Man drives home drunk with decapitated friend...

[sailor]

I read this today and thought I was going to be sick. Besides the fact that hes a dumbass for driving home drunk, I understand the accident itself was a freak accident--but how the fuck do you not notice that?

Georgian drives with headless friend
Mon 30 August, 2004 15:47

ATLANTA (Reuters) - A Georgia man who drove home with a friend's headless body after a truck accident then went to bed while the remains dangled out the window faces charges including vehicular homicide and drunk driving, police say.

John Hutcherson, covered in blood and visibly inebriated, was arrested in bed on Sunday morning after a local resident out on a stroll observed a headless, bloody body hanging out of the 21-year-old man's truck, Cobb County police said.

Hutcherson was due to make an initial court appearance on Monday.

Police said that Hutcherson and his friend, identified as Francis Brohm, 23, were returning from a bar outside Atlanta early Sunday morning when their black 1992 Chevrolet Z-71 pickup hit a curb near a telephone pole.

Brohm, partially outside the window at the time, was decapitated by a guide wire on the telephone pole, according to police, who recovered his head at the crash site. "Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor," police said.

Taken from http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackage...5&section=news

[Cadwiz]

I love it when they put "Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor". DUH!

[maleficent]

Originally Posted by sailor

"Alcohol is believed to be a contributing factor," police said.
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Gee, ya think?

It's been forever since I've been drunk so I have to ask the question. Is it really possible to get that drunk, and still be able to drive, and have that kind of horrific accident and not be aware of it?
Wouldn't it have made a sound, wouldn't he have been aware that his friend was no longer speaking?

I know it was a CSI episode, but I think it was a "pulled from the headlines" wasnt there a woman who ran into a homeless guy, and he got stuck in the window and she just kept going to her garage where he finally died a day or two later.

How can someone not notice all that blood?

[Bill O'Rights]

This sounds like an opening sequence to a Six Feet Under episode.

[tooth]

Man! I am never hanging my head out the window to puke ever again.

[maleficent]

I'm not all that squeemish, however, I could just imagine the nightmares for the neighbor person discovering the body - -first reaction would have been -- oh it's a halloween decoration -- oh wait- -no it's not... or discovering the head? Ewww... Yuck....

[Cynthetiq]

my friend came too in an accident with a decapitated head on her lap. Many years of therapy, and she's still not all that right...

sad.

and that's why they say please keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times.

[splck]

When I was in high school, a local kid was decapitated when he stuck his head out of a car and hit a rural mailbox. Unlike this story, his friend in the car noticed his lack of a head right away.

Freak accidents are weird.

[ShaniFaye]

(this is pretty near where I live)

When I heard this on the radio this morning, I just KNEW I had to have heard it wrong...it is honestly one of the most disturbing things I've ever heard. Naturally its all over our news, on tv and radio, every time you turn around. Can you imagine being the guy that found it and reported it to the police?

here is another story on it http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...0marfatal.html

Cobb driver charged after decapitated body found in truck

By SAEED AHMED, BRENDEN SAGER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/30/04


A Marietta man left a bar early Sunday morning, got into an accident that decapitated the passenger in his pickup truck, then drove several miles home and went to sleep — leaving his pickup truck parked overnight in his driveway with the body of his friend hanging out the passenger side window, Cobb County police said.

Hutcherson then drove 12 miles to his home on Fox Hound Chase, where police found him Sunday morning in blood-splattered clothes.

"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive [several] miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you in your vehicle," said Cobb police Cpl. Dana Pierce.

A neighbor out on a stroll with his 1-year-old daughter called authorities after discovering the headless body in the parked truck about 8 a.m.

Hutcherson was charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, driving under the influence, failure to stop at an accident with death or injury and failure to maintain lanes. He remained in the Cobb County Jail on Sunday night, held on $10,000 bond.

