oh you know somebody is gonna get sued...
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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He was a pretty hopeless case, but thank you
oh you know somebody is gonna get sued...
But don’t you think the consequences of a little stupidity are rather harsh and disproportionate to the stupid act, which I don’t dispute was stupid and irresponsible — but it’s sad that as a result of that her entire life is destroyed.
Let the person who has NEVER done anything stupid in their life throw the first stone.
There but for the grace of God go I, as they say...
You’re saying that kids with strict parents drink more?
It’s so sad because it was ENTIRELY avoidable.
That has been my observation.
/johnny
Here’s the story.
She was at a party. She was plastered. A guy who didn’t know her over heard some guys who were planning to take advantage of her state and rape her.
The guy who overheard this told her you have to get out of here. I’ll take you home. He drove her to the house she told him she lived in. It was a busy street with no parking. He let her off. She told him the wrong house.
Most mistakes in judgement are. But we humans keep making them.
All of us.
/johnny
You referred to my beliefs, of which you know nothing. You attacked me instead of my comment. Instead of making a point you got personal. I don’t see how you get “religion forum” from that.
A lot of law is stupid. That is true. The answer is not to ignore them like the government ignores the border. I do not feel sorry for those who break the law and suffer the consequences, but neither do I dislike them.
As for “sacred”... I do have a reply on that.
I do think getting kids high, drunk or molested is and always should be taboo. What of it? So I’m a luddite who thinks children should be protected from predators. I know, stuck in the past, right?
It could well have been naive ignorance. Those hooting at her would do well to watch their own behinds, because there is doubtless something stupid lurking in their own life which God can very easily turn into a petard upon which their pride will be hoist.
“Flog a mocker, and the simple will learn wisdom.” Frankly from the little shared here, she looks like one of the simple. But you hooting mockers, maybe your own flogging will be what other simple will learn from... not quite what you envisioned huh. (Still you will recognize God’s glory in it when it happens.)
Getting drunk in Minnesota winters is very dangerous. I’ve heard many stories of people dying drunk from the cold.
Agreed. Good point.
did she “go out and do it deliberately”?? according to some reports her “friends” dumped her off on the porch at her home...
my dad did a lot of things wrong but one thing he did very right was around the age of 14/15 he said, “if you want to smoke cigarettes- fine, but you’ll smoke them in front of me...if you want to drink fine- but you’ll drink in front of me”...
now- i never smoked cigarettes at any time in my life but my dad would give me a little bit of beer in a cup on occasion and I would drink it because i genuinely liked the taste of beer (Molsons- it stayed with me)...later in my teen years when i had friends getting piss drunk because drinking was such a no-no, and ending up on their parents front stoop passed out, i always felt, “drinking is no big deal- my dad let me share some beer with him”...
He is right in many cases. Plenty of kids exposed to responsible adults drinking responsible amounts don’t see the mystery and rebellion of booze. I know something about that growing up in the buckle of the bible belt. Saw a whole bunch of very sheltered kids go to college and go CRAZY with a new toy: Booze. Those who had a moderate and adult exposure with parents just didn’t get the novelty.
Well, it’s certainly a shame to see someone so young have to face this. She made a stupid mistake, but that’s all it was - a mistake. My thoughts and prayers go out to this girl.
At the same time, I hope one day she does understand that, as crazy it would sound to her now, she is fortunate. She is fortunate because she could have easily frozen to death in that setting, especially with what sounds like a rather substantial BAC (alcohol making hypothermia more likely in some cases). She is still alive, and still has a long life ahead of her. Her life will be different, no question. But I hope she will decide to make it a productive and happy one.
So if she stays there, she gets raped but doesn't lose limbs to freezing. She leaves, avoids the rape, and loses her limbs. That really sucks.
Thanks for the run down
read my post above yours at #53....affirms everything you posted...
Attacked? Personal? Touchy much?
When I was in college in Michigan, there were a lot of bad things that happened to snowmobilers heading home from the bar in frigid weather, also.
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