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If you drink and drive, please watch this.
Posted by peter-ehlert on November 1, 2010 at 4:52 pmIf you drink and drive, please watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8P.L.Parsons replied 13 years, 6 months ago 6 Members · 5 Replies- 5 Replies
I think it would be nice, if part of the sentence for a 1st time DWI was to sit in jail, and watch videos, like this one, for 30 days.
Nate
Wow – great post/video
Indeed great post,
thanks for the reminder.
I believe in zero tolerance when it comes to driving.
chr.> I believe in zero tolerance when it comes to driving.
Me too.
My 21 year old step brother & his friend were killed by a drunken doped up gangster criminal who stole a car and decided to play chase with the police. The Buick the A*hole stole was no match for my brothers Toyota Tercel at 98 miles an hour, even with their seat belts on. The Buick hit the drivers side of the Toyota killing my step-brother almost instantly. Broke every rib in his body and embedded his ribs into his lungs & heart, among other gruesome things. His friend flew out the back window and hit the pavement and suffered a few hours before he died. (His girlfriend was 3 months pregnant.) My brothers body “cushioned” the passenger side of the car and saved his other friends life, barely.
It was NOT a pleasant site watching TV and seeing the news channels (including CNN) fly over the scene and seeing my step-brothers body laying there on the pavement under a yellow tarp with his feet sticking out and seeing his mangled car with his stuff strewn about and hanging out of the trunk. It was even worse when all of his and my best friends (& his family 1000’s of miles away in another state) witnessed the same scene on the news channels and call me asking if it is true, is that his car, was that HIM??!!, having to tell them it is, and having to listen to them all sob uncontrollably. It was not fun seeing his body at the funeral home; even though he was “made up”, I was still picking out flecks of glass from his hair and face. It was bittersweet being handed his belongings and seeing that his watch was still ticking, unscathed. How his watch survived without a scratch but he didn’t…really pissed me off!! :-@
I have an uncle (who’ve I disowned YEARS ago) who drinks and drives. He’s a piece of @#$%!! He’s gotten DUIs, jailtime, hit by other cars, etc…but yet as soon as he gets out he just does it again. He would come over to my moms house, drink a 6 pack or more, get toasted, and split. I told her the next time I witness this and as soon as he walks out the door and hops in that SUV I am calling 9-11 and reporting him! She laid into me & cussed me out; how DARE I report her brother, my uncle, how dare I turn against my family, and that I would no longer be “welcome” at family events if I did such a thing. I told her so you are OK with him driving up totally wasted like that and him possibly turning YOUR corner and plowing into someone, maybe a family with a kid your granddaughters age, and killing them? She said it wouldn’t happen because he had done it for so long he had it under “control”. Pfft!! Needless to say I haven’t been to a family “event” since cause I’m the snitch.
The sad part is my A*hole uncle pulled this stunt a couple of years ago and wound up running over my moms cat. Her driveway is slanted and he had just polished off a 12 pack and wasn’t paying attention and hopped in his SUV and rolled out of the driveway before starting his car, which would scare off the cat. Moms cat was hiding behind the wheel and mom saw the cat there and had a hunch that A*hole was not paying attention and ran out there to scream at him HEY the cats under your wheel!! But he didn’t pay attention to my mom and as she got out there she got to see the whole thing happen, cat getting squished and all. Yeck. 🙁
Needless to say I did not have to say “I told you so” to her…she knew. Yet I am still the “black sheep” for standing up for what I feel is right. Oh well!!! 😐
Admins WifeI was pallbearer for 4 friends before I graduated high school, and attended two other funerals due to drinking and driving.
The tragedy doesn’t always end with the funeral. One of the drunk drivers had to live with taking the life of a 15 year old girl for several years, before he took his own.
I love a good beer or highball as much as the next guy, but a DD is mandatory. It just isn’t worth it. Sometimes a DUI is as good as it could possibly get.
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