Police said that before the two friends got to Runaround Sue's in Marietta late Saturday night, they had been at a house where they had gathered to watch a televised NASCAR event. Brohm's father, Dan Brohm, said that Brohm was a mechanic who worked late on Saturdays and then met up with friends sometimes.

Police don't know how long the friends were at the bar but said the two left after Brohm felt sick.

Less than a mile and half from the bar, the pickup truck ran off Canton Road, traveled about 10 feet and hit the guide wire.

Investigators have not yet determined how fast the truck was going. Police would not say why Brohm was hanging out the passenger-side window when he was struck.

After the accident, police said, Hutcherson's route home took him through a commercial and industrial district that changed to dark, narrow winding roads before reaching the two-story Colonial house where he lives with his mother and sister. He parked the 1992 Chevrolet Z-71 in the driveway to the house's two-car garage.

Except for the body in the passenger seat, the only thing amiss was the passenger-side mirror, which had been sheared off in the accident.

Later that morning, police found the severed head at the crash site on Canton Road.

Pierce would not say how Hutcherson explained the headless body in his truck.

Robert Gladstone, 61, who lives a few doors down from Hutcherson's house and describes him as "a fine fellow," said residents were shocked when they saw the police and the white sheet over the body in the truck.

"But as the day progressed and we found out more and more, my wife and I were in utter disbelief," he said. "It was beyond our imagination."

The owner of Runaround Sue's said Sunday that the bar offers a courtesy van to take home intoxicated patrons. Before customers are allowed to enter, bar personnel check to see if they are inebriated, and the staff continues to monitor patrons' alcohol intake throughout the night, said owner David Ulmer.

"To my knowledge, these people weren't served alcohol at Runaround Sue's," Ulmer said. "It's unfortunate that we may have been the last stop they made before this horrendous incident."

Brohm's father described Francis — Frankie to the family — as a fun-loving person who had been friends with Hutcherson since high school.

"He was a very outgoing person who was very close with his friends and very close with his [two] sisters," Dan Brohm said.

Next-door neighbor James Q. Collier, a retired engineer from Lockheed, said he has known Hutcherson for almost 20 years. When Collier was laid up because of an ulcer a few years ago, Hutcherson would come by to help with household chores, he said.

"It sounds awful, I'm sorry for both families," Collier said. "That kid has never been any problem."

[Sargeman]

How the hell does one even reply to that?

Unfreakinbelievable!! Maybe he thougt his friend was still puking of had fallen asleep while sticking his head out the window....... FUCK!! I just don't know how to respond.

[Averett]

Of course alcohol was a factor...

Anyway, I'd say the driver was in shock. I was in a car wreck a few years back and I figured the blood on my head was rain. And 8 hours later I had no idea that I had broken my arm and leg until it was pointed out to me. I have no memory of being taken out of the car and put into the amublance. Don't remember going into the hospital. Don't remember the doctors wraping up my arm and leg. Shock...

[ShaniFaye]

They have since said marijuana was a factor too

[maleficent]

I"m going to go out on a limb and say that stupidity was a factor.
{jumps on soapbox)
I frankly don't care anymore about what drugs or drink people do when they are on their own (their choice). Once they get into a car/truck and think they can drive, they are just plain stupid. Absolutely nothing they can do can explain the decision to drink and drive other than sheer utter stupidity.

[nothingx]

Okay, maybe I'm just a huge antenna geek, but one thing about both articles has bothered me... From the first one, "decapitated by a guide wire on the telephone pole" and the second one "traveled about 10 feet and hit the guide wire". It's guy wire.

[*Nikki*]

Just think.....the head sat out all night and some the next day before it was discovered by police. Imagine just walking along, and look, theres a head on the ground.

How odd.

[water_boy1999]

Gold Darwin Award for sure.

I've peed my pants while drunk and never even noticed it, but this is beyond soggy BVD's.

[whocarz]

I'll bet the passenger was wondering what the hell was going on as his head went airborne, right before he blacked out.

