Alcoholics are God's Rodeo Clowns- poor me... poor me... pour me another drink.... u will do shit that even the devil goes... DUDE!
The Serenity Prayer
Path God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
Robin Williams on Alcoholics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLtPp_xIpC4
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BLOGS-
ON DRINKING-DRUGGING AND KILLIN ON THE ROAD-
CATCHING MONSTERS
1. best news-
get it out there
JUSTICE 4 REHTAEH- JUSTICE 4 REHTAEH- JUSTICE 4 REHTAEH
Teen
charged in Rehtaeh Parsons case arrested again
November
22, 2013 - 4:54pm By STEVE BRUCE COURT REPORTER
Justin Trudeau- loves China best- now wants our kids 2 smoke and smoke dope????
Trudeau campaigns on pro-weed while speaking to school kids- oh sheeeet- smoking 3 kids Justin???
2.
PM CONTENDER- TELLS KIDS... IT'S OK... 2 SMOKE.... AND OK... 2 SMOKE FU**KING
WEED???
Photo:
Winnipeg resident challenges Trudeau on talking to school kids about legalizing
weed
November
14, 2013 — BC Blue
Trudeau
campaigns on pro-weed while speaking to school kids
November
13, 2013 —
So
Justin Trudeau spent the day talking to school kids in Manitoba. That’s nice.
What was he talking to the CHILDREN about? Legalizing Drugs! No for real! He
got a large round of applause from the kids too. And the applause is supposed
to mean something right? Because school age children have so much life
experience making good choices with illegal drugs don’t they? Does anyone see a
problem with a man who wants to be PRIME MINISTER of this country talking to
your kids about drugs aren’t so bad, we want to make it your choice. BEST PART-
Justin is the Liberal party’s leader. The Liberal party’s chief financial
officer is Chuck Rifici. Guess what company Chuck owns? Tweed! A company
applying to grow medical marijuana—when the law is changed by his best buddy
Justin’s policy—they would be a legal pot growing corporation that would make
billions off of this generation of kids Justin was talking to today. Do you
want this guy talking to your kids?
TORONTO MAYOR FORD- DRUNK DRIVING????- WTF???
3. the TO-
FORD MESS- WITH BOOZE- DRINKING AND DRIVING....
Rob Ford Mayor Toronto admits 2 drunk driving?????
Toronto
mayor’s attitude on booze upsets South Shore Health CEO
BEVERLEY
WARE SOUTH SHORE BUREAU
bware@herald.ca
@CH-Warewithall BRIDGEWATER — Dr. Peter Vaughan says he’s distressed no one
seems to be taking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to task for using alcohol abuse as an
excuse for his actions.
The
CEO of South Shore Health said he’s concerned about the lack of discussion
about the fact the mayor’s actions seems to be “normalizing the misuse of
alcohol and drinking and driving ."
“We
need to have a clear statement," Vaughan said Thursday. “Even if it’s a
small health authority like South Shore, someone has to stand up and say,
‘Wait a minute. Alcohol has serious problems.’ " Vaughan made the
comments after South Shore Health’s board of directors approved a position
statement on alcohol. He said its intent is to generate discussion on the
harmful effects of alcohol.
“Let’s
have a frank conversation about the dark side of alcohol," the physician
said. “Let’s seriously have a sit-down and talk about our collective societal
alcohol problem. Not talking about it is part of the problem."
He
said 230 deaths in Nova Scotia each year are attributed to alcohol.
Bridgewater
was one of three Nova Scotia towns to volunteer to go under the microscope for
a report released two years ago called the Municipal Alcohol Project.
“To
put it simply, Nova Scotia has a drinking problem and if the trends continue,
it’s only going to get worse," the report said.
The
project reported the key concerns in Bridgewater at the time were youth
drinking and the effect drinking in the family has upon children.
Health-care
workers in the Bridgewater area said alcohol is putting a strain on the system,
with everything from acute alcohol poisoning to falls, suicides and accidental
deaths.
Todd
Leader, director of community health s ervices for S outh Shore Health, said
treating alcohol abuse takes up more than 42,000 hospital days a year.
The
statement adopted Thursday says South Shore Health supports a government
monopoly on alcohol sales, higher prices for products with higher alcohol
content and restricting advertising of alcohol in places where young people
play and learn. It also supports a ban on accepting financial aid or materials
from the alcohol industry and a restriction on sponsorship of South Shore
Health events or equipment by the alcohol industry.
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CANADA- CAPE BRETON REGIONAL POLICE
CREATED THIS SAFE GRAD- VIDEO- TEARS AND PRAYERS...TEARS AND PRAYERS- we love
our grads- love u so much-pls don`t drink n drive
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ONE
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CREATED THIS SAFE GRAD- VIDEO- TEARS AND PRAYERS...TEARS AND PRAYERS- we love
our grads- love u so much-pls don`t drink n drive
PLEASE
DON'T DRINK/DRUG AND DRIVE- WE LOVE U SO
MUCH... SO MUCH- U MATTER
U
know when MADD- Mom's against Drunk Driving - started up... and there was a lot
of us... we even had crosses all along the highway- in 1965 seven of us were hit by a drunk
driver - had over 70 surgeries.... it took 3 more drunk accidents to get him
off the road...
drunk/drugged
driving kills and maims and destroys so many.... this is such a heartbrake and
so necessary- IT'S GRADUATION TIME STUDENTS-
please don't drive if u drink/drug
JUST
ONE
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COMMENT:
What
an amazing job!! Talk about setting the bar high for everyone else! It's really
hard to imagine this video was made by high school kids - it's wonderful to
know these are the kind of people who will one day be leading our country!
Published
on Jun 19, 2013
Riverview
High School's version of Lisa Shaffer's 2006 hit JUST ONE - spreading the word
that drinking and driving don't mix
2post
Native
Spirits Tribal Community-thx brothers and sisters 4 the share
PHOTO
TWO
WOLVES-CHEROKEE- IDLE NO MORE CANADA- USA-MEXICO-AUSSIES, KIWIS
Billy
Currington's friend....Gary Allen... one of thesaddest song... about youth...
drinking/drugging and driving....PLEASE DON'T DRINK/DRUG AND DRIVE... please
Gary
Allan - Don't Tell Mama I Was Drinking
Entity:
UMG Content Type: Sound Recording ( NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGMENT INTINDED ) A very
sad but o so real song !! How many lives have been lost due to drunk driving??
The last picture tell the story "IT'S NOT WORTH IT " so please don't
drink and drive
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Billy
Currington's life... and his country music debut "Walk A little Straighter
Daddy..... says more about it all... and touched children and youngbloods from
ANON etc. than any song or video... it's
the truth music... raw... real and righteous... and billy currington nails
it.... with a song... he started writing this song that stole our hearts....
and broke them... at 12 years of age...
Boy
have I been there.... on both sides of the table.... this simple stunning song
and that 'voice'... and that billy currington with the southern soul that only
can be born to you.... Georgia's backwoods country boy.... told it like it
is.... for all the youngbloods.... who know real and raw... and the truth
song.... Billy Currington will always have tarnished angels like him.... for
fans..... because we walked.... his talk.... and lived to tell the tale....
