"McMike" (mcmike)
07/09/2014 at 11:19 • Filed to: car crime
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"McMike" (mcmike)
07/09/2014 at 11:19 • Filed to: car crime | 2
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How does this keep happening? Why is the drunk asshole behind the wheel the only one that ever survives?
State Police say a Coxsackie man was drunk, and people with knowledge of the investigation say he was driving at about 150 mph just before his car crashed on the state Thruway on the Fourth of July, killing his two passengers.
A picture found on one of the passengers' cellphones taken minutes before the crash shows the speedometer on Tyler Pascuzzi's Volkswagen GTI registering nearly 150 mph.
Car was actually a 2004 R32, not just a "GTI" or a "GLI" as some outlets are reporting.
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:20 |
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Because alcohol makes you invincible
JGrabowMSt
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:22 |
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I can only hope he loses his license for life. Wouldn't mind prison for life either. Pulling that kind of shit...
ly2v8-Brian
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:22 |
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Because it is hard to fix stupid.
willkinton247
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:23 |
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I've heard it's because the drunk driver usually is relaxed, and isn't bracing for impact, which means that they flop around instead of banging around.
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McMike
> willkinton247
07/09/2014 at 11:24 |
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Remind me to start drinking a LOT more as a passenger...
Tripper
> JGrabowMSt
07/09/2014 at 11:28 |
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Don't worry he will definitely see some serious time.
jariten1781
> willkinton247
07/09/2014 at 11:30 |
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I still don't know if I buy that. Doesn't really apply here anyway since his passengers, coming from the same location and filming his antics, were probably just as drunk.
ttyymmnn
> JGrabowMSt
07/09/2014 at 11:31 |
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You don't need a license to drive a car. The only way to keep asshole like this off the road is to lock them up.
The Ghost of Oppo
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:33 |
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Jesus, Mk4 R32s are one of my favorite cars, and I never would have been able to identify that wreck. This guy better rot in jail for a long time
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JGrabowMSt
> ttyymmnn
07/09/2014 at 11:34 |
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I'm aware, and know someone who drive for a number of years without a license. I'm not saying it should take two strikes, but if he pulled this and didn't have a license, it would be a lot more severe.
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ttyymmnn
> JGrabowMSt
07/09/2014 at 11:35 |
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You are correct. But people like this care nothing for the penalties. Their brains don't work that way.
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McMike
> The Ghost of Oppo
07/09/2014 at 11:40 |
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There's a for sale thread over on the Vortex from Sept 2012
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php…
Guy managed to have it almost two years without killing anyone.
DipodomysDeserti
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:42 |
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It says his passengers were killed. My guess is they were drunk too. That's insane that he's walking around after that.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:42 |
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intentional vehicular multiple homicide.
This should be eligible for consideration for the death penalty. I won't say guaranteed to get it when convicted... but it should be on the table.
He intentionally got behind the wheel when drunk, intentionally drove like a maniac, put EVERYONE in the vicinity at risk as a severe public menace, and killed his passengers just as effectively as if he had put a gun to their heads and murdered them that way.
Why should he be breathing air, and costing the taxpayers a LOT of money to keep him incarcerated for the rest of his natural life, so that he can just sit around and rot in an over-crowded jail, and be eligible for early release to make room for other despicable, evil people to occupy a limited number of cells.
Decisions have consequences... and this was among the worst possible decisions, and the rest of the public around him is lucky it didn't end even worse than it did... with other motorists or nearby people being killed, in addition to his passengers.
Svend
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:43 |
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As mentioned about the alcohol relaxing the body, alcohol in the body has shown that the higher the alcohol content the more likely you are to survive a 'substantial injury'.
"Friedman analyzed all 190,612 patients treated at Illinois' trauma centers between 1995 and 2009 who were tested for blood-alcohol content, with levels ranging from zero to 0.5 percent at time of admission. (Blood-alcohol levels above about 0.35 percent can be fatal.) He found that with the exception of burn injuries, the mortality rates of all types of traumatic injury decreased as the blood-alcohol content of victims rose. [ 7 Ways Alcohol Affects Your Health ]
At the upper bounds of intoxication, mortality rates were cut by nearly 50 percent, said Friedman. The effect, however, was not equally strong for all types of trauma, with victims of penetrating injuries, such as gunshot and stab wounds, seeming to show the greatest benefit from alcohol ."
Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 11:48 |
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MazdaMonkey
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 12:00 |
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The driver's instinct is to protect themselves (i.e. his/her side of the car) during a crash. Plus, the driver's seat is usually the safest part of the car, not only in terms of equipment, but because to drive the car, the driver is forced to sit upright with his/her hands and feet in the correct positions (as opposed to leaning way back in passenger seat, foot on dash, etc.).
yamahog
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
07/09/2014 at 12:18 |
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I hear you, but this argument:
costing the taxpayers a LOT of money to keep him incarcerated for the rest of his natural life
does not hold up very well when you consider how long inmates spend on death row anyway and how many additional appeals they have during that time.
philipilihp
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 12:38 |
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Drunk asshole survives just so he can comtemplate his horrible actions for the rest of his life. That's much more punishment than dying with the people he caused to die.
Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
> Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
07/09/2014 at 12:47 |
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"Go dance with the angels!" All joking aside, I'm getting the feeling that drunk driving is picking up speed.
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Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2
> Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura
07/09/2014 at 12:48 |
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da dumm tsssssss
RotaryLover
> willkinton247
07/09/2014 at 17:12 |
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Nailed it. That's what I was about to say.
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> yamahog
07/09/2014 at 17:15 |
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Another issue to address, and somewhat of a tangential topic...
I mostly suggest that perhaps the idea that making a widely and wildly life-endangering decision such as getting behind the wheel while intoxicated, and also driving like a complete jackass, whether intoxicated or not, and in doing so, risking the lives of many, and taking the lives of several people... that it might actually result in losing one's own life as punishment, even if they survive the accident....
Maybe that Lose-Lose proposition will get more people to separate themselves from their car keys before they even start drinking, or otherwise intoxicating themselves.
Ron White, a comedian, jokes about Texas putting in a death-row express-lane for cases without any question of reasonable doubt... maybe people who commit murder, and I would argue also commit attempted murder toward other people on the road, or even just happen to be near the road... Maybe those people need to be traveling whatever legal equivalent there is to 150+ MPH down death row, with a sharp and permanent stop at the end... like their victims.
ranwhenparked
> McMike
07/09/2014 at 18:57 |
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Also, sit behind the driver. Drivers instinctively protect their own side of the car.