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Baxter of Farmington, ME
Feb 25, 2009 5:55 AM
Domingos Medeiors is the same as Boston Reader both criminals and both as dumb as a fence post lets hope Merdeiros gets his payment back for his ignorance, you can't tell me when he went back it never crossed his mind that the accident happen because of his incompetence to secure a load but then again incompetence seems to be a trait with people from massachusettes.report abuse
papa smurf04976 of skowhegan, ME
Feb 24, 2009 6:27 PM
Reader nice to know that you also are nothing but a criminal who got away with something, so don't ever complain about someone who got caught at a crime as you just got away.
as far as a offender friendly state I don't think digging back 20 years for a crime you did and posting it on the internet for life is a friendly stste, where it gets friendly is with drunks and druggiesreport abuse
reader of Boston, MA
Feb 24, 2009 5:48 PM
As a teenage i was driving a car when i hit and knocked off the mirror of a un-oocupied parked car. I kept going,even laughing when i got down the street and realized i got away with it. Howie Carr told a similar story when he was driving in Somerville,Ma.

When i think of it from living in Massachusetts all my life,many of the most honest people you could meet have told me similar things they have hit and took off on. Usually relatively minor things.

I bet this Massachusetts driver knew what he did, and took off. But as i have said a zillion times,Maine has a criminal-friendly,sex-offender,and vehicular manslaugterer-friendly judicial system. He will walk ,especially if he gets the "mitigating factor" Maine Judge Jabar the Huttreport abuse
Ron Melancon of Glen Allen, VA
Feb 24, 2009 5:17 PM
When you get a moment please go to www.dangeroustrailers.org What was the weight limit of his trailer. Was the trailer overloaded? Was the trailer inspected? Did he properly secure his load? In your state you have no standards in place for these unregulated trailers. If a jury found a u haul trailer's driver negligent for loosing a shelf and it just flew off the trailer and into her head and she was awarded 12.5 million dollars. Then we have 3 families in this country who have lost loved ones because they lost their trailer and did not stop... they just kept going... go to my web site and look for Amateur Documentary...

Why did this happen?? It is the complete Negligence of the owner of this trailer to care about anybody else behind him. Unlike a bus driver who has his interest at stake because he is in front of the bus when a person tows a trailer he could care less about who is behind... because he is not at risk.

Since 1988 over 445,000 people injured... Since 1977 over 14,200 people killed and nearly 1,000,000 things damaged by passenger cars that tow trailers and nothing is done.

Why??

So we can get Tony Saprano to bank roll us and become a Utility Trailer Hit man company and charge 1,000,000 to kill someone and guess what happens in Maine? Nothing!!! except may a ticket for unsecured load. What if he did not run from the accident.

What would he been charged with? Failure to secure a load how much is the fine.

A Man killed 3 people last year on the Maryland Bay Bridge he killed 2 firemen and another man and all he got was an $80.00 fine....

Go here to see the video..
http://highlightingthebaybridgeaccidentmay11.blogspot.com/

It is just crazy.report abuse

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