Sunday, May 23, 2010

Teenage driver prefers jail to writing 2,500 lines

A 19-year-old Clayton County woman says she would rather go to jail than write 2,500 times “I will not dishonour myself by passing a school bus,” her punishment for a March traffic offence. Nancy Nguyen said it would be a lie to write that sentence because she didn’t intentionally pass the stopped bus; two tractor-trailer trucks blocked her view, she said.



So she doesn’t feel she is dishonoured. "I'm not going to demean myself and be demeaned by other people." Forest Park’s solicitor said it is common to require drivers younger than 21 to write those sentences if they passed a stopped school bus.

The idea is to impress upon them that it is a serious and dangerous traffic offence. "Writing something that many times ... it wouldn't teach me anything," Nguyen said. A school crossing guard said passing a stopped school bus can be deadly. "Kids will run, they [are] always running. So if you see the stop sign just stop," Pat Harris said.



By on May 26, Nguyen is to have the sentences written and have completed 24 hours' community service and a defensive driving course. She also must have paid a $350 fine by then, her next court date. Her licence will be suspended for six months. Nguyen could be sent to jail if she has not completed all her sentence.

6 comments:

frank murray said...

she need more likes- 2500 lines is a joke she needs 10,000 lines

L said...

I don't think writing lines will do anything.  How does that make a dumbass smarter?

Shelley said...

If she can't see a whole stopped school bus because "trailers were blocking her view", how is she going to see a kid darting from it?  She needs to drive more carefully! 
And if nothing else, writing the lines will teach her that she is not above the law, which is the way she is acting.

Barbwire said...

i just question the content of the lines.  Rather than "dishonor" it should be something like, "I will not be stupid enough to pass a school bus again."

Foreigner1 said...

Write 2.500 lines???
How utterly stupid and senseless and mindless is that sentence?????

Why not far better sentence her to some weeks community service in some hospital where they have kids that are run over by stupid drivers?
That will learn her far more and by that she also pays back more to her community for the time invested in her trial.

C said...

What a senseless twit and idiotic sentence. Where I live you pass a school bus and you have a restricted license (under 25) you LOSE your license for a year.