The Laughing Wolf

A Request For All This Day/Night

I’m not going to bore you with the need to be careful out there. You know the alert level, you’ve read the posts, and I hope you have read my posts or other’s on practical preparedness. What I want to do right now is to ask each and everyone out there a huge favor:

Please do not drink and drive.

This night is the time of year that officers fear the most, because of the number of people who do drink and drive. Even just a couple of drinks can impair you, and this is a night where many people don’t just stop a two.

I really don’t care if you drive and kill yourself, for in my book that is not a tragedy on any level, simply natural selection in action. What you need to think about is that you might survive.

Back in 1976, my family lost the person I regard as having been the best and brightest of my generation. This person was brilliant, charming, talented, and much, much, more. They had a bright future ahead of them, until a drunk hit them. The family member did not die immediately, but lasted several long, torturous days. They were not the only one who died during that time: the damage to that family was tremendous, and that drunk not only directly killed one person, but I hold them to be responsible for at least one other actual death and many other problems. To the best of my knowledge, the drunk was not even severely injured.

Over the years, through work with security and friendships with police and related, I have come to know of the other tragedies, where drunks have not killed, but maimed and crippled. Talented athletes paralyzed, brilliant students reduced to the mental level of a child, and on and on ad nauseum.

So think: is your selfish desire worth the torture or murder of another human being?

Don’t drink and drive. Take a cab, hire a car, use a designated driver. Be responsible, even if you do end up with a lampshade on your head.

LW