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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: megimoo on June 20, 2008, 08:58:10 PM
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She Ran Her Mother Over, Checked On Her. said she was still breathing and drove off? Wow ...
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - A woman with a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit for driving backed over her mother and left the scene even though loved ones yelled, "You killed grandma," police said. Lisa Ann Casteel, 40, was charged with negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated. (Snip) Sheriff's deputies were told by witnesses that Casteel backed over her mother, Mary Jane Donn, 56, as Donn sat in a plastic chair in the driveway of a home where relatives had gathered, according to an arrest affidavit.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1451556~Ark__woman_charged_with_running_over_her_own_mom.html
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No Elmo & Patsy parodies, folks. Be adult here. This is tragic.
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Lisa Ann Casteel, 40, was charged with negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated. (Snip) Sheriff's deputies were told by witnesses that Casteel backed over her mother, Mary Jane Donn, 56,
Anyone else catch that?
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Oh dear God. What a horrible way to go. I wonder how she felt after she sobered up? I can't imagine....
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No Elmo & Patsy parodies, folks. Be adult here. This is tragic.
I confess. That might have been my first thought.
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I totally had to google that.
Oh my.
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The affidavit said a breath test showed Casteel had a blood-alcohol content of 0.243 percent.
And they released her on $3,000 bond?
In many places in the US, this is now Murder as opposed to manslaughter -- as it should be.
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No Elmo & Patsy parodies, folks. Be adult here. This is tragic.
ya know, i immediately thought the same thing... politics do not matter here, can you even imagine killing a family member that way? I do not honestly know how I would live past that one..
i know she was drunk, but bless her heart.. that is just so sad.
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Lisa Ann Casteel, 40, was charged with negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated. (Snip) Sheriff's deputies were told by witnesses that Casteel backed over her mother, Mary Jane Donn, 56,
Anyone else catch that?
i did... :(
there are some issues, to be sure..
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The affidavit said a breath test showed Casteel had a blood-alcohol content of 0.243 percent.
And they released her on $3,000 bond?
In many places in the US, this is now Murder as opposed to manslaughter -- as it should be.
That's one of the things I've yet to grow accustomed to living in NH..."reasonable" bail means pocket change.
I've seen DUI charges bailed out on $250 here, whereas when I lived in CA, a red-light camera ticket costs more.
Here's a local story where a 17-year old girl was underage drinking, but rather than just take a ticket, decided she wanted to go WWE with "da Po-Po"...
Story link HERE. (http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080618/GJNEWS_01/568671652/0/NEWS0201)
$2500 bond for 10 charges? Must be nice. Try getting that in a liberal haven.
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The affidavit said a breath test showed Casteel had a blood-alcohol content of 0.243 percent.
And they released her on $3,000 bond?
In many places in the US, this is now Murder as opposed to manslaughter -- as it should be.
That's one of the things I've yet to grow accustomed to living in NH..."reasonable" bail means pocket change.
I've seen DUI charges bailed out on $250 here, whereas when I lived in CA, a red-light camera ticket costs more.
Here's a local story where a 17-year old girl was underage drinking, but rather than just take a ticket, decided she wanted to go WWE with "da Po-Po"...
Story link HERE. (http://fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080618/GJNEWS_01/568671652/0/NEWS0201)
$2500 bond for 10 charges? Must be nice. Try getting that in a liberal haven.
well, i see your issue here: NH probably doesnt have the illegal tax base from which to pull more dollars and buy those red-light cameras. :-)
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3k bond isn't a lot. I would hope that was just the 10% a person normally has to pay. 30k would be more appropriate. The District Court judge would have been the one to set this I think.
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3k bond isn't a lot. I would hope that was just the 10% a person normally has to pay. 30k would be more appropriate. The District Court judge would have been the one to set this I think.
Drunk or not, the woman unintentionally killed her own mother. It wasn't cold blooded murder. It is sad.
Booze has destroyed so many lives. No, I am not a prohibitionist.