GREAT headline on this Yahoo story:"Drink-driving speech has teens dropping 'like flies'". Sounds like speaker Marti Belluschi is really "driving" the point home:
More than a dozen boys at a Roman Catholic high school in Chicago fainted during a speech Thursday in which crash survivor Marti Belluschi described in grisly detail the injuries she suffered in the wreck and the facial reconstruction surgery she required afterwards, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
Seven boys who felt faint and queasy were taken to hospital following the incident. "I nearly vomited a few times listening to her," said Danny Bowery, 14, who returned to school after being checked out in hospital.
"Definitely, I got her message."
"They were dropping like flies in the gym," Brother Konrad Diebold, president of St. Patrick High School, told the daily. "I saw one of them throwing up in a bucket."
Well, that's one approach to scare them away from drunk driving, although I'd think it would put them off driving altogether (it certainly would me). My theory is that kids would benefit from having to watch the Cops ("Too Hot for TV!") episodes that features drunk drivers acting particular asinine (and getting slapped with huge fines and jail times). Teenagers may not be afraid of death, but they're petrified of public humilation, and if they were warned that getting pulled over while drunk might result in their being filmed and laughed at, or were made aware of how stupid and pathetic drunks appear, that might have an effect.
Posted by kswygert at April 26, 2004 08:45 AM