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COMMENTS:
Voted : The Hoax was a Bad Idea
How on earth did the school and police officials think this would end well??!!!!
Voted : The Hoax was a Bad Idea
Wow. Only in America. It will never cease to amaze me how such obviously terrible ideas slip through the cracks. It's really just a sick, sick, sick, sick thing to do. And to teenagers? I understand that would be the obvious target audience for such a spectacle, but are teenage minds not fragile enough that they should be putting up with this nonsense? F***sake.
I do remember seeing a crashed up car sitting out a school once, but I can't remember where. I do remember the sign in front of the car. Make the right choice. Remember Steven.
I guess it was Steven's car, and he crashed. I do not know if he died.
Voted : The Hoax was a Bad Idea
--I don't think it will stop anyone fropm drinking and driving.
--It will leave some students traumatized for a very long timne.
--It will destroy any trust in policemen thesse students may have had.
Voted : The Hoax was a Bad Idea
They have the reenactments of DWI aftermaths at a nearby school and many students say that it actually makes them think more about it after seeing the emotions up close, even though it is acting.
But it's nothing like this. This is just plain deliberate lying. It would take an idiot to not know that death is something that people take extremely seriously and shouldn't be toyed around with. The emotions involved are one thing, but there are incidents all the time where people have to be hospitalized after receiving word that someone close to them has died. It's for everything from shock to heart attack. That's what kind of emotion those school officials and patrol officers were playing with.
I'd rather be beaten senseless than to find out that someone close to me has died, and what they did to those kids was the emotional equivalent.
Voted : The Hoax was a Bad Idea
This is another example of well meaning people using extremly bad judgement... this reminds me of the hoax played on students claiming a crazed armed student was on the loose in the school and there was someone beating and knocking on the classroom door trying to get in... these types of "lessons" do far more harm than good.
Sometimes hoaxes can have the desired effect without traumatizing those people that are supposedly being learned a lesson... I remember when I was in basic training (boot camp) in Pensacola, Fl. in 1972, on our second day we were standing at attention in front of our lockers when suddenly a man ran into the room being chased by two Petty officers and went into the back room where it seemed he got a beat down for not following the rules (we couldn't see what happened) but it was on graduation day we were told it was a set up to make us think it would happened to us if we got too far out of line, and for the most part, it worked...
I'm heavily involved in the Mothers Against Drunk Driving program, I don’t know if I would go this far to scare the kids, but almost every year at graduation at least one student in the area dies in alcohol-related accident, if what they did in Oceanside stops even one person from driving drunk, I'll say it was worth the few hours of mourning these teens went though, that is better than a life time of mourning if a student or Innocent Bystander really is killed because of stupidity
Voted : The Hoax was a Bad Idea
The germ of a good idea that went too far due to poor judgment.
Back when I was in driver's ed in HS, the day before I was to go to the range for my final road test, several other students and I were taken to the county morgue, to view the bodies of people who had died in accidents. Only one was a DUI, some moe-ron who believed that he could kill a bottle of Jack and then climb onto his Yamaha and get home safely. I didn't drink *before* then, and the sight helped me to stay in that mindset. I won't say that this was an entirely good idea, but it does have its merits and, living ina world where you can see liquor ads during the NBA Finals, regardless of age, I daresay that *something* needs be done.
Voted : The Hoax was a Bad Idea
It was a waste of time since many kids from my old school's died from drinking related car crashes and other deaths related to drugs and guess what? It keeps on going and going and going...
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