Comments on: Biker Down: Sandy Johnston

By: ghettobike

ghettobike — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:53:23 +0000

I’ve drunk some alcohol in my time and only had the pleasure of blacking out maybe twice. As I recall I was FUCKED UP. I don’t think I would have the mental capacity to drag someone off the road after I hit them with my car. I don’t think I could have even driven a car. In fact I could barely walk. I think that she couldn’t of been that drunk to think about the consequences of being DUI or hitting someone. Anyway, if she drug someone into a ditch while being blacked out say more about her personality? I mean doesn’t her subconscience or something take over?

By: Opus the Poet

Opus the Poet — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:37:39 +0000

I have never operated any vehicle under the influence of alcohol, but I did ride my bike while impaired by an allergy attack once and get pulled over. But as the officer asked for “licence, registration, and proof of insurance” I replied “I don’t have any of that, I’m riding a bicycle.” You should have seen his face! BTW I was pulled over at night after a 130 mile day on the bike that broke down over 30 miles from home and left me with 3 gears out of 27 working, all too low for flat cruising and too high for any of the hills on the way home. I was beat…

By: Seattle Steve

Seattle Steve — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:05:39 +0000

I’ll reiterate that some of us could have done something just as insane during some blacked-out night that may have started with grabbing some PBR out of a Quiki-Mart beer cooler. That would have been over a score ago for me.

By: Ike the Viking

Ike the Viking — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:25:33 +0000

Fuck drunk drivers. Ride your bike, or walk, or stay on the couch. But don’t fucking drive.

By: Art

Art — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:08:19 +0000

Well Steve, when I catch myself judging others for drunk driving, I remember of all the long, cold walks home on the nights I knew I had no business behind the wheel. Being young is not an excuse.

By: Kid Wonder

Kid Wonder — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:56:29 +0000

I hope Sandy recovers.

I also hope Little Miss Drag-off-Drive-Away suffers.

Here’s a +1 to reject conformity-

It takes a special kind of sickness to run from a situation like that.

By: reject conformity

reject conformity — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:17:35 +0000

Seattle Steve,

most of us “may” be guilty of driving while not completely in control of our facilities, but I never drug a body off the road and then drove off and if I had then I would have expected the full wrath to come down upon me. this 18yo girl deserves full prosecution.

By: Opus the Poet

Opus the Poet — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:47:34 +0000

OK I withdraw my request to hang, draw, and quarter the “young lady” and defile the corpse. I just want her punished to the fullest extent of the law.

That better?

Life without parole would be much worse than getting hanged, drawn and quartered, and defecating on a corpse doesn’t “do” anything for me unless the person that used to be inhabiting the corpse has done me personal harm.

But my anger at her actions won’t be softened… Just the lust for vengance.

Opus

By: Seattle Steve

Seattle Steve — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:14:03 +0000

Thank goodness nothing awful (that I can recall) ever happened when I was eff-ed out of my gourd from ages 14-21. It was all dumb luck. How many people could I have killed in the wee hours of the morning? I’ll bet I’m not the only one in this forum that wasn’t an angel. At 5:30am how many of us would have even recalled what we did, or how we got home? Am I the only one that ever blacked-out? I, my passengers, other drivers, white-tailed deer, cyclists, etc. were damn lucky. I always try to remember that when I catch myself judging others. An older person should know better. I always new that what I was doing was wrong, so it was easy to quit when I got caught. When she answers, “I don’t recall hitting that cyclist.”, she may be telling the truth. Drunk cyclist readers probably aren’t all saints.

By: Rusty Sanchez

Rusty Sanchez — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:40:14 +0000

LOTS of Jail, fines, and no more drivers license for the little Mercedes driving princess. If she did the right thing, I could see going easy on her, but dragging someone’s wife/mother to the side of the road and leaving her for dead after running her over is absolutely contemptible. When she gets out of jail, she should have to ride a 20 year old Huffy with no seat everywhere she goes for the rest of her life.

By: gpsser

gpsser — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:42:46 +0000

I am in agreement with Seattle Steve and Chris. Yes, what she did was awful, yes she better be prosecuted, and yes she better serve some time here: http://www.doc.wa.gov/facilities/washingtoncc-women.asp it is not nice (my wife is a probation officer). And regardless of who in the family was driving, they are going to pay through the nose on this one, and should.

By: Seattle Steve

Seattle Steve — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:14:23 +0000

I’m just having trouble with visions of violent revenge against a woman. I’m sure plenty of folks would enjoy it just a little too much. She would probably get off anyway: no witnesses, a “girl”, a good lawyer, etc.