Re: Sad story from NY
I agree Tasha'sDaddy. I signed my 13 year-old-son up for a boating safety course and then attended with him. Helped me brush up and I believe it helped him learn more. He is 14 now and I still go out with him the first few times to make sure he is being safe. In fact, he is a safer driver than 90% of the other people on the lake.
(He also has all of 7.5 HP on a 14' Jon boat to control)
I don't know what it is with drunks that kill people and then claim they weren't driving. My niece was riding with "the designated driver" when he went up an off ramp. There were 4 people ages 20 and 21 in the head-on accident with the other car. The designated driver was the only one to survive. He claimed that my niece was driving even though her body was still buckled in the passenger seat.
He was sentenced to community service which he did refused to complete and he was also ordered not to drink which he did anyway. He is finally in prison.
My Sister-in-law and her husband were sued by the parents of the kids in the other car because the car was registered in their name. They in turn had to sue the drunk kid's insurance company so they could settle the other claim. So they lost their daughter and had to pay a $2Million claim to the parents of the other dead kids
To make things worse, the College she was going to when she died entered something wrong into the computer on her student loans which then reported to the credit agency that my brother-in-law was dead instead of my niece. He was on a business trip and his credit cards stopped working. It took him over a year to get it straightened out.
To make things even worse, in the meantime, someone stole my nieces credit card number during the time they were trying to straighten this out and started charging things.
Over 1,200 people attended her visitation. They ran for it for 12 hours and finally had to turn people away.
Some times bad choices are made that no one can take back. My niece made a bad decision, the guy she was riding with made a bad decision.
Just to be clear, I did not want the driver to be put in prison. That does not bring my niece or the other 2 people back, but I wanted him to complete his community service which was to go to high schools and talk to the kids about the consequences of bad decisions and drinking and driving. We all saw that as the only good thing that would come of this. His refusal to complete the community service took that away too.
