tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12452759.post114471628468805558..comments2024-03-22T07:12:47.560-07:00Comments on Pitchpull: Do Not Pass Go!Greybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11919862790973521778noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12452759.post-1151337499513716882006-06-26T08:58:00.000-07:002006-06-26T08:58:00.000-07:00A friend of mine thinks parents who smoke with the...A friend of mine thinks parents who smoke with their kids in the car should be charged with child abuse.<BR/><BR/>And what about parents who back over little Timmy with the minivan? It's a pretty common occurrence.<BR/><BR/>The real issue here is that people are too comfortable with motor vehicles - they don't see them as the deadly weapon they are.<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, in Ohio, if a lawyer forgets and leaves a gun in his breifcase or something and walks into a courthouse, that might result in a felony.<BR/><BR/>But if someone negligently wrecked their car into the courthouse they'd only be charged with "failure to control".<BR/><BR/>The car carelessly brought into the courtroom is much more dangerous than the gun carelessly brought into the courtroom.<BR/><BR/>Ideally with the gun, the attourney, upon noticing his mistake should notify a bailiff and have it discreetly removed.<BR/><BR/>I think we need to consider intent a lot more in our laws. People make mistakes, but when they make innocent mistakes with guns they recieve penalties many times harsher than negligent mistakes with motor vehicles.<BR/><BR/>Another thing to ponder - if someone threatened to shoot you with a gun you'd call the cops and they'd be charged with aggrevated menacing.<BR/><BR/>But if you're in traffic or in a crosswalk and someone threatens you with their car, it's almost a non-event. Most folks wouldn't press aggrevated menacing charges against a driver who did that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12452759.post-1151225633528730952006-06-25T01:53:00.000-07:002006-06-25T01:53:00.000-07:00Once I was driving from a parking lot from the loc...Once I was driving from a parking lot from the location where my daughter took gymnastics. Ahead of us was another car full of children...appeared to be a carpool from the same location. When we reached the stop sign at the intersection of a main highway and the street coming from the parking lot, I witnessed one of the worst cases ever of neglect. A child literally fell out of the window from the backseat of the car behind the passenger's seat, tumbled down into a ditch, and the driver kept going, never knowing the child was even missing. The child was Asian, the lady who came back, finally, was not, so I assumed the child was either adopted or carpooling. No matter, this is not a woman I'd want to transfer the care of my child to. We had stopped to wait with the frantic child, and when the lady arrived, she would not speak to us, did not even acknowledge that we were there, even as we tried to converse with her. She just grabbed the child and fled.<BR/><BR/>I have no idea what happened after that. I don't really know if the child was injured, etc. We did take a tag number and called the authorities. It's likely nothing was done to this woman. I'd say both the child and the woman were fortunate in this case, but many things could have gone wrong....you can speculate right along with me....the ditch was right beside a very busy highway, not to mention the traffic behind her when the child fell out. <BR/><BR/>The memory of the sight of that scene haunts me to this day. I'm with you...some people should not parent, for starters, but regardless, when neglect is so blatant, provide due punishment!!Dihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00335976822110599015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12452759.post-1151083862585890662006-06-23T10:31:00.000-07:002006-06-23T10:31:00.000-07:00I've heard that argument before about the parents ...I've heard that argument before about the parents having already suffered enough.<BR/><BR/>My reply is: If a parent were to beat a child to the point of hospitalization, would the DA still say the parent has suffered enough watching his child suffer with all those injuries? <BR/><BR/>Think about it.THIRDWAVEDAVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09523845768983338199noreply@blogger.com