But of course, here is another perfect example of society shifting responsibility to someone else. Hey, why should we take the blame for this? Our daughter didn’t do anything here? She was held against her own will and forced to drink alcohol! Now I’m going to sue! Hey Meyer family, why stop at the host of the party? Why don’t you sue the local authorities for not doing their job and breaking up the party? You should also sue the liquor store for selling it; regardless if they sold it to someone over 21. I mean c’mon, your daughter was not responsible for intoxicating herself. I’m pretty sure she was held at gunpoint and forced to drink. I’m sorry you lost your daughter (I have two teenage daughters) but you should have known where your daughter was going. Stop blaming others and take some responsibility for your own actions.
LOL DC you have two teenage daughters and you’d still expect an honest answer from your daughter when you ask that question? I coulda sworn you were trying to point out someone else’s naivete…
You can point the blame finger at anyone– the alcohol manufacturers, the distributors, the retailers, the providers, grain farmers for growing the grain, glass manufacturers for making the bottles, advertisers for pushing the product.
Or you could do the right thing and *blame at the intoxicated driver*.
If they want to know why their daughter is gone, look no further than the guy that chose to drive drunk with her in the car. Sue him. If they didn’t drink at this party, they would have somewhere else.
This suit is like blaming the moon for your sunburn.
You are right matt. The responsibility for this accident begins and ends with the idiot who chose to drive while drunk. This lawsuit is simply seeking more money.
I must point out that when MADD counts up “innocent” victims of drunk drivers, this girl will be chalked up as an “innocent victim” to feather MADD and NHTSA DD statistics.
She is hardly an innocent victim. She was drinking, willingly got into a car with a driver that was drinking and died in a crash.
Single vehicle accidents killing drinking drivers and their passengers make up the majority (over 90%) of MADD’s inflated DD statistics. Take out the non-innocent numbers and the illegal immigrant numbers and drunk driving laws a much to do about nothing.
Unless of course you are MADD profitting from each of the 1.8m annual arrestees in the US. An 18 BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR economy.
Are we sure the girl was even drinking? Yes it states that minors at the party were drinking and the driver of the vehicle was drinking but when did we find out she was drinking?
The article does not say whether or not she was drinking, but that still does not excuse getting into a vehicle operated by someone who was. In fact it makes her more responsible for her own actions, as she was competent to make the decision not to ride with an intoxicated driver. Even better, if she was in fact sober, she could have driven the both of them home and neither would be dead now.
All very good points. We should all put a mandatory commercial on TV that everyone has to watch. Don’t blame others, blame yourself first. Hopefully the courts will see that also. In regards to everyone saying minors, were they under 18, or just 21? If between 18 and 21, if this state is 21, then they are adults and responsible for their own actions. Now if they are under 18, then as a society, we chose that age for adulthood, therefore, contributing to someone under the age of 18, should have a penalty. So if the daughter was drunk, made a bad choice to ride with a drunk driver, then both the driver and the host should be responsible. If she wasn’t served alcohol, she may not have mad the bad choice. Now if she was over 18 and under 21, then only her and the driver are to blame. I’m going to sue someone just for reading this article. lol
Oh by the way, MADD’s comment makes no scense. Why pick on an organization that bring awareness to drunk driving? Pick on your senator or congressmen for passing bailouts!
I can’t believe after reading all the comments I forgot her age, she was over 18, duh. Her family should only be able to sue the driver and that’s it, if they should be able to sue at all. I’m going to sue them for my emotional distress on reading this. They forced me!!!!!!
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But of course, here is another perfect example of society shifting responsibility to someone else. Hey, why should we take the blame for this? Our daughter didn’t do anything here? She was held against her own will and forced to drink alcohol! Now I’m going to sue! Hey Meyer family, why stop at the host of the party? Why don’t you sue the local authorities for not doing their job and breaking up the party? You should also sue the liquor store for selling it; regardless if they sold it to someone over 21. I mean c’mon, your daughter was not responsible for intoxicating herself. I’m pretty sure she was held at gunpoint and forced to drink. I’m sorry you lost your daughter (I have two teenage daughters) but you should have known where your daughter was going. Stop blaming others and take some responsibility for your own actions.
LOL DC you have two teenage daughters and you’d still expect an honest answer from your daughter when you ask that question? I coulda sworn you were trying to point out someone else’s naivete…
The daughter was a passenger, not the driver.
You can point the blame finger at anyone– the alcohol manufacturers, the distributors, the retailers, the providers, grain farmers for growing the grain, glass manufacturers for making the bottles, advertisers for pushing the product.
Or you could do the right thing and *blame at the intoxicated driver*.
If they want to know why their daughter is gone, look no further than the guy that chose to drive drunk with her in the car. Sue him. If they didn’t drink at this party, they would have somewhere else.
This suit is like blaming the moon for your sunburn.
You are right matt. The responsibility for this accident begins and ends with the idiot who chose to drive while drunk. This lawsuit is simply seeking more money.
I must point out that when MADD counts up “innocent” victims of drunk drivers, this girl will be chalked up as an “innocent victim” to feather MADD and NHTSA DD statistics.
She is hardly an innocent victim. She was drinking, willingly got into a car with a driver that was drinking and died in a crash.
Single vehicle accidents killing drinking drivers and their passengers make up the majority (over 90%) of MADD’s inflated DD statistics. Take out the non-innocent numbers and the illegal immigrant numbers and drunk driving laws a much to do about nothing.
Unless of course you are MADD profitting from each of the 1.8m annual arrestees in the US. An 18 BILLION DOLLAR A YEAR economy.
It’s time for MADD to go away already.
Are we sure the girl was even drinking? Yes it states that minors at the party were drinking and the driver of the vehicle was drinking but when did we find out she was drinking?
The article does not say whether or not she was drinking, but that still does not excuse getting into a vehicle operated by someone who was. In fact it makes her more responsible for her own actions, as she was competent to make the decision not to ride with an intoxicated driver. Even better, if she was in fact sober, she could have driven the both of them home and neither would be dead now.
All very good points. We should all put a mandatory commercial on TV that everyone has to watch. Don’t blame others, blame yourself first. Hopefully the courts will see that also. In regards to everyone saying minors, were they under 18, or just 21? If between 18 and 21, if this state is 21, then they are adults and responsible for their own actions. Now if they are under 18, then as a society, we chose that age for adulthood, therefore, contributing to someone under the age of 18, should have a penalty. So if the daughter was drunk, made a bad choice to ride with a drunk driver, then both the driver and the host should be responsible. If she wasn’t served alcohol, she may not have mad the bad choice. Now if she was over 18 and under 21, then only her and the driver are to blame. I’m going to sue someone just for reading this article. lol
Oh by the way, MADD’s comment makes no scense. Why pick on an organization that bring awareness to drunk driving? Pick on your senator or congressmen for passing bailouts!
I can’t believe after reading all the comments I forgot her age, she was over 18, duh. Her family should only be able to sue the driver and that’s it, if they should be able to sue at all. I’m going to sue them for my emotional distress on reading this. They forced me!!!!!!
Connecticut should be banned from the union! Idiots!! We can replace them with Iraq, Puerto Rico, or even Mexico for that matter.