Thursday, August 27, 2009

Teddy and equality ramblings

It's been non-stop How Great Was Ted. Has it been 2 days? It just feels like the longest day ever. Is there a possibility that some news is happening somewhere in the world. I quit watching last night - I just couldn't take it anymore.

It was like Anna Nicole and Michael all over again. So I've spent some time checking in on blogs and comments and naturally since I lean to the right, I've seen all the bad things about 'ol Teddy, with a drop of troll bait dribbled in the comments for the feeding frenzy.

I was never a fan of Ted Kennedy and I don't think any politician should be allowed more than 8 years in "public office" (oxymoron, if it's a public office - why are there so many secrets?). So naturally I don't appreciate his 47 years.

At any rate the death of Mary Jo seems to be in every comment section, which then somehow turns into Bush lied and killed 4000 soldiers. Somehow trying to justify Chappaquiddick? Silly me, I just don't get the connection. Is that similar to how water is like dirt, or the sun is like the moon? If they want a new topic - they should get a blog.

All I really wanted to do here was post two news articles from the past that I thought were a little more relevant to the Chappaquiddick incident...

# 1 From 2001 http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0203/np020308.htm
Woman left man trapped for days in her windshield after hit and run
Victim got apologies but no help as he bled to death, court told
FORT WORTH, Tex. - A Texas nurse's aide allowed a man trapped in the windshield of her car to bleed to death in her garage over two or three days, prosecutors
said. Then, Chante Mallard called her friends and had them dump the body of
Gregory Biggs, a 37-year-old homeless man, in a nearby park. "I'm going to have to come up with a new word. Indifferent isn't enough. Cruel isn't enough to say," Richard Alpert, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "Heartless? Inhumane? Maybe we've just redefined
inhumanity here." On Wednesday, police arrested Ms. Mallard, 25, on a murder warrant in Mr. Biggs' October death. "If he had gotten medical attention, he probably would have survived," said Sergeant John Fahrenthold, a police traffic investigator. When the body was found in Cobb Park in southeast Fort Worth, evidence pointed to a hit-and-run, investigators said. But they were unable to develop any leads in the case until Ms. Mallard herself unwittingly provided the key to the mystery. When asked at a party why she was no longer driving her car, she told a friend "bits and pieces" about the accident. Last month, the friend went to police and they obtained a search warrant. Inside her garage they discovered her damaged 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier still spattered inside and out with blood, hair and other trace evidence from Mr. Biggs. The car's seats had been removed and were found in the backyard. An attempt had been made to burn one of them to destroy the evidence. Taken to the police station for questioning, Ms. Mallard at last explained what had happened. The woman told police she had been drinking and using Ecstasy the night she hit Mr. Biggs, sending him headfirst through her windshield and breaking his legs. Then, she panicked and drove the few kilometres to her home, where she parked her car in the garage. Mr. Biggs begged her to help him, she told the police, but she lowered the garage door and ignored his pleas. She returned several times over the next few days to apologize to him, but otherwise did nothing to help as he went into shock and slowly bled to death. After the man died, Ms. Mallard enlisted several of her friends to help remove his body. They put Mr. Biggs in the trunk of another vehicle and drove to the park, where he was found on Oct. 27. "This goes so far beyond failure to stop and render aid because she did more than not render aid," Mr. Alpert said. "She made it impossible for anyone else to do so." Ms. Mallard's lawyer, Mike Heiskell, said the accusation against her was not warranted. "I think this is overreaching on the part of the prosecution and the police and, in the end, I believe the law will shake out that this was simply a case of failure to stop and render aid," he said. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office told police Mr. Biggs suffered no internal injuries and apparently died from loss of blood and shock. Medical examiner's records listed his address as a homeless shelter in Fort Worth. More arrests are expected.
Copyright © 2001 National Post Online
#2 From 2007
Pedestrian body stuck in car windshield
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A motorist hit two pedestrians, then drove home with one of the bodies lodged in his windshield, police said. The man in the windshield died. Police said Steve Warrichaiet was drunk when he struck the pedestrians as he returned home from a friend's house late Sunday. One pedestrian was found lying on a street, critically injured, but police said the second victim remained lodged in Warrichaiet's windshield while he drove seven blocks home and parked in his garage. Warrichaiet's sister, Donna Gutowski, said he called her early Monday, minutes after midnight. "'Now I really did it. I killed somebody. I put the body in the car,'" she recalled Warrichaiet saying. "But I didn't believe him. He had talked nonsense before." She said she learned the crash really happened when an investigator came to her home that morning. Warrichaiet called police about 5:40 a.m. Monday, reporting that he'd been in an accident and thought he hit someone, authorities said. Police Lt. David Wesely said investigators didn't know what happened in the six hours between the crash and the man's call to police. Tyrone Ware, 50, of Green Bay, was pronounced dead when police arrived at Warrichaiet's home. The second victim, a woman, was in critical condition Wednesday at St. Vincent Hospital, a nursing supervisor said.
In a similar case in 2001 in Texas, a former nurse's aide hit a homeless man, drove
home with him wedged in her windshield and then left him to bleed to death in
her garage. Chante Jawan Mallard was convicted of murder and sentenced in 2003
to 50 years in prison.
Warrichaiet was charged Tuesday with homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, hit-and-run involving death, injury by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and hit-and-run involving great bodily harm. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 77 1/2 years in prison and a $275,000 fine. A judge set bail at $100,000.
Gutowski said her brother has mental health problems and had received counseling for having suicidal thoughts. She said her brother needs treatment and medication. "This could happen to the next person. You've got to get ill people off the streets," she said.
Those were both accidents by intoxicated individuals that tried to hide the incidents - I don't believe Teddy sent anyone to help out, and I believe that they were both incarcerated.
Perhaps if they had driven the cars to a Lake to sink they might have gotten away with it, or been in a different state, or had a better last name perhaps?
Just an observation on those equal rights Teddy was so big on.

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