Billy
Currington- WALK A LITTLE STRAIGHTER DADDY
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CLASSIFIED
TEACHES US ALL A LESSON WITH THIS INCREDIBLE SONG..... OF THE FACT.... THAT
LIFE WORKS .... IF U WORK IT....and all the bullshit and beans that get dumped
on u.... raise up baby...... you can overcome and empower yourself ....oh yes u
can....Classified carved these words in stone on the hearts of us all .... who
have lived this shitty cruel life... and actually survived broken angel wings and all....
...BY
THE BY... our David Myles.... Canada's Lyle Lovett and Buddy Holly ....also
wrapped up in Canada's Flag joins Classified...proving that a brilliant song
and brilliant voices... and imagination.....can truly inspire.... DON'T U EVER
GIVE UP..
(cried- seen it...and lived it)....
Classified
- The Day Doesn't Die
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AND
THOSE SUFFERING FROM ABUSIVE PARENTS ESPECIALLY.... DRINKING AND DRUGGING
ABUSE...... PLEASE KNOW WE LOVE U SO MUCH....and walked this talk like so many
of billy currington's tarnished angels...... thinking if we were just a little
more perfect.... the adults who own us.... would perhaps love us just a little
better.... and protect us from mind rape deliberate cruelty, physical
torture.... and sexual abuse....... because children and youth are truly God's
innocents here on earth.....
TARNISHED
ANGELS OF BROKEN YOUTH... are nev-a going to be perfect- but we're better than our parents and
caregivers were... and their's before them....
break the chain of abuse- ONE BILLION RISING..
For
each an every youngblood.... please know millions and millions of us love and
support you.... you are NOT throwaway
toys or trashdrops.... each and every one of you is a treasure as individual
and as beautiful as a raindrop with the sun sparkling on it so beautifuly it
takes our breath away...... each and every one of you are 'would be' artists,
musicians, poets, scientists, inventors, spiritual guiders, history and keepers
of the written word... so many things... all things... and we love you...
admire you.... please don't give up on us.... we need you terribly. Thank you Jimmy Wayne.... and all your
friends along the way..... lonliness
and hoplessness and despair knows no race, colour, creed or orientiation...
it's just a soul stealer..... let's take back our world ... and our beautiful
youngbloods.... each and every one...
IT'S
NOT WHERE YOU'VE BEEN- IT'S WHERE YOU'RE GOING
Knixcountry.com
Supports Jimmy Wayne
Jimmy
Wayne.mov (Please help homeless kids
and youngbloods- USA 1.7 Million 2010 (much higher/Canada hundreds of thousands
and so on)
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Taps
out to Classified 4 the homeless and young Canadian artists choosing such
wonderful organizations to support- the poor, disabled, homeless ... real
people
Canada's
Top Music Talent Helps Pepsi Refresh The World
Hedley,
Johnny Reid, Jully Black, Classified, the Trews, Billy Talent and Stereos have
more in common than music: they believe in doing good
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SOMETIMES-
CLEAN AND SOBER- YA JUST HAVE TO MOVE
ON...
Sometimes
the only way to be free of the drugs/drunks is to move on..... And
unfortunately..... the Christmas season and Graduations r the hardest for so
many
"I'm
Movin' On" - Rascal Flatts Official Music Video- RASCAL FLATTS
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DRUNK
DRIVER MURDER CANADIANS- NIGHT BEFORE- MOURNING AFTER- no more excuses- no more abuses- u murder and
maim our children, families and destroy more lives than guns
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Loaded
on the road
Lucky
to have dodged dr unk-driving bullet
MICHAEL
LIGHTSTONE
Editor’s
Note
Michael
Lightstone is a staff repor ter for The Chronicle Herald.
I’m
not a big drinker. But once, decades ago, I wasdrunk behind the wheel of my car
and I have been a passenger in vehicles operated by intoxicated drivers.
A
former co-worker — a nice, decent guy — died in a highway crash many years ago
in another province as a result of a drunkdriving disaster o f his own doing
that occurred after a party.
I’ve
also had two dangerously close calls on the road involving impaired drivers
heading in my direction .
One
scary experience happened on Highway 103, outside Halifax, during a sunny
summer afternoon. My wife and I were driving to Lunenburg to spend the night
while our small children were b eing minded by a friend.
It
was the early 1990s, and it was the first time we’d seized the opportunity for
an overnight parental break.
The
drive was easy and lovely. Suddenly, things changed.
A
man driving a car on the opposite side of the highway, a single lane in each
direction, pulled out to pass a vehicle reasonably far from our car. He was
travelling downhill; I was about to drive up the hill.
Past
the time when almost all drivers would have shifted back into the proper lane
after successfully passing a vehicle, this car remained on our side of the
road. “He’s not going to move over," I thought, “and his car is getting
awfully close to smashing into ours."
Luckily,
the menacing motorist was not going too fast and managed to keep his vehicle
in a straight line.
I
pulled over to the shoulder of the road, which was narrow and bordered by a
guardrail, and came to a near-stop while the other car kept travelling toward
the city on the wrong side of the road.
A
phone call later to the RCMP provided us with this sigh-of-relief outcome: The
other driver was drunk, and s o on after our encounter, rolled his car off the
highway. Police said he survived the crash, and no one else who faced him on
the road that day was hurt.
And
— my wife felt like telling the officer — our kids weren’t or phaned.
So,
like many average Canadians who have dodged bullets fired by alcohol-fuelled
drivers, I’m lucky that I wasn’t hurt (when I was young and stupid and taking
risks) or killed — or that I didn’t injure someone else, or cause their totally
avoidable death.
Others
have not been so fortunate.
According
to Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada, about 2,541 people were killed in road
crashes in 2010 in this country. Of those, MADD “estimates that at a minimum
1,082 . . . were impairment- related" fatalities, the organization’s
website says. It says this figure is conservative due to under-reporting.
In
2010, about 63,821 people were hurt in Canada in crashes involving impaired
vehicle operators, MADD’s website adds.
Behind
these faceless statistics, of course, are victims, their relatives, friends,
co-workers and others affected by alcohol- or drug-related crashes.
Lots
of the deceased or injured may have been like me: first-time impaired drivers
who acted irresponsibly, recklessly and treacherously. Many others were
perhaps addicted to alcohol.
Then
there are the innocent victims — men, women and children killed or hurt in
crashes caused by intoxicated drivers. The human cost is sad and appalling; the
social cost is just mind-boggling .
MADD
says that in Canada in 2010, impairment-related road crashes causing deaths,
injuries and property damage cost around $20.6 billion, “using a social cost
model" prepared by the federal government.
In
Nova Scotia, the annual health, social and economic costs of harmful alcohol
use to citizens amounted to $419 million, said a provincial government report
six years ago tied to a responsibledrinking plan the province rolled out .
The
plan was unveiled in 2007 at a medical centre in the Halifax region.
Health-care workers heard one in five Nova Scotians who drink booze do so in a
way that harm fu lly affects their own health and well-being.
They
heard harmful liquor use accounts for an average of 230 deaths per year, 3,100
hospital admissions and 42,000 hospital days. As well, heavy drinking is
associated with ill health from chronic diseases.
Now,
here we are 72 months after the government announced its strategy to combat the
harmful effects o f excessive drinking in Nova Scotia. Has the culture of
accepting the misuse of liquor been replaced by one of safe, health-conscious
consumption with reasonable limits?
