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Family killed UPDATE: Driver gets 43 years

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by slappy4428, Dec 31, 2007.

  1. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    What ever you choose to do tonight, please be smart, safe and think of others -- unlike this miserable cocksucking drunk...


    Head-on collision in Toledo kills 5, including 2 from Mich.

    December 31, 2007

    By EMILIA ASKARI
    FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

    Five people including two Redford sisters died in a crash late Sunday night when an Adrian man drove his pick-up the wrong way on I-280 near Toledo.

    The dead girls were identified by police as 10-year-old Haley Burkman and 7-year-old Lacie Burkman. Their brother, Beu Burkman, 8, was in stable condition at Toledo’s St. Vincent Hospital, police said.

    Also killed in the accident were a mother and two children from Maryland who may have been relatives of the Burkmans.

    The Adrian man, Michael Gagnon, 24, had been drinking in a bar in Oregon, Ohio, before the accident, police said. Then he stopped at a Taco Bell for some food.

    The restaurant’s employees called police to report that a drunken driver was at their establishment. By the time police arrived, Gagnon was already heading the wrong way on the interstate just north of Toledo, near the Michigan border.

    Gagnon was driving his Ford F350 north in the southbound lanes just before 11 p.m. when he hit a Chevy Astro minivan driven by Danny Griffin, 36, of Parkville, Md. The vehicles hit almost head-on as the drivers tried to swerve and avoid each other.

    Gagnon’s pick-up sheared off the passenger-side doors of the minivan, causing several passengers of the van to fall out.

    Griffin’s wife, Bethany, 36, was killed in the crash. So were the couple’s 10-year-old daughter, Jordan, and eight-week-old daughter, Vadi.

    The Griffins were heading home to Maryland after visiting family in Michigan for the holidays, police said.

    Gagnon, who smelled of intoxicants, was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital, police said. They plan to arrest him when he is released.

    Another Griffin daughter, Sidney, 8, was in critical condition at the hospital, police said Monday morning. Danny Griffin was admitted to the hospital in stable condition.
     
  2. three_bags_full

    three_bags_full Well-Known Member

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    Life. In. Prison.
     
  3. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    Of course the fucking drunk survived. ::)
     
  4. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    Drunk-drivers are the type of people who should be eligible for the death penalty.

    Only then might, might, we see a bigger reduction in drunk-driving deaths.

    It's unconscionable how often this still happens.
     
  5. spaceman

    spaceman Active Member

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    Fuck that. Drop the drunk off an overpass, and let the semis flatten his ass.
     
  6. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

     
  7. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    Better yet, tie the fucker up and give the Griffin (once he heals up physically) 10 minutes alone with the weapon of his choice and the drunk.
     
  8. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    I like this idea best: Have the former drunk-driver drive on the correct side of the highway, and have some drunk moron plow into him.

    Normally I am not into vigilante justice, but drunk-driving is at the pinnacle of Irresponsibility Mountain.
     
  9. terrier

    terrier Well-Known Member

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    Put a Foley in him and tie it to the rear bumper. Then step on the gas.
     
  10. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    Update...

    Gagnon was charged with five counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and had a blood-alcohol level of 0.254, according to warrants filed today in Toledo Municipal Court.

    The charge is a second-degree felony. Minimum penalty is two years in prison. Maximum penalty is eight years.
     
  11. Rumpleforeskin

    Rumpleforeskin Active Member

    Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    A city about 30 minutes from me is offering free rides to area residents from 11:00 PM to 3:00 AM. Hopefully some people will take advantage of that.
     
  12. Re: A sobering thought on New Year's Eve.

    I'm sensing a pattern in your posts, t.
     
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