Drinking and driving

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Originally posted by Gil
I have s "special" place in my heart for drunk drivers.
My neice was hit by one while crossing the street when she was seven years old. She did live and is often a productive member of society.
I just really hate the fact that in the accident it is usually the drunk that escapes with no injuries whatsoever.
I have taken care of people on my Rehab unit that have been busted up as the result of driving drunk. After spending day after day with them, I can say that it's really hard to hate them. Each of my "drunks" has been very personable and even pretty nice. Not saying that I would get into a car with them. Nor will I stand up as a character witness for them in court.
It is a shame that we have so many places in this country where you can go get a drink or ten and then go get in your car and attempt to drive home.
I think every bar should have a safe at the front door. Each patron is given the opportunity to learn the combination (at least 4 numbers) of the safe. He/she then must put their car keys in the safe before being served. If you are too drunk to work the combination after your "session" a cab will be called for you, and the cabbie will get custody of your keys till you are home.

I agree that the establishments where people drink need to be accountable. Of course bar owners would complain but so what. And even if someone was drinking at a house, that host should be accountable. I'll bet the problem would reduce dramatically. I can just imagine one or two of my friends getting all pissed at me for not letting them drive home.

Now... why should the host or establishment be accountable for someone else's behavior? Why that's not very fair, is it? After all, they didn't do the drinking. They didn't drive. To me it's this simple: driving drunk is illegal because judgement is impaired. Obviously if judgement is impaired the decision to drive is made under that impaired state. Those who can see what is going on should be responsible enough to intervene. But here in America intervening is frowned upon, even looked at as an infringement of freedom. But your freedom to drive ends where my life begins.

It's a slippery slope. Nobody wants to admit what needs to be done because we can't compartmentalize. People will say "what ever happened to 'personal responsibility?!'" And I will say, "exactly."

 

[12sec. Civic]

I am glad I didnt look. Like Pupik said. I've seen, and probably will see more of that kind of crap in my lifetime than I will ever need. Not like I need any.


I haven't looked at the picture, but if you guys are as disturbed as you say you are. Imagine looking at that in the mirror everyday.

 

[Acid X]

I'm no even going to look.

I seen the most horrible page ever a while back. It was a very very bad street racing incident. There were pictures of all the people.. One guy on the ground, twisted up and his head cracked WIDE open. I mean WIDE. You could see his brain... There was also the guy that was wrapped (literally, wrapped) around a pole of a guard rail. Sickening if you ask me...

 

[mayorbill11]

this doesn't really bother me... sure, it is sad, but i can look at it. i bet some people would puke.

p.s. hello, and welcome to the internet.

 

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Some crimes deserve the punishment of an "eye for an eye" and drinking and driving is one of those.

 

[Tercel_driver]

Really shocking pictures indeed.

Poor girl, I really feel sorry for her. I am speechless. She doesn't even look like a person anymore (of course she doesn't), and that doesn't count the therapy she is gonna has to pass through, not even being able, or has the courage to look at herself on a mirror.

However I can tell, worse things have happened to me. When I was kid, I suffered from seing "things" in the dark. Like, I woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare, and try to look in front of me, and I see a sillouette in the dark that dissapears.

One that I particularly remember, waking up and seeing the sillouette of my father walking in the hall (he is still alive). I even remember saying to him; dad?, but then it dissapeared. That really freaked me out. I would often hide my face and myself under the blankets. That or seeing like dwarfs. I had a pretty weird childhood, not counting the horrible dreams I had.

I have had such freaky dreams as that one in which I was in my house's garden, then I hear a big sound of a plane, and I see over myself one plane going down towards me, so I run to the other side of the house, and there is another plane going down to the same spot, so I go to the center, and then all I hear is a big sound of crashing planes over my head. I even woke up and could hear that sound, my heart was palpitating so furiously.

Or that one in which I was in my bedroom and all of a sudden I see a ghost, so I naturally shout, but my voice is cut down in that moment. Nobody could hear me, and then I vanish with the ghost.

I have had a lot of dreams about the end of the world. They tipically end with the clock announcing the twelve o'clock and everything vanishes. I get to hear a song about jesus and the moon turns red.



Fortunately I am over that already. But this picture stills is as shocking as those other events.

 

[halfracedrift]

Tercel, i feel very sorry for you for having a scary childhood like that....