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11-24-2006, 04:08 AM
Self responsibility is a wonderful thing.
My posting was not negative, it was educational.
Sure you can stick your head in the sand, but nothing gets learned if the accident is ignored and is forgotten. That is tragic - that is wasteful. You were warned about the pictures and chose for yourself to look at them (doubly you had to click through a second set of warnings to get to the bad pictures). The reason for this posting is to teach people with kids that this can happen if your kids don't get it. Preventing it from happening to someone you know has value.
Sure you can hide from it, but the truth is that it IS tragic and should not have happened.
Pretending that it didn't happen and allowing it to happen again is more tragic.
Here's the thing - either she didn't get that speed kills, or her parents didn't teach her properly.
When my father put me behind a wheel for the first time I remember (vividly) his words to this day, "This car is a weapon. It will kill you and anyone it touches if you drive it recklessly. Speed kills. Treat with respect."
Now THAT is the true lesson that should have happened.
As for the comment about the car keys - that simple to fix - don't leave them where your teenager can get hold of them. Sorry to state the obvious, but I repeat my father's words - a car is a weapon - one that she was not equiped to handle and should not have had access to. You lock away guns, so equally she should not have access to the Porsche.
My posting was not negative, it was educational.
Sure you can stick your head in the sand, but nothing gets learned if the accident is ignored and is forgotten. That is tragic - that is wasteful. You were warned about the pictures and chose for yourself to look at them (doubly you had to click through a second set of warnings to get to the bad pictures). The reason for this posting is to teach people with kids that this can happen if your kids don't get it. Preventing it from happening to someone you know has value.
Sure you can hide from it, but the truth is that it IS tragic and should not have happened.
Pretending that it didn't happen and allowing it to happen again is more tragic.
Here's the thing - either she didn't get that speed kills, or her parents didn't teach her properly.
When my father put me behind a wheel for the first time I remember (vividly) his words to this day, "This car is a weapon. It will kill you and anyone it touches if you drive it recklessly. Speed kills. Treat with respect."
Now THAT is the true lesson that should have happened.
As for the comment about the car keys - that simple to fix - don't leave them where your teenager can get hold of them. Sorry to state the obvious, but I repeat my father's words - a car is a weapon - one that she was not equiped to handle and should not have had access to. You lock away guns, so equally she should not have access to the Porsche.