Nope.
Not even close.
Are
p eople still drinking and driving, killing themselves and/or others by doing
so? The answer’s obvious.
Ask
police officers, paramedics, firefighters, MADD officials and medical personnel
in the province’s emergency rooms. Ask family members of the dead and the
survivors of drunk-driving crashes.
Unfortunately,
our road casualties are a symptom of a deeper malaise in Canada’s Ocean Playground.
“Alcohol
intoxication, risktaking, binge-drinking, under-age drinking are all
apparently a rite of passage in Nova Scotia. It is part of our heritage,"
John Ross, an emergency department physician in Halifax, said in a pointed
commentary published July 27 in The Chronicle Herald Weekend.
I
was a dumb and fo olhardy 23-year-old, back in 1979, when I drove home alone,
at night, impaired by too much beer.
It’s
a sobering life lesson I had the good fortune to learn outside of a trauma unit
or a pine box.
PHOTO
An
RCMP constable performs a breathalyzer test on a motorist during a roadside
check in Surrey, B.C., in 2010. DARRYL DYCK • CP
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Why
wld M.A.D.D. even consider taking part in any discussion about distribution of
liquour???? seriously??? a drunk driver severly injured 7 of us back in 1965
and lived 2 hurt more people in subsequent road drunk kills- be4 he wiped
himself out- God was waiting on that one.... seriously???
NOVA
SCOTIA MADD: NS Tories misrepresenting its views
Suggestion
that group backs corner store booze sales ‘dirty politics’
MICHAEL
MacDONALD THE CANADIAN PRESS
The
CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving says Nova Scotia’s opposition Progressive
Conservatives have engaged in “dirty politics" by suggesting the group
supports the party’s proposal to introduce the sale of beer and wine in
corner stores.
Andrew
Murie says a Tory discussion paper released in May includes references to MADD
Canada that leave the impression the national charitable group isn’t opposed to
the idea even though the opposite is true.
“It
gave the impression we were supportive of this," Murie said in an
interview. “It’s dirty politics, let’s be honest."
Murie
said he was stunned when he read the document because his group made a
presentation to Baillie in February that included the group’s position on
corner stores and grocery stores.
“I
was very disapp ointed and I told them that," Murie says, referring to a
subs equ ent call he made to the par ty.
The
discussion paper includes a paragraph explaining that MADD believes that
provincial liquor boards do a good job controlling liqu or prices and
accessibility, and there’s a list of alcohol-related measures the group
endorses.
The
list inclu des allowing alcohol in age-restricted theatres, re-corking of wine
purchased in restaurants and permitting patrons to bring their own wine to
restaurants. A final point makes a vague reference to a “grocery store
model."
Murie
says that point is misleading because the group, in its presentation to the
party, was specifically referring to allowing the sale of alcohol inside
grocery stores through government-run kiosks.
The
paper does not include any mention of MADD’s opposition to the private sale of
beer and wine in corner stores and grocery stores, which is the focus of the
discussion paper.
MADD’s
denunciation of the proposal comes at an awkward time for Conservative Leader
Jamie Baillie, whose party is gearing up for a provincial election. A vote
must be held before June 2014.
Baillie
says he understood that MADD wasn’t opposed to corner store sales so long as
the party introduced other measures to impose strict controls.
“They
made a presentation to us, which we quoted directly from," Baillie said in
an interview. “We weren’t putting any words in their mouth ."
When
asked if the party would change the discussion paper to reflect MADD’s position,
Baillie said: “If their position is different, then I respect it. I’m not going
to argue with them about it. … If that was an error on our part, then of course
we’ll correct it."
Baillie
says allowing the sale of b eer and wine in corner stores and grocery stores —
without oversight from Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. employees — would be good for
struggling rural stores.
“Where
this has been done, rural jobs have been saved and new jobs have been
created," he says. “It doesn’t cost a cent to implement ."
He
says expanding the number of government-run stores isn’t the answer because the
publicly owned liquor corporation can’t control its costs, adding that Nova
Scotia Liquor’s operating expenses have doubled in the past decade while its
volume o f sales has increased only 11 per cent.
Baillie
also rejects the argument that allowing more privately run stores to sell beer
and wine will result in less oversight of alcohol sales to minors and drunk
drivers.
“I
don’t buy that," he says. “I exp ect our corner stores and grocery stores
to respect the liquor laws of the province."
Murie
says that’s wishful thinking .
“Who
works at convenience stores? Nineteen and 20-year-olds," he says. “They
want their friends to get access to alcohol. (The store owners’) motive is
profit, not public safety."
Murie
also says liquor prices would rise in a more privatized system .
“S
ome o f the highest prices in Canada are in Alberta under a privatized
system," he says.
Finance
Minister Maureen MacDonald has said the NDP government isn’t interested in
Baillie’s plan.
MacDonald
says access to alcohol isn’t a problem in Nova Scotia, where there are about
50 privately run agency stores in remote parts of the province that aren’t
served by a government outlet.
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DRINKING
AND DRIVING... SEATBELTS... SEATBELTS...
EDITORIAL:
Teach kids that seatbelts save lives
July
25, 2013 - 4:06pm By THE CHRONICLE HERALD
Seatbelts
save lives, and we need to find ways to educate teens about that fact. (CP /
File)
For
most Nova Scotians, doing up a seatbelt when entering a vehicle is as natural
as getting dressed in the morning.
But
for some, using a seatbelt is not automatic.
Police
cited a lack of seatbelt use as a factor behind the carnage in a tragic car
crash in Inverness County this week. Three young men died and at least two
other people sustained serious injuries.
Of
seven occupants of the small car that flipped when it left the road, six were
thrown from the vehicle.
When
accidents occur, seatbelts keep occupants in a vehicle, which is safer than to
be ejected from it.
The
use of seatbelts became mandatory in Nova Scotia in 1985 and seatbelt use has
been rising since.
In
2010, about 90 per cent of us buckled up.
That
still put us behind eight other Canadian provinces (in British Columbia and
Saskatchewan, almost 97 per cent of drivers and passengers belt themselves in),
and ahead of only Prince Edward Island.
Young
people, particularly males, are least likely to buckle up.
Up
to one in four young men in our province isn’t bothering with a seatbelt, says
a 2012 road safety report published by the province.
That
is bad news, because statistics reveal that young people are more apt to be
involved in fatal accidents and using a seatbelt reduces the risk of death or
serious disability by about half.
For
children, the use of infant carriers and child and booster seats reduce the
risk of death or injury by about 70 per cent.
Inattention,
speeding, fatigue and impairment with alcohol or drugs all increase the chance
of an accident — but chances of surviving that accident go up for drivers and
occupants who wear seatbelts.
So
how do we teach young people to buckle up?
Raising
the penalty for not wearing a seatbelt, now $169.91, is one option.
Kids
do what their parents do, so parents have a responsibility to use seatbelts and
to teach their children to do so.
While
the Nova Scotia Driver’s Handbook for new drivers has three pages on the
virtues of using seatbelts, they are on page 116 in a chapter on safety. Given
the importance of the issue, that message should be front and centre.
The
model may be campaigns that have changed behaviours around smoking. Smoking
rates among young people have been dropping, partly because of anti-smoking
modules in the province’s education curriculum.
