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Driver + DVD Player = Aw hell...

Care of the Fortean Times webpage, I found this litte jewel:

KENAI, Alaska -- A man was acquitted Tuesday of charges he caused a fatal crash by taking his eyes off the road while watching a movie on a DVD player mounted on his truck dashboard.

Jurors acquitted Erwin Petterson Jr., 29, of two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of manslaughter. No law in Alaska prohibits operating a DVD player in view of a driver.

May I just say, HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

What the shit was Erwin thinking when he decided to watch a DVD while driving!? Did he not consider that taking his eyes off the road might be... well... dangerous perhaps!? Think with your brain man!

The article goes on to mention that he also had a Sony Playstation 2 hooked up in his truck as well. So, this guy... what... plays Grand Theft Auto 3 while driving his semi-truck? How is this man not the most dangerous man on the road?

And yet, on a technicality, this asshole gets away with murder. Unintentional murder perhaps, but murder none-the-less. No... scratch that... this man knowingly created a distraction for himself while driving. He purposefully circumvented the built in safety device in the DVD player that prevented it from working while driving. He took the lives of everyone else on the road into his clumsy hands, and he killed those people. It's his damn fault, and no court will ever change that fact.

Sweet Christ!

Is these no justice left in this world?

posted by ScottyBomb @ 11:23 a.m.