The next time someone tells me that marijauna smokers aren't a danger to anyone, I'll probably fling poo in their face and proceed to monkeystomp them with a pair of army ClueBoots®...
From NBC 5 in Dallas, Texas:
DALLAS -- A 20-year-old mother of an infant was killed Wednesday in a multi-vehicle crash that closed portions of Interstate 35-E (Stemmons) northbound at Royal Lane.
Investigators arrested an unidentified man at the scene. They said he had been driving erratically in a Lincoln Towncar on the southbound side of the highway before his vehicle clipped an 18-wheeler.
As a result, the semi-truck hit a pickup and both vehicles crossed the highway divider.
"When the 18-wheeler hit [the median], it hit at just the right angle that it was able to jump over the median. It had a lot of inertia and the median just couldn't stop it," Lt. David Smith said.
McCauley's Pontiac sedan traveling northbound collided with at least one of the vehicles, killing her and wounding her baby.
"I see a baby stick his left hand up, or her left hand up ... I got over there and it was just covered in blood. It had a big gash, or a chunk taken out of its forehead," Brian Trip said. "I looked at the mother -- there was no life."
NBC 5 reported that the infant was hospitalized and expected to fully recover.
Police administered a field sobriety test on the man they arrested, and said he admitted to being under the influence of marijuana at the time of the crash.
Now, I know some folks feel strongly that we should legalize marijuana. This post isn't intended as an argument against it...I'm merely pointing out that marijuana CAN affect a person's motor skills (no pun intended) and people under the influence are just as dangerous as those bastards who like to get drunk and then arm themselves with a 2000 pound projectile.
Anyway, the story really pissed me off...a baby is now forced to grow up without its mother because some ASSHAT chose to go one toke over the line on a busy highway.
Posted by Darth Monkeybone at December 2, 2004 08:07 AMYeah, this isn't a article to debate legalization of drugs. This is an article which proves that people who choose to drive while impared (by anything- legal or not) and cause injury deserve whatever they get (and let the family at them if they kill someone).
My prayers go out to the baby and his or her family.
Posted by: Beth at December 2, 2004 09:05 AMThere was a time when Texas, like Singapore, had severe penalties for the possession and use of illegal drugs, the liberals changed all that.I don't think it would be barbaric to re-instate those laws. A televised death by hanging, not by some doctor's drug induced haze, to be faced in the full light of sobriety.
Posted by: Jack at December 2, 2004 12:26 PMIm a libertarian regarding Marajuana laws, but driving on anything needs to remain a crime .
That is a sad story.
Some people are idiots no matter what there drug of choice.
I wont drive on anything stronger then an asprin, after my own SSI or sudden stupidity incindent in the early 80s.
Fell asleep after a long day of gigging and partying.
Fell asleep spun van aroung three times came to a halt ,and realised I had a second chance.
Missed a bridge abutment by about 2 feet.
I think about everytime I pass that spot ..
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