Vancouver, WA teenager gets 19 months for street racing accident

Originally posted by bootstrap


Your kidding right? If you went out with a baseball bat and paralized somebody, 2 years in jail is a good sentence. Same shit with this reckless ****er. PLUS he's gonna get the shit sued out of him. And i'm sure his liscence is gone for a longgg time.

I'm not trying to get in the middle of anything here but I can see things from both perspectives. If you went out with a baseball bat to beat some ass, then yeah you were actually motivated to inflict bodily harm on someone. 2 years in jail or even more is appropriate. I'm sure that this kid didn't go out and race with the intention of paralyzing someone but he should have considered the consequences. This kid just wasn't thinking. It's sad to say but the guilt that he is going to feel for the rest of his life is going to be far worse than spending 19 months in jail. It really is sad as I'm sure he didn't mean it BUT it is his fault. Yeah, accidents do happen but when you're driving like an @sshole and you're not being safe it's not necessarily intentional but you're aware of what you're doing.