We Lost One Of Our Own

We're not shy about causes here...
We never have been...
We know when to speak for those who have a problem finding their voice, and we're more than happy to amplify when only one voice can be temporarily heard.

We're more than happy to expose the universal stupidity in others so the rest of us can carry on with some part of common sense taking us through our day.

But there are times when we can't even help, and the helplessness is somewhat paralyzing. This place is the only forum we have.

It's our bully pulpit, and we'll use it to hammer a point home as hard as we damn well want.

Early Friday morning, the brother of one of our family members was lost to an alleged drunk driver in Cleveland.

The genius-in-question was travelling the wrong way on the interstate and caused a head-on collision. The driver that caused all this damage is being held in a local jail on an aggravated vehicular homicide charge.

We were told what the apparent BAC level of this mental pygmy was, but we're holding that information back for the time being... sufficed to say, if it's accurate, it's more than twice the legal limits... TWO HOURS AFTER THE CRASH ITSELF...

Out of respect, we've edited the name of the victim out of this piece, but if you poke around and do your google search, you'll find out who it was and the idiot who's going to be up on charges Monday.

Naturally, the arrested individual is okay- as is the case with most drunk driving incidents... isn't it...?

Which leads us to the following warning...

If any of us catch any of you pulling the same kind of immature, thoughtless behavior out on the town- and we're talking not just on this holiday weekend, we're talking now and forever forward...

If we catch any of you leaving a party and you're not fit to drive... we're flushing your keys down the toilet and YOU get to pay for the plumber.

If we don't catch you leaving a public place, and you get in your car and drive away buzzed and/or unfit to drive before we have the chance to stop you, we're all calling the f'n cops and having you thrown under the jail.

We don't care...

Your wobbly, irresponsible ass is ours- and, yeah, were the God Damn John Deere...

Carry on...
Responsibly...