DRINK DRIVER POST from MADD

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DRINK DRIVER POST from MADD

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I   went to a party,

   And  remembered what you said.
    You told  me not to  drink, Mum
    So I had a  sprite  instead.

    I   felt proud of myself,

    The  way you said  I would,
    That I  didn't drink and  drive,
    Though  some friends said I  should.

    I   made a healthy choice,

    And  your advice to me was right,
    The  party finally ended,
    And  the kids drove out of  sight.

    I   got into my car,

    Sure  to get home  in one piece,
    I never  knew what was  coming, Mum
    Something  I expected  least.

    Now   I'm lying on the pavement,

    And  I hear the  policeman say,
    The kid  that caused  this wreck was drunk,
    Mum, his voice seems far away.

    My   own blood's all around me,

    As  I try hard  not to cry.
    I can hear  the paramedic  say,
    This girl  is going to die.

    I'm sure the guy had no idea,

    While  he was  flying high,
    Because he  chose to drink and drive,
    Now I  would have to die.

    So why do people do it, Mum

    Knowing  that it  ruins lives?
    And now  the pain is  cutting me,
    Like a hundred  stabbing  knives.

    Someone  should  have  taught him,
    That  it's wrong to drink and drive.
    Maybe  if  his parents had,
    I'd still  be  alive.

    My   breath is getting shorter, Mum

    I'm  getting  really scared.
    These are  my final  moments,
    And I'm so  unprepared.

    I   wish that you could hold me Mum,

    As  I lie here  and die.
    I wish  that I could say, "I  love you, Mum!"
    So I love you  and  good-bye.

    MADD   (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers)

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Post by Aussie »

yea About that.....WTF?

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i got that in a e-mail like 5 months ago... and aussie you idiot, its a peom written by mothers who have lost there kids in Drink Driving crashes. Have some respect for once in your life...

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Post by ADF-Nobbie »

I guess you need to be touched by the death of someone close to understand it.

I couldn't imagine anything more tragic than losing your daughter, or son, to such a senseless and needless act.

Ask my daughter, she's nine, and she can say, without missing a beat "Drink and drive and your a bloody idiot". We consider "Bloody" as a swear word for her, but we let her say that without any reprisal. Don't drink and drive - Simple

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Post by Cecil »

I've had some close friends pass away in a car crash, not due to their driving, but to others being stupid on the road.

I strongly agree with Nobbies.

And my heart goes out to those who have lost family and or friends. :(

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[quote="ADF-Nobbie"]I guess you need to be touched by the death of someone close to understand it.

I couldn't imagine anything more tragic than losing your daughter, or son, to such a senseless and needless act.

i totally agree its so easy to catch a taxi,bus or just walk drink driving kills to many ppl already hopefully ppl might wake up to themselves!!!!
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Post by ADF-CaptCC »

Yeah..

i think we need to read this again...and in 6 months ..read it again ...

until we all dont allow Drink Driving..from us and from our friends...

Cause it could be one of your own ..soon enough...
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Cecil wrote:I've had some close friends pass away in a car crash, not due to their driving, but to others being stupid on the road.

I strongly agree with Nobbies.

And my heart goes out to those who have lost family and or friends. :(
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the penalties for drink drivers are just too lenient. Too often repeat offenders just keep going to court for DD and its not until they kill someone that anything is really done about it. More people die each year because of DUI than from people doing burnouts and such but someone doing a burn out more that twice gets their car confiscated and sold at auction with the money going to the state coffers. but someone caught DD gets a couple hundred $ fine and 6 months suspended licence TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME. punishments should fit the crime. DD should be the same as attempted murder, YOU made the choice to drink, YOU made the choice to drive so therefor YOU made the choice to attempt to kill anyone who may be in your way. repeated DD should recive jail time. It should be criminal law not trafic law.
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http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2 ... 16_eng.pdf

Edjamacte yourselves.

Poems are too cutsie... I respond better to cold hard statistics. Pages 24-27.

Interestingly, mass market media has only a negligable effect on changing sociatial behaviour. In fact, the adtertising campaign shown in this Who study actually ran over a period of INCREASED incidences of drink driving in New Zealand.

It is enforcement of existing rules and laws pertaining to drink driving which ultimately changes behaviour from all the evidence I have been exposed too. Bluntly, countries with weak, or poorly enforced social laws suffer the highest rates of drink driving.

You want to stop drink driving? Find out what the penalty for a first offence is here in Australia. It would make you vomit. It is barely registered as a crime IMO.

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As they say "Drink and drive and your a bloody idiot"
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