Would you turn yourself in?

[doclaguna]

It may have also been a failed alien abduction...
The speculation on this site (and I am a guilty party as well) busts me up sometimes.

[EGL Admin]

If we didn't speculate there would not be much to talk about. :-)

I heard something from a source about the incident but I don't think it's been in the news so I'm not saying anything.

[LC]

I haven't heard anything, but walking along EGB at 4 am can make one wonder why.

[EGL Admin]

That was one of my thoughts when I first heard about it. Who is walking around town at that time?

[adiffer]

I used to walk home at 4am when I went to school in Davis. It wasn't all that unusual for me to cross town between 3am and 4am on Saturday morning. I managed to get the attention of the cops a few times because I was usually carrying a big over-the-shoulder bag for books too. Got offered a ride home once which I gladly took.

If you start with the assumption that I committed a hit-and-run (possibly because I was too scared to stop) and the odds of being found are very low, the odds are high I think that I would not turn myself in. I think it is also likely that I wouldn't drive again for a very long time. I would probably find some way to self-punish.

[Karen]

I honestly can't think of any situation where I wouldn't have stopped. Even if I had been driving drunk, I truly don't think I could have just driven away. But let's say I just freaked out and did drive away, I don't think I could sleep at night. I'd be constantly wondering if every knock on the door was the police. Every helicopter I heard overhead would be looking for me. Every lesson I tried to teach my son about right vs wrong would remind me of what I had done. Every teenager I saw would remind me. I'd turn into a nervous wreck. I'd probably try go on with life but I don't think it would last too long. The guilt would keep me from enjoying anything in life.

So yeah, I'd turn myself in.

[EGL Admin]

I can't imagine any situation where I would do a hit and run, but if I did and the choice was say 5-10 years in prison or facing the guilt, I can't see choosing prison. I don't think too many would choose that. I think all of us would stop and help so I can't see it happening. I think if a person knowingly left a person to die in that position that person is not going to turn themselves in. As far as turning someone else in? That's another one of those that's it's impossible to say what you would do. If it was my wife or my kids I don't see any way I would turn them in.

Life would never be the same and you would have to live with guilt but prison time?