>>I don't know if you heard about the latest here in Toronto. Two teenagers from well-to-do families were racing their respective parents' Mercedes on a city street (Mt. Pleasant Ave.). The estimate is that they were going about 140 Km/hr (just under 90 Mph). One of them hit a taxi that was turning and killed the taxi driver. The kid was unhurt. On the seat beside one of the drivers was a video game called "Need for speed" (or something like that). So, here we go again. I guess the lawyers will once blame the video game. After all, after playing the video game, what the hell else could they have done. It's not like they had a choice.
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>>The cab driver was a new Canadian who had passed the written exam for citizenship and was to be sworn in three days later. Then he was going to bring his family to Canada. he'd been working 6 days a week, 10 hours a day. It looks like he'll be granted citizenship posthumously.
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>>If it were up to me, their families would be required to sponsor his family to come here and to foot the bill for any schooling for the kids, etc.
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>Come on Alan. Living with guilty conscience for the rest of their life will be punishment enough. It wasn't their fault... the devil made them do it.

Not the devil, no. I think we'll find in the trial that the video game likely held a gun on them and ordered them to drive too fast. Or maybe it threatened to kill their families. Oh, wait, I know, the game was in league with their cars and the drivers were unable to control the evil vehicles. One way or another, I'm sure it will come out that they were innocent bystanders who just happened by sheer bad luck and unhappy coincidence, to be sitting in the driver's seats.

>Sad story indeed.

We are of a mind.