pretty brilliant idea
10/23/2008 11:35:15 AM
sloppyjoejoe
24 Posts
16 years ago a trooper from the Florida Highway Patrol awoke from a coma. With needles and tubes protruded from all over his body, he was hit by a drunk driver a week earlier while on duty. The driver ripped off his left arm, doctors reattached it but now it doesn’t function and it’s shriveled. He said when he awoke from a coma he saw garbage bags next to him, and asked his wife what it was? She said they’re got well soon cards from kids. At that moment he made a promise to himself that if he survived his ordeal he would spend the rest of his life educating the public about the dangers of drinking and driving.
He made the “Reality Journey” program. It’s a five scene presentation where actors dramatize the aftermath of a post-football game party and subsequent car crash that kills one teen and leaves the intoxicated driver in a wheelchair. The program has a party scene, a crash scene, a hospital scene, a courtroom scene, and a funeral scene.
He has a shriveled non-functioning arm, bad knees as result of the accident also and worsening arthritis. He has been living in constant pain for 16 years and he said, “what keeps the pain away is the experience of the kids saying ‘I’m not going to drink or do drugs anymore’. Even if the program influences one out of ten kids they’re accomplishing a lot. I think this program is a good idea; some kids may not listen to their parents or teachers when they say “don’t drink or don’t do drugs”, but seeing it actually happen may change their minds.