Although
elementary schoolchildren learn some injury prevention information that
includes the use of seatbelts, it’s time to review just how effective that
instruction is.
We
need to make sure that teenagers who get into vehicles on fine summer nights
will buckle up, a move that could save their lives
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EMILY
WILLIAMS
ewilliams@herald.ca
Emily
Williams is a graduate of the University of King’s College and lives in
Dartmouth.
A
non-drinker’s perspective on the adulation of alcohol
I
don’t drink.
I
hold no deep-seated convictions on the matter. I have no family history of
alcoholism, no impaired-driving-related tragedy in my past, no horror stories
of friends who asphyxiated on their own vomit or experienced rohypnol- related
sexual assault.
I
simply have no interest.
At
24, I am slowly becoming less of an anomaly. For the last decade or so, I’ve
had a litany of excuses at my disposal whenever I found myself being offered
alcohol: I’m driving, I have class in the morning, I’m not feeling well, and
so on.
I
always had these on the tip of my tongue because, first as a high school and
then a university student , almost anything was accepted more readily than “I
don’t drink."
We
hear all the time about how alcohol is glamourized in popular culture, but I
hesitate to say that we do the same thing here. Drinking isn’t romanticized so
much as it just is .
Halifax
is a strange place not to drink. As Maritimers, we pride ourselves in our
supposed inborn ability to drink those from away under the table. We begin
drinking young and alcohol consumption is deeply ingrained in the cultural
fabric. (In my experience, when people from other parts of Canada describe
Maritime culture, the first things that come to mind are fiddles, fish and
liquor.) It isn’t hard to see why alcohol consumption is s o dominant here — we
are known as a friendly people, and alcohol is mainstream culture’s primary
social lubricant of choice.
The
region is saturated in it — we produce it, we sing about it, we embrace the
cultural stereotype of Maritimers as heavy drinkers with iron stomachs.
On
the uglier side o f things, people often drink to forget, and goodness knows we
are not short on hardships or tragedy here. And on top of all that, Halifax is
a university town, populated by young p eople who can easily become a bit
starry-eyed in the face of their newfound independence and access to legal
alcohol.
S
o in addition to the regional drinking culture, Nova Scotia’s young people are
also exposed to, and part of, the international youth/student equivalent. The
popular-culture-influenced normalization and glamorization of behaviours like
binge-drinking and underage drinking is inescapable and it is comp ounded by
the region’s own treatment of such matters. Young people are hardly all
unintelligent and lacking in control, but they are as susceptible to influence
as anyone, and resp onsible alcohol consumption is not glorified in nearly the
same way.
In
a place where exposure to alcohol is all but inevitable (and begins at a young
age), it is important to teach the corresponding necessary responsibilities
at a young age, and it is clear that it is here where we are falling short.
While the majority of people, if asked, would likely say that driving drunk is
all but unthinkable, one need only look at impaireddriving statistics to see
that there is still much work to be done.
I
do realize that we are working to do better in this area. I myself saw a number
of deeply affecting presentations from MADD Canada in high school, and you’d be
hard-pressed to sit through a lo cal television broadcast without seeing a
commercial warning of the dangers of impaired driving. Outreach programs like
these do good work and that shouldn’t be downplayed, but it is important not to
let up. Complacency is dangerous, not only because there are still tragedies,
but because every year a new group of teenagers drinks for the first time.
These
changes do not begin and end with youth . After all, the under-25 sector of the
population certainly doesn’t make up the entirety of the impaired-driving
statistics themselves. Increased cultural responsibility has to be
wide-sweeping across all ages. In order to teach greater responsibility,
everyone must shoulder some of that responsibility themselves.
Drinking
is a part of our culture and it isn’t going anywhere; the oft-associated
irresponsibility can and must .
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DRIVER MURDER CANADIANS- NIGHT BEFORE- MOURNING AFTER- no more excuses- no more abuses- u murder and
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PEOPLE
MAGAZING 1983- DRUNK DRIVERS KILLS 2 MANY
Outrage
Over Drunk Driving
By
Peter Carlson, Joshua Hammer
Across
America, Grieving Survivors Band Together to Fight a Menace That Kills More
Than 22,000 on U.S. Highways Each
Early
Saturday morning, May 28, Bryan Poole, a silver-haired, 54-year-old bear of a
man, took a sledgehammer and chisel and hacked a hole in the cement curb next
to U.S. 290 in Houston, Texas. The next day Poole solemnly anchored a white
cypress-wood cross reinforced with steel rods in the hole, constructing an
unofficial but starkly effective memorial (right) to his son Larry. "In memory
of Larry Bryan Poole," reads the cross's brass plaque, "born 10/1/51,
beloved son, brother-in-law, grandson, uncle, nephew, cousin and friend. Killed
at this location 1/21/83 by a drunk driver."
As
Bryan Poole's eloquent memorial suggests, America is no longer ignoring or
forgetting the victims of drunk drivers. After a decade in which intoxicated
motorists injured some 10 million persons and killed an average of 70 people a
day, a grass-roots movement has arisen across the nation to demand an end to
the highway carnage. It is a movement composed of people like Bryan Poole—the
relatives and friends of the victims of drunk drivers. Organized in the last
few years into powerful activist organizations like Mothers Against Drunk
Drivers (181 chapters in 39 states) and Remove Intoxicated Drivers (134
chapters in 31 states), they have lobbied for tougher legislation, monitored
traffic courts, and used the media to revolutionize public perception of
drinking and driving. "Somehow citizen activists have struck a public
nerve," says Robert Reeder, general counsel of Northwestern University's
Traffic Institute. "The movement will not go away very quickly. The people
who form the backbone of these groups have deep reasons for being a
member."
These
organizations have struggled to overcome what District of Columbia activist
Jerry Sachs wryly terms "an entrenched American stereotype—the cool guy
cruising along, beer in one hand, other hand on the wheel and his third hand
around the girl." Absurd as it is, that attitude in many states remains
entrenched in law. In states like Texas, Nevada and Kentucky, slackly written
drunk-driving statutes are riddled with loopholes, making prosecution
difficult. Drunk drivers sometimes escape penalty by refusing breath alcohol
tests. Without the test results, police are often unable to prove drunkenness,
allowing the driver to plea-bargain for a lesser charge. Across the country
there are convicted drunk drivers—some who have killed people in accidents—who
serve no prison terms and retain their driver's licenses.
But
after more than three years of hard-nosed lobbying by organizations like MADD
and RID, that situation is changing. Since 1980 virtually every state has
toughened its laws on drinking and driving. Thirty-five states now define
drunkenness by a specific level of blood alcohol—usually .1 percent—and
nationwide there is a trend to stiffen the penalty for refusing breath alcohol
tests. In 17 states drunk drivers now automatically lose their licenses for a
first offense, and in many states they may face jail terms. These new laws
already have saved lives. Highway fatalities—more than half of which are
alcohol-related—dropped from 49,000 in 1981 to under 44,000 in 1982 and are
running nearly 4 percent lower in 1983. "Deaths have gone down from the
new stiffer laws, no doubt about it," says a spokeswoman for the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The
revolution is far from over. MADD now wants to strengthen the web of state laws
and is lobbying for a legal drinking age of 21 across the country. In the
following pages, PEOPLE examines the human toll of drunk driving—accidents that
more and more people view as crimes.
