No. 295 Life Lessons and the verbial "it can happen to you"

EDIT: So then I read another story from a prominent news channel, it says that SUV drove away after the accident-but then had the good faith to come back-COME ON MAN!?!


So today, I did my usual routine like every other American out there, you roll out of bed, stumble into the bathroom, drop toothpaste all over the sink until something lands on your brush and continue on through the rest of your day...until today I picked up the newspaper-usually don't read it, who cares about current events anyways-given that I am a political science major-nothing shocks me "did you say the war in Iraq is still going on and when are we pulling out..." I just don't look at it anymore, and I live in a place where news really isn't news, until today, I saw someone familiar. I say, wow, who is this person, I know him, vaguely-wasn't the best of light and to my non-shock, the kid has died, in a car accident. Not shocking in various ways:
1. We live in a community where it's very OC but think Pacific Northwest with Northface Jackets, Naglene bottles, and ipods and the requisite fast hot car.
2. The kid did not surprise me as dying in a drunk driving accident because
A. He smokes
B. He could smoke other things
C. I knew he got drunk
D. He was a prominent figure at school aka what kids call "popular"
3. The kid who was driving the car was known as the "4.0er" in HS, but he was "popular" which doesn't really imply that "all popular kids are prone to getting drunk and driving drunk"
4. The kid behind the wheel, his precious BMW was done over, given it was a 1990 and thankful that he can probably get a new one by know even though he tried to change it to an M5-very lame imho.
5. The kid who died wasn't that nice to me that is and altough he was known as "everyone's friend"
A. Given he was everyone's friend because he was a prominent figure in HS
B. He once sped past me on a one lane road going to school at like 7 in the morning because he thought I was going to slow-i'm driving at least 30-35 in a 30 mph and who wants to got to school early?
C. Odd, that he didn't join the fraternities and stayed in the dorms-either he lived in the same level as me or knew girls because I did see him often
D. Never tried to talk to me, but that doesn't really matter, it was more like his attitude, like you could tell he was one of those kind of guys who were "jerks," The kind that may help grandma into their sit but like get rough with a girl he liked

Anyways, so i'm really benevolent on this issue, but anyways, so this 22 year old rams his SUV into the guy's BMW, the SUV didn't stop for a red light and hence the accident just as the right moment the BMW was crossing the intersection. This was on Saturday at 11:30 PM. Ok, first off, 22 year old is drunk and is posting $350,000 bail, at first I thought oh two friends racing-which has happened and ended in an accident-so lame. No, this kid is from Seqium-why are you in the Pacific Northwest's OC? Anyways, so boy driving BMW is taken to hospital, both cars are full, 11 people I think? Anyways, all is fine, except one boy that dies, he just so happened to be sitting behind the driver and its' where the SUV rammed into him-pure force and very fast as the driver of SUV bent the steering wheel. Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time? What the hell, "it can happen to you" is so right because I mean I get the whole if you were drunk and driving then you died-ok, but I mean we don' tknow if the kid was drunk-I'm not even going to speculate, but he died because it was where the impact had occured-I mean, maybe a second more and it was near the trunk and the BMW could go into a tail spin-who knows right? But yea, and also, I mean I highly doubt the BMW ones were so intoxicated because 4.0er was driving-not that it really means much, but also it's 11:30 at night-why are you going home then? That doesn't even make sense, people get out at like 10, I don't know anyone who comes home from a night "out on the town" at 11:30? It's more like you are going to another place or an after party...it just sucks for the poor dude, I mean i'm sure he led a happy life and was always chill, but god, talk about being at the wrong place wrong time...and I bet the 22 year old boy is thinking, "holy crap I just killed a rich kid..."