Saw a man die today

She stays with her boyfriend 80 miles away now.

Asked her about the Epipen, she's never heard of or been told about it.
Google says it's available in the UK so she's going to ask her doctor about it at her next appointment.

Thanks for the info :thumbsup:

 

I saw many people dying.
Usually it's the nice and innocent people that have to die young.
Being an asshole greatly enhances your chances to grow old - it's a pity.

Best thing you could do is to take consequences for your life:
Take no risks when driving - when you hit a person with ~ 30mph. you already have a very good chance to kill someone.

 

I used to feel the same way. He is a complete moron for his mistake. But he is (hopefully) feeling like shit right now. For a lifetime he will probably never forget taking a young mother's life. That is punishment enough.

At the end of the day, we all do stupid shit and have to pay the consequences. But an eye for an eye is not the answer. He can do something with his life to turn it around.

Tragedy can be life's most valuable learning experiences. What if you were spacing off thinking about where to get dinner, then ran into a young boy? The real tragedy would be hearing a counsel of strangers unanimously vote for your death before you had a chance to turn into a better man.

I love Texas. I'm from there and I'm moving back this December. But their death penalty is something I will always dislike.

 

I saw a couple of people die.

My close friends brother I went to a night club with, and he walked out into the road and got hit by a drunk driver going 110km/h in a 60 zone. It quite literally ripped him to shit..

R.I.P..

 

Drunk drivers have no excuse. You should never be driving while drunk. In Japan you cant even have a sip of drink before driving. While i find this stupid i guess it for the best since most people tend to be idiots when drinking.

Yakumo

 

How do they deal with people who still have alcohol in their blood from the night before?

 

the other day i was woken up to the sound of a car crash and a little girl screaming hes dead hes dead. i left to work on my bike and passed by a guy who had been shot, the police got there just a little before i did. maybe half a mile down the bike path from that there was a horrific car accident involving a motorcyclist. his insides were all over the pavement. i turned around went home and hugged my dog.

ive seen people die before but that was just as bad.

 

I've seen a few vids of people dying, really tough and disturbing to watch unless its a gunshot or far away. But then again, I've also seen people survive some pretty amazing injuries too.

Hope I never experience it in real life, I used to be immune to such things...but the past year it really gets to me.

 

Same way they deal with drivers coming right from the pub? If you're not sure you have the alcohol out of your system by the time you need it to be, don't drink, simple as that.

 

Surely you mean "don't drive"? Either way, a strict interpretation of 0% alcohol in your system is pretty harsh, given how long it must take to achieve that after a night out.

I'm certainly not advocating driving whilst post-pub drunk, but some next-day leeway seems reasonable to me.

 

People have this quite scary feeling that it is their God-given right to drive, not a dangerous responsibility.

I myself don't drive, partially because I'm crippled by my own nervousness behind the wheel. It's almost as if I don't belong there, that there's too much power and too much potential to ruin so much. Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to drive and I know I'm gonna have to in the next few months, but driving a car makes me extremely nervous, and partially for reasons like this.

Then again, you'd be surprised how many times I've almost been run down this year, most of them by older white women in big vehicles turning left on a green light (but me as a pedestrian having right of way, as the crosswalk sign is on).

Scary how people will stamp on the gas cause they NEED to be somewhere RIGHT NOW, and don't even look or wait for the tiny pedestrian who moves so much slower.

 

fucking reminds me of when i was crossing the street, at a cross walk. and this god damn old lady fucking steps on the gas and almost hits me. the fucking worst part? It was on the FAR right lane! I had been crossing this street, she was sitting at a red light. What the fuck? She KNEW I was crossing.

 

I saw a car flip over completely once on the freeway, looked like something you'd see in a movie. The whole cab was caved in, there was no way the guy survived it.

 

Good question and one that doesnt really have an answer