Bikers huddle up by the thousands for 10 days in Sturgis, South Dakota….
They ‘aint the sharpest tools in the shed…
Thousands of people turned up to a concert headlined by Smash Mouth in South Dakota on Sunday night amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The 90s pop-rockers and their fans at the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally didn’t seem worried about gathering together during the viral outbreak that’s killed at least 160,000 Americans.
“We’re all here together tonight! F–k that COVID shit!” front-man Steve Harwell said on stage, earning cheers from the crowd.
The iconic 10-day festival was expected to attract some 250,000 motorcycle enthusiasts, scaled down from about half-a-million people who attended in previous years, according to USA Today.
Festival goers didn’t have to face many of the social distancing restrictions common elsewhere in the country, the newspaper reported. For example, those who traveled in from a virus hotspot for the event were not required to quarantine.
And while organizers encouraged the use of masks or face coverings, they were not required….
image…Stephen Groves/AP
Deliberate criminal negligence, resulting in death or serious bodily harm.
Wikipedia: “In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a “depraved indifference” to human life and where such act results in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill. In a depraved-heart murder, defendants commit an act even though they know their act runs an unusually high risk of causing death or serious bodily harm to a person. If the risk of death or bodily harm is great enough, ignoring it demonstrates a “depraved indifference” to human life and the resulting death is considered to have been committed with malice aforethought.[1][2] In some states, depraved-heart killings constitute second-degree murder,[3] while in others, the act would be charged with varying degrees of manslaughter[4] or third-degree murder.
If no death results, such an act would generally constitute reckless endangerment (sometimes known as “culpable negligence”) and possibly other crimes, such as assault.”
Australian law firm: “A Queensland mother has been charged with murder after her two young daughters died inside a hot car parked outside their home. You may be wondering; how can she be charged with murder? We explain.
On 1 May 2019, Queensland legislated to expand the definition of murder under the Queensland Criminal Code, so that a person may be charged with murder if death is caused by a ‘reckless indifference to human life’. The Queensland woman is the first person to be charged under this new definition.”
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Good luck with that,particularly in Republican South Dakota.
Take this,along with that goofball Trump babbling in the White House and a gaggle of Republican Governors ,who have refused even minimal efforts to thwart the Covid spread ,and it shouldn’t be too difficult to understand why this disease will be with us for along time to come.
My old boss just sent out a linked in post praising SD Governor Noem for not closing down businesses and not mandating masks. This is the same person who sent out a post praising Trump for doing Gods work.
I am disgusted with her.
Risking your life to see Smash Mouth ranks up there on lists of stupid ways to die.
Going to a FIFTH Overtime in the first official Stanley Cup Playoff game of the year.
There are two other teams who are already supposed to be playing in that arena right now that are going to have to wait hours to start.
Update- next game in Toronto postponed until tomorrow.
So, quintuple header on tv tomorrow for die-hard fans.
All I know is that if the Blackhawks go to OT tonight, I am not going to be awake to see it.