Originally Posted by
phoebeisis
I will never really understand why he told the cop"I did it to teach them a lesson". I get anger and revenge, I don't get his being so crazed that he couldn't come up with something plausible for the cop??
His own words convicted him-and he had several minutes to think about something more reasonable than "I PUT HIM THROUGH THE WINDOW BECAUSE I WAS PISSED OFF"
Why would a violent criminal tell the truth??
Even "I meant to stop to talk to them, but misjudged how hard I braked" would have gotten him mostly off the hook.
Could he have really thought that it was so minor that it didn't matter if he told the truth? Or, my guess, he was kinda stunned/crazed and just couldn't come up with anything better than the truth. He probably figured that it would be no big deal-bikes would be slightly trashed, few scrapes, no big deal, and he would get some satisfaction out of screwing with them-"teaching them a lesson".
It will remain a mystery to me.
The take home lesson for sociopaths-don't talk to the cops.
That is probably why he got a reduced sentence. Sometimes people do stupid **** only to come to their senses a little too late. Being honest about why he did it. He did it because he was mad that cyclists have to go 1x2 instead of 1x1 thus making it unsafe. But instead of being reasonable he uses his cars superior manuverability to "teach" them because HE thinks the system is flawed. We all think something is flawed, but we have to take the lesser of 2 evils. Nobody is perfect. Yet.