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This is why I'm not a moderator. Ringpiece would be gone already.

Have you noticed it's only directed at you? We all agree that you're an idiot. Is it so hard to understand that you need to quit being a douche if you want to fit in?

Look in the mirror when you say that.

This man is WAY off the mark with his advice and won't fix the lady's REAL problem. He should have told her her car wouldn't have broken down if she'd stayed in the kitchen. (My wife is going to stab me in my sleep now)

You can give a man a Badge, but he has to provide his own Brains.

Give it 7 days and check here: http://www.dps.state.oh.us/OHCrashReports/ Smaller police departments are slower to upload. The more serious the injuries, the longer it takes to post. Fatals can take weeks or months.

If you are DUI and cause an accident that kills someone then you get Aggravated Vehicular Homicide. Felony 3 or Felony 2. If the victim survives but is injured then you get Aggravated Vehicular Assault. Felony 3 or Felony 2. The charges are pretty much identical and the punishments are too. The fact the the rider died only changes the section number that the person is charged under from ORC 2903.06 to 2903.08. The driver is in just as much trouble. Also requiring helmet so that drivers who crash into us are spared a Homocide charge is totally the wrong reason to require helmets... In fact, requiring safety gear (or else you lose the protections that are afford to helmeted riders under criminal and civil law) is a slippery slope. What's next? Well, now you MUST wear an armored jacket, leg protection, ankle braces, airbag suit, hydraulic exo-skelton etc. Blaming the motorcyclst for being vulnerable to a car is the same kind of thinking that has women in other countries wearing canvas tarps and crap like that - lest they inflame the passions of men. No woman should be told to cover themselves up purely because some men can't control themselves. Similarly, no motorcyclist should be told to cover themselves up purely because some cagers can't drive.

I hate highways during stop-and-go rush hour. Too many rear-end accidents. A 6-car pileup happened directly behind me on my first day commuting on the bike, and that scared me off rush hour freeways. When traffic is flowing normally then highways are fine. I commute on backroads. I maintain high vigilance any time I'm near another car and I slow right down for left-turners and people on side-streets. I slow down enough that I can get stopped or almost stopped if someone pulls out. I don't exceed the speed limit if there is any change of a conflict with another vehicle (approaching sidestreets etc). If the conflicting drive does not meey my eyes then I'll slow down enough going past them that I know I can stop if they pull out. The only one I worry about is being on a 55mph road past one of those idiots who looks into your eyes THEN pulls out. Not much you can do about that but remember that "Twice the speed means Four times the pain". Slow down when there is ANY chance of a vehicle conflict. I ride 2-up with my 7yo, so my riding style is conservative to the extreme.

Another valid question, with a long but precise answer: When you kill someone with a car it can be anything from an accident to a murder (google Clara Harris). Usually if we hear abotu it in the news it's somwhere beteeen those extremes - where the driver is criminally responsible for the accidental death. Ohio has 3 levels of criminally responsible accidental death. (in increasing severity) Vehicular Manslaughter, Vehicular Homicide and Aggravated Vehicular Homicide. Vehicular Manslaughter can be charged when the detail was a "proximate result" of violating any traffic offense. Vehicular Homicide can be charged when the death was caused by negligence, or speeding in a construction zone. Aggravated Vehicular homicide can be charged when the death was caused recklessly, or reckless operation in a construction zone, or DUI/drugs. In all of these cases the accident must be the result of a moving offense. If the illegal thing that the person is doing is not a moving offense and/or does not contribute the the accident itself, then the manslaughter/homocide charges should not count. This means that a person who has no insurance will not be charged with VM, VH or AVH in an accident on simply because they had no insurance. Any charge of VM, VH or AVH would have to be based on some traffic offense that caused the accident. Having no insurance (or no license, or invalid tags etc) does not *cause* an accident. Having no license IS an aggravating factor when deciding the punishment. AVH may be a Felony 3 for a driver with a license, but it could be bumped to a Felony 2 if the driver has no license or was suspended etc. Just like having no insurance is a big factor after a collision. (you can lose your license until you have paid off all the damages) http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2903.06

Second moving violation in a year is a mandatory appearance too, I believe. Or maybe it's second moving violation of the same type (like second speed, or second stop sign etc) Saw this on an episode of "Speeders"... Guy sneered at the cop; "I'll see you in court!". Cop took the ticket back, wrote on it, gave it back to the guy and said; "You sure will. I just marked it as a mandatory court appearance."