Meanwhile
Bryan Poole makes a weekly visit to the white cross he planted along a Houston
highway. He swabs the grit from the brass plaque and sweeps up the trash that
accumulates around the cross. He does not remove the shattered windshield glass
of his son's car. He leaves that where it lies, against the curb where Larry
died.
The
terrible toll on the road-five case studies
Slaughter
at 100 mph in L.A.
Racing
along an L.A. freeway at 100 mph at 2:25 a.m. on June 4, the Mercedes 450 SEL
sedan driven by former model Phyllis Hall, 26, spun out of control over the
median divider, leapt through the air, and slammed into an approaching
Chevrolet (see photo of wreckage, p. 18). In just seconds four of the six young
people in the Chevy were dead, and another died in the hospital. (One victim,
Karin Paige, 19, is pictured.) The slightly injured Hall, whose blood alcohol
level was a phenomenally high .25, had a previous drunk-driving conviction (she
was given one year's probation and a suspended fine) and was driving her
boyfriend's car with an expired registration. (Police say the other driver was
also intoxicated.) Hall was charged with five counts of second-degree murder
and bail was set at $250,000. "There's a hue and cry after her like a fox
and hounds," says her attorney. "It's her first time in prison, and
she's terrified." But public opinion is not sympathetic to Hall, who faces
a maximum of 15 years to life if convicted. On the day of her bond hearing,
another offender became the first drunk driver to be convicted of murder in
L.A. County.
A
wedding eve tragedy in Pennsylvania
For
Pennsylvania scholar-athlete Ed Hartman Jr., 22 (right), the night of May 27
was a time of exhilarating satisfaction and anticipation. Two weeks earlier he
had graduated from Pennsylvania's evangelical Geneva College, after earning a
Division II, NAIA All-America honorable mention at quarterback his junior year.
The next morning he was to marry his high school sweetheart, Marybeth Diamond,
a pretty graduate of Butler County Community College. That night, after an
emotional wedding rehearsal dinner, Ed Hartman and five buddies—four of whom
were devout Christian nondrinkers—piled into a car and headed for Pittsburgh.
"We just wanted to get Eddie away from Marybeth one last time," one
explained. Twenty minutes later, they were struck head-on by an auto traveling
in the wrong lane on Route 28 in Etna, Pa. Eddie and one friend were killed.
The other driver, unemployed boilermaker Lawrence Rodgers, 43, had been angry
about his failing marriage, according to his wife, a passenger who was injured
in the crash. She said Rodgers downed 15 to 22 shots of whiskey (his blood
alcohol level registered a staggering .27), then sped into oncoming traffic in
an attempt to kill both her and himself. "I heard the phone ring and
didn't think anything of it," recalls Marybeth of the tragedy. "Then
I could hear people crying downstairs. Everyone was shaking and their faces
were white. My mind thought, 'What is the worst thing that could ever happen to
me?' Then I knew—The terrible thing is that Eddie never had a drink in his
life," she says. "He was so opposed to it—and he was killed by a
drunk driver." The slightly injured Rodgers is now in county jail awaiting
trial on two counts of first-degree murder and a raft of other charges.
A
needless death in San Jose
With
eight convictions since 1978 for driving under the influence (DUI) and a
history of drug abuse, San Jose computer repairman Abel Esparza, 30 (above),
was a disaster waiting to happen. "We did everything we could to keep him
off the road," says his brother, Marco, 20, who often shuttled Abel to and
from dates and jobs. But early on the afternoon of June 6, Esparza—whose
license had been suspended for years—got the keys to his brother's 1979 Mustang
from a friend. Five miles down the road his car grazed bicyclist Connie Crook,
25 (causing massive multiple contusions from which she is still recovering),
then plowed into her bicycling fireman husband, Kevin. The car carried him 300
feet, killing him. Esparza, who had been drinking and was high on PCP (angel
dust), was charged with vehicular manslaughter and two counts of felony DUI.
"We asked the police several times before the crash to take Abel to the
hospital," says Marco. "This didn't need to happen." Abel, who
is in jail in lieu of $500,000 bail, faces a five-year prison term if
convicted—faint solace for Kevin Crook's angry and grieving kin. Says Clay
Gregory, Connie's brother-in-law and legal counsel: "The irony is that
Kevin's job as a fireman-paramedic was scraping people off the streets. This
incident has all the qualities of a random murder."
A
bicyclist's killer is still on the road
Things
were going well for Kathy Newland (below): At 19, she had moved to Arlington,
Texas from her small Missouri hometown and found a fiancé, good friends and a
job at a cafeteria. Then, as she bicycled to work on May 19, 1982, Kathy was
struck from behind and thrown 232 feet by a van that veered onto the shoulder
of the road. Despite the frantic efforts of paramedics, she died of massive neck
and spinal injuries. The driver of the van, Patricia Ann Sanders, 22, was
charged on arrest with driving while intoxicated (her breath alcohol test
registered .26), marijuana and amphetamine possession, and involuntary
manslaughter. Despite 16 entries on her driving record over the previous five
years—including five accidents—Sanders was released on $3,000 bond within 24
hours of the collision. Pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter last March
25, she was sentenced to five years' probation and a $1,500 fine. District
Judge Don Leonard has defended the leniency of the sentence. "Sanders is
what you consider a minor violator," he told a local newspaper. "It
was just teenage stuff." Patricia Ann Sanders did not show up at a hearing
on her license revocation and may be legally driving in Texas.
A
verdict divides a Texas town
Charges
of ethnic prejudice have fueled the New Braunfels, Texas furor over William
Savage (above), a 23-year-old Army private who mowed down four members of a
poor Mexican family last October. Returning to base after a night of partying,
Savage said he "felt a bump" and noticed the windshield had
shattered. He stopped the car and walked back, coming upon the broken bodies of
laborer Ruben Sauceda, 26, his common-law wife, Hortencia, and their two
children, ages 1 and 2, whom his 1970 VW had struck as they walked along the
highway. A blood alcohol test revealed that Savage's alcohol level was
.226—more than twice the legal limit. Nevertheless, at his trial for one count
of manslaughter, the jury of 11 Anglos and one Hispanic decided against a jail
term, imposing only a $5,000 fine and 10 years' probation. Hispanic leaders
were outraged. "We were repulsed that a man could kill a family of four
and get away with probation," says Austin lawyer Mack Martinez, an
attorney for the Committee for Justice for All, which picketed the New
Braunfels courthouse until Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox announced on May
16 that he would review the case. He has said that Savage also would be tried
on manslaughter charges in the deaths of the other three family members. DA
Bill Schroeder, who prosecuted Savage (now back at Fort Sam Houston), has
little sympathy for the anti-Savage movement. "The jury didn't see brown,
they didn't see white," he says. "They saw a young soldier who had
never had a problem in his life." Counters Committee for Justice attorney
Ruben Sandoval: "The Sauceda case is an embarrassment to the national
movement to get drunk drivers off the streets."
Where
two states meet, a bloody weekend ritual
At
1:30 a.m. the rock music is still blaring, the beer still flowing at the
Bullpen Bar, a raucous roadhouse on Route 32 in Wisconsin, just a hundred yards
from the Illinois border. A dozen teenagers spill groggily out the door and
into their cars in the massive parking lot, screeching off into the darkness
toward their suburban Chicago homes 30 or 40 miles away. As countless other
bars in the border area empty out, hundreds more drink-impaired young drivers
barrel off in the same direction, some carrying maps provided by bar-keeps to
guide them over back roads infrequently patrolled by police.
