Drunk driving...

Damn, if that type of ad campaign doesn't make you think twice and drinking and driving, I don't know what will. That girl is really brave to go through with the campaign, and hopefully it will give her some chance to help herself out in what must be a much harder life than before.

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I just can't say anything about it other than every time I see what happened to her I feel like crying.

 

That should be on the backside of every door in every bar across America. Smoke weed, do crack, vandalize stuff...for God's sake, burglarize stuff before you commit that, the worst nonviolent crime.

 

If that was me, I would have shot myself.

 

So true. I would rather be dead than look like that. She is a very brave person for doing this.

 

It makes my heart "sore". Well, it may not be the right word. Just can't describe it.

Jacqueline, you're such a couragous girl to have that pic taken to warn people. If that wouldn't stop people from drunk driving, I don't know what would.

Well ...

 

Damn that makes me glad I never did that to some one in my younger more careless days.

 

If I had <b>done</b> that to some one I would have shot myself.

 

The scary part is that this is something that could have happened to anyone here. People at my age mid 20's have a higher propensity of dying in a car crash or alcohol related crash rather than any other form of death. My heart goes out to this courageous girl that is being selfless in sharing her painful story to help others not share her fate.

Even I have driven a few times when I felt I shouldn't have or been in the car when I knew I shouldn't have. I do think that some of the statistics about Texas Alcohol related deaths being the highest isn't based on %, but just the number. In that case we are only worse than California because of the population issue.

I applaud Jacquiline, and wish I could let her know that I sure will remember that tonight when i'm out and whenever I have to make a decision about driving after alcohol.

 

Where can I get that poster? I want to put it in my class of 11th graders.

 

Drunk driving should be treated as a much more serious crime than it currently is. Were you to walk into a McDonalds and fire a gun off at random, and by chance not hit anyone, would they merely take away your gun liscence and tell you next time you might get into serious trouble?

You are taking the lives of others into your hands when you drink and drive. You don't have that right. Any arrogant assertion that you/your friend/some guy you know can drive just fine after 5 drinks is about as much of a justification for the current low-penalty for the crime as would be the assertion, probably true, that you know a guy who can walk inot a McD's and unload but not hit anyone, his accuracy is so good. That misses the points that...

A) It's not your right to decide how qualified you are to risk the lives of others.

b) Laws are established to protect everyone, and hence everyone must abide. When you decide that you are above the law, at the risk of others, you are missing the whole point.

 

As bad as this picture makes one feel, keep in mind the other two in the car are now dead. She was the "lucky" one. Tragic.

 

I consider that girl a big time hero.