Three yahoos were drinking heavily at the beach pavilion Saturday afternoon and started harassing some of the families enjoying lunch at the beach. It got so bad that pavilion employees had to call the Sheriff. Two LEO's came to the pavilion and told these scum, who were blatantly drunk and disorderly, to move along or get arrested. Two of them stumbled away to the beach. The other started shouting obscenities at the cops and got arrested. His friends asked the cops when they could bail him out. They replied that it would take a couple of hours. At that point they walked to the parking lot, keys visibly in hand, got in their car and drove 90 mph (in a 40 mph zone) through a residential area. The driver was unable to negotiate a turn and hit a tree. The car caromed off the tree and hit Dr. Chen, who was walking her dog. She died instantly. She leaves behind three children.
I wrote our County Commissioners asking them to explain why the police would allow a group of flagrantly drunk yahoos, who were harassing innocent families, to go back to the beach where they could continue harassing people, while getting even drunker, instead of being arrested. Had they arrested them, for breaking the law, Donna Chen would still be alive. Shockingly, the commissioners do not see a problem with these fellows being allowed to continue their drunken abuse of other beach-goers and none of them realize that by condoning this kind of behavior, you will only get more of it. Drinking alcohol on the this particular beach is permitted and the weekends are filled with drunken behavior that makes it a challenge for families to enjoy the beach. There is rarely a police presence so the drunks rule with impunity.
One idiot commissioner said she's going to make sure the speed limit gets lowered from 40 mph to 35 mph. This is the kind of intelligence we're dealing with here. It's sad and tragic. If the Sheriff's deputies had enforce the law, and arrested the drunks for harassing people at the pavilion, this woman would still be with her family.
What a tragic and unnecessary tale. I hope the men get their heads handed to them, and I hope the Commissioners prohibit alcohol on the beach. I don’t know what else can be done. Three motherless children and a guardian-less pup because of this idiocy.
My heart is breaking reading this. Something told me she had to be a great person. (She had good taste in dogs for one thing)
Please let her family know that many people are thinking of them and I am very sorry that you lost a friend and good member of your community.
Her family must be devastated.
Also could you PLEASE give Barney a hug for me?
The drunk driver needs to ROT IN HELL. i am so very upset about this story—i wish there was something I could do.
That will do the trick. If they had had that law at the time of the crash, maybe the drunk would have been driving 85 instead of 90. Very sorry about your acquaintance? friend? Dr. Chen.