« localvoice wrote on Thursday, Sep 02 at 07:49 PM »
first of all, everyone needs to stop dancing around the truth! I completely agree with the last opinion that rowell is to blame. but it goes even further than that. rowell lived here, he knows the intersection...it has nothing to do with the sun. this man murdered three people and paralyzed a fourth victim. he was flying through the area, did not make an attempt to stop, although the victim's vehicle left quite the skidmarks. i dont really care if people say he was a "good guy"(that character assesment is questionable, at best)i dont care if they want to say he was drunk or high or depressed or suicidal...he is a murderer!!! his actions were so much worse than wreckless, careless or negligient. his actions were intentional, and that makes it murder. he just used a car to do it!
although we all know in our hearts that this is an honest statement, i am sure there will be a lot of uproar and protest. why do we as a society feel we should protect the criminals? he didnt care enough about protecting his family & friends feelings, or he wouldn't have done something so malicious that they would have to get their feelings hurt hearing about it. how about protecting the victims and their family and friends? the Andersons should be protected. why does it cut so deep? because we all know that it could have been any one of us, driving down las palmas, minding our own business, headed for a celebratory dinner with our family. any one of us could be taken that simply in a split second because of an idiot who couldn't care less about taking another person's life.
unfortunately when we do state the truth, we need to fear retaliation. for that reason alone, i sign with just my moniker.
local voice
although we all know in our hearts that this is an honest statement, i am sure there will be a lot of uproar and protest. why do we as a society feel we should protect the criminals? he didnt care enough about protecting his family & friends feelings, or he wouldn't have done something so malicious that they would have to get their feelings hurt hearing about it. how about protecting the victims and their family and friends? the Andersons should be protected. why does it cut so deep? because we all know that it could have been any one of us, driving down las palmas, minding our own business, headed for a celebratory dinner with our family. any one of us could be taken that simply in a split second because of an idiot who couldn't care less about taking another person's life.
unfortunately when we do state the truth, we need to fear retaliation. for that reason alone, i sign with just my moniker.
local voice
« DaveandNickyGupton wrote on Thursday, Sep 02 at 03:54 PM »
Sorry for taking so long to respond to all the out pour on "How dare I"............ when I was writting this comment "I only wish my brother was a bigshot in patterson then he would of been thought of as a loving man, instead of A MAN IN A WHITE VAN" "AS PORTRAYED IN THE NEWSPAPER! (That i wrote on Saturday Aug 28 @8:49am) I trully thought everyone would understand that was for the news papers "Eyes-Only" I had no intention on comparing one loveing family with another.. This is patterson irrigator that im commenting on. So I again appologize profusely to anyone and everyone who was offended by my comment to the newspaper. I and my family and friends pray each and everday for the family and friends of the Andersons. I have cried so many nights thinking of Jimmy Anderson and how he must now go on with no mother or father.. God will bless him because there has just got to be a ("GOD REASON") for all this pain we all are going through.. And just maybe we can all keep watch and prayers with him and feel better inside by watching all his successes in his life... GOD BLESS EVERYONE
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It comes down to this. Rowell chose, he made a conscience decision, to go out a drive in a manner that would kill someone, in his case, three people and cripple another. He may not have intended to kill them, but, as they say, his actions speak louder than words. By his actions alone, the moniker of murderer very easily can be applied in this case. While driving up Elm, approaching Las Palmas, he had a decision to make. "Do I stop and look?" Or, "Do I press the gas and fly through, killing whatever is in my way?" We all know which decision he made. God or the sun didn't send him through that intersection, his decision to step on the gas did. There is no other way to describe it. If there is another explanation, it escapes me. I saw the pictures and heard about the impact and damage. That was not caused by someone entering the intersection from a stop.
And yes, I also have thought many times since the accident that that easily could have been me and my family in the place of the Andersons. If you add up the number of times that members of my family pass that intersection on a weekly basis, the count would be high. With work, trips to Modesto or Turlock for school events, shopping, outings, and so on. Just this week, members of my family have passed that intersection, in to town or out of town, 18 times. (If only we could all get on the same schedule.)
I know that I am a lot more vigilant driving now, monitoring the side streets a little more carefully now.