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To: SweetCaroline

Your daughter was killed by someone who was super drunk, not by someone who had two beers. It sounds as if you are associating those who have drunk responsibly (under the limit) with those who are far in excess of the limit.
Perhaps this illustration will help you understand what people are saying here:
While the police officer was fattening the public coffers by stopping every tenth car to see if someone might blow a sliver over 0.08, that roaring drunk who killed your daugher drove right by the pulled-over cruiser.
Instead of watching for obvious violaters, the cops are walking a narrow line along the Fourth Amendment and frequestly stepping over it, as they did when they twice pulled me over for non-working tail lights that seemed to have magically fixed themselves when I got out and said which one isn't working officer?
Basically, we're all getting the driving-while-black experience as a result of adding so many police officers over the last decade.


316 posted on 08/17/2005 9:12:02 AM PDT by jjmcgo
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To: jjmcgo
It sounds as if you are associating those who have drunk responsibly (under the limit) with those who are far in excess of the limit.

No I'm not, that is not why I posted on this thread, perhaps I did not word it right, it is not something easy to talk about, but, if it should help one person, it is worth it.

I am fully aware of what the police do, I've watched them wait outside the bars that I've worked at and I'm against it myself.

I've been a bartender most of my working life, I'm also an ex-Alcoholic. My posting was a warning, for people to monitor themselves. This young man didn't set out to kill my daughter, it was only to cash his check and have a few beers with his buddy's as he had for years.

As a bartender and a drunk, I know how easy it is to have one more. I know how friends will encourage someone to stay and have one more.

With this post I was hoping to let people understand the consequences of not following the warning bells in their head, to stop and leave. Sometimes lessons are better learned when those consequences effect someone they know.

317 posted on 08/17/2005 10:43:19 AM PDT by SweetCaroline (Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted!!)
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