Sometimes life just follows a dominoes effect of mishaps that can cause
a situation to go from bad to worse. Sometimes it's just dumb luck.
Sometimes it's just dumb choices.
Take,
for instance, the recent incident involving a 22-year-old Minnesota
woman who plays the starring role in this season's best example of why
it's just not a good idea to drive if you've been drinking. Oh, and why
it's also a bad idea to go drunk driving with passengers in the car.
Nor
is it such a good idea to take those passengers out on a freezing cold
December night, when driving safely is already a challenge for the
sober motorists.
Only
a few things could make this scenario any worse, or any more
entertaining for those of us who like to waggle the finger of shame as
the story progresses into comedy of "Three Stooges" proportions.
Add in a collision with a car. Make that A POLICE car.
Turn
it into a hit-and-run when the alcohol-impaired driver decides to drive
away from the accident scene. Punctuate it with a police pursuit and a
crash into a snowbank. Discover that the driver's license had already
been revoked, and then spice it up a little more when her passengers
attempt to RUN AWAY from the police.
Have I left anything out? I don't think so. Patrick J. Lyons summed it up quite well in his own humorous blog at The Lede,
where his comic assessment of the situation is pretty darn
entertaining. If you liked my summary, you will like his even more.
Don't bother reading the official report.
It's pretty stale.
Long
story short: Don't drive if you've been drinking. Long story short:
Don't drive if you've been drinking. And don't be dumb enough to run
away if you're caught.
By Brandy Schaffels
Contributing Editor
Creative Commons photo courtesy good_day via flickr.
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