The world is real, peer pressure is real, and drunk driving is very real, and doesn't just affect those idiots who do it. These programs exist to show kids what happens when you drink and drive. It's not some wussy, watered-down, less-graphic nonsense. It's the real deal. You drink, you drive, you can kill people and/or yourself. Cut and dried.
To those who argue this is too graphic: tough shit. When you pull the programs, and use cute little cartoons of dead people to make it more palatable for the kiddies, your kids will get a much better view, first-hand of the destruction, torturous death and dismemberment that this horrible crime causes.
When they have to see this gore for the first time by witnessing a friend or loved one cut down for no reason, and dying in their arms, you can tell them there were programs that helped lower the number of "drinking and driving" incidents, but you felt it was too graphic to show people what really happens. Good luck on that one.
As for the story, it was an unfortunate accident. The odds of that happening of virtually zero, and it only happened because the kid didn't recognize her father's real name. Sad, yes- a reason to cut these programs? Fuck no.
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