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- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -21/+289I hope they find that bastard and make him pay
- NoStoppingUs, on 10/12/2007, -32/+158do you people only yell 'SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST' when the victims are over the age of 18 or something? you have one kid who is DRIVING DRUNK at the age of 14, and another who is sitting on the side of the road at 4 am
call me an *****, but the 14 year old doesnt get any of my pity. negative choices render negative consequences. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+138Hit and run assailants are murdering selfish cowards.
- crazyjeff0, on 10/12/2007, -12/+125It says more about it being a dangerous place to hang around than coincidence.
And a 14 year old driving drunk? Thats asking for a fatal accident. - nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -8/+80I hope they find the hit-and-run driver too . . . there's absolutely no excuse for that *****. It's bad enough when you hit a parked car and take off, but hitting a person and leaving is beyond ***** up. I hope the driver has nightmares for the rest of their life, but they're probably just a soulless ***** who will sleep like a baby.
While the driver's actions deserve a special place in hell, I also think memorials and gatherings at accident sites are a bad idea. You take a location which is already prone to accidents and add another distraction for drivers. The area where I live banned roadside memorials because of all the additional problems they cause. - laserick, on 10/12/2007, -14/+77More like "Final Destination."
- Ender06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60Um @magnj.
Its the OTHER way around. - emjaymj, on 10/12/2007, -10/+59@nostoppingus
I don't know about where you live, but sidewalks don't magically become roads here at 4am. It's a reasonably safe assumption that you're safe from cars on a sidewalk, no matter what time it is.
Do you yell survival of the fittest every time there's a plane crash? I mean... what kind of idiot would take such a potentially dangerous mode of transportation.
You must live in a ***** bubble, seriously. - chapium, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43magnj,
take your own advice - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+54"negative choices render negative consequences."
Indeed. Standing near a road at 4am isn't a very smart decision, but consider this - the guy just lost his friend a few hours earlier and he probably wasn't in the best state of mind. I don't think anybody would argue with that. So he deserves to die?
You dig down people who want justice for the driver who actually mowed over the kid, and dig up your little team of morons who think the kid deserved it and make retarded jokes about the incident. You spout off about "survival of the fittest" and all that *****, but I know 99% of you with this mindset couldn't fight your way out of a cardboard box. - NoStoppingUs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41to get beer, obviously
- Smono, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41Maybe it's time they revamped that intersection?
- Thuktun, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40@DvS01 "Hit and run assailants are murdering selfish cowards."
I nominate your sentence for Most Significant Missing Comma of the day.
Which selfish cowards are they murdering? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40I don't know, my guitar teacher never taught me that.
- kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39Why was a 14 year old driving a minivan?!
- zydeco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34I'll get dugg down for saying this, but it's how I see things:
@FormulaVette: It's because when a car accident happens now, especially involving somebody young, people fall over themselves to set up a "memorial" at the exact spot and begin the mourning process.
Is mourning bad? Absolutely not. It's necessary.
Is mourning in a highly dangerous location, especially one on the side of a highway, bad? It probably is.
Lawmakers have tried to ban these roadside memorials in various states and they're always confronted with friends and family of recently killed people crying "you need to let us mourn!" Well, yes, they do, and maybe things have changed in society (especially post-Princess Diana) where people feel the need to mourn in public and let the world know how torn up they are. But things like this are going to happen time and time again unless people think about their own safety first and not about how quickly they can set up the flowers at the crash site and starting lighting candles.
So there, I said it. Digg away. - profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Yeah, it's sad. It's tragic to see two lives cut short. Especially in such a freak coincidence.
But did anyone else here say to themselves, "Why the ***** was a 14-year-old driving a minivan?" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26"I was hit by a truck once and believe me...it hurts"
Yeah, cause I was doubting that it actually hurt, but now I'm convinced :) - KbKnight, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24@pottersquash
*(Shines bright light into eyes)*
What were you doing at 4:00 AM on the night of the accident? - lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23Jack Bauer doesn't have time to stop for guitarists in the middle of the road!!!
- lordsandwich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20My guess is that isn't the first thought that pops into their heads. The sheer weight of killing someone combined with going to jail probably overwhelms them, so they panic.
Not that I'd know, I never learned how to drive. :) - jacuff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20FTA:
Andrew Coit, 18, was hit by a car after 4 a.m. Saturday as he played a guitar at a makeshift memorial to Darien Plass, 14, on West Warwick's Main Street. Plass died after driving his mother's minivan into a utility pole late Friday, friends of both teenagers told the Providence Journal. - Ramzy, on 10/12/2007, -14/+30***** hit and run drivers. Hope that son of a bitch suffers for what he did.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+24What kind of idiot stands next to a dark road at 4am playing the guitar?
