Yet another example of the privileged thinking (and acting as if) the laws pertain to everyone but themselves.
Nirav Tolia, founder and co-creator of several Silicon Valley start-ups, has been charged with felony hit-and-run after police concluded he caused an accident through careless driving then fled the scene afterward.
His excuse? “I was shaken,” he is reported to have said. Yeah, stepping on the gas and hightailing it out of a mess you just created when you feel “shaken” is just plain old smart thinking. (For the privileged, that is—surely money solves all things, doesn’t it? It has conveniently eliminated the need for “conventional” morality too, apparently.)
The crowning irony here is that Tolia is CEO of Nextdoor, a social network designed to allow neighborhoods to interact, via the Internet, more closely with police in order to foil criminal activity and identity suspects in local crimes such as—felony hit-and-run.