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6. Yeah yeah, I'm a naive fool - of course someone who hits the wrong pedal is a grossly
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 01:27 AM
Jan 2015

negligent criminal . OK, that's what the law says, apparently. I just don't agree that this is just. You think it is gross negligence, the law apparently thinks its gross negligence, and I don't. What more can I say.

And I've never hit the gas when I meant to hit the brakes, so I'm not talking about some ding-a-ling issue of mine.

On Edit 1140p CT -- I don't get the carrying a 2X4 in a negligent manner analogy either. That would be analogous to if he was driving while knowing his brakes weren't working properly, or somesuch (e.g. eating or texting while driving or not having slept for 30 hours, etc. etc.), then that to me would be gross negligence.

But a split second wrong reaction by a sober attentive etc. etc. driver in an emergency situation is something entirely different, IMHO. I thought that was what insurance was for, not what prisons are for. But again, obviously I'm out of tune.

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