(Brent Hugh) wrote in message . com...
Jack Cafferty is a CNN morning news anchor. Apparently in May he made
an abrupt turn and hit a cyclist. The cyclist was thrown to the
ground but the bicycle was hooked to Cafferty's car and he dragged it
through at least two traffic lights, with people following him and
hollering at him to stop.

Cafferty claimed that he saw the bicyclist fall over but didn't
realize that he wsa the cause of the crash.

According to a story by a Newsday reporter:

"Cafferty was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, reckless
driving, assault and harassment. He was allowed to plead guilty to a
traffic violation: Operating a motor vehicle knowing or having cause
to know property damage had been caused. He was sentenced to 70 hours
of community service, with six months to complete it, and a $250 fine.
He also made restitution."
(http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news...6cafferty.html)

Here's my point: We have a well-known celebrity-type person who claims
that he didn't mean to do it, claims that he didn't realize he did it,
and claims that he's remorseful as all get out.

If all that is really true, then he needs to become the posterboy for
a "Share the Road with Bicycles" campaign--talk about it, make ads,
financially support it, do stories about it on CNN, etc etc etc.

Anybody besides me think it would be worthwhile to send a few letters
to Cafferty and to CNN suggesting that this would be a wise way for
them to deal with this situation?

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

--Brent
bhugh [at] mwsc.edu


The sad fact is society could care less. It's all about cars. I'd say
at least 50% of all ads are for automobiles. Automobilists kill quite
a few people each year due to gross neglegence. The penalty for
vehicular homicide is below manslaughter. It's a slap on the wrist.
It's as if the car did it not the driver. I'd like to take it a step
further. If the government can force tobacco companies to put warning
labels on their ads they can remind automobilists with every ad that
they share the road. That they are extremely dangerous, pollute our
air, cause health problems such as asthma.

Oh but they couldn't do that...why everyone knows oil rules the
world...

I do my part...maybe we need a class action lawsuit against car makers
or insurance companies that dont screen anything but the wallets of
their insured.