That's one of the first lessons you're taught as a kid, don't play in or near the road. Especially when it's dark. - reiner15, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I'm sure his life goal was just that.
- insomuchas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15The first kid didn't deserve a tribute exactly. Drinking and driving a stolen car at 14?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12they won't revamp the intersection until at least 5 people die
- iceperson, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16I don't understand why people do the whole decorate and visit the location of a roadside crash. If the guy died on the toilet would they be gathering there? What makes the location of a roadside crash so special to warrant decorating?
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Would YOU have rather died instantly?
- sonochamp, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13While I appreciate the irony of this story as much as the next guy, this is hardly a story to laugh about.
- soccernamlak, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13i don't understand hit-and-run drivers...how can you live with yourself day to day knowing you just killed someone and ran off to save your butt?
hmmmm....maybe another digg top story will come up with, "Took Photos of Car in Hit and Run! Hope this helps someone!"? one can wish - parax, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Maybe the driver was your run-of-the-mill serial killer with some bodies in the trunk and it wasn't a good time to stop.
Weed (or other drugs) in the car, drunk driver, 3rd striker, parolee... there's a lot of reasons a person might not want to stick around to own up to it legally. I'm not saying it's right, but I can see how someone can mentally square-up running away. Even an upstanding citizen with no record could do a couple years for vehicular manslaughter. The idea of being a normal person one second whose only thought in the world is "I can't wait to get home and see the spouse/kids/football game...", and then suddenly the only glimpse of the future is life as a prison inmate, that could seem quite intimidating. - jeffreym, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14I'm gonna tell my ex-wife to stand there.
- pogfreak, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Its all "Fight or Flight".... there isn't any cognitive reasoning going on in their heads when they do it.
- Desslok, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Yet antoher reason to ban those ***** memorials at the side of the road. If you need to mourn your dead, drunk, idiot friend, do it in the cemetary, not at the side of the road.
- michaeldillon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Just more ammo for why the roadside death shrine should be BANNED from American highways.
- MrDiggDugg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Dude, that's a parking lot. (Zoom in.) You're telling me that this kid was killed by a hit and run in a parking lot?
- nixonrichard, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14If you're driving down the road, lose control lose control of your vehicle, and accidentally hit and kill someone on the side of the road it's not the end of the world. You will get a gigantic ticket, maybe lose your license for a little while, but barring any additional circumstances, you're not going to go to prison and your car insurance will pay for your fees if you get sued.
If, on the other hand, you are drunk, then you're *****. Unless you are a Kennedy, you have a pretty good chance of going to prison.
An accident is just that . . . an accident. You have to pay the price for not being more careful, but you're not really any more "guilty" than if you accidentally break a glass on the kitchen floor. If, however, you run, you are doing two things: admitting guilt, and committing another crime (which is easy to prove). It's understandable for people to get scared, but you should be scared for the life of the person you just hit, not your insurance deductible. The attitude of "is it really so wrong to hit and run? If you were in that situation, wouldn't you do it?" is silly. Just because a crime is in your own best interests doesn't justify it . . . it makes it worse. Not only did you wrong another, but you did it for your own selfish reasons. - neffy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10That's the ***** definition of ironic.
- lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13A T T E N T I O N
- pineandpalm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Just for clarification:
Andrew Coit, 18, was hit by a car after 4 a.m. Saturday as he played a guitar at a makeshift memorial to Darien Plass, 14, on West Warwick's Main Street. Plass died after driving his mother's minivan into a utility pole late Friday.
I'd say Plass was 14 and was the one driving the minivan. This would make Coit the 18 year old that was hit by the car.
Sorry....jacuff beat me too it.... - uttles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9The driver probably thought he hit a deer.
- Blizzardman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10"....make him pay."
How do you know it's a man? - InfinitySnatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7That's not really irony, it's just coincidence. If he was hit while playing his guitar and singing about safety on the road, then that would be irony.
- fiktionous1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9The official name of the state is "The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" which is the longest state name.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9"What if the drunk unlicensed 14 year old killed your family in your minivan? "
Then I would have a conflict of interest and my judgement would be flawed. - uttles, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Exactly. I hate the flowers and such placed right next to the road where a fatal crash happened. Some idiot always slows down to take a look, endangering everyone else on the road.
- MrDiggDugg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10They do it so that they can create roadside hazards and distractions, and entice other people to be in fatal accidents too.
- cjswerve, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8You can do anything. You can kill a yak with mind bullets if you want too.
- MacBandit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Roadside memorial services are the stupidest thing ever. You should not remember the person at the place where they died. You should remember them either where there body is laid to rest or better yet at the place where they felt most at home.
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