Poll of the Day > 2 Bros saved their Meth Lab Equipment instead of Grandmother in House Fire...

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/21/brothers-charged-murder-allegedly-left-grandma-die-fire/4058178002/

Should they go to jail for it?

Of course they should, they could've bought new equipment and saved their grandmother.
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Grandma ain't making them cash....

Yes. Because they didn't even bother to call 911 to try and get help. They just let the place and her burn without even trying to get her help.

While not trying to get grandma out was a very awful thing, I don't feel someone should be able to be charged with a crime for not going back into a burning building to save someone.

Unless it can be shown that they started the fire. But that's a different issue.


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Absolutely. They should be imprisoned for a long time.

Had a guy locally who burned down the building he lived in making meth. Building was a historical one, as people from this county and nearby towns signed up for the Civil War there. To make things worse, someone died in the fire.

He accepted a plea of 15-25 years. Not long enough at all but that's the glory of plea bargains

Bugmeat posted...

While not trying to get grandma out was a very awful thing, I don't feel someone should be able to be charged with a crime for not going back into a burning building to save someone.

There's a lot of room for subjectivity there in terms of how reasonable it would be to expect them to get her out. Expecting them to charge through the flames and dive out of a third-story window with her wouldn't be reasonable. Expecting them to take an extra minute of the 10-15 they had to escape to help her down the stairs would be.
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Bugmeat posted...

I don't feel someone should be able to be charged with a crime for not going back into a burning building to save someone.

Unless it can be shown that they started the fire. But that's a different issue.

But like you stated...they didn't even bother to call 911/Fire Dept/or somebody to help with the situation...

And they had no problem going back in a 'Burning Building' to get their illegal Meth Equipment...

Yes.
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Yes they should.
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argonautweakend posted...

Grandma ain't making them cash....

Was my immediate first thought.



Hop103 posted...

Of course they should, they could've bought new equipment and saved their grandmother.

How you gonna buy new equipment with no money? How you gonna make money without equipment?

Catch-22!
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

How you gonna buy new equipment with no money? How you gonna make money without equipment?

Catch-22!

Thats why you gotta save. Never know when you meth lab will burn down with grandma inside...
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LinkPizza posted...

Thats why you gotta save.

Save? In this economy? You plum loco!
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Were they the Mario Bros?

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pionear posted...

Should they go to jail for it?

Well, they caused the accident by doing some seriously illegal shit and then left somebody to die from that accident so.... yeah? It doesn't really seem so much like a Good Samaritan issue as it is a matter of their illegal conduct resulting in a death.
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Shit. Id grind them up, and turn them into meth if it would allow me to spend at least one extra hour with my late grandma.
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Was this lab equipment they saved the kind that might explode in a fire?

Aaantlion posted...

Well, they caused the accident by doing some seriously illegal shit and then left somebody to die from that accident so.... yeah? It doesn't really seem so much like a Good Samaritan issue as it is a matter of their illegal conduct resulting in a death.

Felony murder.

If anyone dies during commission of a felony (which meth production is), their death counts as a murder under the law. It doesn't actually matter if it was intentional, deliberate, or even if the people involved were aware of it at the time. If it can be proved that the fire was started by the meth production process itself (as opposed to being an unrelated coincidence), they're technically guilty of first-degree murder until existing law.

Granted, a prosecutor doesn't have to seek that as a charge, but they're fully entitled to.
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