Intoxicated 17 year old gets into an Mitsu 3000GT with a 14 year old girl, speeds down a 25 mph residential street at 70 (according to later radio reports), almost takes out another car, then hits a tree. Boy dead, girl in critical condition.
Radio reports and articles I've read are calling it a tragedy, callers yammering about how the parents shouldn't be to blame, and that 'kids will be kids.' I haven't heard one person suggest that the provider of the alcohol should be arrested, and nobody wants to be critical of the parents who put way too much car in front of this kid.
I'm p!ssed, because this is
truly a senseless death, but Nebraska does not take underage drinking seriously. I know a couple people who have gotten MIP five times, and multiple DUIs before they were 21. Slap on the wrist, then they're on their way to do it again. When kids like this get killed or hurt, there's feigned seriousness across classrooms, but it's over in a few days. Maybe this is the way it is, always has been, and always will be. Listening to this news coverage, though, i'm about to puke.
Anyway, I hear the movie "
Way Faster and like Ten Times More Furious " is about to open
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