I’m not a fan of regurgitated information, but this situation continues to bug me so maybe I needed to vent a little.  I don’t know that there’s anything to attribute what seems to be an excessive death toll on Southern Nevada roads to anything other than drivers who fail to pay attention.  Are they talking or texting on their phones?  Nevada DOT stated that there were 271 fatalities on Nevada roads in 2014.  I remember one weekend in November, there were 11 alone.  It’s disturbing that it’s as high as it is.  I think the worst situation was just a few days before Thanksgiving when a grandfather took his 18-month-old grand-daughter for a walk in her stroller and was hit by a driver who fled the scene.  Was the driver texting or was she DUI?  We will never know.

My heart still goes out to the family of this grandpa who died at the scene of this accident.  Locals were fired-up for a long time because the driver had the wherewith-all to recognize she ‘may have’ hit someone, but instead of calling 911, she retained an attorney.  Was she texting or drunk?  It does not get better at this point…  She told her attorney she would turn herself in after Thanksgiving.  Now, I’m just a simple blogger and I understand attorney-client privilege, but don’t your rights get tossed-out when ya commit a felony?  And wouldn’t said felony make ya forfeit spending the holidays with people ya love?  She turned herself in 8 days later, but almost promptly bonded-out.  Now this story gets better because when she bonded-out, our local law enforcement in cooperation with U.S. Immigration officers were already gathering the required documentation of her expired Visa so they could rearrest the overly smug Bulgarian.  As of the end of the year, she remains in jail and my hope is that she’ll be deported with iron branding on her forehead and limbs that says , “Work Visa Failure.  Not Authorized to be on American soil.”  Or something to that effect…

Too harsh or not harsh enough?  What do you think would be the ideal punishment for a foreigner committing a felony in the United States?

~Jenn