Paraplegic Gets Life For Firefighter's Death
A paraplegic who used a stick to operate the pedals of his car was sentenced to life plus 26 years for the death of a Delaware firefighter struck while she tended to an injured man.
Joseph M. Taye Jr., sitting in a wheelchair and dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, apologized Thursday in Superior Court in Wilmington to the firefighter's family.
Michelle Smith, 29, was struck Dec. 20, 2008 on U.S. 13 in Delaware City.
Police said Taye was driving a car that sideswiped a police car at the scene of a motorcycle accident before striking Smith and the motorcyclist.
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Paraplegic Gets Life For Firefighter's Death
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 06:40 PM
Man, this is tragic all they way around.
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 09:22 PM
Ok, i've joked about driving w a cut off hockey stick before, but come on! This idiot makes the rest of us look bad
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Posted 12 March 2010 - 09:35 PM
A stick?????? Woow!!! Somehow I feel like there's so much more to this story!
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Posted 13 March 2010 - 02:41 PM
I know an idiot that drives with a stick. One of those "I 'aint paralysed, I can do anything" types. He is a damn good basketball player and does get around well but that driving with a stick baloney is just asking for something like this....
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Posted 13 March 2010 - 04:22 PM
A stick?????? Woow!!! Somehow I feel like there's so much more to this story!
There might be more to this story then we are told
It just sounds too stupid
There might be more to this story then we are told
It just sounds too stupid
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Posted 13 March 2010 - 05:32 PM
dangerousdave, on Mar 13 2010, 04:22 PM, said:
A stick?????? Woow!!! Somehow I feel like there's so much more to this story!
There might be more to this story then we are told
It just sounds too stupid
There might be more to this story then we are told
It just sounds too stupid
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Lets hope he has no off spring!
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Posted 14 March 2010 - 06:48 PM
dangerousdave, on Mar 13 2010, 04:22 PM, said:
A stick?????? Woow!!! Somehow I feel like there's so much more to this story!
There might be more to this story then we are told
It just sounds too stupid
There might be more to this story then we are told
It just sounds too stupid
Stick as in cane. Nope that's it, a subaru and a stick.
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Posted 15 March 2010 - 12:21 AM
Wheelsonfire, on Mar 13 2010, 11:32 AM, said:
dangerousdave, on Mar 13 2010, 04:22 PM, said:
A stick?????? Woow!!! Somehow I feel like there's so much more to this story!
There might be more to this story then we are told
It just sounds too stupid
There might be more to this story then we are told
It just sounds too stupid
Genius has limitations; stupidity is boundless.
Yet he has proven;
"Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twenty first, it's a cure."
Lets hope he has no off spring!
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Posted 16 March 2010 - 10:14 PM
I've driven with a stick before, only once just for fun but it was night so i couldnt see the pedals very well and almost put my friends car through the front of a pizza shop. Had to dive under the steering wheel and hit the brake with my hands, haven't driven since then and won't till i get hand controls.
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