A recent report, Alcohol-Related Ills Increasing Worldwide, states that one in 25 deaths is drinking-related.  And anyone who pays any attention to the news, knows we have a serious problem right here in WI with drunk driving. JS Online has done a complete series on this topic called Wasted in Wisconsin.

Yet, in spite of all the reporting, in Wisconsin we have people who actually did the following:

• Man gets drunk in a tavern, man leaves tavern with girlfriend…they’re on a motorcycle.
• Man crashes, girlfriend gets killed.

So what does the tavern do? They plan a fund-raiser for the guy who drove drunk and caused a death. And to add insult to injury, they serve booze – to people who will leave and drive drunk.

Nobody learned a thing.  The lesson went right over their heads. What do you do with this kind of mentality?

Jim Stingl of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel did a story on this and reported the following regarding the fund raiser:

On the fliers it posted around that area, the bar says Taylor was in a “very bad and tragic bike accident” but doesn’t mention his role in that crash or say exactly how the money will be used.

I wanted to ask if she understood the twisted irony of a beer-fueled tavern blowout to break the fall of a beer-fueled driver accused of causing a woman’s death.
 
I’m not surprised she hung up on me.

So when a reporter tried to question this behavior, the response was to hang up on him.

Proves the old saying, “You can’t defend the indefensible” to be true, doesn’t it?