Chevy Spark
Barely fit to be a roller skate (but NOT saying it's Chevy's fault).
RIP, poor children.
Let’s all chant in a libertarian singsong voice:
But MarIjuANA is a victimless crime!
Pot isn’t dangerous, unlike alcohol..............
Bummer dude.
An inexperienced driver violating the terms of her license, loading six people in a tiny four-seater and driving while possibly impaired. What could go wrong? I guess she found out.
I notice that weed-legal Illinois, which has marijuana dispenery billboards along the expressways, is starting warn drivers against driving under the influence of pot.
A high 16 yr old girl probably completely spaced out on the new superweed driving with 5 other 16yr old girls crammed into a TINY car...
ugh
While pot may or may not be a gateway drug...it’s definitely not an intersection drug.
9 out of 10 says she was on her cell phone. I just passed a group of teens (real teens, not the ferals) on the highway on their fricking phones.
Hold my roach and watch this ...
I grieve for the victims and their families. I truly hope that their school friends will take the needed lessons to heart from this tragedy! That being said, let us remind ourselves of WHY such tragedies are visited upon youths and young adults like these.
This derives from a failure of prudence when prudence is not bolstered by experience and guidance. At that age, it is obvious and expected that there cannot be sufficient experience so there must be teaching and rules and repetition because youth resists and resents that which they have not experienced. In this case the guidance failed and these young lives were lost for it.
God Bless!
16, NOT fully licensed, 6 in a car for 4, seat belts optional, high? (at minimum a pot user), deathtrap car, being allowed (parents) to take $hitbox to school (maybe even bought her the car).....
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
I suspect four were in the back seat, which had two seatbelts, and couldn’t be worn.
Can you imagine the guilt if one of the girls had said no, the car is overloaded and not gone?
You can pop positive for weed for numerous weeks.
6 teenage girls sounds more like not paying attention to me.
Of course IâÂÂll be Cheech or Chong hereâ¦
RIP to the young ladies.
In vino veritas. I always believed that drugs/alcohol amplify a person’s true personality.
If he is gentle by nature, he will become more gentle and caring. If he is stubborn or angry by nature, he will become more hostile and aggressive. If he is pessimistic by nature, he will become despondent and possibly suicidal.
She got five teenagers in a Chevy Spark?
Let’s see . . . smoking cigarettes is downright evil, and smoking menthol cigarettes is even eviler . . . but smoking pot is just ducky!
Barely fit to be a roller skate (but NOT saying it's Chevy's fault).
RIP, poor children.
I would also point out that driving while extremely short on sleep, is every bit as dangerous as driving drunk (thank you, Mythbusters). I would further point out that drunk people are far more aggressive and out of control than any stoned person I’ve ever seen. I have witnessed, firsthand, two different people break their hands punching a wall when they were drunk. I have witnessed, firsthand, people destroying their own property (TVs, fragile items, etc.) when they were drunk. I have witnessed, firsthand, drunk people get into brawls over nothing. I have been around lots of people, drunk, and lots of people high, and I have NEVER seen someone who was high on marijuana do any of the things I’ve seen drunk people do.
I am not defending driving while high, but you’re never going to convince me that marijuana is worse than alcohol, or that marijuana is a “gateway” drug to harder stuff. I have had almost 40 years of seeing the effects of both on people, and there is absolutely no question that alcohol is far more dangerous. I also do not know anyone personally, who went from marijuana to harder drugs like meth, heroin, etc. Is that the progression for some people? Of course, but as others have noted, there’s no such thing as a “gateway” drug. If you have a certain mindset, a certain personality, a certain pre-disposition, then ANYTHING is a “gateway“ drug. Nicotine->alcohol->marijuana (or maybe meth, opioids, whatever). The substance isn’t the issue, the person is. This is no different than the gun control argument: you try to deny EVERYONE a gun, because SOME people are lunatics or imbeciles.
Now, before the puritans around here get their panties in a wad, I am not saying that use of marijuana is without consequences. What I am saying is that, if you’re going to crusade against marijuana, you might as well put on your “I’m with Carrie Nation” t-shirt, and go after alcohol as well.
I think the biggest problem here was a teenage driver with four other teenagers in the car whooping it up.
I want pot banned completely - by the states. But it’s not apparent that marijuana in this driver’s system had any bearing on the accident.
That said, jurisdictions which legalize recreational pot have seen significant increases in auto accidents.