This story sucks for everyone involved

MadMarchHare · February 28, 2006, 07:37:11 AM

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.

Geowhizzer · February 28, 2006, 08:01:56 AM

Gracious. Tragic story.

rjs246 · February 28, 2006, 08:11:56 AM

Women can't drive.

MadMarchHare · February 28, 2006, 08:16:05 AM

But they can shotput babies, apparently.

T_Section224 · February 28, 2006, 08:28:28 AM

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.

MDS · 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.

MadMarchHare · February 28, 2006, 09:41:37 AM

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?

Zanshin · February 28, 2006, 10:08:10 AM

Yeah, that's pretty horrendous.

JTrotter Fan · February 28, 2006, 11:16:07 AM

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.

rjs246 · February 28, 2006, 11:21:06 AM

Wow. I actually agree with everything Wacko just wrote.

hunt · 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.

Wingspan · February 28, 2006, 11:34:49 AM

i actually find that story kinda funny, darwinism at it's absolute finest

JTrotter Fan · February 28, 2006, 11:52:59 AM

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.

Susquehanna Birder · February 28, 2006, 12:52:42 PM

He should have followed her downstairs.

Susquehanna Birder · March 01, 2006, 07:50:44 AM

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.