The good thing is we're in north florida. When the wife and kids were down here in Feb it was in the 60's and 70's and as high as the 80's but they needed a jacket at night. So at least theres a break coming.
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I'd say the reason it shifted from the car jacker getting beaten to death to the poor parenting choice is because of the fact that the car jacker got what he deserved so there's not much more to say there about that part of it. When you steal a car with three kids in it you obviously see the kids, so you then go from a car thief to a kidnapper. So being beaten to death for kidnapping 3 kids, justified IMO. If I had kids and someone took them I'd want them dead as well.
Good points Steve....one poster over there has said that if no charges are filed by the DA then it simply gives a green light to street justice.To that I say,it wouldn't be the first time our DA has done such a thing.
It would probably be pretty hard to make any charges against the people stick. Basically they stopped 3 children from being kidnapped so the argument could very easily be made that they prevented a life threatening situation from happening to the kids. About the only thing that might be made against them in charges I would say is involuntary manslaughter, but even then, what jury would uphold that in a situation like this. I'd be really surprised if any charges end up filed against anyone.
.....and regardless of who dealt the final fatal blows no one other than the father and mother are cooperating so it would be sad to see him face any charges alone.
I kind of skipped over this business but this reminds me of a thing that happened to me 20 years ago. I was driving down a four-lane divided Boulevard in town with the clear road ahead of me.
Suddenly this beat-up Chevy Malibu backs off the curb coming towards me in reverse.
It's swings widely as the wheels go left, and it turns broadside across all four lanes of traffic as it backs across the center median.
As I drive past, it is still in reverse and going in a big circle, heading for the median again. As I passed the car on the right I see there is no driver. Four lanes of traffic Screech to a halt.
This was my opportunity to be a hero so I jammed my Plymouth Volare up over the curb and parked it. Then, I stepped out into the road, stuck my arm in through the window of this moving car, ran it back up onto the median and jammed it in park.
I turned back to my Plymouth parked illegally on the curb, and then I see this gal coming towards me at a trot with a big basket of laundry. She's screaming something and I realize it is about her baby. She drops her basket on the median yanks open the door and there is a two-year-old cowering on the back floor.
I don't know why that kid wasn't screaming, but he never made a sound until his mom grabbed him.
Now maybe she left the car running in park & the kid pulled on the shifter trying to look out the window.
but those old Malibus used to break the motor mounts and if the engine was running roughly at idle that it could eventually shift itself. This is how a Model Tees used to drop into gear and pin their owners against the garage wall.
Most later model cars all went to a cable shifter. That solid linkage was a safety hazard, that combined with weak motor mounts, caused a number of these incidents.
Sometimes when you broke the motor mounts on those Chevelles it would happen at Full Throttle and the it would just stay stuck wide open because the whole weight of the engine was standing on that linkage.
Chevy fixed it by putting a little leash around the motor mount so it wouldn't come apart if the rubber actually broke.
