Thread: Hit & run driver kills cyclist in Vancouver, Wa.
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Old 01-23-10 | 11:54 PM
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Originally Posted by BengeBoy
Driver pled guilty.

He was texting at the time. He also was smoking a cigar, and distracted by the embers of the cigar.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/82459757.html
He claimed he was smoking a cigar. The police found no evidence of a cigar in the car.

His girlfriend also tried to raise bail money for him by holding a bogus carwash:
http://www.columbian.com/news/2009/d...ears-in-court/

*Sigh*. What do you do with people like this?
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