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Originally Posted by Gonth
Just a note, the felony is NOT for driving fast. Eveyone is saying that it amounts to a huge speeding ticket. Thats not why the car was taken away.
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If he didn't evade police, he wouldn't have commited a felony, and as such would still have his car.
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Exactly! I speed all the time... well not as much as I used to, but still I do speed. When I was younger I used to speed pretty excessively (been to 127...though not in a residential) and even did some dangerous stupid things before I got some experience. I've been pulled more than a few times too. The point is though, no matter how stupid I was being, the moment I saw the lights, I pulled over as quickly and safely as I could. Got only a warning for 97 one time because I made it easy on the cop. Then I've had some a-holes pull me too, but I certainly never got charged with a felony, and never got my car seized!
The guy committed a felony. The fact he chose to do so in an expensive car instead of a beater doesn't mean he should get less punishment than someone who can only get a $1,000 car and uses it in a crime. Both should lose the property used to commit a crime, be it a car, a gun, a computer, what have you. Commit a felony, lose the means by which you committed it. I don't have a problem with this.