HBO series to convince kids (and myself) not to drink and drive.

[Shari]

I know, long title. But I was up late watching HBO and this show, "Smashed: a series on teens and drinking and driving." (or something to that effect).

Dude if I was shown this shit when I was in HS I probably would still have a few friends of mine. :(

Really, REALLY graphic stuff. Gives the stories of 6 teens ranging in age of 14-17 and just...wow. They told about this one guy who drank and rode 4-wheelers and ended up in the shock trauma unit for a week. He had to relearn how to walk and talk.

Another guy and his two buddies drank a gallon of vodka between each other, dude fell from a 3 story balcony at a shopping mall and landed on his face. Brain swelled up and they showed ON TV, the bone saw cutting through the top of his skull and removing the plate to allow the blood clot to gush out and reduce the pressure on the brain.

There were four other stories but DAMN. I told my sister about that and she told me they show a similar thing in her driver's ed class. Scary shit.

[Numbers]

Saw a video like that in my HS driver's ed class. Dead bodies in wrecks, brains and guts and limbs smeared and scattered across the highway, that sort of thing. The scene I remember most is a member of the cleanup crew literally picking up the pieces and chunks of brain off the road and putting them in a garbage bag.

Since it was driver's ed, it was focused on safe driving; nothing in there about drinking and driving that I can remember.

[Artha]

Yeah we saw a movie or two like that also. Nothing super graphic, just after-math type shots and stories. I recall hearing about how some crash victims were naked, because they'd been thrown out of their car and their clothes had come off. And the anecdote that makes me put the seatbelt on whenever I'm going more than 100 feet in my car, "I've never had to unbuckle a body."

[ElanthianSiren]

I simply had an alcoholic family member.

Never touched the shit, never will.

-M

[HarmNone]

Fortunately, I've never liked the taste of alcohol well enough to become interested in it. Additionally, the times that I have had enough to matter, it doesn't make me feel good. It makes me feel horrible. I guess I'm lucky. It's not something I'd want to have in my life, really. A bit of Bailey's now and then is as much as I want.

[Shari]

I have no qualms about drinking, so long as you don't endanger your life or the life or another. As well as threatening/insulting that of another.

My father was an alcoholic, to the point where he had the passenger side of his truck broadsided by a train...and lived. I have never once driven drunk, but it is good (and shocking) to see they actually have people that are willing to let their children be recorded to see the aftermath of drinking and driving.

I think its a great idea.