by Preston on April 23rd, 2006, 5:48 am
All this talk about car-accidents rang a bell for me, made me recall something from many years ago that I ran across in the newspaper. It was about a driver who had his best friend as passenger in his car. The driver drove recklessly, which resulted in a car-crash. The driver survived, but his passenger, his best friend, got killed. Of course, the driver felt very Remorseful because the Dead person was his best friend. That remorse was recognized by the Judge. So instead of sentencing the driver to prison, the way he punished the driver was quite unusual. He stipulated that the driver always display a picture of his dead friend on his car's DASHBOARD! That was in addition to the driver speaking to Civic groups about his tragedy. I don't know what you folks think, but when I mentioned this to a friend, he said the punishment is too harsh, because the driver has to see the Dashboard-picture every time he drives so that it might make him so upset that he might crash again. Well, I don't know whether I agree with that observation or not, but I certainly think the punishment was unusual. Never heard of anybody else getting that kind of punishment.