Thursday, July 16, 2009

We're the Only Ones Multi-Tasking Enough

In the seconds before a crash that killed two Colllinsville sisters and injured a Fayetteville couple, Illinois State Police trooper Matt Mitchell was traveling at triple-digit speeds, sending and receiving e-mails with another trooper and talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone, according to documents released in a civil suit this week. [More]
See, Illinois "Only Ones" are allowed to carry pistols, but you and I aren't, because they have better judgment and more training than we do.

3 comments:

Billy Beck said...

The most remarkable fact:

"Assistant Illinois Attorney General Bradley Bucher asked for dismissal of the case."

Nomenklatura.

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(ha! -- verification word: "reekx". How d'ya like that?)

Anonymous said...

HA! Got the AG's name right. Butcher, uh, er, I mean Bucher.

B Woodman
III

Anonymous said...

Frau Blucher? (horse whinnying loudly in background).
Oh.... Bucher. Never mind.