Social 🦹 Crime.

[Inruin]

Surely they didn’t know

Oh 100% book thrown at them if they knew!
Pure evil.

A body is a big thing to hit and any impact would be noticable. Hard to defend three cars hitting him and not one of them noticed?

 

[WA Warrior]

A body is a big thing to hit and any impact would be noticable. Hard to defend three cars hitting him and not one of them noticed?

Yeah I know, I’m not defending them I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt because the alternative is 3 evil people decided to carry on after running someone over, absolute madness.

 

[Evil_Mush]

Not quite the same situation, but I was getting a ride home with a mate and his son after a movie last year, and coming up a street in central Welly while talking about random stuff he suddenly had to swerve to avoid what he thought looked like one of those big soft toys like you win at a fair (I didn't see what he was swerving from), but carried on driving in a "well that was weird... what were we talking about" kind of way.

Turns out it was a person who had been hit not long before us and someone else pulled over to check not long after us (as advised by the police we both gave statements to, after they found his details via number plate on CCTV). So while we didn't hit them (though was close), I can easily see how the unexpected can rattle your brain to carry on in "I don't know how to deal with this, just move forward" ways.



EDIT: was this incident for the record...

Police identify car that fatally hit Wellington person

Police said the driver may not know they hit someone.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[Inruin]

Yeah I know, I’m not defending them I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt because the alternative is 3 evil people decided to carry on after running someone over, absolute madness.

Yeah, sorry, not suggesting you are defending them. I meant there is no way they wouldn't have known they had hit something and something that big I'm pulling over to check my car out at the very least.

 

[WA Warrior]

Yeah, sorry, not suggesting you are defending them. I meant there is no way they wouldn't have known they had hit something and something that big I'm pulling over to check my car out at the very least.

Nah I didn’t take it that way, I’m just trying hard not to believe there are such wicked people around you know.
Yeah exactly, you would check right.

 

[defensivebomb]

What’s the bet that at least two of the drivers are taxi / uber drivers

 

[Noitall]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

Still shocked by this

 

[sup42]

Nah I didn’t take it that way, I’m just trying hard not to believe there are such wicked people around you know.
Yeah exactly, you would check right.

Rather than wicked people we are more likely talking about callous self interested types of people of which in the age of the interweb there are millions.

More than likely these folk thought rather than go to court and potentially risk incarceration for no more than driving down the road, they will just keep going.

The chances of three drivers not identifying a body in the road is zero.
At that hour often times drivers have had a tipple or a toke or a snort, another reason to drive on and not be done for manslaughter.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

More problems with pitch invaders during super rugby.

You feel with the young, social media generation we’re heading towards fencing around the pitch at stadiums in NZ