If that doesnt make people think of the seriousness of drink driving, nothing will.
Just dont do it folks.........please!
MQ, I have a lump in my throat......
Christmas time two years ago a good friend was knocked over and killed by a drunk driver....... we buried him on new years eve.......
Things will never be the same at christmas and new year after that.
To be honest I have read it once and can't bring myself to read it again, it is such a powerful poem and I feel sick inside to think what some ignorant bastards can do, but it happens all the time. It had me in tears, it is one of your worst fears that somebody you love could be taken away from you this way just because some pissed up arsehole decided to drive a car.
I know there are a lot of shock tactics in advertising about this subject but it is worthwhile if it makes people think twice.
Def agree x
Thinking of my friend Sharon who was taken this way - and her two kids that were left without their mum.
There is frankly no excuse
To Sharon x
Cathy x
MQ this isn't a hi-jack but people need to think about speed, talking on mobile phones and drugs as well. All needless killers.
Thank you for the post.............even if it stops just one person then the poem has done its job
Dave_Notts
I've seen this one a couple of times now.. and each time I read it it makes me cry!! Very true message :cry:
Have seen that before too. really does make you think.
Especially today...........today, well. I recieved the phone call we all know we will get but never want to hear.
My partners Dad died suddenly this morning.
He will be missed.
M
Sorry about your loss tonmar, my father lost his dad not so long ago......
I know how it can affect people, try to look forward and remember all the best times you had with him.
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I was on the receiving end of a drunk driver a couple of years ago. Literally I was 100 yards from home, driving to a friends house. I had to wait to pass a parked car as another car was coming towards me. I just assumed that it would pass and I could continue on my journey.
WRONG!. The other car hit my front wing, pushed the side of the car in, and only stopped when its front wheel got locked in my rear wheel arch. Thankfully, as I was stationary, I was unhurt. Inside the other car was a little, frail old lady who lived in the next road to us.
I only realised that she was drunk when she took a television remote control out of her handbag and tried to telephone her husband on it. He didn't answer, as we dont get good reception of channel 5 here. She had a bottle of wine in her handbag and admitted to having spent the day drinking whisky.
When the Police turned up, they arrested her on the spot. And after several statements from me going into the small hours she was charged. The outcome was she was banned from driving for 3 years and had a 2 year community re-habilition order served on her.
It didnt stop her from drinking as we have seen her on a number of occasions in the local shops buying more alcohol. Only she has to walk there now, rather than drive. And as there are two schools very close, I am thankfully that it was me she drove into that evening, rather than a child walking to school the following morning.
Ian
Sorry didnt mean to hijack the post...........
Just, well you know....got me thinking that was all........
M xx
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It's easy to be judgemental about drink drivers but when judges themselves lurch out of cars onto the pavement pissed as rats and their 'colleagues' let them off what are we to expect. It's corruption at the highest level and smacks of cronyism - but its still not an excuse for everyone else to do it - it simply makes it harder for messages like the one contained in this poem harder to impact onto to the general public.
This poem ought to be sent to the BBC or whatever gov. dept. is responsible for the xmas ad campaigns and used as the basis for a drink/driving awareness campaign
that leaves nothing else to be said. well done MQ. maybe that poem should become a sticky at the top of the forum
Nice post MQ
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