man beaten by motorists (not cycling!)

[smilingcat]

Well now its a homocide. The police better catch the perp. and throw him in jail. Just too much anger and not enough self control.

Our society has gotten so car-centric that crimes commited in a car or car related, the perp. gets away with lot less severeity than with a gun for instance. Run over a pedestrian and kill the person deliverately versus killing a person with a gun. Result for the victim is the same. Yet, the way we treat the driver and the guman is very different. The way its reported, the way the justice system handle the person... Do you think the driver will be in shackles when he goes for arraignment with officers on both side or will he show up without the shackles? And what about the gunman. I think you can see the difference.

The gardner incident here and the Mandeville Canyon incident just highlights the road rage and how dangerous it really is out there. Many of the drivers feel like they have license to cause bodily injury onto others.

We just need to be more mindful and be careful in dealing with angry drivers.

smilingcat

[KnottedYet]

I was reading the updates on Seattle Post Intelligencer's website during my lunch (things could have changed by now, as more info comes up). The man was watering the plants in the traffic circle at 7:45 p.m. Since it is in a residential neighborhood, and well after rush-hour and dinner-time, there wasn't much traffic. But he had put cones up along his hose out to the garden. The girls in the car didn't want to go around the left side of the garden, they got out and started yelling at him to move the cones. When the girls started moving the cones he squirted them. One of the girls called a friend to come to them and the girls stayed to watch. The friend arrived, punched the older man, then left. The police had already been called by a neighbor before the older man was punched. None of the girls would tell police the friend's name, but his phone number will be in the cell phone record.

The whole situation is just sad.

[teigyr]

You know, I was out running today and I was looking at the roundabouts and also at our neighborhood. I thought a lot about this story and was very sad because he was someone who was obviously trying to make where he lived a better place. It sounds like he did the right thing by putting up cones and really, any inconvenience to motorists would be a temporary one.

Very sad. They'll get the guy, I am sure of it. For the fact that the girls acted in such hostility really scares me. I could be wrong but it seems like there is more and more violence starting at a much younger age.

[MM_QFC!]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi...&date=20080717

he's in police custody now...link to article in today's Seattle Times here...doesn't look like this is the first time he's been involved in an incident like this either. This time he took a person's life though - the man was watering the flowers in his neighborhood roundabout, f'chrissakes! How awful it is to think that you can't go out near your own home, put up traffic cones and protect passersby from the spray of your hose, even - without worrying about being sucker-punched and dying??? It's grossly inhumane to me; not just another 'accidental' death, you know? whew...

[Zen]

This makes me terribly, indescribably sad.