Re: ONE FOR THE CYCLIST

It is outrageous!  All of it.  Sounds like a bunch of hemming, hawing,
and lying.  Can't understand this - so much for our "classless"
society - except for the guy with no class who hit the motorist and
then lied about the whole thing.

Diane

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Kelly Iniguez <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought I'd throw in a Colorado resident's view on this. Or at least the
> view from reading the many newspaper articles.
>
> I'm sure the local DA wishes the newspapers would let this one die - but
> there are plenty of bicyclists in Colorado and just plain outraged folks.
>
> The last article I read said that the DA asked his wife's opinion  on his
> decision to go with the misdemeanor rather than the felony and she thought
> it was a good choice. That seems like rather weak reasoning for the
> decision.
>
> An interesting twist is that the motorist and the cyclist's father are good
> business acquaintances. The motorist went by the hospital the day after the
> accident, ran into the father. The father explained why he was in the
> hospital - but the motorist never volunteered that he was the one who hit
> the son.
>
> Further irony is that the motorist's defense is that he had 'undiagnosed
> sleep apnea', fell asleep at the wheel, hit the cyclist, didn't realize it,
> woke up with his car in the ditch, and drove off . .  . .
>
> The ironies in this case are enough to make you cry . .  . . .
>
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Diane Lees <info-q1/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First, the investment banker was charged -however only with a
>> misdemeanor not with a felony; and the person he hit is alive - though
>> not in great shape.  (This is not an endorsement - in fact, we brought
>> this to the attention of our listeners on my radio show several times
>> and let people know there was a petition to sign)
>>
>> It was infuriating because had he been charged with a felony it would
>> have HAD to be reported to the SEC and he would have lost his job.
>>
>> I just wanted to set the record straight about the charges and the
>> incident.
>>
>> Diane
>> Hubbub
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Miles Whelen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Fran,
>> >
>> > This verdict is quite a contrast to the DA in Colorado that refused to
>> > charge the investment banker (?) fellow who killed (again; ?) a cyclist
>> > because it might affect his job. Perhaps the Waco fellow was unemployed
>> or
>> > as some people like to say "gaming the system they paid in to?"
>> >
>> > Of course the Waco fellow was a habitual offender but I can't help but to
>> > wonder if the banker's job is to important to fail if his real but
>> > unofficial rap sheet was actually worse.
>> >
>> > I mean after all; how many cyclists do you have to kill in Colorado to
>> get
>> > charged if you work in a bank? And with some extreme "banker's form of
>> > diplomatic traffic immunity" does a fellow like that even concern himself
>> > with stop signs or speeding tickets?
>> >
>> > Strange justice.
>> >
>> >
>> > Please note this is not intended to be political or a slight against any
>> > banker unless they committed manslaughter.
>> > <<Message: 2
>> > Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:33:38 -0500 (EST)
>> > From: [email protected]
>> >
>> >
>> > Yesterday a man in Waco,Tx. got convicted of murder and will spend the
>> next
>> > 65 years in jail for killing a cyclist while driving. He can get parolled
>> > after 30 years so at least he will be gone awhile.
>> >
>> >
>> > Fran,
>> >
>> > Be who you are and say what you feel........
>> > Because those that matter dont mind.....
>> > And those that mind don't matter.   Anon
>> >
>> >
>> > ------------------------------>>
>> >
>> >
>> > And again Fran,
>> >
>> > Will you ever escape winter in the South?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Yours in Cycling,
>> >
>> > Gilbert "Friend of Adrian Hands" Anderson
>> >
>> > http://cycling.ahands.org/
>> >
>> > North Road Bicycle Imports
>> >
>> > Yanceyville upon Dan, NC
>> > www.northroadbicycle.com
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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