[Laneco]

My husband used to have a body shop, still does a little side work now and then. We had a vehicle in with headplant/faceplant damage on the windshield. You see, the windshield gives out ward and then digs into the flesh as you are flung first into the windshield and then next back into your seat... On this particular car, we were blowing out the loose glass with an air hose. Several fresh teeth popped out of the air vent. We've also found teeth imbedded in the dash board and the backs of the front seats.

It's weird the things that "get" to kids. You can show most any kid a dead body and it doesn't compute. The bloody teeth? Whoa...

Another thing that I think is missed in the teenage-going-to-drive scare tactis (which by the way, I wholly support), is that most people do NOT die. But alot of them wish they had. Severe injury and particularly head trauma is a horrendous recovery if one ever occurs. One of the most graphic injuries I've ever seen anyone "survive" was the fellow that was the passenger in the Toyota Supra (driven by Hulk Hogan's kid??? can't remember). Absolutely horrific, but still, technically "alive." Spend the rest of his "life" being fed, watered and changed with occasional semi-autonomic responses to stimulus, movement or light...

I met a man whose son was brain injured and he told me something I have never forgotten. He said, "There's alot of things that are much worse than the big dirt nap..." He was right.

angela