http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4014292 Thanks for flashing your lights, Dante, next time actually stopping to avoid hitting the man instead of making him aware you are actually going to plow him over would be better. I'm not condoning the victim, who clearly contributed to his own demise by being in the street, but that doesn't absolve Stallworth, who by his own admittance was aware the man was there and seemingly couldn't be inconvenienced to stop and instead wanted the victim to be the one to get out of the way of his car.
Reports are that Stallworth will face DUI manslaughter charges. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/11578261
Are they trying to lessen the sentence? I ask because I'm having a hard time understanding how a BAC of .12 is being considered a DUI.
and he should. I still can't believe the idiocy of this guy. driving drunk is bad enough, but if you see the guy in the street and don't stop because he should get out of your way, hence why you blinked your lights instead of, I don't know -- STOPPING! -- you deserve all 15 years.
Could the contrast be any starker? The 59-year-old construction worker hurrying to catch the bus home after working the nightshift, killed by the over-the-limit 28-year-old millionaire sportsman in his luxury car.
Maybe I've been doing this wrong all these years, but don't you usually flash your lights to tell someone, like a car or pedestrian, that you're letting them go, and not "get the hell out of my way"?
maybe when you're stopped, but not when you are doing 50 mph's barreling down on them. not sure how racing towards the guy with no intention to stop (as evident by the fact that he didn't and plowed right into him) is telling the guy to "go ahead" and not "get out of my way I'm coming through." he was clearly warning the guy to make him aware that he was coming and he needed to get out of the way.
We can only hope he gets screwed hard enough in my opinion. I didn't weigh in on this before because of the lack of details. But when you knowingly run someone down, while speeding, and being over the limit intoxication-wise, and manage to kill someone... well you reserved a place in a special hell... "a special hell reserved for pedophiles and people who talk at the theater".
Maybe he'll get off like Leonard Little did. The guy whose family Little killed is an NFL photographer and occasionally has to be on the same field as the guy that killed his family. It would be so, so sad if Stallworth actually paid for his stupidity.
Have you ever had to stop your car when you are going 50? he was going to hit him either way. I assume he flashed the lights then slammed ont he brakes or tried to swerve, hitting your lights is quick stopping a car going 50 isn't.
that's what you are assuming because it validates your position, but to do so you also have to ignore the third option he didn't employ -- swerve out of the way! if he had the wherewithal to see the man, analyze the situation, and employ a deliberate action, like flashing his lights, that strays pretty far from the normal reaction when driving to break when you see something like that in front of you, I am confident he had time to be more evasive. if something jumps out in front of you while driving, are you seriously saying flashing your lights is even in your mind?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/mike_fish/04/30/fish.little/index.html He got arrested again for DUI in 2004, and wound up being acquitted somehow. Douche.
If his lawyers are good – they can delay this three years or so (Billy Lane killed someone drunk three years ago and it still hasn’t been resolved); if he can avoid the suspension from Goodell he can pretty much finish his career. He wraps up the NFL in three, gets five calendars on a plea and he’s out a millionaire; poor him.
It is if I'm on the macArthur Freeway and I've got nowhere to go. Look up a picture of the macarthur causeway, not saying Stallworth isn't at fault, but I'm saying there is a good chance there wasn't much he could do, he's on a highway going 50 probably can't go into the other lane because there are people there.
