Motorcyclist charged with Vehicular Homicide

Our prayers and condolences go out to the victim of this careless accident caused by a motorcyclist that probably deserves whatever the courts give him.  However we can not helped but wonder what the charge might have been had the shoe been on the other foot.

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April 10, 2009
Dunedin man charged with vehicular homicide

Pinellas County deputies arrested a Dunedin man earlier this week they believe was driving his motorcycle approximately 96 mph when he slammed into another car and killed an elderly man last year.

Johnathan J. Cantlon, 31, faces charges of vehicular homicide and driving with a suspended license. He was released on $26,000 bail.

Cantlon According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Cantlon was driving southbound on County Road 1 in Palm Harbor on April 8, 2008, when he hit the car driven by 81-year-old George Allen of Palm Harbor. Allen was attempting to turn onto the northbound lane of the same road from Bahama Drive.

Witnesses told authorities Cantlon made multiple lane changes and was weaving around other cars before colliding with the driver’s side of Allen’s vehicle. The crash occurred with school children in the area, authorities said.

Allen died from injuries sustained in the crash.

Cantlon’s license had been suspended two months earlier.

--Keith Niebuhr, Times staff writer
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Posted by Times Editor at 6:07:49 PM on April 10, 2009
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Tea Party today at the Capital

overnment know how you feel about taxation without representation. Groups all around the country will be converging on capitals across the country today for this purpose.

For those who are young enough that they may have left that part of history (Boston Tea Party)  out of the curriculum click here.

To see the Rick Santelli video that lit the fire, see here:

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
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Yo Tallahassee Police Chief Jones -whats up with this?

Are these not part of the approx. 9 cops we counted yesterday escorting ABATE of Florida to the Capital on their annual Freedom run?

And did you or did you not have officers lined up to escort the most heavily armed bike out of town?

And oh yeah, didn't Dusty Miller also get one?

How does all that jive with your refusal to provide escorts for servicemen returning home from putting their lives on the line for their country.  Or to Funerals of vets of past wars who have died?

Now we do not begrudge ABATE their escort, and we do believe the most heavily armed bike should have received one.  And we understand that Dusty Miller provided the city with a great service.

We just can't figure out what criteria you use for escorts?  Lets see, we have identified horses getting them, football players getting them, officers sent out to schools so kids could look at the cop cars and motorcycles (they probably ain't never seen one before), but let a service man return home from Iraq and/or Afghanistan and you don't have the resources?????????

Are your priorities that screwed up???????

Kinda like you can close down Monroe for Springtime Tallahassee yet shunt the Veterans Day parade to some back street?

Tallahassee Police Chief, the definition of hypocrisy!

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