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Eleven-year-olds die in snowy field after drinking binge
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| 3.2.04
Posted on 03/03/2004 1:54:32 AM PST by ambrose
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:58 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Two 11-year-old boys whose bodies were found in a snowy field on an American Indian reservation died after consuming massive amounts of liquor, the sheriff investigating the case said Tuesday. One boy had a blood-alcohol level more than six times the legal threshold for drunken driving.
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posted on
03/03/2004 1:54:33 AM PST
by
ambrose
To: ambrose
Choices
I've had choices
Since the day that I was born
There were voices
That told me right from wrong
If I had listened
No I wouldn't be here today
Living and dying
With the choices I made
I was tempted
By an early age I found
I liked drinkin'
Oh, and I never turned it down
There were loved ones
But I turned them all away
Now I'm living and dying
With the choices I made
I guess I'm payin'
For the things that I have done
If I could go back
Oh, Lord knows I'd run
But I'm still losin'
This game of life I play
Living and dying
With the choices I made
Living and dying
With the choices I made
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posted on
03/03/2004 2:05:13 AM PST
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: ambrose
This story doesn't do much to discredit stereotypes.
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posted on
03/03/2004 2:22:25 AM PST
by
Moonman62
To: Moonman62
Fire Water.
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posted on
03/03/2004 2:26:09 AM PST
by
ambrose
("John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands" - Lt. Col. Oliver North)
To: Moonman62
Stereotypes just don't happen. IMHO they are based mostly on truth, but carried over time to extreme, or too broad a brush, they give rise to the R word. The R word does not seek to solve the underlying problem, but only to mask it.
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posted on
03/03/2004 2:36:08 AM PST
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: Moonman62
This story doesn't do much to discredit stereotypes.
What stereotype? That Indians are avid whiskey drinkers? I've found that to be true. They also live in animal skin huts, smoke dope, fight one another with sticks and stones, and worship animals. It's tragic that these boys died, but being PC about Indians won't bring them back.
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posted on
03/03/2004 3:34:10 AM PST
by
Jaysun
(No matter how rich a man is, he can only drink 30-40 beers a day.)
To: zarf
Is that George Jones?
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posted on
03/03/2004 3:52:56 AM PST
by
Seth1
To: ambrose
"Somebody ... has to be held accountable for this," said Lake County Sheriff Bill Barron, clearly shaken by the deaths of Frankie Sonneah Nicolai and Justin Benoist on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana.
Somebody - like, the parents, do ya think??? Again, here we go into the victimology, blame game. Poor, poor, boys, they didn't deserve this, and so on. It takes heroic drinking, and knowledge of what to drink, to get to 0.5.
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posted on
03/03/2004 4:47:18 AM PST
by
astounded
To: astounded
You can't blame the parents - they're too poor. You need to blame someone with a lot of money so you can sue them. I think it's Jack Daniels whose at fault. Or maybe Jim Beam (Which one had the highest revenue last year?) Lawyers are probably descending on the reservation right now and lining up to take the case.
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posted on
03/03/2004 5:32:35 AM PST
by
mbynack
(<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: ambrose
Couldn't have happened.
It is illegal for anyone under 18-years old to consume or purchase alcohol. //sarcasm alert//
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posted on
03/03/2004 6:54:50 AM PST
by
Chewbacca
("Turn off your machines! Walk off your jobs! Power to the People!" - The Ice Pirates)
To: ambrose
Barron said it appeared both died late Friday or early Saturday, but had not been reported missing all weekend. The parents are to blame completely.
To: ambrose
I happen to live on this Rez and what's even more telling is that one of the boy's 14 year old brother died in a trailer fire last November after consuming alcohol.
To: mbynack
Nope, you can't blame the parents who were probably too stoned themselves to notice that their 11-year-old was missing for 3 days. But all cultures are equal...in fact, most of them superior to that evil white Christian culture.
To: Seth1
yeah
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posted on
03/03/2004 7:44:53 AM PST
by
zarf
(..where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment?)
To: ambrose
Somebody ... has to be held accountable for thisWow, that attitude scares me. Why isn't the initial response "The people responsible for this will be held accountable?"
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posted on
03/03/2004 7:47:52 AM PST
by
krb
(the statement on the other side of this tagline is false)
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