Rational Radical

The only good thing about the following story (thanks C.M….I already saw it and was the first commenter :)) is that every person who wrote to the Star was as livid as I was that this repeat-offender piece of shit was given only 7.5 years for slaughtering two innocent people.  With time off for good behaviour, this Argument for the Death Penalty will likely serve less than 2 years.  Remember his name.  If you ever see him out in public, do the right thing, whatever you think it is, because obviously our just-ass system obviously wouldn’t know what the right thing was if it came up behind it in a 2-tonne automobile and pushed it into an oncoming train.
A “habitual drunk driver” whose vehicle pushed a Rockwood, Ont., couple into the path of a GO train has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison.  Andy and Nettie Miller, who were 66 and 65, were stopped at a level crossing in Milton on July 19, 2007, when Ingram Bakhsh struck the rear of their vehicle, forcing it onto the tracks. The Millers died instantly when the train hit their car.  Bakhsh’s car continued through the crossing and struck another vehicle on the opposite side of the tracks before it came to rest.

Ontario Court Justice Richard LeDressay called Bakhsh, 29, a “habitual drunk driver” who had killed two people after an “egregious” sequence of events.  At the time of the crash, he was awaiting trial for two previous drunk-driving related incidents, including a collision with a tractor-trailer on Highway 401, and was prohibited from being behind the wheel of a vehicle and consuming alcohol under bail conditions.  On the night of the collision, he had been driving at a high speed and had a breathalyzer reading almost four times the legal limit. He pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death and breach of his bail conditions.

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