So Novack hits a homeless man and drives off

[brettdale]

and then a week later announces he has a brain tumour, why isnt he in jail?

[Lasher]

1. First of all, he's got money.

Plus he's famous. Most importantly he's a Republican shill.

[POAS]

2. Has the homeless guy apologized yet?....n/t

[TexasObserver]

5. Cheney's lawyer in south Texas apologized, saying he blocked Novak's vision.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Heh indeedy.

[JI7]

3. the brain tumour is probably why he didn't know what happened

i don't know why people insist on seeing a conspiracy in this.

[TexasObserver]

4. Maybe he has a brain tumor, and maybe he doesn't.

The only thing we can be certain of is that we do not know anything for sure about this.

Novak is an evil piece of shit, and if he felt it would help him get off the hook for hitting some guy, he would do it. This might be another Karl Rove scam. It's right down his alley.

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. That's my boy! These days, he'd be a very delinquent right-winger,

if he'd acted any differently.

[EV_Ares]

7. Hell, he got a $50 ticket, what more do you want? Besides its the homeless guy's fault for being in

the way of Novak and his corvette.

[melody]

8. The deeply cynical side of me suggests the brain tumor is a dodge

If he's suddenly "cured", I wouldn't be surprised. Gets him out of having to conduct himself like a lowly
person (us, in other words).

[dysfunctional press]

13. he'll spend a few weeks relaxing and playing tennis/golf with ken lay on forbe's island in fiji...

then slap a bandage on his head, come home and announce that by god's great graces- his boo-boo is all better now, thank-you.

or- he might decide that he really likes kenny's set-up, and not 'survive' the surgery.

[kstewart33]

9. Here's why.

From an AP story this morning:

Dr. Lynne Taylor, a neuro-oncologist at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, said residents at the hospital are taught to check for brain tumors in patients who report having a recent car accident in which they didn't realize they struck something.

"People get spatial and visual neglect of a certain part of their bodies and they don't realize they've done what they've done," said Taylor, a fellow with the American Academy of Neurology.

[KharmaTrain]

11. It Could Be Why No Charges Were Brought

The timing sounds like that Novkula was probably disoriented when he was questioned and at his advanced age the police were looking for some physical cause. I'm sure DU'ers from Southern Florida or Arizona can recite cases of elderly who lose control behind the wheel or suffer from memory lapses...a reason, at least in my state, where those over 75 are tested yearly to keep their licenses.

My bets are that as a condition not to be charged, Novakula had to undergo an examination and that's where the tumor showed.

[zanne]

15. That what I thought when I first heard of the accident.

Being a right-wing gasbag does not make him immune from Alzheimer's. I realize that sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

[KharmaTrain]

16. A Brain Tumor Isn't Altzheimers

The morose joke around here yesterday is too bad they didn't realize Novakula's brain always had been a tumor, but I degress. Altheimers is still a very tough illness to diagnose until it's already set in...there are other warning signs...small strokes and Parkinsons (as in my mothers case) that can mask what is really going on.

A brain tumor is another story...as we saw with Senator Kennedy. Many times the person may suffer from headaches or dizziness but others won't notice it until something like this happens.

[zanne]

17. I realize that. I wasn't implying that it was.

I took care of my mother while she had Alzheimer's. Ten years of finding out what Alzheimer's is makes me a pseudo-expert on the disease, also.

[pitohui]

20. and yet those "elderly" of my acquaintance get tested for DUI

sorry this one don't pass the smell test

if he were treated the same as any other elderly person who didn't see what they hit, fine, that ain't what happened

he was not sobriety tested, he was not taken to jail, NOTHING

my relative w. alzheimer's has to meet a different standard and that's my issue, if it happened to YOU they would arrest first and listen to the pleas for mercy in re brain tumor later

[spinbaby]

12. That's very true

When my father had a brain tumor, he never noticed anything to his left. As far as he was concerned it didn't exist, he didn't understand the concept that it could exist. He'd eat what was on the right side of his plate and never notice that there was food on the left side of his plate, too. If you approached him from the left, he didn't see you. This wasn't a visual thing--he just couldn't grasp that there WAS a left.

[MetaTrope]

14. For the same reason Ann Coulter isn't in jail for commiting voter fraud

He has an ex-boyfriend in the FBI?

[onenote]

18. because the police don't always arrest people who have accidents

Its a fact of life -- the cops look at each situation and based on their assessment of the situation, decide whether a warning, a citation, or an arrest is warranted. Is that assessment sometimes influenced by who is involved? Yep. That's another fact of life.

It happens all the time. Sometimes its celebrities that get more lax treatment or being known to the cops. Patrick Kennedy didn't get arrested when he ran his car into a barrier at the Capitol, even though he appeared to be under the influence (and announced that he was going into rehab right after the incident).

I'm not defending the failure to cite Novack for the accident, I'm just explaining that its not the first nor last time that a cop will make this kind of judgment.

[pitohui]

19. iokiyar EOM

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[morgan2]

21. the DA would gladly have Novack arrested

if only he knew of a crime he committed.