Posted on 01/01/2014 5:37:27 PM PST by MNDude
Hopefully she will find sense from this by becoming a strong advocate about the recklessness of binge and underage drinking.
A nineteen year old is not a little anything.
At nineteen I was more than halfway through my first enlistment.
She may be childish, but she is not a child.
No sale on perpetual adolescence, no matter how popular that goofy notion is with the immature.
Then you haven’t a shred of human decency. Stupid kids do stupid stuff. I have and so have my kids. Maybe you’ve walked around with a stick up your butt all your life, but normal people have not.
And what a HORRIBLE headline!
Everything about this is horrible. Not just the headline.
And every year many people of all ages who have themselves lost friends to inebriated stupidity go out and get themselves killed anyway.
She was an adult and is in every way responsible for what happened.
No sale on any victimhood angle.
No matter how much the concept of personal responsibility may be an anethama to you.
The whole thing may be sad but she brought it on herself.
Dittos to that! Anyone who was born and raised in an area with an extended, (say months at a time), length of VERY cold weather learns and is taught the basic SOP ‘tricks’ early on. Noobies had better learn fast or it it might be ice cube city for ‘em the first time they run into a problem. In the house, outside the house, when traveling in/by car or truck, there just are a lot of things to plan ahead for. Especially if contact with others for possible help is limited. As you said, nature has zero mercy.
There is a difference between a natural consequence and a punishment.
Unless I suppose you are an Obama, in which case even a baby is a punishment.
Too many Freepers are simply asses.
Thanks for that info. I guess the family must be okay with this even though I’ve read they switched their CB site to private.
You can say that again
OK. Too many Freepers are simply asses.
Well, if they did, I certainly wouldn’t blame them. I fully admit I don’t know how private CB sites work, I assume it’s like making your Facebook or Twitter private, but I don’t know. I do know Duluth stations have referenced the Caring Bridge site in their coverage.
I feel so sorry for this girl. I also cant help thinking that this is a perfect example of why you should never get so drunk or stoned that you cant take care of yourself.
Compassion is irrelevant.
Nature has no compassion.
A better course is to trumpet this for what it is - an unavoidable consequence for not recognizing the danger of alcohol in winter.
Sound it far and wide.
That might sink in to some people. And not just younger adults.
I’m not on FB or Twitter either, so I don’t know. I just read the feedback on City Pages about how they are appalled, even there, about the details of this unfortunate young woman’s journey.
I pray for grace for her. So sad. It could’ve been me back in the day and I really don’t like a lot of what I see on FR about this.
Prayers up for the young lady. And for the people who had to tell her.
Too many Freepers cling bitterly to the concept of personal responsibility.
I’m with you. Yes, she made a horrible mistake and yes the driver of the car she rode in will live with another mistake for the rest of his life. But mercy is never a bad thing to show to the penitent, and I have no doubt the young lady is very sorry for her actions.
Not to mature adults.
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