Re: Dead Vermont cyclist

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:50:39 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 3/13/2025 4:42 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:18:58 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

On 3/13/2025 2:11 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:50:30 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:55:56 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14490079/Vermont-police-crash-cyclist-Kapitanski-Sean-Hayes.html

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Cop cars laptops can show him Youtube? Can he also tune in "Dancing
with the Stars?" and "Howard Stern?" That's likely the kind of garbage
that moron would watch.

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If he had a smartphone with internet connectivity he could run a web
browser on the smartphone and watch any kind of streaming content
including YouTube.  If he had a tablet with a built in LTE cellular
modem, he could also use the tablet for watching YouTube.
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"Public safety smartphones and tablets"
<https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/public-safety/smartphones-tablets/>
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Whether the phone or tablet was issued by the police department or was
owned by the officer for personal use is unknown.

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Semi truck drivers are convicted regularly after watching
videos on a telephone or more frequently tapping out texts.
When things go badly, that is construed as criminal
negligence. As well it should be.

 
It would be nice if the court would suspend his drivers license and
give him a desk job.  Have him drive to work on a bicycle and see how
long he survives.  If that's too harsh, maybe put him on a freeway
debris cleanup crew.  The punishment should fit the crime.
 

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Picking up litter on highways may be appropriate to a first
offense vandalism (and it often is) but for a murder?  I
can't see where that's at all appropriate.

I wrote debris, not litter.  I forgot to mention traffic accident
debris cleanup.

I haven't had the displeasure of being on a highway cleanup crew, but
have seen a few near misses where distracted drivers almost hit
members of the cleanup crew.  I assumed it was a dangerous activity.
If the policeman in question was distracted by his YouTube videos, I
think giving him a good dose of what it might feel like to be on the
receiving end might be considered an appropriate punishment. 

I don't have a count of the clean up crew survival rate.  I few
headlines excavated from Google might serve as suitable clues.
<https://www.google.com/search?q=fatalities%20on%20highway%20clean%20up%20crews>
If that doesn't do the trick, maybe volunteering for traffic accident
cleanup will suffice:
<https://crimecleaners.com/services/traffic-accident-cleanup/>


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