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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Dead Vermont cyclist
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:19:19 -0700
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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:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:55:56 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14490079/Vermont-police-crash-cyclist-Kapitanski-Sean-Hayes.html
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> "Public safety smartphones and tablets"
>>>> <https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/public-safety/smartphones-tablets/>
>>>>
>>>> Whether the phone or tablet was issued by the police department or was
>>>> owned by the officer for personal use is unknown.
>>>
>>> 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.
>> 
>
>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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