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re: Have you ever known a drunk driver who killed someone?
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:10 pm to TheDeathValley
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:10 pm to TheDeathValley
It's pretty wikd
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Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:11 pm to BabyTac
Drunk drivers should have their penises cut off as punishment
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:14 pm to BabyTac
A girl I worked with dated a guy who was responsible for someones death while driving drunk. I think she said he went into the military in lieu of jail. It was in the 70's. Not someone I knew well at all. Just an a-hole I had to deal with a few times over a couple of years.
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:18 pm to BabyTac
A dude I work with. He doesn't like to talk about it much but he got 10 years.
He hasn't had a sip of alcohol since he got out. Has worked his way up the ranks with his employer. Solid family. Tells me he regrets what happened every day of his life, even all these years later.
I'm conflicted when dealing with him. One poor decision of his stole a life from an innocent person. On the other hand, I know he's still paying for what happened, mentally, despite having been out of jail for a long time now.
Involuntary manslaughter, regardless of the circumstances, is often really tough for all involved.
He hasn't had a sip of alcohol since he got out. Has worked his way up the ranks with his employer. Solid family. Tells me he regrets what happened every day of his life, even all these years later.
I'm conflicted when dealing with him. One poor decision of his stole a life from an innocent person. On the other hand, I know he's still paying for what happened, mentally, despite having been out of jail for a long time now.
Involuntary manslaughter, regardless of the circumstances, is often really tough for all involved.
This post was edited on 1/27/20 at 11:19 pm
Posted on 1/27/20 at 11:59 pm to BabyTac
I went to high school with a kid who left a bar and accidentally ran over someone who was passed out, asleep in the parking lot. The guy who was passed out died. The guy I went to school with didn’t notify anyone when it happened or call an ambulance. He said he didn’t even get out of car, as he thought he ran over a curb “or something.” Kid was arrested and convicted of manslaughter, but I saw him a couple years after the incident working at a sandwich shop
Posted on 1/28/20 at 12:55 am to BabyTac
My wife’s grandparents were killed in a head on collision with a drunk driver when she was about 16. He survived and served 10 years and is back out now.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 1:53 am to BabyTac
Yes. Buddy of mine spent a long time in Angola. Because of his stay his grandpa was shot and killed by an inmate friend of his that was parolled. His actions ruined his whole family.
This post was edited on 1/28/20 at 1:54 am
Posted on 1/28/20 at 1:58 am to BabyTac
Yes
Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:03 am to BabyTac
Yep, guy I know left the bar we were at about 5pm after a couple happy hour rounds and hit someone walking along the side of the road and killed her. This was October. Though after two 20 ounce beers I think the fact he was texting and driving had more to do with it than being drunk, but he was legally intoxicated.
He’s still waiting on his trial...but as far as the person he is, he is a really nice guy. His little girls adore him. It’s a sad situation for everyone involved. The girl that was killed was pretty young, early 20s. And his daughters mother already doesn’t have anything to do with him or with them...who the hell knows what is going on with them.
He’s still waiting on his trial...but as far as the person he is, he is a really nice guy. His little girls adore him. It’s a sad situation for everyone involved. The girl that was killed was pretty young, early 20s. And his daughters mother already doesn’t have anything to do with him or with them...who the hell knows what is going on with them.
This post was edited on 1/28/20 at 2:14 am
Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:32 am to mmmmmbeeer
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A dude I work with. He doesn't like to talk about it much but he got 10 years.
He hasn't had a sip of alcohol since he got out. Has worked his way up the ranks with his employer. Solid family. Tells me he regrets what happened every day of his life, even all these years later.
I'm conflicted when dealing with him. One poor decision of his stole a life from an innocent person. On the other hand, I know he's still paying for what happened, mentally, despite having been out of jail for a long time now.
Involuntary manslaughter, regardless of the circumstances, is often really tough for all involved.
See, these are the issues I wrestle with. On one hand their stupid, selfish decisions cost an innocent person their life. And there’s a real Old Testament part of me that says, “take an innocent life, you should forfeit your own.” Because I know full well the pain that arises from someone being taken before their time. That empty hole it leaves and the pain that never goes away. Like ripples in a pond, a single bad decision changes the trajectory of some many lives.
And then I think of how many, in the history and the tales, have made fateful, impactful decisions, have been spared the fate they deserved and gone on to bring light into this world yet. A light being snuffed in a terrible awful moment could be stone thrown into the lake of our existence could be the ripple changes a path that brings light to others.
a tragedy done can’t be undone, but Light can come from darkness. There are men who have done evil that now work for good, and men that wear the raiments of good that do evil.
