http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/27/driving.lesson.ap/index.html
Not often I can say I sympathize with the victim AND the accused. Yikes.
Gracious. Tragic story.
Women can't drive.
But they can shotput babies, apparently.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on February 28, 2006, 08:16:05 AM
But they can shotput babies, apparently.
that's so wrong, about as wrong as me laughing at it.
i feel bad for both families but the sentence seems fair, it was totally unintentional and the guy is probably feels guilt every second of every day.
Wow, what an awful story all the way around. But serioisly, letting your 15 year old daughter drive without a permit it just a bad parenting decision. Teenage girls are often bigger idiots than teenage boys.
Quote from: MDS on February 28, 2006, 09:06:53 AM
Teenage girls are often bigger idiots than teenage boys.
And this changes with age?
Yeah, that's pretty horrendous.
Quote from: MDS on February 28, 2006, 09:06:53 AM
Wow, what an awful story all the way around. But serioisly, letting your 15 year old daughter drive without a permit it just a bad parenting decision. Teenage girls are often bigger idiots than teenage boys.
Please, i guarantee that millions of kids get a shot at driving a vehicle before they are of age. I don't care if it's on their farm or in a parking lot...it happens often.
And that dumb bitch saying the sentence "should've been harsher," Farg her! The guy plead guilty and is paying for the funeral and tombstone and got 3 years probation. And their redneck asses can only say..."he got off too easy!" I'm sure they'll sue him in civil court so their lazy asses don't have to work ever again, not that they probably did prior to that. Cripes, the 18 year old had 22 month old...that says redneck right there.
Wow. I actually agree with everything Wacko just wrote.
this story sucks too.
QuotePolice: Woman who fell from high-rise tried to touch window below
MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A woman who fell from a 23rd-floor apartment was sitting on the window ledge when she tried to touch the apartment window below with her boyfriend's help, but slipped from his grasp, he told police.
Rachel M. Kozlusky tried to touch the window of the apartment below with her feet, but couldn't, Kevin P. Eckenrode told detectives, according to court papers obtained by the Patriot-News of Harrisburg.
Eckenrode said she then asked him to help her, according to the papers filed by Harrisburg police Detective Donald Heffner.
"He grabbed (her) under the armpits from behind with his hands and lowered her to the window below," Heffner wrote. "During this time she slipped out of his hands and fell to her death."
Eckenrode, 25, a new employee of the state gambling agency, has been charged with homicide and was being held without bail Tuesday morning. He and Kozlusky, 23, had been drinking in the hours before the fall Saturday evening, and his apartment was strewn with empty beer cans and wine bottles, police said.
Eckenrode was distraught and drunk when authorities arrived at the scene, Harrisburg police have said.
Prosecutors said they are investigating Eckenrode's story.
Kozlusky fell through a small round skylight on the portico, then dropped to the pavement in front of the building.
Eckenrode began work in January as a $33,000-a-year press aide for the agency charged with implementing slot-machine gambling in Pennsylvania. He was suspended without pay on Sunday. The gambling board said Eckenrode's hiring was contingent on a background check that had not been completed at the time of his arrest.
it's a horribly written story so here's a recap:
guy & his girlfriend get drunk and decide he should dangle her outside a 23rd story window so she can touch the window below.
he drops her.
she falls through a skylight & dies.
ouch.
well, that's his story.
i actually find that story kinda funny, darwinism at it's absolute finest
Nah, it's not Darwin worthy. It wasn't complex enough. IT was quite simple. Drunk, dangle, fall, die.
Now, had she hit a ledge and hung on there and then pulled herself up, only to fall and land on the skylight and have it break her fall and then in her attempt to move from the skylight, have it break and she falls to the ground and gets impaled on an iron rod, then and only then would it have been Darwin worthy.
He should have followed her downstairs.
Interesting update on the Harrisburg story. The accused's mother is apparently related to the wife of the commissioner of the state gaming commission (or something like that). Tales of favoritism and corruption are sure to arise.
Nepotism landed him that sweet $33k/year gig. Atrocious!
Quote from: hunt on February 28, 2006, 11:29:04 AM
this story sucks too.
QuotePolice: Woman who fell from high-rise tried to touch window below
MARK SCOLFORO
Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. - A woman who fell from a 23rd-floor apartment was sitting on the window ledge when she tried to touch the apartment window below with her boyfriend's help, but slipped from his grasp, he told police.
Rachel M. Kozlusky tried to touch the window of the apartment below with her feet, but couldn't, Kevin P. Eckenrode told detectives, according to court papers obtained by the Patriot-News of Harrisburg.
Eckenrode said she then asked him to help her, according to the papers filed by Harrisburg police Detective Donald Heffner.
"He grabbed (her) under the armpits from behind with his hands and lowered her to the window below," Heffner wrote. "During this time she slipped out of his hands and fell to her death."
Eckenrode, 25, a new employee of the state gambling agency, has been charged with homicide and was being held without bail Tuesday morning. He and Kozlusky, 23, had been drinking in the hours before the fall Saturday evening, and his apartment was strewn with empty beer cans and wine bottles, police said.
Eckenrode was distraught and drunk when authorities arrived at the scene, Harrisburg police have said.
Prosecutors said they are investigating Eckenrode's story.
Kozlusky fell through a small round skylight on the portico, then dropped to the pavement in front of the building.
Eckenrode began work in January as a $33,000-a-year press aide for the agency charged with implementing slot-machine gambling in Pennsylvania. He was suspended without pay on Sunday. The gambling board said Eckenrode's hiring was contingent on a background check that had not been completed at the time of his arrest.
it's a horribly written story so here's a recap:
guy & his girlfriend get drunk and decide he should dangle her outside a 23rd story window so she can touch the window below.
he drops her.
she falls through a skylight & dies.
ouch.
well, that's his story.
The dude killed the skank.
Quote from: FFatPatt on March 01, 2006, 07:56:50 AM
Nepotism landed him that sweet $33k/year gig. Atrocious!
Where there's one, there's sure to be more. And probably more important ones at that.