{"id":722,"date":"2004-03-03T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=722"},"modified":"2018-08-11T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T18:20:46","slug":"722","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/03\/722\/","title":{"rendered":"They Gave A Demonstration, But No One Came"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mother whose daughter was killed by a drag racer wants <strike>vengance<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/St.+Louis+City+%2F+County\/BA28223ED034E50586256E4B00229927?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Victim's+mother+wants+driver+sent+to+prison\" target=\"new\">to deter future teenagers from acting stupid:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mother of accident victim Megan Landholt urged a stiff prison sentence for a teenage street racer who pleaded guilty Monday in the collision that killed her daughter in south St. Louis County last year.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Landholt said she wanted <b>to make an example of the driver<\/b>. She told Judge David Lee Vincent III that Jeremy Ketchum &#8220;and people like him cannot go on and think that this is not a big deal. We have a chance to set an example here. A message has to be sent to the drivers of these cars.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to knock this woman&#8217;s pain, but kids getting into their cars on Saturday nights don&#8217;t read the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> or their court dockets to keep up with the consequences of their actions.  They don&#8217;t think about their actions, much less the consequences.  Automobile accidents, death?  That happens in another school district every couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>So putting the guy who killed your daughter in prison for a long or short time won&#8217;t do much for the greater good, and it probably won&#8217;t save another daughter from a drag racer, drunk driver, or cell-phone yakker.  It will, quite frankly, end the life of another, albeit dumber, kid, and maybe that&#8217;s just retribution.  Iit&#8217;s not, however, an example since not many are paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother whose daughter was killed by a drag racer wants vengance to deter future teenagers from acting stupid: The mother of accident victim Megan Landholt urged a stiff prison sentence for a teenage street racer who pleaded guilty Monday in the collision that killed her daughter in south St. Louis County last year. Barbara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22738,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/22738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}