Should This Kid Have Lost His Driver’s License For Life?

Are you retarded?.. Seriously… are you??

State prison isnt real life changing? Being locked in a cage, eating the food and only the food given to you? Not being able to see your family, friends, pets ext? NOT being able to go home.

Yeah, dont teach the kid a lesson, just permanantly take away his rights for the rest of his life.

I know PRIESTS who have been to prison… They have obviously changed there lifes around, but fuck them, they shouldnt be trusted or confessed to… there prolly stealing the collection money right??

If this kid had 3 chances, went to prison and THEN did the same thing, id understand… but hes had zero punishment EXEPT for the revokation of his license… If i fucked up and didnt get punished for it your damn right id do it again… no, suspending a license isnt punishment.

I’m sure if he survives the year, which is highly doubtful, and cleans up his act then sometime in the future he can get his lifetime ban lifted.

However as it stands now this is definitely the best solution to keep him from hurting himself and more importantly others. I still think he’ll get behind the wheel because ignoring ‘da man’ is what punks do.

He’s proven on a consistent basis that he cannot follow the rules society has put in place and he’s done this at 17. A remarkable acheivement deserves a remarkable punishment.

My only hope is that when he dies in a fiery crash he doesn’t take anyone with him.

Vlad - just so you know you can be in the military at 17 (with parental consent) I know this bc when I went boot camp I was 17 LOL, sooo wit that being said, fuck him, if you cant be mature enough to learn at age 17 on how to drive after two revocations of your license then he shouldnt get it back. And Dave with that being said maybe they should just change the age to get your license to 18 or 21 if people arent mature enough!

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^ Brilliant :beer

A driver’s license is NOT a right. It is a privilege.

To be perfectly honest. Even if he will actually be banned for life, according to the justice system I know from all shitzness happened to Lindsay Lohan, a life time banned is probably be like 3 weeks…:rofl

Otherwise dude is gonna drive with no license and no insurance anyway. Who here ACTUALLY think he will stop driving if he was banned for life??? :rofl

Enjoy your stay!

Your missing the point Dave, Driving is a privledge, it’s not a right. This kid deserves to ride the bus they rest of his life. This wasn’t a one time thing or his first offense. He obviously has no respect for the law as he continues to keep doing this over and over. He should have had his liscense revoked until he was atleast 18 by the second time they suspended his liscense. He seems to be the only one who didn’t realize he was on his last straw and blew it royally.

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It’s not good that we cna alter quotes sometimes. LOL

The kid should have a lifetime ban on friends if he is gonna kill them all.

You know, like Benny.

No, YOUR missing the point… This WAS pretty much the kids first offense unless you count seatbelt tickets and MINOR infractions in which case YOU and every single person on this forum should be banned from driving forever…

READ THE ARTICLE, thats all you have to do… The article says that he got his license suspended because of seatbelt violations and passing a car in a non passing area (a non dotted line)

IDK about you, but I never wear my seatbelt and I am guilty of passing slow motherfuckers on a non dotted line before.

Eh I always wear a seatbelt, sorry I guess enjoy being alive! You never know when you will crash and it might be something you cant avoid, but I guess thats how we weed out the not so smart…or I guess you could call it darwinism LOL

I never understood people that dont put there seatbelt on, like that makes them some sort of badass! Oh well.

you think I dont wear my seatbelt because I want to be a badass?.. I should negg you…

How about the fact that it irritates my neck and doesnt feel comfortable?.. I dont drive like a douchebag and if I did I’d be wearing it.

No I said I dont understand why people dont wear one, and how one drives DOES NOT mean you cant get into a car wreck is what Im getting at!

"Topa was first sentenced on two charges for which he received fines and consecutive six-month suspended sentences — one for seat belt violations and another for passing another car in a prohibited area. "

there has to be WAY more behind that than they said.

You dont get a suspended lic from a seatbelt and illegal passing ticket. Hell ones not even a moving violation that carries points.

You get it suspended becasue you are to dumb, lazy, cheap, ignorant, what ever to show up to court and/or pay the fine. Or you push the buttons of the judge and they choose to run you up a flag pole. the offenses themselves, when taken care of properly do not cause a suspended driving license. My money is on the kid mouthed off at the judge or was to naive to pay for the fines if he even showed up at court to begin with.

Your right, you dont… But if you dont pay those fines for those charges you DO… You or I have no idea what this kids financial situation is…

People are looking pretty dumb on shift right now voting against this kid not even knowing that he hasnt had any serious traffic offenses before.

BASED ON WHAT I READ, this IS the kids first serious offense and no fucking way in hell does it call for permanantly banning him from driving.

That right there, regardless of what the actual violations were, is grounds for banning at least until 21.

Here’s more, which definitely played a part in this decision:

Sentences issued by the traffic tribunal have gotten stricter since the death of Charlestown resident Colin B. Foote on May 16, 2010. Foote, 26, was killed when Westerly resident Laura A. Reale, 27, ran a red light on Route 1 in Charlestown and slammed into his motorcycle.

At the time, Reale was an habitual traffic offender who slipped through the cracks, say Foote’s family, who donned black T-shirts at her hearing on traffic offenses that read “She had 19 driving violations. Her 20th killed Colin Foote.”

Because of that death, they re-did the traffic laws with different sentences and punishments:

Guglietta handed out the maximum penalty allowed at that time — a two-year license revocation. However, her driving record included more than a dozen offenses, ranging from speeding to stop sign violations to failure to heed conditions requiring reduced speed. The General Assembly revised laws that apply to the traffic tribunal after the Reale case was adjudicated.

Think about this from the judge’s perspective. The guilt he felt when someone who has had so many traffic violations ended up killing someone. This other kid, already off to a rough start and in the judge’s mind he’s thinking “if I did this to that Laura skank, someone could still be alive today.”

In the judge’s mind, he wasn’t being an asshole or outlandish, he was trying to prevent a future death.

“I’m trying to save your life,” Sullivan yelled, looking and pointing to Topa seated next to his lawyer. On Oct. 23, the prosecutor said he was quickly notified about the crash because it was believed that one of the passengers would not survive.

So for the judges guilt of NOT giving this penalty to someone that DID deserve it, he gives it to someone else that didnt??

A good comparison to this would be a man who cold blooded killed another man for the change in his pocket and him only getting 15 years in jail…

Then another guy whos house got broken into with his kids and family present and he kills the intruder to protect his family and gets the death penalty…

NOT RIGHT.

I don’t think you understand the point I’m trying to make. Because of the previous laws and punishments, the woman who killed the guy couldn’t have her license taken away for that long, and eventually, she killed someone.

The kid who has already had his license taken away twice, both while on a junior’s license. This kid DOES deserve it. Maybe not right now, but maybe down the road when he does the same shit again (or worse) he will.

Plus, the kid got worse with each violation (which most likely were pleaded down, not just simply a no seatbelt… Prolly speeding reduced to no seatbelt)

  1. No seatbelt.
  2. Passing over a double yellow, which IS dangerous in most areas where they have double yellows. Not some country road with little traffic.
  3. Street racing, having multiple passengers in the car, crashing into a tree, while drunk.

So given the pattern, #4 could be: Driving drunk, street racing with no seatbelt, with 14 passengers in a rented passenger van, veering off of a cliff, killing everyone.

That’s prolly the worse comparison I’ve ever read. That’s like Apples to oranges to cornbread.