Frustration
I read this on the SMH website earlier, and was reminded again how frustrating the world can be. I’m trying hard to see this from the side of the people who were quoted in the article, but I’m just stuck…
”I purely blame police for it. He’s getting chased and that’s what young people do. They get scared and they take off,”
”You have to ask who’s responsible … in some part it’s the driver for doing the speeds he was doing, but mostly it comes down to the coppers … what good’s a stolen car?”
“One stolen car. He didn’t murder anybody at the time, you know, but that’s what it led him to because of the police chase.”
“People have really got to get the message out, police have got to stop this.
“Obviously you run from the police because you don’t want to get caught.”
“They’re to blame, they’re to blame totally, I blame the police totally,” she said.
“Yes, Justin may have a little bit to do with it but … you know.”
I read those quotes and just get angrier with every one. Are the Police supposed to just stop every time a criminal decides that he/she doesn’t want to be held to account for their actions? If I go and hurt someone, and then decide that I’d much rather go and have a nice cup of coffee rather than face the consequences for my crime, will I be allowed to just leave?
It makes absolutely no sense to me.
Then again, I guess it could be some sort of explanation for God’s grace. I’m not sure that I’m clever enough to put all of these thoughts together, but it’s doing my head in at the moment.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:11 pm
I judge myself impartial in this one (as both a law breaker and law abiding citizen…) And i can confidently say that this is just plainly stupid.
I heard them talking about this on the radio and the sound bite of some high up police man stating the obvious “if we make it that cops can’t chase criminals in high speed pursuits [over the speed limit for that road] then that will encourage criminals to drive faster and more dangerously in order to escape the cops”.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:12 pm
It might be worth adding (for your sake Pete) that “the civ libs can smear their own sef-righteous poo on their toast and eat it!”
You can quote me on that one.
March 23rd, 2010 at 6:36 am
Sounds like he was a nice bloke:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/driver-knew-victims-he-killed-while-fleeing-police-20100322-qra0.html
March 23rd, 2010 at 6:39 am
Exactly.
Should we just have a rule that says if people want to break the law, they should be able to do so as often as they want to?
I understand that it must be incredibly painful for the families of the people who have died (especially the ones who weren’t involved in the pursuit), but the alternative is tying the hands of the police even further than they already are…
The crooks don’t play by the rules.
March 23rd, 2010 at 3:49 pm
clean sheet eh…