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Remember when we told you how Tomas Delgado was suing the parents of the boy he struck and killed to recoup bodyshop money? Well it seems the Spanish people got a little miffed by what would have to be considered one of the most ill-conceived legal actions in Iberian history. Local outrage has pressured Delgado-the-sleazy D-bag into withdrawing the suit. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the courthouse and the pending lynch mob convinced Delgado and his lawyer that continued litigation would be a bad idea. The latest coverage also brings to light additional details that make the case both more appalling, and more bizarre.
This article on CNN delivers some info we weren't aware of. First and foremost, the accident occurred in August 2004 - over 3 years ago. What kind of man circles back to such a tragic incident and not only forces the family to relive it but brings a lawyer to the party as well? A sleazy d-bag, that's what kind of man. Also, we discover that the victim, young Enaitz Iriondo Trinidad, was on vacation, biking back to the campground where he was staying, when he was struck by Delgado and dragged for 347 feet. Grisly. We also find out the police estimated that Delgado was traveling 107 mph in a 55mph zone, higher then reported before. Of course, Delgado may regret that he stirred up a hornets nest with his latest maneuver. Antonio Iriondo, Enaitz's father, has announced that he may pursue criminal charges in the case. That's right, Delgado killed a kid while speeding and didn't even have to face jail time.
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This is almost as disturbing as the Gawker Artists banners.
@Brian E:
Operative term "almost"
@Brian E: seriosly, can we do something to limit the Gawker artist banners?
@Andrewpetty: There is at least one "u" in "seriously."
Nice jackass
Thats a little over a football field the kid was dragged. He was hit from behind to!
The pic gave me an idea. How about this guy be used as a forced participant in the donkey show?
Come to Texas Mr. Delgado... I have something for you.
-silently loading shot gun shells-
I saw a woman on base today that had teeth just like that jackass.
So...basically the guy dropped his case because an angry mob threatened to eviscerate him?
Cool. I wonder if that'd work in the US. The Megan Meier case could use a dose of that.
@Ben: Please, please, please don't ban me, but you need to work on your then Vs than. This is the second one today.
@Brian E: Indeed!
If there was ever an argument for the death penalty or lynch mobs, this would be the textbook example.
I'm picturing the angry mob in this case to be like the mob of Springfielders that advanced on the Burlesque house and threatened to burn it down. I wonder if the mob broke into song to convinced Delgado to drop the suit.
Give him the same treatment as Osama bin Laden should get; first a sex change operation, then a one-way ticket to Afghanistan.
He should be made to work in his father's whore house, copping it up the arse from our friend in the pic above.
@JayP71: Kinky Kelly and the Sexy Stud
En-ter to the realm of Sa-tan!!!
-Tom Arya
@Cheebus: I think you meant to say "Tom Araya" as in the frontman of Slayer.
Delgado should ride a bike and have someone drive a car to reenact the scene and convince the mob that damage was done to the car.
Delgado should be in prison for a very very long time and his lawyer should both be handed over to the mob to be dealt with appropriately.
FINALLY!!! After years of sending death threats to dumbasses around the world, this one had to be the one of to listen. I might hack this guy to bits still though just for fun.
Too late for you, TDG.
I got off the satphone with my friends a little while ago. Dinner for two has been ordered and there's a zodiac inbound via Bilbao as we speak. Enjoy your last meal.
@Andrewpetty: Firefox adblocker programs seem to work pretty well.
Oh, and why didn't this guy go to jail the first time? Is there some aspect of Spanish law I'm unfamiliar with? Reminds me of the last time I was in the Netherlands. There was a trial for the first political assassination in over 100 years, and the killer got something ridiculous like ten years prison time.
Well I think Antonio Iriondo should sue the driver - if he was traveling that fast in a 50mph zone he must be criminally liable for the accident.
Ooh, people... step back a bit. The civil Libertarian in me sounds an alarm when mob-rule comes in to play... Popular majority would have prevented women the right to vote, blacks their civil liberties, and continued to criminalize sodomy (including oral sex... ooh my!... straight or gay).
The guy's tacky and tasteless, but the fact that his decision was influenced by a threat of physical violence sounds more like Iran than Western Europe or the U.S.
Sadness. So many ways. He is already in Hell... Subsequent events will merely elucidate what form he has chosen for its manifestation.
