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Teen driver arrested after live-streaming crash that killed her sister.
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We haven't even got to the long term addiction consequences yet.
firestarter99
Member
I remember this advert that ran in the UK years ago about the dangers of not wearing a seatbeat in the back.
If you're going in someone else car, and see that the others are not wearing their seatbelts, you can try mentioning it, but if they don't want to listen, you can't do anything about it (you should use it anyway).
If the driver doesn't care, then some people may not wear the seatbelt. However, as long as the driver cares, everyone in the car has to wear it.
IMACOMPUTA
Member
The article said the video showed some head bleeding. It was much worse than that.
If my curiosity leads me to watching something like this, who are you or anyone else on this forum to judge? Get out of here with this shit.
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Deleted member 1235
Unconfirmed Member
Didn't watch it and won't but yeah, this sounds like a depressing case of how ingrained social media is into kids that this girl thought it was appropriate to document her dead/dying sister
Raven117
Member
This....While all of this is tragic..."Silly teens doing something stupid in a car and get in car accident" (this is sadly, common)...what takes it to the next level is the continuation of still streaming.
Why? What compelled this person to keep streaming? Was it shock? Was it to make it seem unreal? Was the need for social gratification stronger than the comfort of her dying sister?
So many questions.
I tell you. There have been an incredible amounts of technological advances specifically in communication that we as humans do not quite understand how its effecting us.
Why are you trying to excuse that woman? Everything, absolutely everything she did was wrong and is reprehensible.
Why is there aways preople trying to defend even the wordt things, you know some people are just bad people.
I'd refuse to drive if I were the driver and an idiot in the backseat wouldn't put on their seatbelt for some reason.
Lumpy Onion
Member
Feels like half the time I catch a glance of another driver they have their phone in their hand. It's scary.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
The video was pretty graphic. Surprised YouTube is ok with it still being up.
It's sad that it took the death of a child to get that piece of human trash behind bars.
It's sad that it took the death of a child to get that piece of human trash behind bars.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
Think back to your early days of driving. Drive defensively. Sadly, the odds of you being killed by a driver on the phone are way higher than they should be.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
That's a great advertisement. Do the driving classes show the gory car crash videos anymore?
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
I have to go with shock as the reason she starts streaming again after the wreck. If you weren't in some state of shock after that bad of a wreck AND watching your sister die in front of you i would be amazed.
I originally thought she might have done it to try and make everything seem ok with the people that were watching... trying to avoid the shit storm she must have known was coming in the back of her head. Then as the second tick on and the reality check tears her guts out of her and she can tell her sister is.. you know.. fucking dead... she starts to get more hysterical.
Fucking stupid idiot. Seat belts every time please everyone. Fuck.
I originally thought she might have done it to try and make everything seem ok with the people that were watching... trying to avoid the shit storm she must have known was coming in the back of her head. Then as the second tick on and the reality check tears her guts out of her and she can tell her sister is.. you know.. fucking dead... she starts to get more hysterical.
Fucking stupid idiot. Seat belts every time please everyone. Fuck.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Haven't watched the video (and won't) but yea, reading about this I was reminded of the article The Atlantic did about child socio/psychopaths.
Excusing her for what? Being traumatized? She may have caused the accident, and she is going to pay for that, but if you think that makes her any less a victim you're wrong.
You might be thinking that because she is at fault for what happened that she was somehow immune to the trauma or that trauma would manifest like you would expect, but it just doesn't work that way.
Her sister had a giant hole in her head and her reaction to it was trying to wake her up. The way she was acting was not like someone that doesn't care, it's of someone who barely understands what is going on and is trying to cope. By the end she starts to lose it.
DonMigs85
Member
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...reamed-instagram-doesn-t-blame-driver-n786316
So the other teen girl doesn't blame her, and now the parents are defending her too? Guess they don't want to lose their remaining child to prison?
So the other teen girl doesn't blame her, and now the parents are defending her too? Guess they don't want to lose their remaining child to prison?
AlexFlame116
Member
....what?
Earthbound64
Banned
She's a "victim" now?...
"'Honestly, I'm not mad at anybody and I don't blame anybody,' Manuela Seja, 14, told NBC affiliate KSEE. "
I mean, we already know these kids didn't have good judgement or understand the consequences of actions, so I'm not sure how much that would actually matter.
Yes. A person can fuck up and also be a victim. That you had to ask is rather disturbing.
