On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 17:58:16 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>There is a restaurant in our town that opened about two years ago. It is
>by far the best one that has been in that location over the years. They
>have great food and very reasonable prices. It was our favourite
>restaurant for a while.
>
>The owner/chef has just been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading
>guilty to a charge of careless driving.
>
>What we know to be true is that he was involved in a hit and run
>accident. He hit two teenagers who were standing on a lawn. The boy was
>not too seriously hurt, but the girl was in really rough shape. She was
>thrown more than 60 feet, suffered a number of broken bones and a
>serious brain injury. Her life has been ruined. It was 2:30 am and he
>took off and left them for dead. The police tracked down his car the
>next morning and arrested him. They said he was intoxicated when they
>arrested him, but they have no proof that he was intoxicated at the time
>of the accident.
>
>The man has given up his share of the restaurant, which he and his wife
>had co-owned. I suspect he did that in to shield it from the inevitable
>lawsuit.
>
>What I have heard, an apparently from very reliable sources, is that he
>was drunk when he left another bar in which he has some sort of interest
>and was heading home. Someone my son knows was at the other bar and saw
>them drinking... quite a bit. Moreover, the wife was with him at the bar
>and in the car with him. It is bad enough that he signed it over to her
>to try to hide it from the lawsuit, but IMO, she is a party to the
>crimes of DUI and the hit and run.
>
>I had been willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until the
>criminal case was settled... . until I heard the other details. I have
>not been able to bring myself to go there. It is a good restaurant and
>it is the closest one to my house, but I cannot bring myself to
>patronize a place that is owned by people who would do something like
>that. They ruined a young woman's life and they ruined the lives of the
>woman's family. Everything about the case leaves them with a really bad
>smell.
>
>I know that a lot of people feel the same way I do and will not go
>there. Yet, many others will. The place is packed all the time.
>They obviously won't miss my business, but I still can't do it.
>
>
>
>To make matters worse,

Surely if he signed it over to his wife after the accident, it will
not be safe from having to pay ?