An O & G and 3 D's Continued...

This seems like a pretty simple cut and dry case –right? Right is right and that’s just it.


Now let’s add a few more factoids:

The officer pulls over the driver who made the legal red turn and will give him a citation. The options are failure to stop at a red light ($250; 3 points) failure to yield to the right away traffic ($180, 2 points), reckless driving ($300; 3 points) or a warning.

One of the other witnesses is a family member of the driver who made the legal right on red.

The other witness knows none of the parties and offers the officer their accounting of the event. “Officer, the gentleman who made the right turn did slow down before making the turn but I guess they just didn’t see the other car coming. I think it was an accident, not really the man being reckless or anything, but you should make him replace that driver’s cake because they are very upset. That’s just my opinion.”

The birthday cake driver is visibly shaken and upset, borderline hysterical. You see it turns out that the birthday cake was for this driver’s little girl who happens to be in the hospital dying of cancer. It will more than likely be her last birthday.

So – now knowing this – how would you respond to the 3 questions posed earlier? Does it change your original feeling(s)?

Stay tuned...