rotten bananas

I’d like to draw your attention to this article. Actor Lane Garrison of Prison Break fame (or infamy) killed a teenager and injured two others while driving them around drunk. He had a BAC of .015. That’s well above the legal limit. Now, what gets me is that the article says that they “want” to charge him with manslaughter and drunk driving, but they haven’t determined yet if they’re going to.

What is the question here?

They might let him off because he’s a celebrity, and Fox might suffer a bit in the ratings because his character is gone (I doubt it)? He was driving drunk which is heinous enough, but he killed a child because of it. He should go to prison for a long time, and I’d like to see him try to break out of that one (you saw it coming). Why does being a celebrity warrant one a less strict set of laws? As far as I’m concerned, juries shouldn’t even know the name of the defendant during a case. This special treatment is crap.

Another thing about the article that pissed me off is at the end they mention Brandy’s bout with awful driving earlier this week. She caused a chain reaction accident that ended up killing someone, and the California Highway Patrol has recommended she be charged with “misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter”. Since when has their been a misdemeanor charge for manslaughter? Either she was doing something really stupid, and she is at fault for the death of another human being, in which case she should go to jail, or it was not her fault, or a very small mistake, and she doesn’t (There has to be some leniency. We all make mistakes. Yes, even me.)

So my point is, that fifteen minutes that Mr. Warhol promised me, I plan on taking advantage, and I suggest everyone else does as well, so when we inevitably make a huge mistake that destroys a life, we’ll get a free pass because our pretty faces will be missed on television.