She looks entirely human to me.
We all make dumb mistakes.
Posted on 01/01/2014 5:37:27 PM PST by MNDude
Original post (December 30) -- Around 9:30 a.m. on December 7, University of Minnesota-Duluth student Alyssa Jo Lommel, 19, was found nearly frozen to death on a neighbor's porch. She'd apparently spent the entire night outside while temperatures dropped as low as 17 below zero.
THE BACKSTORY: UMD student Alyssa Jo Lommel tweeted about tequila shots before she was found freezing
More than three weeks later, Lommel remains hospitalized. Her condition has been upgraded to fair, but according to her family, doctors still haven't told her how bad her injuries are.
Her doctor "felt that today it would be good to just tell her about the amputations,"
The doctor "also told her how lucky she was just to be alive, but I really don't think any of that sunk in," Teri Lommel continued. "It took her several minutes before she looked at any of us. Then she started to slowly cry."
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Geron doesn’t like attractive women?
When my son was a Freshman in college, one of his room mates came home way way way over the limit. The other room mates just wanted to put him to bed. My son said they should call 911. The other roomies said that the drunk guy would be really pi$$ed if they did.
My son called 911. The room mate went to the hospital. The Dr. said he would have been dead in the morning due to alcohol poisoning had my son not called 911.
Proud Dad.
“A nineteen year old is not a little anything.
At nineteen I was more than halfway through my first enlistment”
What a stud. So what if you were soldier at 19? Wisdom eluded you if you cant find it in your heart to see call her “little”. A year ago she was in high school. The girl started to quietly cry when she found out she is losing both her hands. But you can’t see her as a little girl.
Big man./
“Is there ever a story about an attractive woman that you don’t condemn her?”
Bada bing*, True dat.
Maybe just let him be, God has a way of teaching us mercy.....if we can’t learn it easily then he will teach us the hard way.
I’d certainly hate to be made to pay forever for some of the stupid crap I did at nineteen.
Very sad. It’s a terrible shame that no one in that very populated place took her indoors.
Its the disassociation of the typed word. I am sure if he was a ICU nurse taking care of her daily, he wouldnt say such a thing. Reading words does not lend itself to empathy.
“I’d certainly hate to be made to pay forever for some of the stupid crap I did at nineteen.”
Isn’t that the truth. One of the things as a stupid kid (17 and 18) that I did was drink too much with my buddies while playing cards and smoking cigars. Then, with a beer in my hand and a blanket around me would go plunk myself down in a snowbank to have some alone time looking at the moon and stars before going back into bed.
I’ve often looked back on that ritual (often weekly) and thought how lucky I was that I didn’t end up like this gal, or worse.
Before I care, I wonder how she votes...
Conservatives like to say, "Liberals measure compassion by how many people are on the government dole. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people are off of it."
As a Christian, it saddens me that many Christians meet the stereotypical expectations of being self-righteous and unforgiving. As a conservative, I am ashamed to say that too many so-called conservatives seem to act exactly like the liberal caricatures, selfish and mean-spirited.
This young woman made a youthful mistake, and is now suffering a great deal for it. Anyone who mocks such a person is, in my opinion, an ass.
My two cents.
In the early eighties at Camp Lejeune there were a whole lot of drunk driving deaths.
They listed them in the little base paper.
They announced them at morning formation.
Classes were held.
Entire units were sent to memorial services.
Liberty was withheld.
Nothing made much impact.
Until:
They built a big platform along the road to the main gate.
Backed by a huge billboard.
Every time any of the troops died, what was left of the vehicle was put up on the platform and the names were posted on the billboard.
That made an impact.
Sometimes warm fuzzy fealings perpetuate the problem.
There are times when matter of fact honesty is called for.
Winter in the north and twisty narrow roads are two of those times.
Time to grow up and recognize where you are now.
Unforgiving?
I have never demanded she be punished for anything.
I have simply held that she herself, not anyone else, is fully responsible for her loss.
Look back a few posts before this one.
You will find someone opining how sad it is that nobody took her in in that populated place.
Well, it is winter, it was dark, I doubt if anyone not outside could hear her...and if it were me I would have been in bed already.
The neighbors don’t get a share of the responsibility for this.
Not any share.
None.
And that is why I posted the obvious.
I have nerve damage from a wisdom tooth extraction back in 2010
The military had told me it was a possibility due to the size of the root years ago.
I didn’t sue the dentist.
The report said Lommel, a UMD student, was out with friends the night before and told three men she wanted to be home around midnight. The three men picked her up from a house party between 11:30 p.m. and 11:45 p.m. and dropped her off at her house, but left before they could see her enter the house. One of the men told police she had been drinking, but she hadn’t been drinking any more than usual and she didn’t show signs of intoxication. Her friends told police she “wasn’t falling down drunk.”
In the report, police were able to track a tweet Lommel put on Twitter earlier that day, around 2:30 p.m. which stated, “Yum Yum 10th shot of tequila.” Earlier that night, the report said Lommel and her friends were picked up and taken to a nearby house to play drinking games.
Lommel’s roommates told police she told them that she was having some “boy troubles” and was “going to get very drunk that night,” according to the report.
The police report indicates Lommel had been drinking for about six hours before she was dropped off.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/12/11/police-college-student-found-on-porch-had-been-drinking/
She looks entirely human to me.
We all make dumb mistakes.
Thank you Timmy, your words make more sense than 50% of the comments on this thread. I am sickened that there are such asinine comments here and such a sad reflection of ignorance.
As we all know, there are extremes on both ends of the political landscape, and it makes me cringe to see such blatant evidence of how libs label conservatives, reflected in these idiotic comments.
From what I have observed it is kids that are reared in an environment that are not taught to respect alcohol and have no concept of its danger other than its not allowed. When these kids finally get away from the home they abuse it not knowing or respecting what negative impact it may have. The two kids I knew that died of alcohol poisoning came from strict religious backgrounds where alcohol was not allowed in the home. When these two got away their first year in college they abused alcohol and died. Both were in the first month of the college freshman year. Strict parents were part of the equation but the major factor was the lack of education and respect for alcohol that was not conveyed in the home.
<One feels immortal at 19 years. It is only by luck and the grace of heaven that I didn’t suffer any serious consequences.
Amen. Still, when will these college kids, especially the new ones, learn to limit or stop their drinking? Every year something like this happens. I’ve personally gone to school or worked at colleges where drunk students have fallen out of windows, off of roofs, hit by cars, had alcohol poisoning, etc.
Take me back to the old days of hanging out in the dorm with a joint and some Led Zeppelin.
Funny, but I’ve observed just the opposite. The only person I have known personally with alcohol poisoning was my best friend in high school whose parents were social drinkers and took the better for me to introduce my kid to alcohol approach. What started with sharing a little schnapps with her at 14 ended with her lying in an ER getting her stomach pumped at 17.
I came from a strict teetotaling family and never felt the need to experiment with alcohol. Most of my other friends were the same. I saw all around me the effects of it on other kids and made the decision that was not for me.
Personal responsibility goes a long way toward avoiding bad outcomes.
Asked a serious question, you make a pointless gibe?
I think you need to watch yourself to see if you have a place in your own life where you’re giving in to some parallel vice.
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