Damn that auto pilot.

/ shows him for listening to the gps lady
// turn left in 100 feet; drink an entire half gallon of vodka

"The Bentley has been drinking. The Bentley has been drinking. The Bentley has been drinking. Not me."

FTFA: "He ordered Mind Erasers, he ordered eight Mind Erasers," she said. "Now (a) Mind Eraser is Kahlua, vodka, tonic and somehow you mix it together and suck it down real fast through a straw."

That sounds like a legal and delicious Roofie Colada.

This is all to common to drive drunk and flee the scene, then immediately start drinking. Almost impossible to prove the guy got drunk after and not before the accident. The charges for fleeing the scene are easier to address than dui.

He will show you the life of the mind.

factoryconnection: Then the Bentley made him flee the scene, not render aid and not call 911 for the person that just got t-boned and was then upside-down in a ditch a canal.

His decision-making sounds far worse if you believe that he was sober... causing a major accident and then fleeing to a bar is the action of a sociopath.

FTFY

It'll be an outrage if Bentley man gets off.

This excuse is nothing new. Link (new window)

So, your client was STONE COLD SOBER when he fled the scene of the accident, failed to call 911, and sat warm and dry at home while the young man in the other car slowly drowned. Yeah, that's MUCH better than if he had been drunk. Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. Defense Attorney.

natazha: "The Bentley has been drinking. The Bentley has been drinking. The Bentley has been drinking. Not me."

I wonder if the driver was just a mental midget with the I.Q. of a fencepost.

1) Fled on foot - why flee if, as you say, you did not know you hit someone...

2) Called 911 - Why call 911 if, as you say, you did not know you hit someone. Shouldn't you call a tow-truck?

3) Why settle a "wrongful death" lawsuit if, as you say, the vehicle malfunctioned. Wouldn't you have them sue Bentley?

Dude has plenty of money, he'll get off...

saloman: This is all to common to drive drunk and flee the scene, then immediately start drinking. Almost impossible to prove the guy got drunk after and not before the accident. The charges for fleeing the scene are easier to address than dui.

Yeah, but Quincy, MD would remember the person had blood taken off the knee after the accident and check that blood for alcohol.

TMYK.

That is the only Quincy, MD episode I remember.

He claims he ran into a barn, and there was alcohol in the barn, and he drank the alcohol, so the drinking occurred well after the accident

If only the other car had more mass, like a semi trailer.

Not one Feels-Good-Man joke!

/also this thread number would make a nice Cribbage hand.

factoryconnection: Then the Bentley made him flee the scene, not render aid and not call 911 for the person that just got t-boned and was then upside-down in a ditch.

His decision-making sounds far worse if you believe that he was sober... causing a major accident and then fleeing to a bar is the action of a sociopath.

Or someone with enough money that they no longer feel the law applies to them.

/switch to a net-income based punitive system and see if these rich farks still think they are above the law

They need to lock John Goodman in prison for a long time. The man has no integrity.

jdemartino: So, your client was STONE COLD SOBER when he fled the scene of the accident, failed to call 911, and sat warm and dry at home while the young man in the other car slowly drowned. Yeah, that's MUCH better than if he had been drunk. Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. Defense Attorney.

Can't get jail for life for those.

I am betting he gets off with a few years. It is tough to prove beyond a resaonable doubt he was drunk during the accident.

Not one Kennedy or Lebowski post? Anyway, the local media here in Houston has been all over this for weeks. I guess he has some connection to the city.

StrangeQ: factoryconnection: Then the Bentley made him flee the scene, not render aid and not call 911 for the person that just got t-boned and was then upside-down in a ditch.

His decision-making sounds far worse if you believe that he was sober... causing a major accident and then fleeing to a bar is the action of a sociopath.

Or someone with enough money that they no longer feel the law applies to them.

/switch to a net-income based punitive system and see if these rich farks still think they are above the law

Plus he adopted his adult girlfriend and transferred all his assets to her so the victim's family will not be able to get to his fortune in civil court.

Broktun: Plus he adopted his adult girlfriend and transferred all his assets to her so the victim's family will not be able to get to his fortune in civil court.

He must really trust that she is as not as big of a piece of shiat as he is.

Wow this guy just needs to go away or die. Maybe both

I blew a .00 once & still ended up with a dui.

fredsnake: I blew a .00 once & still ended up with a dui.

you sound poor

factoryconnection: This guy's attorney sounds like he sat behind Joe Amendola at law school. Google it yourself, you'll get it.

