That reminds me of the "new car smell" legal defense that was used effectively in 2010. The judge also agreed with the guilty shmuck's lawyer on another issue. The shmuck had a very high paying job so he shouldn't go to jail so he could more effectively play his victim's medical bills. I also quoted another item worthy of note. He did call somebody after the accident. So maybe he wasn't all bad.
Back in November, it was reported that last summer, Morgan Stanley financial adviser Martin Joel Erzinger… had driven over a doctor who was on his bike and then kept going, “until he reached a Pizza Hut parking lot, where he stopped and called Mercedes auto assistance to report the damage to his vehicle.”…
![[Not the Onion] Automakers are preparing for a future where pedestrians & cyclists carry sensors so their cars won't hit them.](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/DMtanNMrA3.png){kind=link}
:porky-happy: after all, if they can't afford a cell phone do we really care if they get run over?
That reminds me of the "new car smell" legal defense that was used effectively in 2010. The judge also agreed with the guilty shmuck's lawyer on another issue. The shmuck had a very high paying job so he shouldn't go to jail so he could more effectively play his victim's medical bills. I also quoted another item worthy of note. He did call somebody after the accident. So maybe he wasn't all bad.
Amazing how affluenza is a very real thing people don't riot over, but americans take everything and ask for seconds, so.