From BBC News website:

Irritable pensioner causes crash


Stewart was sentenced at Perth Sheriff Court
An angry pensioner who forced a young couple off the road and left them for dead in the wreckage of their car has been banned from driving for 15 months.
Perth Sheriff Court was told Alexander Stewart, from Blairgowrie, had a blood condition which made him "irritable".

Susan Anderson, 26, who was left with pins in her legs after the crash, said she was disappointed at the sentence.

Stewart, 72, who terrified a learner driver and her instructor in an earlier road rage incident, was fined

 

He should get locked up for that.

If I went into my corner shop, suddenly felt a bit irritable, beat up the girl at the till causing her to have pins in her legs and stay in hospital for quite some time, what do you think I would get ?

 

lethal injection i hope

 

LTB?

If I went into my corner shop, suddenly felt a bit irritable, beat up the girl at the till causing her to have pins in her legs and stay in hospital for quite some time, what do you think I would get ?

- A

 

But it's speed that kills. By slowing down in front of another driver, he was slowing their speed and speed kills.

Remember, speed kills.

 

Yes, I wonder if the judiciary/politicos are sometimes confusing velocity with amphetamines.

(Or on them!)

 

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I think everybody should resit their test every 10 years and/or have an assessment every 5 years. Arses like this block should not be on the roads!

 

The whole notion of punishment and crime is totally illogical. If one or both of that couple had died, he would have been locked up for causing death by dangerous driving or careless driving.

It was probably a matter of chance that they weren't killed - equally, they might not have been injured at all. What's important is the act carried out by the perpetrator - the result is irrelevant. Why the legal system has never squared this I don't understand.

EDIT and I have an emplyment condition that makes me irritable - doesn't cause me to cut people up though

 

I have a similar syndrome.

It fills me with the urge to one day cut up (inter alia) the Treasury whore Dawn Primarolo - into tiny little pieces.......................

Muahahahahahaha!

 

It really winds me up to read of things like this and contrast them with the jail sentences meeted out to people convicted of higher speeds.

I keep thinking of the biker that got jailed for speeding thorough the Brecons (although he followed the speed limits in the built up areas where he was arrested when plod decided to review his video gear!). OK, he broke the eleventh commandment but a jail sentence