@Charles_Barrett: Generally true, but this is not mob rule, it's democracy at work in the egregious exception of Delgado and some others that come to mind. Sometimes mobs get it right--when they kill the monsters.
Is aluminum repair work that expensive, that Delgado had to sue the dead to recoup costs?
@Charles_Barrett: Right you are. But the thug in me would like to endorse sodomy by donkey as form of punishment / reward.
I do too.
@Charles_Barrett: This is a three step process.
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1) Think of a relative or a friend who has children, and one of those children gets killed by some person driving erratically in a car;
2) Then imagine the person who killed the child pursuing your relative or friend for damages to his car that killed the child;
3) This is probably where you'd wanna kick some ass.
If it were one of mine Charles, I'd be the one going to jail for sure.
@Novaload: Sorry, but I have to stand my ground... Merriam Webster describes democracy as follows:
1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
That tyranny in the U.S.A. (and most modern Western governments) is balanced by giving the courts an equal opportunity to chime in... thus having the effect of offering many rights/freedoms the masses considered unthinkable.
I'm not in law, but my pop was, and he done teached me good...
This is one of those cases that makes my head go woozy and I start thinking about justice in England, right after the Norman conquest.
@Charles_Barrett: "The law is an ass." And you can't reason with a mad dog.
In the Delgado case, the "we" intimidated him. He was a murdering thug and I sincerely believe the good people were talking to him in the only language he could understand, to spare innocent, bereaved people unspeakable cruelty. They met his cruelty with a warning of what cruelty can feel like. Good for them.
I'm also considering adding mandatory euthanization (sp.) of any attorney taking such an asinine case to my platform in '16.
Good night, and remember to spay and neuter your lawyers!
@Charles_Barrett: this is true, but you could apply this to so many things that get settled outside of court by public opinion anyways, that's it's nearly a moot point. i'm not sure if this is a good thing (probably bad, actually), but with the way we receive news through the media (biased or unbiased), it is what it is.
He drive an Audi. What do you expect. Probably already takes it up the ass. It seems like a large number of Audi drivers do. I would let the Donkey at em, then what ever is left, evicerate him in the public square staked out in the sun...
@Galaxie500: We're not really concerned with the particular orifice into which people people choose to insert things. The point is that the man is utterly despicable, Audi driver or not.
spanish courts may be fucked up to let this guy get off without criminal charges, but
California has O.J. !!!!
delgado killed one
O.J. killed two...
both walked...
@ecobore: Articles that I read say that the dead kid's family got a settlement from Delgado's insurer.
@wheels OF satan: Yeah, but OJ didn't sue for a replacement set of kitchen knives.
why is this guy still free on the streets?
Yes, this guy needed persuading by a lot of people, but it was still mob rule.
Democracy is not the rule of the majority, it is the rule of reason.
Dictatorship by the majority simply means the oppression of all non-majority views, be they sexual, moral, political, religious, philosophical, whatever it might be.
And we're all in the minority about something.
Back on topic, sort of, why did the make of car matter in the first place, other than as cultural shorthand? Why not just say "luxury saloon"? Especially given that many of my chums wouldn't know an A8 from a pomegran8.
@JayP71: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!!!!!!!!
@Charles_Barrett:
Killing innocent children then demanding money for car repairs goes FAR beyond tacky or tasteless. I think we could use a good dose of old day's justice these days.
@discontinuuity: +1 FireFox with AdBlock Plus!
NoScript is a pretty good addition too.
@Charles_Barrett: Check out the US Constitution. We don't live in a democracy, it's a republic. Then go hit up MW for the differences between the two.
For those of you who haven't said it since 3rd grade:
I pledge allegiance to flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all
@FreeMan:
Check out the US constitution, why don't you?
The 17th amendment talks specifically about electing representatives, which seems pretty democratic to me.
You're quoting the Pledge of Allegance (sp).
(To which the 'God' reference was only added in 1954, trivia fans.)
Anyway, Delgado is still a piece of work, and while the mob were right according to most moral compasses, a modern EU state shouldn't have had that situation happening in the first place.
Perhaps Audi will sue him for defamation of character by association, or something.
Well, if you'd read the Constitution, you'd notice that FREEMAN is actually correct:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.