Keep your hands on the wheel
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:49 am
In 2007, one Adam Vue was test-driving a vehicle in Richmond, California (north of Oakland). Salesman Gabriel Lobos was sitting in the passenger seat. Another vehicle nearly collided with the vehicle that Vue was driving. Lobos made a gesture that, according to differing accounts, may or may not have been perceived as obscene. Someone in the other vehicle fired a shot, hitting Vue in the head. Vue is now permanently disabled.
The shooter was not identified or apprehended.
Vue sued Lobos and the dealership that employed him, claiming that Lobos should have reasonably foreseen that the gesture would provoke someone to shoot. A judge disagreed and dismissed the case before it could go to trial.
Vue appealed, and the appeals court upheld the first judge's decision in a 3-0 ruling.
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Regardless of this decision, I have been aware for decades that there are people out there who will shoot at you for looking at them sideways. California was the birthplace of the "road rage shooting" in the 1980s.
- Jim
The shooter was not identified or apprehended.
Vue sued Lobos and the dealership that employed him, claiming that Lobos should have reasonably foreseen that the gesture would provoke someone to shoot. A judge disagreed and dismissed the case before it could go to trial.
Vue appealed, and the appeals court upheld the first judge's decision in a 3-0 ruling.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 18MI8S.DTL" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Regardless of this decision, I have been aware for decades that there are people out there who will shoot at you for looking at them sideways. California was the birthplace of the "road rage shooting" in the 1980s.
- Jim
