Thursday, January 31, 2008

CTA, Spanish driver: guilty parties who see themselves as victims

After Robin Donlan and other teachers committed crimes against me, and California Teachers Association got my case thrown out of court, it came as a shock to me that CTA's head counsel Beverly Tucker would have the nerve to demand $6,000 in court costs from me. I couldn't understand the complete absence of remorse by Beverly Tucker and Carolyn Doggett (executive director of CTA) for having committed crimes against a teacher whom they had been paid to defend. (I'd been a dues-paying member for over 20 years.)

This story of a guilty driver suing the family of a boy he killed helped me understand that some people just don't suffer from guilt.

Spanish driver sues dead crash cyclist for damage
Fri Jan 25, 2008
Click HERE for original article.

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish driver who collided with a cyclist is suing the dead youth's family $29,300 for the damage the impact of his body did to his luxury car, a Spanish newspaper reported on Friday.

Businessman Tomas Delgado says 17-year-old Enaitz Iriondo caused $20,500 of damage to his Audi A8 in the fatal 2004 crash in La Rioja region, the El Pais newspaper reported...

The youth had been cycling alone at night without reflective clothing or a helmet, according to a police report cited by El Pais.

His family won 33,000 euros compensation from Delgado's insurance company after the firm acknowledged he had been driving at excessive speed and this could have contributed to the incident, El Pais reported.

"I'm also a victim in all of this, you can't fix the lad's problems, but you can fix mine," Delgado told the newspaper...

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