Teen Arrested for DUI and Vehicle Theft in Mesa Collision

Or 12 dollar Uber....

Rodger... You're right that Midair nailed it. I would think you might have some empathy having been in those shoes, sort of. I'm sure it's a trigger for you and it's definitely showing. Curious, did you do 15 years, as you suggested? If not, is it because you're a privileged white man living in Santa Barbara, so you must be wealthy and have family influence. right? Yeah, don't judge a book bro. I have no Idea a single thing about her besides what I have just read and none about you, besides what you've posted. I wouldn't base my opinion on anyone on their photo.

MIDAIR is Exactly Right more people ought to consider this and I speak from the mouth of a Horses ass I have done it too...Girlfriends little brother through a windshield of a vehicle I took without permission I hit a cop car in a pursuit Apirl 3rd 1979 doing 106mph that kid was in intensive care 3 days he damn near died. It took a few more crashes to learn my lesson...So many years later people are still doing stupid shit.

Trivial correction - but the 'suicide seat' is the one directly behind the front passenger. The front passenger seat is known as the 'shotgun' seat from old stagecoach days. Hence the sad play of words for the one behind the shotgun.....

Poster at 3:05--I remember that the front passenger seat in a car used to be called the "suicide seat"--I think that was before airbags and seatbelt laws. May it was the steering column that made the difference back then. Now the airbag deploys from the steering wheel, so that provides a lot of protection. But the passenger in this car apparently had a foot up on the dashboard. In a head-on collision, that is a serious problem. Both these girls will be experiencing the consequences of their choices that night for the rest of their lives. So glad they didn't harm anyone else. Such a waste.

These girls were underage drinkers. I have zero sympathy for kids who think it's okay to break the law and get s--t-faced drunk at parties or elsewhere. I remember being 19. Peer pressure is enormous, but that doesn't give you a free pass to be stupid. I had a 19-year-old female tenant (SBCC student) who had only lived at my place for about a month, when she was brought home from I.V. one night, drunk off her ass and stumbling around, slurring her words. (I posted about this on Edhat a couple years ago.) I was surprised she could remember her address, she was that drunk. She was brought home by a complete stranger, a good samaritan female. I never told the parents and hoped the girl had learned a good lesson. Just a few months back, I went outside and caught this same tenant entertaining guests with beer and wine. There were a couple boys who didn't even look 18. I shut that down and gave the tenant a "Don't do that again" talk. She was several months shy of her 21st B-day. If any one of those kids had injured someone while being DUI and having left my property drunk, I could've been held criminally responsible: liable for contributing to the deliquency of a minor, causing reckless endangerment, who knows what. A short while later, when the opportunity arose, I included in an email to the parents of my tenant that their darling sweet girl had been underage drinking and encouraging others to do the same. (I didn't mention the earlier incident where she was brought home in a drunken stupor.) The parents never showed any concern over her drinking and didn't even acknowledge my concern. Yes, I blame the parents; up to a point. But ----- again ------ I remember being 19. It was my choice NOT to drink. My friends were constantly on my case about it, but I chose not to be an idiot.

That's how it seems to work! Always makes me wonder if the steering column provides the driver with extra life saving protection that passengers don't get? Just the fact that they are alive impresses me and reading the most recent post from her mom on GoFundMe made me cry, I can't imagine how all of it would feel if it was MY kid, if either of them was MY kid. A series of horrible choices. Normally I'm not sympathetic about the driver in these situations but I really am for the driver this time, she's just a baby too.

I agree. Both culpable for a bad decision. Sad the friend bears the brunt w life changing injuries. Columbia and pre med tainted w an irresponsible drunken joy ride in a stolen vehicle. The whole thing very sad.

Tough it happens all the time she is the right color she will probably get even lesser time.

You're guilty of lookism, Roger. As a handsome guy, I'm offended. :)

Doubtful...