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  • #166
    Laws about rendering aid

    There are laws called the "good samaretin" laws. These were put into place in several states to protect people who tried to render aid to an injured party. Several lawsuits had arrisen from accident victims familys sueing those who tried to help to the best of their abilities to save the life of an injured party. This caused a drop in the number of people trying to help accident victims. The first state to put this into effect was Conneticut in 1988. It also provides recourse for fines and penelties for not stopping to render aid. Massachusetts and New Hampshire have always had a render aid provison in there traffic laws. Alaska it is MANDATORY to stop and ask if a person needs help if you don't you go to jail and if there is a death you are charged with manslaughter. I know this one as stone cold fact as my cousin Charlie who used to compete in the IDITAROD dog race where on our way there whne we suffered a flat in the middle of no where and a kind native alaskan stopped and asked if we needed assitance.
    "O monks and wise men just as agoldsmith would test his gold by burning, cutting, and rubbing it, so must you examine my words and accept them but not merely out of reverence for me."
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    • #167
      Re: Laws about rendering aid

      Originally posted by Zen Dog
      There are laws called the "good samaretin" laws. These were put into place in several states to protect people who tried to render aid to an injured party. Several lawsuits had arrisen from accident victims familys sueing those who tried to help to the best of their abilities to save the life of an injured party. This caused a drop in the number of people trying to help accident victims. The first state to put this into effect was Conneticut in 1988. It also provides recourse for fines and penelties for not stopping to render aid. Massachusetts and New Hampshire have always had a render aid provison in there traffic laws. Alaska it is MANDATORY to stop and ask if a person needs help if you don't you go to jail and if there is a death you are charged with manslaughter. I know this one as stone cold fact as my cousin Charlie who used to compete in the IDITAROD dog race where on our way there whne we suffered a flat in the middle of no where and a kind native alaskan stopped and asked if we needed assitance.
      This is all very interesting, but what has it to do with anything?

      Or is it only me? ...
      /IamS
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      • #168
        Search of the Alaska statutes reveals only the same wording for rendering assistance as the other states have, whether you know for "stone cold fact" differently or not.

        It is alway dangerous to assert absolute knowledge based on anecdotal evidence.
        I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station, when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone .. our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit .. that the part of me that is going .. will very much miss the part of you that is staying.

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        • #169
          Re: Re: Laws about rendering aid

          Originally posted by iamsheridan
          This is all very interesting, but what has it to do with anything?

          Or is it only me? ...
          /IamS
          He is arguing against my assertion that the "render aid" requirements in state laws only apply to those who are operating the motor vehicle in the accidents - this is part of the "what was Lennier guilty of" argument a few pages ago.
          I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station, when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone .. our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit .. that the part of me that is going .. will very much miss the part of you that is staying.

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          • #170
            This is more of a B5 comment, but I am reading Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell novel by David Michaels (Clancy pseudonym?), based on the situations created in the game, and the main bad guys are a new terrorist group called "The Shadows."

            What's even more interesting is that just like B5's Shadows, they didn't name themselves. The news media called them that and it stuck so they started signing all of their bombing claims as The Shadows. Maybe their real name is 10,000 letters long?
            Recently, there was a reckoning. It occurred on November 4, 2014 across the United States. Voters, recognizing the failures of the current leadership and fearing their unchecked abuses of power, elected another party as the new majority. This is a first step toward preventing more damage and undoing some of the damage already done. Hopefully, this is as much as will be required.

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