Isn't his attorney Roy Black? Google "Roy Black"

saloman: This is all to common to drive drunk and flee the scene, then immediately start drinking. Almost impossible to prove the guy got drunk after and not before the accident. The charges for fleeing the scene are easier to address than dui.

witness testimony will go pretty far with a jury-
FTA:
several witnesses had seen Goodman drinking -- first at dinner and later at the Player's Club Bar in Wellington -- before he got into his car and crashed into Wilson.

"He ordered Mind Erasers, he ordered eight Mind Erasers," she said. "Now (a) Mind Eraser is Kahlua, vodka, tonic and somehow you mix it together and suck it down real fast through a straw."

Even if he gets cleared on the DUI, he'll get completely reamed in the civil case. And rightfully so I would say.

Is Bentley the name of his butler?

PowerSlacker: FTFA: "He ordered Mind Erasers, he ordered eight Mind Erasers," she said. "Now (a) Mind Eraser is Kahlua, vodka, tonic and somehow you mix it together and suck it down real fast through a straw."

That sounds like a legal and delicious Roofie Colada.

delicious? really? Sounds disgusting to me.

Broktun: Plus he adopted his adult girlfriend and transferred all his assets to her so the victim's family will not be able to get to his fortune in civil court.

"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Rich Boy" (1926), paragraph 3

/Richard Cory unavailable for comment.

Broktun: StrangeQ: factoryconnection: Then the Bentley made him flee the scene, not render aid and not call 911 for the person that just got t-boned and was then upside-down in a ditch.

His decision-making sounds far worse if you believe that he was sober... causing a major accident and then fleeing to a bar is the action of a sociopath.

Or someone with enough money that they no longer feel the law applies to them.

/switch to a net-income based punitive system and see if these rich farks still think they are above the law

Plus he adopted his adult girlfriend and transferred all his assets to her so the victim's family will not be able to get to his fortune in civil court.

I believe the court already called shenanigans on that maneuver.

Broktun: StrangeQ: factoryconnection: Then the Bentley made him flee the scene, not render aid and not call 911 for the person that just got t-boned and was then upside-down in a ditch.

His decision-making sounds far worse if you believe that he was sober... causing a major accident and then fleeing to a bar is the action of a sociopath.

Or someone with enough money that they no longer feel the law applies to them.

/switch to a net-income based punitive system and see if these rich farks still think they are above the law

Plus he adopted his adult girlfriend and transferred all his assets to her so the victim's family will not be able to get to his fortune in civil court.

And I don't think he transferred his assets to his girlfriend (there would be major tax implications and it would be a fraudulent transfer anyway). She was suppose to be a beneficially (along with his real kids) of a trust that was previously (before the accident) set up. So if he lost everything, he could then live off of her as she received from the trust.

fredsnake: I blew a .00 once & still ended up with a dui.

snicker

StrangeQ: factoryconnection: Then the Bentley made him flee the scene, not render aid and not call 911 for the person that just got t-boned and was then upside-down in a ditch.

His decision-making sounds far worse if you believe that he was sober... causing a major accident and then fleeing to a bar is the action of a sociopath.

Or someone with enough money that they no longer feel the law applies to them.

/switch to a net-income based punitive system and see if these rich farks still think they are above the law

Make it unadjusted gross income, their net income is already around 0 just look at their tax filings.

Those rich farks! This whole farking thing... I did not watch my buddies die face down in the muck so that this farking strumpet...

Worked in preview....

Guy was drinking Mind Erasers? What..is he 18 and pledging a frat? Drunk, driving a Bentley, and T-Boning a guy into a canal is no way to go through life older man.

Seriously, I would have expected martini's or some really good single malt to be the culprit.

saloman: This is all to common to drive drunk and flee the scene, then immediately start drinking. Almost impossible to prove the guy got drunk after and not before the accident. The charges for fleeing the scene are easier to address than dui.

This strategy is endorsed by the RCMP.

Get charged with obstruction of justice instead of impaired driving causing death (new window)

He pulled a Rick Sanchez. Same attorney?

natazha: "The Bentley has been drinking. The Bentley has been drinking. The Bentley has been drinking. Not me."

Came here for Tom Waits, left happy.

The gas tank had ethanol in it?

So far we have:

1. Bought a lot of drinks at a bar, but didn't drink any of them
2. Car malfunctions and runs a stop sign all by itself
3. The car hits someone, so he walks home, drinks a lot of tequila and calls 911 50 minutes later to report that his car hit someone

Now everyone is waiting for his adopted girlfriend (WTF?????) to testify.

Sounds perfectly reasonable if you are rich.

\Next week his adopted girlfriend will get naked, tie her hands behind her back and hang herself.