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Drunk Driving Presentations in School

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TheQuailman
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So today they brought everyone in my school into the auditorium and showed a video about drunk driving.  But instead of giving facts and reasons why you shouldn't drink and drive, they decided to show a video about high school kids at a party who drive drunk and are killed.  Pretty much 5 minutes of the video was at the party.  Ten minutes was like getting in the car.  And the other 30 minutes or so includedseeing the accident, which included a pedestrian being flipped over the car, a girl going through the winddshield leaving her face cut up and bleeding on the hood of the car, and a kid getting rocked in the back seat.  And showing two of the passengers (the girl through the windshield and the kid in the back) being gruesomely operated on in the hospitol.  The filming was extremely well done for a movie like this shown in school, practically movie-quality.  And more importanyl the film was incredibly gruesome, showing soooo much blood and guts and fucked up shit.  Some girls cried during it.

Anyway I was just wondering what you guys think about this.  I thought that although they were trying to get across an important point, it was completely innapproriate to show a graphic video like this to "scare" kids into not drinking and driving.   I just felt like the way they tried to force/scare kids into not drinking and driving was soooo wrong.  they could have just tried to apply to kid's rationalities, not their fear.

A bunch of my friends were disagreeing, some agreed.  What do you think?

Feb 27 2009 5:22PM
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Owen.
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Showing those videos works to some extent
You really think that just telling some kid who you know drinks and drives, but has not been in a crash, that it's dangerous will make him change his ways?
No
most of the time they don't learn until it's too late
Feb 27 2009 5:33PM
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Runthered
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i dont know bro im not gonna lie i agree and disagree at the same time
at first it is a little bit harsh
but truthfully i was driving the other day and it just makes me that much more attentive showing me those flicks cause i am extra cautious about it all. like if i were to speed and crash and be stupid that that could happen to me
i agree through its kind of harsh when the vids are that gross but it really does make you smarten up
Feb 27 2009 5:38PM
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notomatoplz
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just to double check, this was like a reenactment or dramatization and not like some kids filming there night out right. because you werent very clear on that. and as for whether or not it was necessary. ask yourself if you ever would think about drinking or driving after seeing the video and you will get your answer.
Feb 27 2009 5:43PM
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AMG.
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thats not cool to show stuff like that. i know a guy who saw someone get hit by a drunk driver and he was fucking scarred for atleast 3 weeks. aparently the guy got hit at a crosswalk, flew like 25ft in the air(the guy was doing like 150km/h in a 50), came down on a street sign (the kind on traffic lights, not the little ones) slit his throat on the sign and landed in a mangled heap with his legs broken in half. basically my buddy watched the guy die, he said the part that scarred him was seeing the guys head tip and like almost fall off because of the huge fucking gash in his neck. although this very loosly relates to drunk driving, im saying that showing people graphic images doesnt always get the point across. some people might just get really uncomfortable and miss the main point of the presentation.
Feb 27 2009 5:47PM
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PopsicleStand
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was it real or not? if not then it was just stupid.

let me tell you, work in an ER and you will never drink and drive my friend. dead serious. that blood and guts shit does work, especially when you see a loved one come in and see the carnage. regular accidents are no less brutal, its just a shame to see peoples lives change for the worse just because they were bombed and drove anyways.


Feb 27 2009 5:58PM
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Swaggermager
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do you go to sibley? in MN
Feb 27 2009 6:03PM
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An10a_Eng
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we had to go to a huge thing with like 10 schools senior year and here people that were in jail and wheelchairs and stuff talk about how they ruined their lives and what not but what really got me was at the end we had to walk through a hall with memorial pictures and the family of the people who died were there crying. seeing the look on all the parents whose child died was so sad but the worst was when my friend (his older sister died from a drunk driver 3 years before) and his family were there crying. drinking and driving is soooooo stupid
Feb 27 2009 8:31PM
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g.rich
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I think the gruesome images can stick into people's minds and when they are in a situation where they could drink and drive they'll have that flashback to the movie and can make the right decision. I don't think it could hurt to show a movie like that bc it's not like anyone would walk away from watching it with a greater chance of drinking and driving.
Feb 27 2009 8:45PM
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SHastatahoe
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When I was a senior in highschool I was at a party getting drunk and drove home and my friend drove home the same night.  I made it home, and he hit a tree and died.

Don't drink and drive, especially while not in highschool.  It is not worth it. 
Feb 27 2009 8:55PM
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g.rich
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^ dude that's terrible i'm sorry. Yeah in high school the ppl in my grade didn't take drinking and driving seriously enough. I was surprised something real bad didn't ever happen, it's just not worth the risk. Now that I'm older I see it totally differently and wouldn't think of ever driving drunk.
Feb 27 2009 9:06PM
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cclan
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harden the fuck up.

drunk driving is something that should be penalized much more and you SHOULD be scared of stuff like that, may as well try to make something like that as real as possible
Feb 27 2009 9:15PM
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FapMasterFLEX
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i had one last year at skool. i felt awful cuz it was this old 80's film and corny as fuck so kids were laughing and shit (i had a few giggles) it was about these two girls. then out of nowhere! the moms of the girls came out and it went dead silent. i felt sooooooooo bad. our skool didnt tell us they were coming. i felt like an ass and had a bad day after it
Feb 27 2009 9:37PM
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An10a_Eng
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word. there shouldnt be a second or third strike. one DUI/DWI and that should be the end of your right to drive for ever. drinking and driving is like playing russian roulette where your pointing the gun at someone else too
Feb 27 2009 10:24PM
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skifree179
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Who cares make the idiots learn

if u can do the time then dont do the crime its that simple even if this sounds gay its the TRUTH

Feb 27 2009 10:32PM
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TheQuailman
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Haha, its not so much that they showed gruesome images.  But its the fact that they just tried to shock kids into not drinking and driving.  Personally I think a lot of kids are just gunna be freaked out for the assembly, but a shock isn't going to hit home.  Its like watching a scary movie.  Sure you are scared, but your not going to be more carful to lock your door for the rest of your life.  I mean, most kids these days have become so desensitized to violence on the 'screen' that they see this as 'a scary movie', not something thats real.

They made the students in our school scared of horrific deaths, but not aware that drinking and driving leads to death.  Sure, the kids in the video were drinking and driving, which led to the tragedy.  But, hell, you can have terrible accidents and tragedies everywhere.  People get into regular car crashes all the time, or because they were driving at 3 am, or were talking on their cell phone, or because someone tried to cross a highway.

What they should have done was explain that drunk driving leads to death.  Its human nature to know that death is bad, we don't need to enforce that idea.  Instead we need to show that drinking and driving, which is preventable, leads to death.

Feb 28 2009 12:06AM
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Gavajabra
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All I know is one night I got fucked up and certain circumstances arouse and I decided to bail. I'll say driving home was such a trip I will never drink and drive again.
Feb 28 2009 12:09AM
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seemeski
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We had to watch a video about a kid who drank and  4 wheeled himself into a tree. He was in a coma and had to re learn everything, his name was Timmy, he kept yelling TIMMAY so everyone laughed. At the end it interviewed his parents, who were like "oh yeah he doesn't drink and 4 wheel anymore, he learned his lesson" then it goes to Timmy who was like "Hell yeah I still do." Dumb shit.
Feb 28 2009 12:13AM
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Peter.
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we have this big curvy wall of these stories of drunk driving set up in our main foyer at my school
Feb 28 2009 12:13AM
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ski93
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agreed

we had a video like this shown at my school too
Feb 28 2009 12:42AM
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