Man who slammed truck into Mountie not going to jail

What is it about vehicles that seems to exculpate everyone who kills someone with one?

"A sleep-deprivation expert testified it was possible Smith was driving in an 'automated' sleepwalking state."

So what? How does that in any way make him less responsible? If he was impared by fatigue, he shouldn't have been driving. Period. He should be in jail. Period.

another wonderful sentence handed out by our so called "legal system".

Slap on the wrist for killing a cop... disgusting.

Incredible.

Not only does he get to leave his home to find employment - it's NOT his first time hitting a Mountie with a truck.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/n ... 20c&k=5184

I quite agree that Marvin Smith barely even got a 'slap on the wrist'. Aside from the fact that he should be banned from driving FOREVER, what would be a fitting punishment? I don't see how putting him in jail is going to help Cst. Agostino's family and I don't want to suggest that money could in any way begin to compensate them for their loss, but that might have been a better punishment. Make the bastard 'hurt' for the rest of his life!

True, but Im not saying in a year or so, but one day, the moron that will go behind the wheel tired, drunk bla bla bla, will know that if I make something happen, Im going to jail and loose my liscence for the rest of my life.

Right now, alote of people dont give a shit for loosing their liscence for 3 months, thats why it still happens.

No wonder people love to live in Canada. You can do whatever you want and the goverments will just send you home with a lollipop.

EXCELLENT POST!

Thats unbloody real! I know his partner Haney as he did his training here a few years ago.

Off topic perhaps but the second link produced some disturbing data.....

the earlier mountie victim....



That is the human form of "Mad Cow" disease.

Now that is REALLY REALLY scary.

I was unaware of an Canadian cases of human infection.

Thank a Liberal!

Yup.. Instead of looking at statistics and the "real" outcome of what really happens after the fact, he decided that everyone can be helped and we should all hold hands and sing happy songs together.

Let a mountie hit him with a truck.

MMm, no.

VJCD - Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is from Mad Cows. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is naturally ocurring (in both humans, and cows).

Ahhh, but this happened in Alberta, bastion of the PCs (and all other things Conservative)...and to top it off, it wasn't in Redmonton, but rather rural ALberta, where Liberals are tarred and feathered on a regular basis.

If it's a Liberal judge he must be well over a 100 years old, seeing they haven't formed a government here since the 1930s...