The
reckless border migration has become a weekend ritual for thousands of
teenagers in the three and a half years since Illinois raised the drinking age
from 19 to 21. Eleven other states followed suit in raising the threshold age
for legal drinking, thereby helping to reduce the disproportionate number of
teenage deaths on America's highways. (Although teens make up only 8 percent of
the population and drive only 6 percent of the highway miles, they are involved
in 15 percent of the fatal crashes. Fourteen of them die each day in
alcohol-related accidents.) But Wisconsin has stubbornly resisted the trend,
making it one of four states (with Hawaii, Vermont and Louisiana) that allow
18-year-olds to purchase hard liquor. The resulting phenomenon—familiar to many
who reside in the border areas of adjoining states with disparate minimum
drinking ages—has been the creation of an appalling highway hazard. Border-side
bars and night spots have sprung up, luring teenagers across state lines on
journeys that too often end in drunk-driving tragedies.
Despite
a 28 percent decrease in highway deaths among 18-to-20-year-olds in Illinois
since the new law took effect, drunk-driving deaths are up 10 percent in two
Illinois counties adjacent to Wisconsin, saddling the state line with a grim
nickname, "Blood Border." "We are aware of the death toll,"
said one 19-year-old as she sat in her car outside the Bullpen Bar. "We
make nervous jokes at night: 'Be careful crossing the Bloodline.' "
Illinois
police have watched the grisly events at Blood Border with mounting concern.
"The figures are staggering," says Antioch Police Chief Charles
Miller, whose town sits on the line. "Six years ago we arrested 17 drunk
drivers a year. This year we have had 159 arrests since Jan. 1." The
Illinois state police, who made a record 1,718 drunk-driving arrests last year
on a single 37-mile stretch of the I-94 toll road south of the border, now
station troopers at toll plazas to arrest anyone driving with open liquor
bottles or beer cans. Assisting state and local police is a citizens' patrol
called Extra Eyes, whose members cruise the area in CB-equipped cars, tracking
down drunks. "There's a rolling bar on that highway," warns Extra
Eyes patroller Lou Greenwald. The group was organized last year by the
Illinois-based Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists (AAIM), whose co-founder,
editor Carol Brierly Golin, 54, has a poignant interest in keeping the
Wisconsin-Illinois state line as bloodless as possible. Two summers ago her
daughter, Ann Brierly, and a girlfriend were killed 11 days after Ann's high
school graduation by a drunk driver who broadsided their pickup at an Antioch
intersection. "If I had any idea what kind of traffic jungle it was up
there," says Golin, who lives in Glencoe, Ill., "I would never have
let her go. From our experience working with the state police at spotting drunk
drivers, we think that close to one in four drivers is intoxicated.
Inexperienced teenagers," she adds, "are the most vulnerable."
Ann's killer, a 19-year-old sailor named Rodney Lackie, stationed at the Great
Lakes Naval Base in North Chicago, was on his way back to base after a day spent
dropping acid and a night of drinking beer with a buddy at a Wisconsin bar.
"If there had been a 21-year-old drinking age," says Golin,
"Rodney could not have had any liquor in Wisconsin. Nor could he have
gotten drunk and killed Ann."
Golin
says she has no hatred for her daughter's killer, who was released from prison
in June after serving one year for reckless homicide. Rather, her bitterness is
directed toward those on the Wisconsin border who earn their livelihoods
selling liquor to Illinois youths. "A bartender or bar owner who serves
teenagers too much beer when he knows they have to drive 50 or 60 miles home at
night is taking blood money," she declares. "I don't know how that
kind of person sleeps at night."
Tragic
aftermath of a fatal crash
Kevin
Tunell was drunk. It was New Year's Eve, 1981. Champagne was flowing freely and
Tunell was feeling good—a little too good to drive, it seemed to the guests at
the second party he attended that night in northern Virginia. When Tunell, then
17, left to take his girlfriend home, friends begged him to surrender his car
keys and accept a ride. He shrugged off the suggestion and roared into the
night. At about 1:15, a few minutes after he dropped off his girlfriend,
Tunell's silver Dodge station wagon swerved across the dividing line of
Commonwealth Boulevard in Fairfax County at more than 50 mph, smacking into an
oncoming Volkswagen. Kevin Tunell doesn't remember the accident, only his later
interrogation at the police station.
Thirty
minutes after the crash the phone rang in the home of Lou and Patty Herzog less
than a mile away. A friend's report of the collision drew the couple to the
accident site. There, in the stark illumination of highway flares and flashing
red lights, they saw the shattered car of their 18-year-old daughter, Susan.
Fearfully, Patty Herzog, 49, approached a policeman.
"Was
it Susan?" she asked.
"Yes,"
he replied.
"Is
she dead?"
"Yes."
The
accident that caused Susan Herzog's death has permanently altered the lives of
her parents and her killer. Both Kevin Tunell and the Herzogs have thrown their
energies into the growing crusade against drunk driving. Lou, a 50-year-old
retired Navy officer, and Patty Herzog joined Mothers Against Drunk Driving;
Patty, vice-president of the local chapter, attends traffic court every
Thursday to encourage local judges to crack down on drunks. Kevin Tunell has
lectured against drunk driving almost full-time for the past 16 months,
appearing in scores of high schools and on several TV and radio shows. But the
common goal shared by these three activists has not eradicated the emotional
wounds caused by the accident. A bitterness—even a hatred—festers between the
Herzogs and Kevin Tunell.
It
began at Tunell's trial for manslaughter in February 1982. The Herzogs asked
Juvenile Court Judge Michael J. Valentine to give Tunell the maximum sentence—a
year in jail. "We felt that a jail sentence was the least that Kevin
should get," says Patty. Tunell had another idea: After pleading guilty,
he told the judge that he wanted to speak to other teens about the dangers of
drinking and driving. "There is no way I can change what I did that
night," he says, "but I can try to change what other teenagers do
behind the wheel."
Judge
Valentine agreed. He stripped Tunell of his driver's license, placed him on
probation until his 21st birthday, and sentenced him to lecture against drunk
driving 40 hours a week for a year. The Herzogs were livid. "It was a
travesty of justice," says Patty. "This is a trivial sentence."
Last
spring the Herzogs initiated a civil suit against Tunell. In an out-of-court
settlement, they received $100,000 from his insurance company—and a written
promise that he will send them a dollar every Friday night for the next 18
years. "We told Kevin," Patty explains, "that the dollar-a-week
assignment is so he will remember at least once a week when he writes Susan's
name that he killed her."
Tunell
has not forgotten. As Judge Valentine mandated, he spent a year lecturing
against drunk driving at high schools across Virginia. When the year ended,
Kevin continued speaking. Before taking a temporary break this summer to attend
courses at Long-wood College in southern Virginia, Tunell had delivered more
than 500 lectures.
