Don’t Drink and Drive Spring Break Staging

So…life has been and will continue to be busy for the remainder of this semester.  I have found that work and school are going to take a vast majority of my awake time, whether I am at work/school or at home.  This upcoming week is Spring Break, and yes I have it off–doesn’t mean I actually going to get off.  I have a feeling that I am going to still be busy. 

This last Tuesday was the day that the PD gets together with the other departments in the city (PD, Fire, EMS) to stage a DWI accident on our campus in the middle of the morning inbetween classes.  This year, I got to be the DB (dead body) in the accident.  I was so excited about the whole thing–and it was a blast to do.  The general premise was that I was calling for a safe ride to a dining hall, and the “drunk driver” went the wrong way and plowed into the car I was riding in, essentially killing me and hurting the driver.  While they performed the sobriety tests on the drunk driver, my driver was put in a neck brace and taken away in an ambulance.  After that, they covered my body (except they didn’t do that too well) and busted out all the glass in my car, then used the jaws of life to remove the roof and eventually get me out of the car and drive me off in a hearse.  Pretty morbid, but it made the point.  Lots of students saw it, the newspaper was there, and all in all, I found it to be very successful.  I only got minor cuts from the glass, which apparantly was to be expected.  Here are some pictures…and yes, they are a bit on the icky side, so consider yourself warned.

I do apologize–they are not in order.  There are also almost 400 of them, so I was just picking and choosing which ones I wanted up.  Either way, they are still powerful images.  And thank you to Robert for taking the pictures–I know that it was hard for him to watch his best friend being “dead” and cut out of a vehicle.

Can’t wait til next year…I want to do it again!  So…to all of you who are either Spring Breakers or anyone who goes to a bar/friend’s house/home or wherever and decides to drive home after drinking, please think agian.  Get a ride.  You might make it home this time, but the next you might end up like above.  Or worse, killing someone.