[The Phenomenon]

This is 100% stupid.

[ezekial@atl]

i dont know , but i live near that guy, and i've seen him before, but how could you be that drunk, i mean , people are sayin that he didnt even have a beer at the bar, they give you a stamp if you are already drunk. i bet he knew his bro was pukin and looked the other way, and then blacked out, till the morn. after.
definately gold darwin.

[ForgottenKnight]

I'd say darwism award if the driver had been the one decapitated, but since it was the passenger, I suppose I can't say that. I'm gussing that he was leaning out the side puking at the time. Not noticing can be blamed on shock, disbelief, the drugs, alcohol, magic faries, gremlins, aliens, or anything else you want to blame it on, but there's no just no escuse for drunk driving.

[snoop]

Well he asked his mate if he wanted to sleep in the car . . . didn't get a response so . . . .

S

[Speed_Gibson]

Originally Posted by maleficent

......

I know it was a CSI episode, but I think it was a "pulled from the headlines" wasnt there a woman who ran into a homeless guy, and he got stuck in the window and she just kept going to her garage where he finally died a day or two later.

How can someone not notice all that blood?

It happened in Florida back in '01 or so. I remember when that story was fresh and first hit Fark.

[The Phenomenon]

You know you've had enough to drink when...

[THGL]

The guy that died is from Louisville, KY. My daughter's babysitter knew him (her daughter went to high school with him). Our babysitter is going to the funeral on Friday and wanted to take our daughter with her... we opted to keep her home that day.

Small world.

[animosity]

As soon as I read the first line, "Georgian drives with headless friend" I thought, must be a cobb county man...

This guy had to have known. I bet he thought(in his drunken state) that if he ignored it that when he woke up it might be gone.

[-Ever-]

"Runaround Sue's"......"Georgia"........"1992 Z-71"......."Alcohol".......nope, the story doesn't surprise me.

rip
-T

[xepherys]

Originally Posted by Speed_Gibson

It happened in Florida back in '01 or so. I remember when that story was fresh and first hit Fark.

The guilty driver was also a nurse I believe.

[Baldrick]

Originally Posted by maleficent

I"m going to go out on a limb and say that stupidity was a factor.
{jumps on soapbox)
I frankly don't care anymore about what drugs or drink people do when they are on their own (their choice). Once they get into a car/truck and think they can drive, they are just plain stupid. Absolutely nothing they can do can explain the decision to drink and drive other than sheer utter stupidity.

Amen maleficent. The idiot made the decision to drive drunk, stupidity is the only defence he has. Life in prison sounds about fitting...

[greytone]

I will just throw in my 2 cents from Cobb. The passenger does deserve a Darwin award because he got in the truck with that moron. Thank God I was home in bed when he was on the road!

[-Ever-]

Originally Posted by greytone

I will just throw in my 2 cents from Cobb. The passenger does deserve a Darwin award because he got in the truck with that moron.

And he stuck his head out the window...

[Erlein]

There are times that you just have to say..... wow. This is one of those times i think.

I've tied on a few good ones , but how blasted does one need to be to not notice that?

[Fly]

Originally Posted by splck

When I was in high school, a local kid was decapitated when he stuck his head out of a car and hit a rural mailbox. Unlike this story, his friend in the car noticed his lack of a head right away.

Freak accidents are weird.

i remember that too splck...........go figure eh,alcohol is a legal drug.

[redarrow]

Lets be glad a cannibal didnt find the head.

[orphen]

so my parents weren't kidding when they told me not to stick my limbs out as kid huh?

but seriously, these stories have scared me enough.i don't think i'll ever stick my limbs out of a car.

[raven12]

How could he not know his friend was decapitated. Ill never stick anything out of the window again!

[Seer666]

Just one more case in point to my belief that 90% of humanities problems could have been fixed with the early aplication of a coat hanger. Unbelieveable.