But
the Herzogs are not impressed. They have seen Tunell lecture, heard him on the
radio, and watched him on television, and now the simple sight of him fills
them with fury. "He should have given his year of service and then shut
up," says Patty. Adds Lou: "This sentence has just made a celebrity
out of him. I've always thought that it would have been much more impressive
if, at the end of his presentation, a police officer walked out and said,
'Okay, Kevin, it's time to go back to jail!' "
The
Herzogs' anger affects Tunell. "I can understand where they are coming
from," he says, "but from my own experience, I think my sentence was
more constructive than going to jail." Still, he has moments—even days—of
distress. He feels haunted by his image as the "killer speaker" and
wonders if his obsessive lecturing has done any good. Even now, 19 months after
the accident, nightmares of car wrecks shatter his sleep. And not a day has
passed, he says, when he hasn't thought about the crash. "I've never
forgiven myself for what happened," he says. "It was so stupid, so
dumb. If I have a daughter who gets to be 18, probably on that 18th birthday
I'll have a hard time. Every New Year's Eve, when everybody else is singing
Auld Lang Syne, I'll remember what went on."
Contributors:
Giovanna
Breu,
Susan
Deutsch,
Lianne
Hart,
Nancy
King,
Cable
Neuhaus,
Maria
Wilhelm.
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CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT 2 GOOGLE
2013-02-20
Access to Counsel - Constitutional Right to Google
A
police officer saw Mr McKay, 2013 ABPC 13 drive through a red light. The officer stopped him, and found he smelled
of liquor. When Mr McKay blew into a
screening device, it registered a fail.
The investigating officer arrested him and asked if he wanted to get
legal advice. He did. The officer took him back to the detachment,
and showed him White and Yellow Pages, a phone which allowed 411 inquiries, and
a poster bearing the Legal Aid number.
Mr McKay called Legal Aid.
Afterwards, he told the officer that he spoke with someone. Thereafter, he provided breath samples which
must have been over 80mg%, because he was charged.
At
trial, Mr McKay, aged 20, explained that he is a child of the internet. He doesn't use phone books, and didn't
understand 411. He needs Google to find
a lawyer. Because the police failed to
offer this option up front, they violated his right to counsel of choice.
The
trial judge agreed.
I
agree that your duty to provide a reasonable opportunity to retain and instruct
counsel includes facilitating reasonable efforts to to identify a suitable
lawyer. Web-based services now provide
faster and more informative searches than most paper-based methods. Your offices (generally) permit internet
access. I think a request to Google
lawyers is a reasonable exercise of s.10(b) rights.
I
don't agree that failure to present a web-browser in the cell block breaches a
prisoner's s.10(b) rights. There are
other reasonable methods of identifying a lawyer (such as calling a friend or
relative who knows one). In my opinion,
it does not breach s.10(b) to fail to list all his options. Perhaps your poster on the phone room wall
should say:
"This
office will accommodate all reasonable requests to identify and contact a
lawyer of your choice."
You
must facilitate the exercise of the right to counsel, but the prisoner must
exercise his right diligently. I think
Mr McKay should have asked to use Google.
If
your prisoner asks for internet access, then you should allow it for the
purposes of identifying a lawyer. But
keep control of the situation. His
efforts to identify a lawyer are not privileged. One prisoner may to search "Criminal
defence lawyer Calgary". Another
may want to type "How to beat the breath test".
Maybe
you want to do the typing.
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Sobering
stats on drunk/drugged drivers
Richard
Russell -Special to The Globe and Mail
Published
Wednesday, May. 19 2010, 2:46 PM EDT
More
than 1,100 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in Canada in 2007
Some
more facts about these deaths:
•80.4
per cent were male
•67.2
per cent were owner-operators
•20.7
per cent were passengers
•11.7
per cent were pedestrians
•43.7
per cent of the deaths occurred in automobiles
•27.3
per cent in a truck or van
•11.1
per cent in an off-road vehicle
•5.6
per cent on a motorcycle
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Tall." In the video, the Canadian spitter recruits a pint-sized voice box
to battle against negative verbal warfare. "When you're alone, life can be
a little rough/ It makes you feel like you're 3 foot tall/ When it's just you,
well times can be tough/ When there's no one there to catch your fall,"
sings the toddler with a faux black eye. With words like "dummy,"
"loser," and the more sexually charged "faggot" and
"lesbian" sprawled across the clip, the writings on the wall come at
a time where digital bullying has run rampant in the younger generation,
especially with the presence of social media. Still, it's the ability to
overcome that stands above all. Watch the rapper also known as Luke Boyd preach
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In
the ER, outrage over wanton road carnage
July
26, 2013 - 5:18pm By DR. JOHN ROSS
Dr.
John Ross: “For every death we hear about, there are 10 to 15 injury victims we
never hear about. That makes us all responsible for challenging this ridiculous
culture of acceptance of alcohol abuse in Nova Scotia.” (CHRISTIAN LAFORCE /
File).
The
phone jars me awake. A blurry 3-something on the clock. EHS Communications
Centre calling to patch me together with the Life Flight physician, who has
been woken up multiple times already, and a surgeon in Antigonish.
I
stumble out of the room so as not to wake my wife. The Life Flight physician
briefly recounts the futile attempt by the team, who landed at a roadside in
Cape Breton, to help resuscitate a car crash victim — now the third fatality at
the scene.
They
are now flying to Antigonish where four other victims are being assessed and
stabilized. They are what remains of the seven people, all under 21 years old,
unbelted, who were in a subcompact car that went off the road.
The
surgeon is now listing the patients and their injuries. My mind flips between
what he is saying and visions of the organized chaos at the scene — the first
person there, then fire department personnel, EHS paramedics, and police.
Ejected kids everywhere, some alive, some dead.
Two
hours later, the youths arrive, one by one, first by Life Flight, then by
ground ambulance. From the scene to Antigonish to the Halifax Infirmary, the
cast of many emergency care providers have done a fantastic job making sense of
this senseless tragedy.
At
the Infirmary, where this happens all too often, the trauma team goes to work —
further treatments, CAT scans, many specialists, preparation for the operating
room.
Then
one of our amazing social workers or nurses will join me on the long hallway
walk to the family room for the heart-wrenching job of breaking bad news and
listening to too many questions I cannot answer.
What
does the general public hear about this familiar tragedy? “Three more dead on
N.S. highway,” or something to that effect. Then something about the annual
death toll so far; comparisons to previous years.
Is
this worse? Is there a reason? Brief outrage, soul-searching, then the next
story, and all is forgotten. What are we missing?
Let’s
follow the common trajectory of the survivors from similar crashes. Surviving drivers
face major legal and social consequences. Passengers suffer life-long mixtures
of the effects of acquired brain injury, followup surgeries, surgical
complications, intensive care, chronic pain, paralysis, depression, addictions,
and employment problems, to name a few.
Families
and friends are affected. PTSD counselling should be available for the first
responders, but it is often forgotten, leaving them altered forever.
The
majority of these crashes are the result of alcohol misuse. Alcohol poisons
brain nerves, resulting in loss of inhibition (“life of the party”), poor
decisions and risk-taking behaviour.
Sometimes
intoxicated drivers crash into other vehicles with innocent victims. Those who
survive end up being cared for by all of us through our public health care
system.
For
every death we hear about, there are 10 to 15 injury victims we never hear
about. That makes us all responsible for challenging this ridiculous culture of
acceptance of alcohol abuse in Nova Scotia.