Dangansona
Member
Honestly I see this shit and for a brief moment feel every bit of resentment older people have to our generation and how we use technology. Who gives a shit about your stream?
Self driving cars need to become a reality because we can't trust people behind the wheel.
Self driving cars need to become a reality because we can't trust people behind the wheel.
Victim is not the right word to use here. Victim implies she's suffering as a result of someone else's actions. You aren't a victim of your own decisions.
I would just say that she's also experienced a traumatic event, even though it was her choices that caused it.
spazchicken
Member
Horrible. This instantly got me thinking about my loved ones and how easily this could happen to any of us.
I'm curious of the temperament of the deceased sister. I wonder if she would have acted the same if the tables were turned or if she was just as "gangsta". Not that any of that matters.
I'm curious of the temperament of the deceased sister. I wonder if she would have acted the same if the tables were turned or if she was just as "gangsta". Not that any of that matters.
Yeah that shocked me I guess they don't blame her for swerving into oncoming traffic at innocent drivers before the accident. Had it not been her sister they could have killed someone else. Is she a victim yes but not in the sense we think. She is a victim of her poor choices.
An 18 year old intoxicated with three 14 year old kids in the car. What was she going to hold down? Assuming she understands the gravity if what she did she will have to live with this forever. Based on those videos It was quite possibly a matter of time. Condolences to the family and I empathize with their predicament. Tough position to be in as parents or family. I hopefully she can find the help she needs.
chicagocubsfan
Member
That video is fucking awful. RIP. What an idiot.
"Despite video evidence to the contrary, this person who clearly committed this crime is not to blame for the horrific accident that she caused... while videotaping the entire thing."
Ok.
Earthbound64
Banned
Cute condescension.
I could reply to this, but it's probably a bit soon for Godwin's Law to be evoked in this topic.
1. People do judge you on your actions. That's life.
2. My original point is for everyone bitching about this kind of stuff being filmed while watching it, they are encouraging his kind of stuff. Don't like people doing this, don't give them clicks.
3. And I disbelieve some one would watch this cause they wanted to learn a life lesson. That just seems dishonest. I watched it and I can admit I was curious (and yes I can be morbidly curious). Mostly to see if I agreed with people's reaction to if she seemed callous/cold.
Do you or your loved ones make it a habit to drink and drive or get into the car with a drunk driver?
No? Then not that easily.
Karsticles
Member
If this leads to a few more people wearing seatbelts, it's good for it to stay.
DongBeetle
Banned
So basically you guys choose who you want to survive by having them in the front passengers because they'd be properly secured and not fucking catapulted out the front of the car
spazchicken
Member
NoRéN;244499691 said:
I shouldn't have to tell you that the person at fault in a car related death doesn't have to be in the same car as the victim.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
And those "crappy, uncomfortable" old-style lap belts saved countless lives.
spiderman123
Member
I saw a video a few days back with a guy drowning and people on the shore live streaming it and saying they not going to save him.
This nonsense needs to stop.
This nonsense needs to stop.
...and is this thread about a drunk driver striking other people?
I mean, I'm not gonna go into that stabbing thread and say, "man, this really makes me think that I can be stabbed to death at any time."
AlexFlame116
Member
We actually had a thread about that.
17 Seconds
Banned
I can't stop thinking about that fucking video. I watched it yesterday without knowing exactly what is was going to be. Fuck.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Finally watched it... No words really. Her behavior was worse than I could have imagined.
Scared the shit outta me first time I saw it since it came out of nowhere.
17 Seconds
Banned
I completely agree about the major emotional issues, but I don't realIy see it as a lack of empathy. She's reacting like an already-broken person who is in shock from seeing a family member die in a horrific fashion, while also being high on xanax. She sounded like someone who had been expecting for something awful to happen, it just hadn't hit her emotionally yet.
She obviously deserves to be in jail, but it's hard for me to wish much more ill on her knowing that what she witnessed is a horror that none of us will ever know.
spazchicken
Member
NoRéN;244510524 said:
You know what else this thread isn't about? People making a big deal over nothing.
All I said was that it's scary to think that this could happen to anyone. It's a true fact that car accidents could indeed happen to anyone who drives and rides in cars. How are you offended by that? Why is that the quote that burned you up to the point that you have to get all snippy and catch attitude with me about it?
Trying to save someone drowning is incredibly dangerous though.
Zoe
Member
There's already a thread on that incident--there's no defending their actions.