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I'm starting to believe that when a family member commits a crime, even an accidental one, that the nearest relatives should be held accountable. Why? Because if they had acted responsibly in the first place people probably wouldn't have been killed, maimed, or dismembered.

A while back bman posted about a friend of his who was run over at a stoplight by an old woman who was just fucking senile. She'd been in plenty of accidents before but obviously her family was too busy to care about whom she killed next. It was probably too much of a bother to deal with the situation, than find Granny alternative transportation. I'll also bet she's too fucking old to even have renewed her drivers license without their help. I'm betting this because I saw the same damn situation two days ago myself at the RMV.

As I enter the RMV there's two women ahead of me, one gray haired elderly lady and another woman who was obviously her daughter. Now at our RMV you walk up, get a number and have a seat. Grammy here decided it was ok to talk to the woman behind the counter for a good five minutes while I'm waiting to get my ticket. She wanted to recount her experiences of wearing a cast because the employee behind the counter had one on. The daughter just stood there, embarrassed for a bit while I waited... and waited. Finally they'd fucking waited long enough that their number was called. Yay.

I get my number in .001 seconds and sit down.

Daughter was there to deal with registration, Grammy was there to - gods help us - renew her license. They call her number. Several times. Finally the daughter takes her over to the counter and returns to her business. I notice that Gramms talks to the RMV employee for a few minutes, stands for her picture and then meanders off. The woman behind the counter seems mildly distressed. After about 5 min I get called to the same counter.

"DON'T YOU WANDER OFF ON ME!" the woman behind the desk exclaims to my surprise. Then she apologizes and tells me that the last person she had just wandered away and hadn't finished the transaction. That was Gramms of course. It was pretty fucking apparent that the old bat didn't have enough wits about her to even get through a license renewal, obviously she shouldn't be driving.

Hopefully, since she didn't complete the transaction, she just won't get a new license in the mail. The downside is that I'm sure her family doesn't give a shit and will let her loose on the roads when she can't even understand the significance of a red light.

If you can't manage to renew your license on your own, then clearly you should NOT be allowed to have one. Driving is up to an individual, if your family has to drag you through the RMV then they should be made to pay when the inevitable occurs.