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avow
08-22-2007, 03:40 PM
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070822/orphaned_girl_070822/20070822?hub=TopStories


When asked what she would like to say to her parents, Katie answered, "I miss them and I want them to come back."

The two young men on trial stared at the floor and didn't once make eye contact during Katie's address, CTV's John Musselman reported.

Rob and Lisa Manchester were out celebrating their 17th wedding anniversary on May 27, 2006 when their car was struck by one of two speeding vehicles on Yonge Street near Stouffville Road.

Witnesses reported the cars racing along Yonge at speeds of 150 km/h.

makes me so sad :cry:
avow
08-22-2007, 03:42 PM
story has been updated now and that the 2 parents killed were driving drunk. but still so sad to see the little girl left all alone now :(
Gibson
08-23-2007, 03:28 PM
One of the guys who was apparently street racing was driving a red Honda. I'm now taking bets on how many people think it was a civic.

Sad story though, read it in the paper this morning.
LilDrunkenSmurf
08-23-2007, 03:33 PM
This was posted when it happened. It was 2 civics IIRC and it's the catalyst to the new street racing in laws in Ontario I think.

http://forums.beyond.ca/st/132472/street-race-suspected-in-couples-death/
lewdvig
08-23-2007, 03:33 PM
We need the death sentence in Canada.
anarchy
08-23-2007, 03:47 PM
Man 150km/hr on Yonge street is pretty fuckin crazy. I've only been to Toronto once but I stayed downtown on Yonge and I couldn't imagine going 80km/hr on that let alone 150.

I don't know Toronto very well so maybe this was out of downtown and the speed limits are higher but regardless, that is ridiculous to be going that fast in the city.
Dayclone
08-23-2007, 03:56 PM
Originally posted by lewdvig
We need the death sentence in Canada.

I agree!

I want capital punishment. Just like they have in Cali but you know how much money it'll cost us taxpayers?

That's probably why they don't have it. Did we not have it at one point in time?

EDIT:

http://section15.gc.ca/en/news/fs/2003/doc_30896.html

Abolished in 1976... *sigh* what was parliment thinking... not an appropriate punishment!? wtf?? I kill your parents and your left with nothing so I only get life in prison with parol after 25yrs?

wow... the system is messed. should be an eye for an eye.
Mangina
08-23-2007, 04:02 PM
So 2 drunk drivers were killed by street racers? Jesus.
kevie88
08-23-2007, 04:05 PM
So the father was drunk and should NOT have been on the roads in the first place.. If he would have done the right thing (cab ect) chances are they would not be dead. The victim is also to blame in this case.
TE4MFaint
08-23-2007, 04:39 PM
Originally posted by Mangina
So 2 drunk drivers were killed by street racers? Jesus.

Couldnt have said it any better than myself.

Quite a funked up situation if you ask me.
403Gemini
08-23-2007, 04:41 PM
I feel horrible for the little girl

That's it
avow
08-23-2007, 07:55 PM
Originally posted by 403Gemini
I feel horrible for the little girl

That's it
you took the words out of my mouth. everyone else deserved to die doing the stupid shit that they were.
Canmorite
08-23-2007, 09:31 PM
Originally posted by lewdvig
We need the death sentence in Canada.

Street racing = The death sentence?

Maybe in Texas, but never in Canada.
ercchry
08-23-2007, 09:45 PM
so the drunk driver is turning left and gets hit by a car travelling 25km/h over and the people speeding get charged? how much do you want to bet that if the 2 speeding cars were anything but hondas there would be no case out of this?
avow
08-23-2007, 10:03 PM
was it only 25 over?
ercchry
08-23-2007, 10:09 PM
Originally posted by avow
was it only 25 over?

well im sitting out here in ontario and was watching the news on global t.o and from what i gathered yeah it was

and the dumbest part about the whole broadcast was that they kept saying that the little girl didnt know that her dad was drunk and that the family plans on with holding that information from her for many more years, yeah good luck with that :rolleyes:
spikerS
08-23-2007, 10:17 PM
Originally posted by ercchry
so the drunk driver is turning left and gets hit by a car travelling 25km/h over and the people speeding get charged? how much do you want to bet that if the 2 speeding cars were anything but hondas there would be no case out of this?


After celebrating their 17th wedding anniversary last year, Rob and Lisa Manchester were killed when their vehicle was struck by one of two speeding cars, reportedly travelling 150 km/h.

hrm, 150kph....fastest speed limit in canada is 110kph. don't know what school you went to to make 25=40....

math > you.


PS. this is also younge street in toronto where i belive the speed limit is 50 or 60kph...
mac_82
08-23-2007, 10:20 PM
Just how fast Mr. Rodrigues and Mr. Gasparro were travelling is moot. In their guilty pleas, they acknowledged driving aggressively, and at the moment of the collision may have been moving at up to 112 kilometres an hour in an 80 km/h zone. Before that deadly moment, their two vehicles may have been going faster still.
kevie88
08-23-2007, 10:23 PM
Just how fast Mr. Rodrigues and Mr. Gasparro were travelling is moot. In their guilty pleas, they acknowledged driving aggressively, and at the moment of the collision may have been moving at up to 112 kilometres an hour in an 80 km/h zone. Before that deadly moment, their two vehicles may have been going faster still.


Or, they MAY have been going slower, as they were probably accelerating in their "race"..
ercchry
08-23-2007, 10:26 PM
Originally posted by spikers




hrm, 150kph....fastest speed limit in canada is 110kph. don't know what school you went to to make 25=40....

math > you.


PS. this is also younge street in toronto where i belive the speed limit is 50 or 60kph...

reading > than you?

with the information that i got (from DIFFERENT) sources they WERE NOT going that speed :banghead: