They really are trying to KILL US ALL!!!!

[Warchild]

How ****** up is this? :angry:

How drunk do you have to be to kill 5 people and be unaware of it? :angry: :angry: :angry:

Suspect Arrested in Fatal Hit And Run Traffic AccidentKOTV - 11/10/2007 12:03 AM - Updated 11/11/2007 7:56 AM

Police say a Tulsa woman admits that she ran over and killed five people in a Friday night traffic accident. The deadly hit and run accident happened at 11:04 pm Friday at 12th and Memorial Drive. According to a Tulsa Police report, 37-year-old Kimberly Graham called 911 Saturday morning and told them she first thought she had hit a car. In the report, Tulsa Police say Graham told officers she ran off because she had been drinking.

Four of the victims were in the road trying to help a woman who had just wrecked her motorcycle. News On 6 reporter Emory Bryan reports Tulsa Police say the suspected driver, Kimberly Graham drove through the accident scene striking all five victims.

Tulsa Police say 37-year-old Kimberly Graham turned herself in Saturday morning. She told police where to find the pickup truck that fit the description of the one which left the accident scene. Tulsa Police say Graham was questioned about the accident and then taken to the Tulsa County jail, where she was booked on five complaints of second-degree manslaughter and five complaints of leaving the scene of an accident.

Three of the victims' bodies lay along a 50-yard section of Memorial Drive following the accident late Friday. EMSA ambulances rushed two other victims to Tulsa hospitals where they died as well.

Tulsa Police spent most of late Friday and early Saturday searching the scene for any clues to the pickup truck that ran over the victims.

"Obviously a terrible thing, a terrible collision that happened tonight," said Tulsa Police officer Jason Willingham.

Police say it started just after 11 pm Friday, when a woman had a motorcycle accident leaving the parking lot of the Back Yard Bar at 1229 South Memorial. Four people rushed out onto Memorial Drive to help her, when they were all run over by a Dodge Ram pickup truck. Witnesses gave Tulsa Police a detailed description but no tag number. Police found parts of the pickup truck at the scene.

Saturday morning, members of the victim’s families were angry.

"And that's when this pickup came through and just plowed them under," said one victim’s father Jim Lacy.

Lacy's son, 36-year-old Shannon Lacy was killed in the accident.

"He was, he had his stuff together and had a great life," said Jim Lacy.

Tulsa Police say four of the victims were risking their lives to help someone else when they were killed.

"This section of road is a decent lit piece of road, short of putting a fire truck out there, I don't know what else you could do,” said police officer Jason Willingham.

Tusa Police continue to investigate the accident.

 

[madmike2]

That's the "Who Me" mentality. Besides, alcohol is the acceptable mind-altering substance. Felony hit and run, drunk driving....probably 5 years and out on parole.

 

[cougar8000]

Trying not to make it political, if it is feel freee to delete. Goverment should spend their effort to outlaw drunk driving and substantially increase penalties for killing ANY ONE with a vehicle, instead of dicking around and wasting money trying to outlaw guns.

 

[TriggerT]

Trying not to make it political, if it is feel freee to delete. Goverment should spend their effort to outlaw drunk driving and substantially increase penalties for killing ANY ONE with a vehicle, instead of dicking around and wasting money trying to outlaw guns.

+1, WOOF, Fuzzy Balls, Gunny, and all that good crap. Maybe since you said it, I wont get in trouble for agreeing to it. Then again......

 

[FJRSTAR]

+1 Gunneee what cougar8000 said!!!

 

[twodogs]

I say we combine the two:

Shoot drunk drivers.

Bill

 

[SkooterG]

Trying not to make it political, if it is feel freee to delete. Goverment should spend their effort to outlaw drunk driving and substantially increase penalties for killing ANY ONE with a vehicle, instead of dicking around and wasting money trying to outlaw guns.

That was unnecessary. Let's keep on topic.

