Dr. Thompson road rage incident/sentencing(merged)

C'mon man. I used to be a messenger. In 8 years I broke the law every single day just to make a buck. That includes the commute to work and back!
Just the onther day, on the commute to work, I Cali-stopped 6 stop signs ,became a "pedestrian" once or twice to get through a red light and habitually rolled through a T-stop. All because I could.
I used to have a neighbor who was retired CHP. I asked how do you stop just one driver violating the law he said it's that simple-just stop one-they are all breaking the law. :beer:

 

Oh, now I get it. People need to follow the law. Gee, why didn't someone else think of that?

 

Today in Malibu, my friends and I stopped at a red light on PCH. It was a T intersection and PCH was busy.
A woman in her SUV rolled down her window and thanked us for stopping saying she'd never seen that before. We said no problem(good thing she didn't follow us all day) and we know there are problems. I then told her not to forget all the drivers that roll stop signs and speed along above the speed limit.
People get ridiculously upset that cyclists sometimes ignore the law while they, as drivers, blast along at 5 to 15 miles an hour over the speed limit or blab on the cell phone or roll right turn reds or stop signs!
This is unreal that some people get so bent out of shape about this!
They really need to look in the mirror and ask themselves if they do everything to obey the law every day without fail.
For those that don't know, I'm a professional driver in Malibu and I see bad cyclists and good cyclists but I see way more bad drivers!
Bottom line here is this, I will continue to run stop signs if no cars are around and I will continue the infamous California roll if no cops are around.
:wave:

 

This thread is suppose to be about the road rage incident and result of the trial, not about taxes, fees registration for bikes. All unrelated posts about bike registration, taxes and additional fees have been moved to a new thread: http://www.socaltrailriders.org/for...cense-fees-taxes-registration-discussion.html.

Please go there to discuss taxes/fees. Any more off topic post here will be deleted. Thanks

 

the way I see it, he got off lucky.

To me that was premeditated murder/vehicular manslaughter with road rage as a trigger. That guy obviously hates bikers, has had problems in the past. He deliberately sped up, passed them and slammed on the brakes.

I'm surprised he only got what he got.