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Originally Posted by sodom1965
After loosing my 18 year old son to a repeat offender drunk driver and loosing two more of his classmates with six months of each other due to alcohol related accidents I don't think anything is too much to get the attention of our children. We all know as teens and even adults things like that don't happen to us they happen to other people but if it makes them realize it can happen to them then maybe they will think twice before being so careless with their lives and the lives of others. They will get over this hoax a lot quicker than their family could ever get over loosing them. Sometimes we have to use the SHOCK factor to get their attention. I strongly recommend this for all high schools! Thanks MADD for all you do!
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I am pro stronger drinking and driving penalties (financial and criminal) and enforcement. I am pro-MADD for most things they do. But the emotional damage from this hoax is to me crossing a line. Staging for them an accident, good, showing the damage good, showing them pictures of other students who have died (with permission from their family) is ok, but lying about a classmates death is a line that is to me to much.