How life pans out

JudgeDeath said:
There are many... I pointed several out... also.. more than 1 drunk in car... Just pointing out we arent far from first efforts
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That idea is unworkable rather than just flawed

I’ve no idea how or if this sort of thing will ever happen, but sensing alcohol levels of passengers is not a goer is it. :)
 
Life can be hard, and regardless of the fact that OP's school acquaintance has to face the music for his own actions and bears responsibility for them I do feel a bit of sympathy for him.

Obviously I don't know the details, but it sounds like this guy's not been happy with his life for some time, and has not felt or been able to make necessary changes. That'd come to a head when he knowingly put himself, his career (surely no way he'll work as a paramedic again after this), and other people at risk in order to go and live a temporary make-believe life with his mistress, escaping from the awful situation he'd just created with his actual wife/family. I don't think happy well adjusted people do things like that.

Does give you pause for thought wondering what led the schoolboy you were familiar with to end up in a situation like that. Maybe 'pathos' is the right word.

I guess I've had similar thoughts about someone from a few years below me at school that I was acquainted with who later stalked a girl for some time and stabbed her when she turned him down. And similar feelings of pathos about someone I knew from uni who died with his wife while on holiday last year (both in early 20s).

Life is a funny old thing, and you can never know what's going to happen next or what's really going on in anyone else's head.
 
GreatAuk said:
And similar feelings of pathos about someone I knew from uni who died with his wife while on holiday last year (both in early 20s).

Life is a funny old thing, and you can never know what's going to happen next or what's really going on in anyone else's head.
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The couple both died or just him, how did it happen?
 
Malevolence said:
I'll just copy 'n' paste my reply to another thread. Having lost a very close friend to a drink driver it's my firm belief that there should be a zero tolerance policy. Anyone caught drink driving, whether or not they've hit somebody/something, should be fined and jailed. Then upon release they should be stripped of any right to hold a driving licence for life.
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Sorry I disagree with this. I'm in agreement that accidents caused by impairment should be treated a lot more severely because of the compounding factor. As in significant jail time, fines etc.

But not if no negative actions were caused by the action and it was simply registered by a roadblock etc. This is not in the same category.
 
Bassmansam said:
The couple both died or just him, how did it happen?
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Both of them - was one of the Greek islands and they accidentally drove off a cliff while trying to turn a motorised buggy round. Made the news at the time. Just one of those things that came completely out of the blue and really throws you thinking about how they used to be and how quickly a few decisions / random factors can lead to tragedy.
 
GreatAuk said:
Both of them - was one of the Greek islands and they accidentally drove off a cliff while trying to turn a motorised buggy round. Made the news at the time. Just one of those things that came completely out of the blue and really throws you thinking about how they used to be and how quickly a few decisions / random factors can lead to tragedy.
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crikey thats awful, assuming this is them.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....died-reversing-buggy-off-cliff-santorini/amp/
 
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