I can only hope I don’t meet that tragedy and hold the decision in my hand, because wrath may get the best of me. I pity all those who have been in that boat.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:39 am to fr33manator
I can’t speak for other people that took a life in this manner and got a second chance and made something of himself/herself...made a good impact on the lives of others and their community after taking someone else’s. I cant imagine what that would be like, but knowing myself, I’d have to imagine that it would haunt me every single day of my life, no matter what I showed anyone else. You have to figure most people with a conscience would deal with it in a similar way.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:50 am to TigerStripes06
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, I can’t speak for other people that took a life in this manner and got a second chance and made something of himself/herself...made a good impact on the lives of others and their community after taking someone else’s. I cant imagine what that would be like, but knowing myself, I’d have to imagine that it would haunt me every single day of my life,
That’s what eats at me. In my younger years I sat on the cusp of making poor decisions.
I flipped a coin, and abided by the coin, and didn’t go down the path I could have gone down.
So it was only the flip of a coin that saw me through and possibly saved myself and others. Gave me a chance to see my children grow. A chance to live a little more of this life, and hopefully bring a little light.
Some people lost the flip and went down the wrong road, on the wrong night, and weren’t so lucky. I don’t think many people set off on a path to do that irreparable harm. But it’s still done.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 5:00 am to BabyTac
Yes
He killed my sister. He was a complete POS and, as I understand it, remained one further into adulthood.
Had a friend who killed someone as well. Didn’t seem to weigh him down but it may have been a suppressed by his drug usage until his early death from said drug use.
He killed my sister. He was a complete POS and, as I understand it, remained one further into adulthood.
Had a friend who killed someone as well. Didn’t seem to weigh him down but it may have been a suppressed by his drug usage until his early death from said drug use.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 5:09 am to BabyTac
My little sister’s ex boyfriend had one beer while he was at a casino and hit a guy that had swerved into his lane because he was messing with something in his car and died. The ex boyfriend went to jail.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 5:24 am to TheOfficial
Drunk drivers deserve the strictest of penalty. What a damn waste. Life matters.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 5:26 am to BabyTac
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What became of them? What kind of people were they? Did they change? Did they go on to live normal lives?
My grandfather was driving home from a fishing trip one night and had had too much to drink. He ran a red light and t-boned a car, killing a man and his two sons. Died in prison 12 years later.
He was a good man, although flawed. Mayor of his small town for several years and owned a successful trucking business. What makes it worse is my father is an alcoholic (although he always drank, his major problems with it didn't start until several years after my grandfather's accident) and is in jail for a DUI as I type. He didn't learn from his father's mistakes.
Be careful with alcohol, people. It can easily frick up your life. I have never tasted a drop, so I don't know what I'm missing. I prefer it that way.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 5:59 am to BabyTac
Former project manager for the company I work at. He left us after refusing a reasonable suspicion drug screen and went to work for a competitor. He got fired from them for his poor driving record. About a week later he stayed out fishing all night and hit a lady head on and killed her at about 630 am. He had a nice cocktail of amphetamines and booze in his system at the time of the accident. He already had one DUI and the lady he killed was from a very prominent family in the small town where this occurred. He is now doing 20 years with the possibility of parole in 10 years.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 6:03 am to BabyTac
Yep. Had a friend in college. The family of the victim didn’t want to see a “kid’s” life ruined. They forgave him and wanted to make sure he didn’t go to jail. He never drank again and is now doing just fine. This story has always touched me as it’s hard for me to comprehend what the victim’s family did. I don’t know if I could do the same.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 7:06 am to BabyTac
I actually know two people that were involved in fatal drunk driving accidents.
This post was edited on 1/28/20 at 7:08 am
Posted on 1/28/20 at 7:12 am to BabyTac
Yes.
Guy I went to school with. Multiple DUI's. He may have been to jail 3 times. The middle being the longest because it was due to an accident and fatality.
Guy is an alcoholic. Full blown. Believe he is currently sober, but he is just that guy. Two beers turns into a dozen and a blackout and more autopilot beers.
Guy I went to school with. Multiple DUI's. He may have been to jail 3 times. The middle being the longest because it was due to an accident and fatality.
Guy is an alcoholic. Full blown. Believe he is currently sober, but he is just that guy. Two beers turns into a dozen and a blackout and more autopilot beers.
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