First of all, a good portion of government DOES spend considerable effort and tax payer's dollars to enforce impaired driving laws. As for killing someone with a vehicle, there generally are sustantial penalties if the offender is under the influence. If offender is NOT under the influence, then that's a whole different windmill.

And you could of easily substituted 'guns' for dozens of other social ills.

Keep on topic please.

 

[HYCLE]

This story makes me wonder. Did a drunk woman on a bike crash leaving the bar and then four more drunks ran into the street in front of an truck driven by a drunk woman. Was it ladies nite at the bar?

Yes, I do have a sick sense of humor, my sympathy goes out to the families of the lost loved ones.

 

[cougar8000]

Scooter,

I thought I did kept it on topic.

In my experience from what I have read and heard people walk all the time for killing someone with the car regardless if they were drunk or not. At the maximum their time served does not begin to measure up to what they did.

Does government spend enough money to stop it. IMHO I DO NOT think so. Do I think money wasted on gun control should be routed here, by all means. because what they propose for gun control is foolishness. But lets not go there. All I am saying and again to my knowledge I think the money should be spent somewhere else where they matter more to my understanding. I am not trying to drive a political debate here.

 

[evilmedic13]

Just make those blow kits in all cars, too high, car no worky, make no trouble. I feel bad for those killed, but what kind of situational awareness did these people have? From what I've read ,it wasn't anywhere near a hairpin turn. Still, 5 people are dead in what was an avoidable incident in every way :angry: . Absofuckinlutely stupid if you ask me.

 

[FJR919]

Scooter,
I thought I did kept it on topic.

In my experience from what I have read and heard people walk all the time for killing someone with the car regardless if they were drunk or not. At the maximum their time served does not begin to measure up to what they did.

Does government spend enough money to stop it. IMHO I DO NOT think so. Do I think money wasted on gun control should be routed here, by all means. because what they propose for gun control is foolishness. But lets not go there. All I am saying and again to my knowledge I think the money should be spent somewhere else where they matter more to my understanding. I am not trying to drive a political debate here.

As a prosecutor of 24 years I have prosecuted many more homicides by drunk drivers than by guns. Most of these offenders serve a state prison sentence, the length of which depends upon their priors. I can tell you laws are changing, at least in New York, that are closing many of the legal loopholes that made it difficult to give appropriate punishment for killing another person. So at least on this front, things are improving.

I can tell you that every Thanksgiving morning I think of the call I got regarding the two 19 year olds that died that morning, killed by the drunk driver of the car they were riding in. I am always reminded on that day what Thanksgiving now means to the parents of those dead boys.

 

[cougar8000]

As a prosecutor of 24 years I have prosecuted many more homicides by drunk drivers than by guns. Most of these offenders serve a state prison sentence, the length of which depends upon their priors. I can tell you laws are changing, at least in New York, that are closing many of the legal loopholes that made it difficult to give appropriate punishment for killing another person. So at least on this front, things are improving.
I can tell you that every Thanksgiving morning I think of the call I got regarding the two 19 year olds that died that morning, killed by the drunk driver of the car they were riding in. I am always reminded on that day what Thanksgiving now means to the parents of those dead boys.

Thank you for the info. I am glad to hear that things are moving at least in some parts of this country. I hope that we get to the point where stories like this would be so seldom that people will think that it is not somebodies ignorance or stupidity but more of a fluke that caused it.

 

[gr8eyes]

I wonder if we went back to public hangings for this kind of thing would help curb the problem You know town square, leave them up for 24 hours.

 

[Bounce]

How drunk do you have to be to kill 5 people and be unaware of it? :angry: :angry: :angry:

maybe she was so drunk she thought she was a pro sports star.

 

[evilmedic13]

How drunk do you have to be to kill 5 people and be unaware of it? :angry: :angry: :angry:

maybe she was so drunk she thought she was a porn star.

And ****** everybody.

 

[Ignacio]

I am not trying to drive a political debate here.

********! You turned it political with "Trying not to make it political.....Goverment should...."

Thread closed.

....and trust me...that's the best deal and the +1 crowd is going to get this week. :angry2: