Comments on: Billy Lane Gets Six Years in Prison for Vehicular Manslaughter – A Follow Up.

By: Don

Don — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:56:26 +0000

I agree, Billy should have gotten a more strict punishment. But really, would 500 years bring back the victim? Would it end the hurt and loss his family feels every day since he was taken from them? Of course it wouldn’t and is Billy Lane the real reason for this death? Or is it the fact that all to many people feel that “just one more” isn’t going to make a difference? Why do we allow alcohol to send us to prison, destroy families, and send those we love to a far to early grave? I’m quite sure that Billy didn’t wake up that morning thinking…”I’m going to get hammered, and kill someone.” That wasn’t his plan, it’s never anyone’s plan, and yes, it happens over and over again. Today, you’ll be or someone you love will be out there and along with them someone will be over the limit or texting someone. There’s a chance that you’ll never see that person again. Never again get the chance to give that person a hug or a hand shake. What happened to Billy Lane can happen to any of us regardless of how much time he got. Maybe, just maybe, partying and driving is too deadly, to possible, to foolish for everyone. Just stop, it’s just that easy.

By: Sandie [MEMBER]

Sandie [MEMBER] — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Norm excellent commentary!! I agree with you 100%. I thought Billy Lane got off real light for killing someone. The folks who complain when we say Lane got off easy would feel differently if it was their loved one dead on the highway.

By: Dragon

Dragon — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

He's lucky he didn't get life in prison, or the death penalty like NC prefers for drunk drivers. Especially since Gerry Morelock was a cop. Cop killers usually get the book thrown at em.

Except in Knoxville TN, where all charges are dismissed after they confess on police video with the murder gun the night of shooting a motocop in the back while riding his Harley off-duty. The copkiller even had a prior murder conviction.
piratenews.org/copkillers.html

2 years is the standard sentence for voluntary manslaughter by hitmen, especially when employed by the US Govt or local police as drug-dealing "informants", and on their 2nd murder conviction they get released 3 years before their parole date.
piratenews.org/how-to-catch-a-govt-hitman.html

Knoxville TN even names highways in honor of alcoholics convicted of fatal hit-and-run of motorcycle tourists, and state legislators tell AMA they don't want no dirty bikers in TN.
piratenews.org/koella.html

By: Mark Watters (Australia)

Mark Watters (Australia) — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As a biker myself , and an ex-serviceman, I am glad to see, finally, a court system actually make a person responsible for their actions. Drink driving/riding is bloody stupid and needs to be stopped, maybe the courts and law makers all over need to say enough is enough, and if you get caught over the limit that’s it, no licence ever. I agree at 6 years in prison, he got off pretty light, the other family has lost their loved one for life.

By: jim Cattle

jim Cattle — Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

One less retard walking the steets.
Now if they could only find a reason to lock up that oxygen thief Jesse James.
Oh, did I mention that both of them make crummy looking motorcycles!
Also the centurys Darwin Award goes to Indian Larry.