Enough Guilt To Go Around

All righty, I said I am done here but this story pissed me off so much I couldn't just leave without venting. This whole thing has too much kindling getting my dander all fired up to not have to point it out. I don't think that really made much sense, but anyway.

So last November here in the big city (that would be over a year ago in 2007) this local guy Wilfredo Pujols got drunk and drove. Hard to believe, I know, but yes some of us idiots still do that sort of thing despite all of the PSAs and stuff warning about how bad.

Anyway, he accidentally while under the influence bashed into some other car en route to wherever he was headed and that car then ending up in his way, rammed it a second time knocking through a clear path though, like you do.

Well then, that was certainly worthy of someone phoning in a report, so it wasn't too long thereafter that the cops were called upon and soon spotted his intoxicated and veering self later on, giving chase!

The high-speed highway variety sort of pursuit, until Willy took off at an exit and then also running a red light, ran over and killed 17-year-old high school student Christopher Cooper who downright picked the wrong time to go out bicycling on that particular evening.

So the drunk car driver dude kept on going until eventually losing control and careening off the roadway crashed into a tree, he and his shotgun-riding brother trying to run away before getting caught up with soon afterwards.

He did plead guilty ultimately to second degree murder of the boy on the bike, and to resisting the arrest, and to the two counts of leaving the scenes of both of those earlier accidents, and also to his driving while intoxicated.

For whatever reason, however, his driving while intoxicated charge was totally dismissed. I don't know why, maybe they considered that an irrelevant point and just some priming of the pump leading up to the rest of the evening's mayhem. In any case, I found that fact particularly annoying.

But stay tuned, there's more. Hats off to the boys in blue who kept on the tail of those bad guys, also for the apprehensions and calling the culprits to account. Kudos are in order, I guess, although I generally do hate the cops.

On the other hand, fuck you other constabulary assholes. That dead kid from the bike? Well, other badged county mounties on the scene along with the ambulance guys there just kind of stood around and let the boy bleed to death while doing nothing at all whatsoever.

He bled to death because they concluded he wasn't worth the troubling over apparently, decided his condition was not worth even assessing to bother trying to staunch whatever hemorrhaging and to get his conditon maybe under control.

So while Chris Cooper lay dying, a certain officer's dash cam captured the cops laughing there and one saying, "They're like roaches, man, they don't die." While no one even bothered to help the boy bleeding out, wondering aloud instead what was taking him so long to kick the bucket. He only an innocent victim out for a bike ride to an unfortunate end.

Hey, I'll tell you what, I'd be more than willing to let go my frustration of them letting the bad guys off the DUI thing having already confessed and ready to be charged with the rest of the stuff including the boy's murder, if only someone from the police force and EMS crowd might be held accountable also for just standing aside and letting this kid die.

They, in my opinion, have every bit as much blood on their hands as the guy behind the wheel and should all stand trial alongside one another, for whatever second degree murder charges in the death of this teenager. Glad when I heard today the family of Christopher Cooper is suing their despicable asses to be held culpable for standing aside doing nothing leaving their roach son to finally die.

Also pisses off that I suppose to sensationalize this mess, the media pointing out that Wilfredo is a cousin of St. Louis Cardinals' first-baseman Albert Pujols. And what that matters or how that might be relevant, I have no clue, but evidently news and noteworthy.

Finally, too, that this happened in November 2007. Why so long for the dude to be scheduled to stand trial and face charges not until this upcoming April in 2009? Hell, I don't get so much lag time for even a traffic ticket.

Maybe on the upside, it could allow for those do-nothing cops and ambulance riffraff to might also now be invited joining up with that same defense party, too, the more the merrier.