Internet Shames College Girl Who Might Lose Limbs After Passing Out on a Minnesota Porch

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/victim-shaming-alyssa-jo-lommel ^

[MNDude]

Sad news broke earlier this week of a college student in Minnesota who may lose her limbs after spending the night on a porch in sub-zero temperatures. If there's one thing you can count on with a story like this, it's for anonymous Internet commenters to indulge in some nasty victim-shaming.

And while some folks offered support and good wishes, many others just couldn't help but get judgemental — shaming both Lommel and the friends who drove off without checking she'd got inside:

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[ifinnegan]

It’s all entertainment now.

[BenLurkin]

Post Clinton America.

[jayrunner]

Chicken Little sez: global warming!!!!!!!

[Nifster]

some things should bring shame and opprobrium…. I am sorry that this drunken fool is incapable of understanding her part in her problems. Had she been sober and locked out and unable to get in then I would be much more sympathetic. She chose the behavior now she doesn’t want the consequences

[sickoflibs]

Good reason for not lowering the age for alcohol.

[Rodamala]

I only read Cosmo in the checkout line to catch up on the 25 "secret" ways some twenty-something hipsterette in Sally Jesse Raphael glasses (without lenses) thinks I can be driven wild in bed with. Seriously, it seems they come up with 25 "different" ways every month and blab so on the cover to sell magazines to 17-25 year old girls.

I believe the only difference between each issue is that they put a different anorexia nervosa patient on the cover each month.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And as always there are people who are supremely unhelpful. Christ will tell them so, too.

[1010RD]

It’s the wages of sin, come to haunt a new generation ignorant of the diabolical one. It’s terrible what happened to this young lady and what crummy friends.

[R. Scott]

Underage drinking is already illegal. What difference would it make?

[1010RD]

If we were a land of liberty, parental discretion, religious teaching and moral training would avoid this. Laws don’t make a people moral, moral people don’t need a lot of laws.

She’s suffering the consequences of her actions. Isn’t that law enough?

[Travis McGee]

Heartless soulless bastards.

[TurboZamboni]

College kids doing what stupid college kids do.

Darwinian alcohol games in sub-zero weather usually end in death.

[TurboZamboni]

Prohibition came from a Minnesota Congressrat.

Don’t give them any ideas.

[Scrambler Bob]

“Underage drinking is already illegal.”

But Global Cooling is not — yet.

[Paine in the Neck]

She chose the behavior now she doesn’t want the consequences

Makes her perfect for one of those ObamaCare ads targeted at the moron youth.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Alyssa does not deserve condemnation and wrath — but her irresponsible friends do.

Prayers for Alyssa’s recovery.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”She’s suffering the consequences of her actions. Isn’t that law enough?”

Who pays for handicapped parking spaces and toilets?

Freedom is is only *free* when someone else has to pay for your mistakes.

Libertarians miss this completely.

[Fireone]

Well said! I agree 100%.

[sickoflibs]

I recall at 18 drinking outside in the cold with others, it was around freezing (water) but not that cold.

And I never passed out either, maybe threw up.