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Local NewsAuthor:Ali Viewed:  163  
What a senseless waste of life/lives   
 Last week two local boys were out booze cruising, which is a favorite past time for many here in the frozen tundra as there isn't much else to do (another reason I'm getting the hell out of here, but that's a different story). The driver hit an approach, and with such force that it ripped the cab clear from the pickup bed. It was so tore up, that they had to load up the pieces on a 40 foot trailor bed just to haul it off. Both young men were killed instantly.

One of the girls who works for me just graduated high school and was scheduled to attend college this fall on a sports scholarship. She's a bright, funny, charismatic girl but she likes to party a little too hard and her parents let her (they are both alcoholics). She attended the funeral of the young men who died from drinking and driving.

This morning she calls me and tells me she can't work tonight because she was in an accident. Ok. I find out from another employee that she was out partying last night and since she was "the most sober", designated to drive back into town. She wound up rolling the vehicle and didn't get a scratch on her. One of the boys riding along with her is now in critical condition. The other is dead.

Her scholarship has been revoked, and she is being charged with a DUI and a possibility of manslaughter. She turns 18 years old a week from today.

Driving drunk. Just don't do it.

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6/14/2009 3:22:25 PM   From:  Ash Of Pompeii   Hell I won't even drive on the phone...
But I'm cute so I can always find a DD
6/14/2009 3:24:07 PM   From:  Ash Of Pompeii   Also that is very sad. I think I should probably mention that I felt something reading this. I knew a kid that died in a drunk driving accident a few years ago. We were pretty close for a while but hadn't been in years. They were drunk joyriding, didn't even have a destination, in a parking lot. They hit a curb and Jimmy was thrown out of the car and his head impacted cement. Very sad.
6/14/2009 3:28:40 PM   From:  MrsK   Sweet Jesus! I hate drunk drivers... I had three teenaged friends die in a Drunk Driving accident. They were on thier way home from youth group, and were hit by a 40 year old drunk driver.
6/14/2009 5:35:33 PM   From:  mercury   There must be an angel sitting on my brother's shoulder, that he's never seriously hurt himself of anyone else with all of his antics... He's been caught 5 times, so you know how many times he's actually done it (hint: he's probably got more experience behnd the wheel drunk than sober)

There was a time that I did it myself... I was always the DD and had at least enough sense to cut myself off at a certain point, start drinking water like a fish and dance to sweat it out... my friend and I often wonder why we are both still alive. I can only guess that our mission had not yet been fulfilled.

Kids think they are immortal. I know I did.
6/14/2009 6:39:57 PM   From:  LiquidSnake   What a fukking waste. I've hardly had anything to drink in the past 3 years now. Last time I drank was when I went to visit my parents. Drinking is stupid in my opinion, and people that need to drink to have a good time are pathetic to me.
6/14/2009 6:44:32 PM   From:  LiquidSnake   And people that think it's hip and cute to go "clubbing" and drinking til their piss drunk and acting like a moron are also dipshits.
6/15/2009 5:58:41 AM   From:  emkay64   Be thankful they died quickly. A friend of mine ended up a quadripilegic. She was gorgeous, and smart. Now she has a life where mom and dad change the catheters, wasting away to a little shell of a girl at 85 pounds. She can't move and gets the pleasure of watching her younger sister get married, have children and do all the things she'd love love to but never will. She's bitter, mean and sad.

Yah drunk driving so stupid! Makes me so fukking angry!

6/15/2009 9:08:30 AM   From:  Chi   Fukkin idiots. It pisses me off even more when they hurt or take out innocent bystanders though. If you want to be a dipshit on your own by all means go ahead, just don't put others at risk.
6/15/2009 10:37:20 AM   From:  Rani   The are a few rules I have in my life, NO DRINKING and DRIVING, even if I have had only 1 alcoholic bevearge, is one of them. Holy Hell, when will people grab a clue? I saw my father get into too many accidents while driving drunk, and how he survived some of them or got by all his years without killing someone, I do not know. As a matter of fact, I don't talk on the cell phone, play with the radio, or do anything that is going to distract me while driving. When I am driving, I am driving.

I have a great fear of pain, and car repairs are just too freaken expensive, if you survive that is.
6/15/2009 12:10:22 PM   From:  LiquidSnake   I know I'll draw the ire of some for saying this, but if alcohol didn't exist(the drinking kind, not the medicinal/sterylizing kind) this world would be a much better place. Take out cigarettes too, we don't need that shit either.

Hell, in terms of what causes more damage and is more harmful, I'd say alcohol is far worse and devastating then marijuana ever could be. Stoners just stay home and get baked on the couch. When your stoned you don't want to do anything other then eat munchies lol. Drinking is different. People drink at bars and clubs and in public at times, and it turns even the most respectable people into idiot assholes.
6/15/2009 12:47:58 PM   From:  ImWithStupid   Yea, but if I don't drive after drinking, how do I get my car home from the bar?
6/15/2009 1:00:08 PM   From:  Chi   Take a taxi to and from the bar if you plan on getting plastered. Or take a taxi there and have a sober friend pick you up. Whatever, there are plenty of alternatives. Go to a bar close by, drink at home, etc. If you really HAVE to drink.
6/15/2009 1:37:42 PM   From:  ImWithStupid   I was joking, and we only have like, three taxis and they don't run after 10 pm.
6/15/2009 1:41:23 PM   From:  mercury   call a sober friend is always a good option, too. If yo don't abuse the privilege, most people are pretty understanding about that kind of thing.
6/16/2009 7:03:50 AM   From:  Jez   well i LIKE to drink to have a good time, and i also think it's hip and cute to go clubbing and make an ass out of myself. and anyone who passes judgement on me can go f uck themselves.
6/16/2009 9:39:35 AM   From:  Ash Of Pompeii   I went clubbing for the first time Saturday night. I did not know that was the plan, and ended up being entirely out of my element. It was fun, though. Not really the kind of fun thing I'd do again and again... maybe every great once in a while.
6/16/2009 5:34:00 PM   From:  LiquidSnake   And you have every right to do so, Jez. I just have a different opinion.
6/22/2009 11:07:10 AM   From:  eddo   this saddens me

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