Thank you for visiting my site and helping me with my
fight against alcohol. I would like
to receive emails on any comments on the information found
on this site or share any personal opinions or stories
that could post of the site. You can email me at
Lash5@aol.com. Throughout my
20some years of living, I have seen many people's lives
changed forever as a result of alcohol. I would like to
take the time to share some of these
stories.
One of my good friend's sister
has been a quadriplegic for 27 years since the age of
18 months. Why? Because a drunk driver hit her
grandparents' car and caused these injuries. She can not
move or speak at all. The only thing she can do is
blink. All becaue of alcohol this girl never had a chance at
life and worse of all my friend had no sister and has had to live
with nurses at her house 24/7 taking care of her
sister for the 21 years of her life. It isn't
fair for what this guy did to this girl and the entire
family. It changed their lives forever.
Two years ago, someone I know was on his
computer in his living room. He went to bed at about 12:45
a.m.. At around 1:00 a.m., a car carshed through his living
room wall right where he has been sitting some 10-15 minutes
earlier. I girl who had been drinking lost control of her car
while making a turn went through this guy's lawn, through bushes and
through the living room wall into the house. If this occurred
just 15 minutes earlier, this guy I know would have been killed for
sure.
About five years ago, my friend
and I were at a local White Hen picking up something to
drink after we had played basketball. As we were leaving the
store, a guy got out of his car and asked my friend what he was
looking at and then punched him in the face. My friend smelled
a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and luckily got away
and I called the police. The guy was arrested but in
court it was our word vs. his and there we no witnesses so they let
him go. What a joke that was. All the police had to
do is take a breathalizer test on him but they didn't and another
guy got away.
I had a best friend for 17 years that lived next
door to me since we were 1 years old. He started to drink when
he got into college and his life went downhil from there. I
stopped being friends with him when I found out he started to
drink. He failed out of college and was arrested several times
for public intoxicated and possession of marijuana. The worst
though is when he was put in jail for when he was intoxicated and
smashed all the windows and lights on a car and caused $5,000 worth
of damage. He also was intoxicated and jumped of a 2nd story
balcony and landed on a metal fence and broke his back. He
also tried to jump over a parking meter when he was intoxicated and
tore his ACL and had to have surgery and was in a wheel chair for 3
months and crutches for a year and the doctors said he will walk
with a limp for the rest of his life. All this because of
alcohol.
A person I work with was driving in Chicago when
they were passing through an intersection with a light that had been
green for some 20 seconds when a guy ran the red light to the left
of him at some 60 mph and slammed into his van. Of
course this driver was intoxicated. The van
was totaled and the police said his whole family of 6 in the
van would have been killed in a normal car. His daughter was
severly injured and suffered a severe back injury that required 5
years of therapy and it still hurts her to this day. His
soon suffered a head injury, which has inhibited his speaking
abilities and has to see a speech therapist 3 days a week to
help him catch up to the other kids in his grade. Again all
because of alcohol and the intoxicated driver failed to show up
on the court date and is believed to have fled the country.
Nice huh?
Another friend of mine was the first car
stopped at a red light and a car approaching them from
behind was bouncing back and forth from the curb to the median
because he was intoxicated. He came from the median back
across to the curb and slammed into the side of their car. He
continued through the red light and kept going. The police
finally got him and arrested him. My friend said if he would
have hit them from behind he would have pushed them into the
intercection where they probably would have been hit by cross
traffic at 50 mph and killed. Again all because of
alcohol. Also this guy skipped town and was never
found.
These are just the
stories that I have seen first hand that have effected many of the
people in my life. Fortunately for me none of them have been
killed but I fear it is just a matter of time before it
happens. That is why I will fight till my death to see
this poison banned and society become a better place. I would
like to receive emails on any comments on the information
found on this site or share any personal opinions or stories
that could post of the site. You can email me at
Lash5@aol.com.
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