About time - Crazy driver charged with MURDER

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laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE - 23 Sep 2005 05:06 GMT

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9440842/

Updated: 8:25 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2005

LAS VEGAS - The driver of a stolen car who authorities say
deliberately plowed into pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip, killing
two and injuring a dozen others, will face charges of murder and
attempted murder.

Witnesses said the driver, Stephen M. Ressa, 27, of Rialto, Calif.,
accelerated as he drove along the crowded casino sidewalk, Deputy
Police Chief Greg McCurdy said.

One witness described it as humans being mowed down like a
lawnmower, McCurdy said. It appears he did this intentionally.

Ressa was arrested Wednesday at the chaotic scene that stretched for
yards under the marquee of the Ballys hotel-casino. There was no
record Thursday that Ressa had retained a lawyer.

The injured were strewn along the sidewalk and treated in the street
by emergency workers as stunned tourists looked on. An off-duty Las
Vegas police officer, Martin Wright, rushed from a nearby restaurant
to help.

All I saw was bodies on the sidewalk and in the bushes, Wright said
Thursday.

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We need more of this. None of that "hey man, it was an accident"
crapola. If you hit a pedestrian and you are at fault, that's murder
period. Stop the criminal coddling.

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Paul. - 23 Sep 2005 05:22 GMT

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 04:06:28 GMT, laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE
<xeton2001@yahoo.com> said the following in rec.autos.driving...

> We need more of this. None of that "hey man, it was an accident"
> crapola. If you hit a pedestrian and you are at fault, that's murder
> period. Stop the criminal coddling.

Now all we have to do is to charge you with attempted murder for every
time you drive within 100 yards of a pedestrian with that bald tires full
of tire-in-a-can, no emergency brake POS GM product that you drive. With
consecutive sentences, you might beable to get out in about a century or
10.

BTW, how's things at the bathhouse, faggot? You practicing for prison
there????

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Ted 'practicing for the coast guard' Kennedy - 23 Sep 2005 06:07 GMT

>We need more of this. None of that "hey man, it was an accident"
>crapola. If you hit a pedestrian and you are at fault, that's murder
>period. Stop the criminal coddling.

Burn, MF, burn. Deaths occurring during the commission of a felony?
Bury the driver's worthless a.s under the jail.

You *finally* got one right, xeton.

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John David Galt - 30 Sep 2005 00:54 GMT

> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9440842/
>
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> two and injuring a dozen others, will face charges of murder and
> attempted murder.

No one objects to charging someone with murder who deliberately hits
pedestrians. But there's a huge difference between that and speeding.
Even if a speeder is going 100, that's still only negligence.

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