My wife is a county judge here in Illinois and her and many others in her field disagree with a lot of mandatory minimum sentences. They feel that each case should be judged on its merits and circumstances and that blanket sentences like that cause more injustice then they do good. It removes their ability tailor the…

Pretty much any law crafted to appease the media masses is a bad law. Pretty much every law named after dead kids for instance.

And only apply to those with little $$

System of a down told me they were bad when I was a wee teen. Who doesn’t believe everything those guys say?

Yes, all. There should be no place for that kind of inflexibility in a justice system.

Yeah, but there is a reason that Lady Justice carries scales as well as a sword. You’re supposed to be punished on the fuck up and causes, not the emotions provoked by it. He fucked up. There is no doubt he should have had better judgement, but his fuck up was thinking his brakes had more left in them than they did.…

I don’t think #4 is really relevant when even those families apparently agree that 110 years isn’t warranted.

... and this is why the “tough on crime” mandatory minimum sentences (which always seem to end up equalling “life in prison”, somehow) are simply bad public policy.

Mandatory minimum laws are obscene in all instances.

It’s just a constant, angry, attempt to one up each other with cynical, jaded ‘hot takes’ that say nothing other than “that thing you like, is something that’s stupid”.

First time here in a while? The SS Jalopnik sank a while ago.

And the same with The Italian Job. Yes, it has a ridiculous(ly epic) car chase scene, but it’s not a car movie.

All of this. Garbage suggestions by garbage people.

How can you drag Herbie into this? At no point did they actually imply a 1600cc VW Beetle could actually compete in reality. In fact, one of the major plot lines of the first movie is how it makes no sense that Herbie is competitive.

Cannonball Run does not deserve to be here. Why not just put Stroker Ace and Smokey & The Bandit on here, too.

This entire list is an atrocity and the people who made the suggestions should be ashamed of themselves. This is the community this site fosters? Fuck me, what a pile of dogshit

Riveting, Pulitzer caliber writing from Jalopnik these days. Articles about counterweights like they are magical wizardry, bloggers copying other bloggers so they can take a trip to “Click City.”  This is what Jalopnik has become. Its funny how you can tell a good Jalopnik blogger..they dont work for Jalopnik anymore…

VW says that it sent a charging trailer to most of the stages. In the event that the trailer wasn’t available, the team towed the ID.4 to the next stage behind the chase car and used regen to charge the battery.

Sure, CNN is weak, but the point is that it’s not some kind of global conspiracy to kill Elon Musk and bring down Tesla like these stupid ass Stans like to say it is.

Fuck Teslarati. Ballaban is a saint I tell you! A saint!