Moncton Forum

I don't understand!  I just don't understand!

Christopher Robertson Gallant gets a 2 year sentence for killing a pasenger in his car while dui.

In Fredericton, Peter Leon Howe - Howe drank a full case of beer and half a bottle of whiskey at a party, then refused an offer stay at the relative's house in Fredericton.

Witnesses said Howe was so determined to drive to his room at the Budget Motel, he told people at the party there was no one "big enough" to keep him from leaving in his vehicle.

He kills a cyclist,  23 year old Robbie MacRitchie.  He leaves the scene of the accident and is sentenced to HOUSE ARREST!

What!!!!  Are you kidding...What is going on here!

I just don't understand!  It sure sends a good message to people as a deterent!  Kill someone and get house arrest....

I agree 100%....it is murder...and should be treated as such....A person makes a conscience choice to drink knowing how they are and that chances are they will drive...But yet they do it anyways.,It isn't an accident...They have murdered someone with a deadly weapon..their car..To me it is no different then a person high killing someone with a gun or such....There should be no exceptions to the punishment...House arrest for that period of time is a joke!

Having done my fair share of drinking and driving I can say that very few people who drink and drive do it to hurt or kill anybody. I recall once being an unnoficial designated driver who had a bit too much to sip. I didn't own a vehicle but borrowed one and drove everybody else home. After the last person got home I parked his car in his driveway and walked the rest of the way to my home. It was all in good intentions but also bad judgement on my and everybody elses behalf. My wake up call was having one beer too many one night and driving down Mountain Rd. I was not impaired but had a good buzz going. A taxi ran a red light light barely missing me. Luckily my reflexes were good. Had we had an accident it would have been just as much my fault as his even though he ran the red light.

I got to drive a lot of nice cars when I was sober by driving drunk driver's home in them.

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Remember yesterday, respect tomorrow, live for today.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

You know, I think there are two kinds of people:  bad people who do some good things, and good people who do some bad things.  Most of us are the latter, including Mr. Wuddle. 

But regardless of the history of a person's actions be they good or bad, nothing can excuse them from committing such an intolerable sin as taking someone else's life simply due to bad judgment.  Drinking and driving is against the law, bottom line.  The problem there is, the law doesn't give a sh!t when it comes to punishing those who break it.

There is far, FAR too much tolerance for those who drive while impaired.  My suggestion is, for those simply caught without incident, their license is suspended for five years.  No ifs, ands or buts.  See how many people drive while intoxicated then.

If you take a life when you drink and drive, you sacrifice your own.  Into the slammer for the rest of yours.  Enough pussyfooting. 

I am against drinking and driving. I admit that if I'm 3 sheets to the wind and think I'm doing somebody a favour by driving them home I'm going to use bad judgment in my drunken state. After all when I'm 3 sheets to the wind I can do anything. Ha ha. Give a inferiour or useless fealing drunk person a chance to think he is doing somebody some good and you can have a bad combination. Most of us do not think well when we are drunk. If we did we'd stay sober.

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Remember yesterday, respect tomorrow, live for today.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

I saw that news yesterday.Many people were shocked, including myself. He should rot in jail.

 one had to be related to a rich politician  or had an expensive liar oops lawyer   that is why he got less ...
the laws of this country does differ with money and power

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zymry is off limit

time has come

Like I say I'm against drinking and driving. I have had my glory moments, though. Hitting the post office across from Highfield Square, knocking a parked car onto somebody's front lawn, and falling asleep and hitting a bridge in Hillsborough were my glory moments. Add that to giving the motor bike full throttle and almost falling off while laying a 50 foot grove across the lawns of two apartment buildings on Morton Ave along with the fond memory of hitting the curb on the causeway with my 10 speed and you will see my history.

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Remember yesterday, respect tomorrow, live for today.

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.