enthalpy

Wednesday, April 07, 2004


Let's say you're a 17 year old football player ready to leave a party. You've been drinking all night, done a little OxyContin, and your friends try to talk you out of driving. But you do anyway, getting into your car without using the seatbelt. You come up to a rain-slickened curve just past a hill. What do you do next? Accelerate, right?
The parents of 17-year-old Mooresville High School football player Steven L.R. Terrell, who died Nov. 1 in an auto accident, have indicated they intend to sue Morgan County officials. They cite the county's failure to properly maintain, construct and post warnings along the stretch of road where their son was killed.

The place where Terrell died after a post-football game party is on a precarious stretch of narrow roadway between a curve and a hill. Yet thousands of drivers travel the road without incident year after year.
I guess it's sad when anyone meets a tragic end like this. Even stupid people. But what could possibly be going through the minds of the parents that file such a lawsuit? Even if there is something legitimately wrong with the road, it's not going to be addressed in this suit. This one will be reduced to what it really is. Another drunk, hopped up teenager with more testosterone than sense.



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