Our justice system punishes the intent, not the result. If someone dies as a result of a simple accident then you are not charged. If someone dies as a result of you breaking the law, then you are. I understand why the OP asked this question and I think it's a valid question to ask... however... It sets a dangerous precedent to shift blame onto an otherwise blameless victim on the basis that they did not go far enough to protect themselves. The problem is; who decides what is "far enough"? Does the DUI driver get a free pass if the ride was not wearing a jacket? Or pants? OR maybe he or she was wearing a jacket but not an *armored* jacket. Or maybe they should have been wearing a back protector? Heck, bikes are dangerous regardless of how much gear you wear, so should the DUI driver should get a fee pass simply because she hit a bike. "If he was wearing a helmet he may not have died" = "If he was in a car he may not have died" If the rider was complying with the law on how much gear to wear then the DUI driver is being charged appropriately. That said, my favorite helmet-related quote is still; "Anyone who does not ear a helmet obviously has nothing up there worth protecting." Gear up folks, ATGATT. When you're looking down from heaven (or up from hell - I know you guys) then it will be of little consolation that your lack of helmet didn't prevent the DUI driver that killed you from being charged.

+1 on the Reliant Robin. And it DOES count as a motorbike under UK law and you only need a motorbike license to drive it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Robin

You're looking in the wrong place. Try here - the "Shoplifting and Retail Fraud" subforum of ExpertLaw. It's mostly shoplifting, but return fraud is covered here too. Read some of the sob stories - peope get prosecute for it all the time. Also look up the concept of the Civil Demand. Some states allow a store to demand a civil penalty of up to 10x the retail value of the property stolen/defrauded. That's on top of the criminal prosecution. http://www.expertlaw.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=98

Found something similar... Ohio give you civil protection if you defend youreself against a trespasser (HUGE oversimplification, but...) except for a few situations. One of which is 2305.40 C(3) The key is "self defense is not involved". You have a lot of leeway to protect a *person*, but if you set an unattended and dangerous boody trap and the trespasser is injured by it and the injury is therefore not directly related to defending a person, then the civil immunity goes away and you can be sued. The razor-blade trick makes for a good story at the bar, but in real life he could have 'fessed up to an attempted misdemeanor theft and gotten a $100 fine, and then sued you for his injures. Permanent injuries could mean a big payout.

Nope. It is not self-defense. If you intentionally set a trap for a bad guy then you can be sued civilly for damages. I believe there is a specific law against it too.

4) Declare bankrupty to make the debts go away and then go on public assistance.

Fixed.

Fair enough. I work in a job that I would lose if I got a criminal history, so it would not be worth it to me for a $50 battery.

Is the battery branded walmart or is it another manufacturer (like Duracell etc) that you can follow up with. Walmart probably doesn't hold the full warranty on a 3rd-party product - once you get past the satisfaction guarantee period you have to go back to the manufacturer. None of those stores do. Own-brand stuff, sure, but not 3rd party. I bought a CD player for my car from Best Buy years ago. $300. Got it installed and found it didn't work - the radio would only play a station if you tuned to that station then turned the radio off and on again. Not on clearance or anything. Took it back about 2 hours after buying it and they refused to warranty it, saying I had to go back to the manufacturer. I argued with them for a while and they wouldn't budge. Then I asked if they had a satusfaction guarantee and they said yes. I said I wasn't satisfied. They tried to charge me a restocking fee. After another 15 minutes they waived the restocking fee if I bougth another cd player right there and then. I had already picked a new one out, so that was no big. EDIT: And I made sure they knew the CD player was broken. And I put a note inside the manual that said; "I returned this as broken. If you were sold this as new then you were ripped off."

That's return fraud. It's treated like shoplifting. Is it worth a criminal history? I buy batteries from meijer and never had any problems.

Some guy was on dave&jimmy this moring claiming to have been on "a plane from orlando" near Casey Anthony and a "protector". Guy claimes she waited at baggagle claim with everyone else but nobody figured it out, supposedly. So was she on the learjet or a commercial jet? And why does anyone care?

RIP Marine. Thanks for your service.

Letters of Accommodation? Not Commendation? Really?

Did you get that front brake fixed? Why are you selling it so quick?

They need someone from Poultry to start throwing birds at it.