[sockmonkey]

It's amazing any of us survive the idiocies of youth.

That was my first thought.

[sandalwood]

I had a friend in high school who was home from college as a freshman and went out for a night of drinking with some friends. He decided to go "surfing" on the roof of the Jeep Cherokee, and when the driver (who was drunk) put the car into gear, he fell off the roof.

Hit the back of his head on the asphalt just so, and after laying brain dead in a hospital for three days, died.

Sad, sad, sad. Because in a few more years, these young adults would have been old enough to know better, but never got the chance.