The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It’s that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.
Did you forget? Laws are for poor people.
To be fair, I doubt most people who commit vehicular crimes in Texas get charged.
It’s not like it was an abortion or anything…
That’s part of it, but vehicular crimes specifically are often overlooked, many people aren’t concerned by high numbers of road fatalities, and often resort to victim blaming, as if it’s just a cost of living.
Interesting insights about motor vehicles coming from someone on “dmv.social”
Hahahaha, that’s DC, Maryland, Virginia. Not Department of Motor Vehicles. I guess Maryland doesn’t have DMVs, but it fools local Virginians from time to time too, don’t feel bad
Lmao
This is a highlight interaction in the Lemmy comments for me so far.
One of the few crimes in Texas you cannot be arrested for is suspected ovi and open container.
So who did they pay? The families? The police? The politicians? All?
It would take a whole awful lot to keep me from climbing a fence.
They have well-paid paramilitary-style guards that can arrange for you to tragically fall backwards onto twelve bullets from five different guns if they ever thought you were a threat.
Probable? No, impossible? Also no. All it takes is being in the right place at the right time with the right method of killing. Too many people think Rambo or terminator when a car bomb or something like that can easily do the trick. Or poison, etc. Hell even just sniping them during a public appearance.
All except the families, I’d assume. The families they just had their representatives casually mention how it would be a shame if their children should somehow end up sold to wealthy men in Russia with particularly young tastes in girls.
Wow, people with obscene amounts of money being treated differently than everyone else. Who would have thought? Did not see this coming.
Rules for thee, not for me
There’s no such thing as a good billionaire
If you look deep, deep down (approx. 12,500 feet down) I’m sure you can find something nice to say.
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It’s gonna be a bumpy ride
runs over 5 people
This happens a LOT more often than you think. I worked with a well-connected person that killed a dude while she was drunk driving. She was not in jail at any point.
I believe she was arrested for DUI once. She ended up ruining that cop’s life.
Drunk driving seems to be severely under prosecuted for well to do and connected people.
I think it’s changing partially due to body cams now. But it’s still pretty bad.
The US has the best justice system money can buy.
That’s true
there is no law, only power
Thanks for posting this. More people should know.
Read about Robert H. Richards IV, the Du pont eir whho raped his own children. Guess how much prison time he saw?
The Waltons in general appear to be terrible people as a family. But yeah I remember reading this.
Not to be an Internet edgelord, but if some billionaire killed one of my family and got away with it, I would make it my life’s mission to hunt them down and make sure they get some kind of justice.
I’d watch that movie
This reminds me of that movie “Assault on Wall Street” where basically some dude goes on a killing spree and starts murdering a bunch of wall street people. Except, the guy is framed as a hero, which I assume is because it came out not too long after the 2008 financial crisis (~2013). I watched that movie in like 2017, and it felt antisocial and lunatic-ey.
I wonder if we’re at a point right now where a similar movie about going on a killing spree against billionaires would do well?
I feel like we’re at a point right now that if someone actually started popping off billionaires a significant portion of the population would cheer.
It might lift my spirits a little each morning
certainly seemed like everyone appreciated titanic taking a few more fat cats recently
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Driving themselves sorta negates the idea of private security, they’re not mutually exclusive but it would be very weird.
You would have a great deal of difficulty just getting near them. Billionaires don’t hang out at Walmart - ironically enough in this case.
Neither does it’s CEO. They only care about shareholder meetings.
I would devot my life to ruin them.
And billionaires wonder why we vandalize their stuff.