Alcohol
intoxication, risk-taking, binge-drinking, under-age drinking are all
apparently a rite of passage in Nova Scotia. It is part of our heritage. The
annual cull on our highways and waterways (drownings) and other 100 per cent
preventable injuries are just collateral damage — acceptable I guess, because
few seem to care.
At
the same time, lots of people do seem to care about long wait times to see
specialists or delays to get medical tests.
If
there were fewer people with 100 per cent preventable injuries and illnesses
related to alcohol abuse, seeing those specialists and using those tests —
might there be better access for people whose medical problems are not of their
own making?
When
are we going to challenge the “fun lifestyle” marketing of beer and liquor
corporations, the NSLC, binge-drinking promotion at bars, and our culture that
believes that drinking large volumes of a nerve poison is normal?
Dr.
John Ross is an emergency physician in Halifax.
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‘Nobody’s
safe out there’: Victims’ families hail MacKay as he signals change to drunk driving
laws
EDMONTON
— The new federal justice minister says the Conservative government is
considering changes to impaired driving legislation in the Criminal Code.
But
Peter MacKay, who only took over the portfolio earlier this month, wouldn’t say
exactly what is being pondered as he headed into a meeting with crime victims
in Edmonton.
“I
can tell you I did numerous trials on impaired driving cases, first as a
defence lawyer and then prosecuting cases,” MacKay said Thursday, recalling his
time working as a lawyer in Nova Scotia.
“I
recall vividly a judge making a statement in a trial that I was prosecuting to
the accused that driving down the road while under the effect of drugs or
alcohol is no different than pointing a gun at another human being.”
Related
Man’s
‘shocking’ 19 drunk driving convictions prove system fails to stop repeat DUI
offenders, MADD says
Ending
drunk-driving deaths is in sight, experts say
Mom
picking up son charged with drunk driving also charged with drunk driving
.
MacKay
said he wanted to meet with more victims of impaired driving before announcing
the changes the government is contemplating.
One
of the people MacKay met with Thursday was a mother whose 18-year-old son was
one of three Alberta men killed in a crash where drunk driving was suspected.
The
ministers words were a huge relief for Sheri Arsenault, whose son Bradley
Arsenault died along with two friends south of Edmonton on Nov. 26, 2011.
Jonathan
Pratt, 28, of Beaumont, Alta., is charged in the case, which is still before
the courts.
I
believe we have to continue to send that signal of just how serious an incident
that is, and the consequences — the consequences that you cause, and the
consequences that you have to live with when you put drugs and alcohol in your
system and get behind the wheel of a car
.
“Finally
somebody in government is maybe going to listen to us,” Arsenault said.
Arsenault
has become a spokesperson for a group, Families for Justice, which has been
collecting names on a petition calling for mandatory minimum sentences for
impaired driving causing death. The petition also calls for the Criminal Code
to be changed to redefine the offence of impaired driving causing death as
vehicular manslaughter.
Last
fall, provincial justice ministers asked the federal government to consider
increased penalties for impaired driving, particularly crimes involving repeat
offenders, serious injury or death.
MacKay
said impaired driving laws need to send a strong message because of the
consequences involved.
“I
believe we have to continue to send that signal of just how serious an incident
that is, and the consequences — the consequences that you cause, and the
consequences that you have to live with when you put drugs and alcohol in your
system and get behind the wheel of a car,” MacKay said.
Arsenault
was originally supposed to meet with former justice minister Rob Nicholson, but
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cabinet shuffle earlier this month meant that
meeting had to be cancelled.
MacKay
apologized to Arsenault on behalf of Nicholson, saying Nicholson had been
looking forward to meeting with her.
Arsenault
said MacKay’s announcement Thursday was the first she had heard the government
was considering changes to the Criminal Code.
With
drunk driving being the largest cause of criminal death in Canada by far, it’s
a serious concern
.
“He
gave me the sense that he’s a regular father with a regular family who sees
this crime for what it is,” said Arsenault.
Arsenault
noted the Harper government has made being tough on crime a motto and has
brought in mandatory minimums for drug offences.
She
said there should also be mandatory minimums for impaired drivers who kill.
“With
drunk driving being the largest cause of criminal death in Canada by far, it’s
a serious concern. Nobody’s safe at any time out there.”
comment:
Drunk
drivers kill more people every year than firearms do. Unfortunately a vast
majority of drunk drivers are acquitted on ridiculous technicalities (see the
M.Trudeau trial as an example). Politicians need to eliminate loop holes by
reigning in the judiciary with the use of the "notwithstanding
clause" and with solid legislation.
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Man
convicted in 2004 crash that killed two people
By
SHERRI BORDEN COLLEY Staff Reporter
Michael
Gerard Cooper, the man responsible for killing two young people in a drunk
driving crash almost nine years ago near River Bourgeois, will remain in prison
until his sentence ends next January.
On
Jan. 23, 2007, a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge sentenced Cooper, now 54, to
seven years for two counts of impaired driving causing the deaths of Angela
Marie Smits, 19, of Sydney River and her boyfriend, Michael George MacLean, 20,
of Albert Bridge. Cooper also received a lifetime driving ban.
Cooper,
who pleaded guilty in November 2006, has never been granted parole.
In
a recent decision, the Parole Board of Canada — as it has in the past —
determined Cooper is too dangerous to release and confirmed an earlier decision
that ordered him detained until his sentence ends Jan. 22, 2014.
“The
board is satisfied that, if released, you are likely to commit an offence
causing the death of or serious harm to another person before the expiration of
the sentence you are now serving according to law," the board wrote in a
three-page decision.
Cooper’s
lack of progress during the past year has been demonstrated by continued rigid
thinking that he cannot commit to refraining from impaired driving, the board
said.
“Such
a stance underscores your high risk to reoffend in a similar manner given your
current offences, history of impaired driving and your complete disregard for
the consequences of the same, despite being responsible for the untimely
deaths of two people," the documents said.
By
law, the board is required to review Cooper’s detention order annually. Cooper
waived his right to a parole board hearing because he believed the board had
already rendered a decision.
Although
Cooper does not have a documented history of violence, he has a history of impaired
driving and has been assessed as a high risk for reoffending by driving under
the influence, the parole board said, referring to a May 2011 initial decision.
In February 1988, he was fined $600 for impaired driving.
Cooper,
the board has ruled, has taken limited responsibility for his crimes, made
threats to his parole officer and admitted to ongoing marijuana use.
“You
lacked remorse or empathy for your victims and had no insight into the
possible fatal consequences of your actions should you drink and drive,"
the board said.
“Despite
completion of a substance abuse program, you made limited progress and
continue to negate a substance abuse problem."
The
students were killed instantly when Cooper’s truck crossed the centre line on
May 14, 2004, near the River Bourgeois exit on Highway 104, and crashed into
their car.
The
young couple were heading east for a planned family celebration that weekend,
and Cooper was heading west that night to return to his Clevelandarea home
after drinking for seven hours at MacBouch Lounge in St. Peter’s, 20 kilometres
down the highway.
Tests
showed Mr. Cooper’s blood contained three times the legal level of alcohol when
he crashed into MacLean’s car at about 11 p.m.
Both
vehicles burst into flames. The cremated remains of the young couple were later
buried together. Cooper suffered severe burns and a serious head injury.
(sborden@herald.ca)
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