[Newsbot]

Title: Student dies after Alberta classroom crash
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: jeff744
Date: 2012-10-26 17:55:47
Canadian

[martin14]

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CBC News has learned Benson has a lengthy criminal record, dating back to 1992, which includes several driving offences.

He is scheduled to go on trial in April for a dangerous driving charge from April 2011.

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Richard Benson's criminal record

Convicted in 1994 for driving while disqualified � sentenced to 60 days in jail.
Convicted in 1994 for driving while disqualified � sentenced to four months in jail.
Charged in 2011 for dangerous driving � trial set for April 2013.
Several other offences dating back to 1992 including credit card fraud and possession of controlled substances.

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Benson said that Richard was cleared to get his driver's licence back several years ago.

What to say, will this idiocy ever end ?


The driver didn't kill this girl, the system did.

[jeff744]

martin14 martin14:

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CBC News has learned Benson has a lengthy criminal record, dating back to 1992, which includes several driving offences.

He is scheduled to go on trial in April for a dangerous driving charge from April 2011.

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Richard Benson's criminal record

Convicted in 1994 for driving while disqualified � sentenced to 60 days in jail.
Convicted in 1994 for driving while disqualified � sentenced to four months in jail.
Charged in 2011 for dangerous driving � trial set for April 2013.
Several other offences dating back to 1992 including credit card fraud and possession of controlled substances.

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Benson said that Richard was cleared to get his driver's licence back several years ago.

What to say, will this idiocy ever end ?


The driver didn't kill this girl, the system did.

Sadly the system likes letting loose repeat offenders until they kill someone while beating the ever living crap out of people that made one bad mistake that didn't hurt anyone.

[martin14]

jeff744 jeff744:

until they kill someone

I doubt even that will be enough.



He'll start whining about this and that, and 'oh I was smoking dope cuz my head hurts'.

ima victim ima victim ima victim

[jeff744]

martin14 martin14:

jeff744 jeff744:

until they kill someone

I doubt even that will be enough.



He'll start whining about this and that, and 'oh I was smoking dope cuz my head hurts'.

ima victim ima victim ima victim

True, eventually someone close to a person killed by stuff like this will decide to take justice into their own hands since the ones supposed to dish it out never do, hopefully that actually provokes a look at this repeat offender crap.

[Brenda]

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Ralph Benson, brother of the accused, said that Richard suffered from seizures ever since he was badly beaten in Mayerthorpe a decade ago.

The beating left him in a coma. He has a plate in his head and takes medication for seizures.

"Right now he should be inside of a hospital," Ralph Benson said. "Not sitting in a police cell."

Richard can be disoriented when he comes out of a seizure, which could account for his "combative" nature with police after the crash, his brother said.

"I mean he's fighting for his life when he comes out of that seizure," Ralph Benson said. "He's had seizures here with us and it is a very freaky situation … he goes like into a convulsion. His muscles spasm, his muscles cramp up on him."

Benson said that Richard had a seizure as recently as Sunday. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Benson said that Richard was cleared to get his driver's licence back several years ago.

There is one thing he should have not being doing the past 10 years and that is legally drive.

[jeff744]

Brenda Brenda:

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Ralph Benson, brother of the accused, said that Richard suffered from seizures ever since he was badly beaten in Mayerthorpe a decade ago.

The beating left him in a coma. He has a plate in his head and takes medication for seizures.

"Right now he should be inside of a hospital," Ralph Benson said. "Not sitting in a police cell."

Richard can be disoriented when he comes out of a seizure, which could account for his "combative" nature with police after the crash, his brother said.

"I mean he's fighting for his life when he comes out of that seizure," Ralph Benson said. "He's had seizures here with us and it is a very freaky situation … he goes like into a convulsion. His muscles spasm, his muscles cramp up on him."

Benson said that Richard had a seizure as recently as Sunday. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Benson said that Richard was cleared to get his driver's licence back several years ago.

There is one thing he should have not being doing the past 10 years and that is legally drive.

And yet people with narcolepsy permanently lose their license on the spot usually (have a friend with it), not seeing a difference from having seizures.

[Canadian_Mind]

The two that were pinned to their desks are/were the ones in critical. Knowing the designs of most school desks to be "pinned" in one isn't a happy mental picture. R.I.P.

If this guys was so prone to siezures, why the fuck was he driving???

[jeff744]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

The two that were pinned to their desks are/were the ones in critical. Knowing the designs of most school desks to be "pinned" in one isn't a happy mental picture. R.I.P.

If this guys was so prone to siezures, why the fuck was he driving???

One was also reportedly pinned under the vehicle, having seen this once with a grown woman (legs were pinned under the tire) I can imagine how much severe the injuries of that child would be as well.

[Brenda]

jeff744 jeff744:

And yet people with narcolepsy permanently lose their license on the spot usually (have a friend with it), not seeing a difference from having seizures.

Your friend should not have a license, neither should this guy have had one. If you cannot control your actions (and with narcolepsy, epilepsy or seizures you can't) you shouldn't drive, period.
Regardless of his criminal record, this man is a ticking time bomb.

The system surely failed...

[desertdude]

Reading stories like this sometimes makes me wonder what it actually takes to land behind bars in Canada.

[jeff744]

Brenda Brenda:

jeff744 jeff744:

And yet people with narcolepsy permanently lose their license on the spot usually (have a friend with it), not seeing a difference from having seizures.

Your friend should not have a license, neither should this guy have had one. If you cannot control your actions (and with narcolepsy, epilepsy or seizures you can't) you shouldn't drive, period.
Regardless of his criminal record, this man is a ticking time bomb.

The system surely failed...

That's what I said, my friend is banned from driving completely unless we somehow find a way to cure narcolepsy. It amazes me that being prone to seizures is not the same.

[Brenda]

I know you said that, I agreed, actually. Maybe I missed the right tone tho, sowwy

I thought it was the same... I think (or more, hope, because if not, it is really fucked up) that he just slipped through because he might have taken medication (and quit, or something? I dunno, just guessing here...) which made the seizures go away?

[Brenda]

desertdude desertdude:

Reading stories like this sometimes makes me wonder what it actually takes to land behind bars in Canada.

Just be a healthy white male.

[jeff744]

Brenda Brenda:

I know you said that, I agreed, actually. Maybe I missed the right tone tho, sowwy

I thought it was the same... I think (or more, hope, because if not, it is really fucked up) that he just slipped through because he might have taken medication (and quit, or something? I dunno, just guessing here...) which made the seizures go away?

Stupid internet and utter lack of ability for it to convey tones.