct-10-09 06:44 AM   #29 
 

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