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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Dead Vermont cyclist
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:50:39 -0500
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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.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971