Posted on 12/13/2013 1:03:43 PM PST by 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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(Excerpt) Read more at cosmopolitan.com ...
It is a fool who thinks that laws will solve all the world’s problems.
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
There is room for both attitudes. Too many college students think that drinking themselves into oblivion is funm and the consequences for them now and in the future are dreadful. They are children in adult bodies. Perhaps there is plenty of blame to go around for their attitudes.
On the other hand, my heart goes out to this girl and her family. What a shame. I pray for her healing and that the publicity about this might give others pause before they go on that next binge.
That he did, and I passed those lessons on to my husband and my kids.
she deserves to be shamed. I hope she doesn’t do it again and loses her legs next.
Her friends deserve as much criticism, if not more, for not seeing that she got inside safely on a frigid night. At that age, over indulging can slip up suddenly on a young, inexperienced drinker, especially a female who might not weigh much.
I was always taught to never leave anyone at their door until I saw that they got the door open and safely inside. As I said earlier on this thread, I passed that lesson to my kids and my husband. I was amazed, however, when I had teens at the number of parent who would just drop my kid on the front walk without waiting to see if they got inside. Where are their manners and common sense?
She was wearing jeans, Ugg boots and a light sweater. The temperature went to 17 below zero.
She didn't pass out for nine hours. Nine hours includes time at the house next door and its garage, and she paced up and down the road, according to the footprints.
Eventually, she passed out.
I'm praying for her recovery. She's already endured enough to teach her a lesson about drinking.
I was. I grew up in the same town this young lady suffered this tragedy. I was a yute in the mid-60’s and drank plenty in the cold. One night I was out with the guys and got way too drunk while parked on a country road with a couple carloads of kids. They took off and left me alone and reasonably conscious. I had a little Brit sports car with a feeble heater and knew that if I went home in that condition I would be in deep trouble. I also knew that if I stayed in the car I would probably die from either freezing or CO2 poisoning. If I hadn’t decided to go home and face the folks I likely wouldnt be writing this tonight. The worst part of going home was not what my parents did to me, but what my being so drunk did to them. That’s why I stopped doing self-destructive stuff like that. Sorry for the long story. Don’t think I’ve ever shared that before.
Wait for the expected local chuckles...........
She is a college student, for God’s sake. And she acted accordingly.
People are responsible for their actions, but NO ONE should be smirking that she deserves to lose her limbs.
She did what millions of us have done in our youth: She made a bad decision. If she had got in a car drunk and run over a little kid I’d be the first to demand she be prosecuted and punished.
But I find it pretty creepy that there are people posting comments that almost sound gleeful that she may not only lose her limbs, but her life, as well.
She got drunk and got confused and paid the consequences. I pray she has a full recovery, and learns a lesson.
There's nothing new under the sun.
I don’t really give a hoot who thinks what about this girl. Whether she is immoral, a moron, had it coming or whatever.....is beyond the point.
That people would publicly delight in trashing this girl is beyond the pale.
This is a symptom of the huge lack of morality in this country.
What the hell ever happened to “Let he who hath no sin cast the first stone”
And so on.
So many freaking hypocrites.
Amen. What an awful way to learn the consequences of having too much to drink.
Today’s college kids are way too immature to be away from home.
I would suggest they all work for 5 years first, and then go off to college at age 22 or 23.
Libertarians may believe that, but I don’t.
Losing her limbs, limping for the rest of her life, being publicly humiliated are more than enough natural law. We should pray for her and hope that she perseveres and grows through this trial.
Who pays for paved parking lots, heated buildings, and roofs? Nothing’s free, it’s all figured in.
I am quite fastidious and sensitive. What are you talking about?
Yep, central planners are fools, egotistical, manipulative fools.
I never said anything specifically bad about her on this thread. I agree with you on that above. I never said to punish her. Go back and look.
Young people tend to be foolish and careless and it gets much worse with Alcohol. Its too natural.
I certainly was at 17 and 18 but by 19 or 20 I saw the light in comparision. By 30 I was completely different.
I just posted that her example is a reason to NOT change the law on drinking. That was my only point.
Yes, like making things up.
I am sorry that this drunken fool is incapable of understanding her part in her problems.
Nothing whatsoever in the article indicates in the slightest that she does not understand her part in what happened.
I got a bunch of responses at once and at least one of them was making the silly argument that this shows that there should be no age limit for drinking at all.
Then you pinged me about not punishing her and because I never posted anything about punishing her I connected you to another ping.
I agree 100% with you about praying for her and how she will suffer greatly for this mistake.
The internet is the wild wild West. But we should be civil here.
I guess this is a terrible lesson for all involved.
I can never condemn someone for drinking, Lord knows how much time and health I've wasted on the demon.
But I sure wish there was someone who could have helped this young woman.
As in making sure she got inside the house, etc.
No I will not mock her, because I've been so drunk out of my mind I'd probably have done the same or something similarly foolish in my youth.
Mockery isn't the problem. (The lack of) human compassion, love and common sense is.
Alcohol can rob an otherwise good person of all of these things in the heat of the moment.
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