[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by parmnion

the copper wasn't targeted though so the sentence is far to severe.

Aaah - The Laws of Cause and Effect.

If he had not freely arrogantly, and contemptuously, elected to steal someone else's car, then this tragedy would not have happened and a young man would not have had his precious life so cruelly and prematurely ended, a grief stricken young wife would not now be a widow with an uncertain future, and those poor young children would not have lost their daddy and have had their lives decimated.

The young cop might have been a little reckless in the way he chose to try to stop this car thief - but only because it was naive of him to expect someone so contemptuous of the law to actually stop - and the young cop was, after all, only trying to carry out the duties which we taxpayers pay him to do on our behalf.

I have zilch sympathy for the culprit because all my sympathy is for the victim and his wretched family, and if this sentence makes just one would be car thief/boy racer stop and think and desist, then it will have served its dual purpose as both punishment AND deterrent.

R.I.P to the cop and my deepest sympathy to his family.