Suspected drink driver badly beaten

[somptingdonafcw]

fair enough www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.2208301.0.suspected_drink_driver_badly_beaten.php

[maniac]

i would not normaly agree with any violence, but this time i say he got what he deserved.

[Brad]

Apr 18, 2008 18:17:32 GMT maniac said:

i would not normaly agree with any violence, but this time i say he got what he deserved.

Quite agree

[Alf Tupper]

And what if the 'drunk' had turned out to be a driver who'd had a heart attack or some such? Do you think the thug who beat him up stopped even for a heartbeat to consider such a possibility?

If you condone the actions of a vigilante, just pray that you're never the victim of one of their 'mistakes'. Or you may get to be the Strange Fruit on their tree.

Violence is always wrong.

[maniac]

drunk, stolen car, i still think justice was done, i cant see many people sticking up for him. even he said he deserved a wacking.

[Worthing Scottish]

Apr 18, 2008 22:13:55 GMT Alf Tupper said:

And what if the 'drunk' had turned out to be a driver who'd had a heart attack or some such? Do you think the thug who beat him up stopped even for a heartbeat to consider such a possibility?

If you condone the actions of a vigilante, just pray that you're never the victim of one of their 'mistakes'. Or you may get to be the Strange Fruit on their tree.

Violence is always wrong.

Agree - could easily have been (but wasn't, in this instance) a diabetic having a hypo or an epileptic having a fit.

This does happen: my step-dad discovered he was epileptic after crashing a Glasgow passenger bus into a flower display in the middle of a big roundabout many years ago (before I knew him). Cost him his job (epileptics are banned from driving for a period after each fit and can never hold a PSV licence), and the council a large gardening bill, but thankfully no other damage to anyone or anything. Could easily have been a very similar situation to the one in the article, though.