Whether you are reading this or sufing the web, whilst enjoying my banter when the clock clicks 15min past the time you started another person will be killed by a drunk driver somewhere in the US. Yeah, heavy stuff let me tell ya. I'm not a member of MADD or anything, but if you sit and think about it, it is an incredibly sad, and preventable statistic.
Why am I blogging about drunk driving you may ask? No I'm not in the Pokey for driving under the influence (yah they offered me a laptop to keep me occupied). Some of you may have been behind the wheel at a time or two when you shouldn't have been. Yeah, I've been there. I will admit it, and it isn't a very smart thing. Just saying, it isn't period.
The high schools around our area and I'm sure other areas of CA, and hopefully other states as well, trade off every year (right around Prom season) in doing a live scenario that is played out like an actual drunk driving crash has occurred. This time Great Oak HS had the honors.
Alex went to school this a.m. not really looking forward to it (she didn't want to be depressed all day) and I found out why this afternoon. Pretty much they close off the main road out in front of the school. They have paramedics, police, and air flight all involved with this. It is like an actual real crash has happened. Kids are dead on the scene, kids are screaming with fake blood and it is pretty much a disaster drill more or less for the medics, police and flight involved.
I knew about this part, but the kids that act in this don't go home tonite, they are put up in a hotel. They don't go home, because they are s'posed to be dead. When I heard that it gave me chills.
Tomorrow the parents will eulogize their son/daughter(s) in a memorial service that takes place on the football field. Personally, as a parent of 3 I'm not sure I could act my way through something like that, it will be tough not only for the parents (that are acting this out), but people that have been touched directly by losing someone in a drunk driving accident.
I'm sure alot of kids will be crying. Others will act tough and nonchalant about it all. Tho, I think the message does sink in. Personally I say kudos to this program and the time and effort that is put into something like this. Kids need to see, smell, feel things in order for the reality of a situation and the course of their actions or possible future actions to sink in. In my opinion we all do.
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