Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Coma For A Car Accident
I think that this city is on the verge of turning into a vigilante's wet-dream.
On Sunday night, Winnipeger Stanley Ross received the beating of his life. His attacker Samir Salihovic, beat him with a baseball bat, leaving Ross in a doctor-induced coma, with life-threatening brain damage.
It's the circumstances of the beating that are truly revealing. Ross and Salihvic were involved in a car accident, and an "altercation" ensued, leading to the savage assault.
The catch is, that Ross was driving a stolen car, and is a known serial car thief. However, Salihovic didn't have a clue that the car was stolen at the time of the beating.
Here comes the shocker: The Winnipeg Sun is running a poll (archive) on their website asking the question "Do you agree with some Sun readers that convicted car thief Stanley Ross got what he deserved?", and so far the Yes' are ahead with almost a 2-1 ratio.
The problem here is not what happened to Ross, it's how it happened. If a judge were to have handed down a sentence of beating-by-bat to Ross for car theft, I could support that. But thats now what happened here. Ross got a beating simply for being in a car accident, his assailant didn't know he was a car-thief, or that he was driving a stolen car.
The Sun tries to account for this lack of compassion by blaming it on the cities high rate of car theft, and the fact that the people who commit these crimes rarely face any real punishment, but I think the cause is deeper than that.
Rarely in this province does a criminal receive an adequate punishment for his crimes. Further evidence of this is in the same pages of the Sun today. Some douche-bag gets wasted, repeatedly slams a fifteen year-old girls head into the bathroom floor, fracturing her skull in the process, and his sentence? Six months of house arrest.
I think that this city has grown so sick and tired of seeing scumbags get off with a slap on the wrist, that most people are just happy one of them received some actual form punishment, even though it was administered for all the wrong reasons, in all the wrong ways.
I hope Ross makes a full recovery, but both of these guys deserve to do some serious jail time.
On Sunday night, Winnipeger Stanley Ross received the beating of his life. His attacker Samir Salihovic, beat him with a baseball bat, leaving Ross in a doctor-induced coma, with life-threatening brain damage.
It's the circumstances of the beating that are truly revealing. Ross and Salihvic were involved in a car accident, and an "altercation" ensued, leading to the savage assault.
The catch is, that Ross was driving a stolen car, and is a known serial car thief. However, Salihovic didn't have a clue that the car was stolen at the time of the beating.
Here comes the shocker: The Winnipeg Sun is running a poll (archive) on their website asking the question "Do you agree with some Sun readers that convicted car thief Stanley Ross got what he deserved?", and so far the Yes' are ahead with almost a 2-1 ratio.
The problem here is not what happened to Ross, it's how it happened. If a judge were to have handed down a sentence of beating-by-bat to Ross for car theft, I could support that. But thats now what happened here. Ross got a beating simply for being in a car accident, his assailant didn't know he was a car-thief, or that he was driving a stolen car.
The Sun tries to account for this lack of compassion by blaming it on the cities high rate of car theft, and the fact that the people who commit these crimes rarely face any real punishment, but I think the cause is deeper than that.
Rarely in this province does a criminal receive an adequate punishment for his crimes. Further evidence of this is in the same pages of the Sun today. Some douche-bag gets wasted, repeatedly slams a fifteen year-old girls head into the bathroom floor, fracturing her skull in the process, and his sentence? Six months of house arrest.
I think that this city has grown so sick and tired of seeing scumbags get off with a slap on the wrist, that most people are just happy one of them received some actual form punishment, even though it was administered for all the wrong reasons, in all the wrong ways.
I hope Ross makes a full recovery, but both of these guys deserve to do some serious jail time.
Labels: Canadian Justice, Winnipeg Crime
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sun readers are a bunch of idiots anyway. That whole paper relies on sensationalist headlines with minimal relevant content. The press is more better
I don't agree that it was acceptable for the guy to get beat up in this situation, but I definitely don't cry myself to sleep about it. And his family's comments is actually making me care even less. I just have a hard time believing that he was as good a guy as his family says, what with his career as a car thief, drug dealer, and street gang member.
I don't agree that it was acceptable for the guy to get beat up in this situation, but I definitely don't cry myself to sleep about it. And his family's comments is actually making me care even less. I just have a hard time believing that he was as good a guy as his family says, what with his career as a car thief, drug dealer, and street gang member.
Apparently Freep readers aren't any better. And while the Sun may be sensationalist, they at least tell the truth compared to those Socialist bastards at the Freep.
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