brought to you by those crazy bitches at MADD.

Justified Prank?
LA, Califorina
May31st, 2008
Many juniors and seniors were driven to tears – a few to near hysterics – May 26 when a uniformed police officer arrived in several classrooms to notify them that a fellow student had been killed in a drunken-driving accident.

The officer read a brief eulogy, placed a rose on the deceased student’s seat, then left the class members to process their thoughts and emotions for the next hour.

The program, titled “Every 15 Minutes,” was designed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Its title refers to the frequency in which a person somewhere in the country dies in an alcohol-related traffic accident.

About 10 a.m., students were called to the athletic stadium, where they learned that their classmates had not died. There, a group of seniors, police officers and firefighters staged a startlingly realistic alcohol-induced fatal car crash. The students who had purportedly died portrayed ghostly apparitions encircling the scene.

Though the deception left some teens temporarily confused and angry, if it makes even one student think twice before getting behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated, it is worth the price, said California Highway Patrol Officer Eric Newbury, who orchestrates the program at local high schools.


“When someone says to me, ‘Oh, my God, you’re traumatizing my children,’ I’m telling them, ‘No, what I’m doing is waking them up,’ ” said Newbury, whose father was killed by a drunken driver.

“If you don’t do your job as a parent … the only thing I can do is either arrest them and take them to jail or scrape them off the ground and tell you, ‘I’m so sorry.’ ”

Standard speeches don’t usually get the desired reaction, Newbury said.

“If I sit there and lecture somebody in a nice way, it’s going to go in one ear and out the other,” he said. “In today’s world, where they have all sorts of gore and fantastic things that kids can access on the computer, if you want to compete with that, you have to jar them emotionally.

“I want them to be an emotional wreck. I don’t want them to have to live through this for real.”


Lawsuit much?

IIED!!!!!!!

a term for an Improvised Explosive Device?

That is just taking it too far. At my high school they would have an Angel of Death walk into classrooms throughout the day and tap the shoulders of students, who would then walk around the rest of the day with white paint on their faces, completely silent. I don't think that it really left anyone very affected though. Still, what's in the article seems extreme.

yeah, pretty extreme...

is it still okay to drink underage...as long as they dont drive? huh MADD?

Why not. As long as your not driving, under age drinking should be something for parents and politicians/law makers to address and not some 3rd party.

uh, that's fucked....

now that is a dead jim.

For an organization that has such a noble purpose as preventing young people from being killed in drunk driving accidents, MADD sure has a lot of shit ideas. They're quickly finding their way into the Greenpeace/PETA realm of nutzoid activists.

Jesus ... did any of the mothers of MADD wonder what would happen if someone told them that their child had died?

I think I see a project for SADD...

I would actually respect these people more if they had done this for NO reason at all. Then, it would be really, really funny.

I think I see a project for DAMM (drunks against madd mothers)....

LMAO. WTF?

These would be the kids who agreed to be apart of this lil stunt and summarily had their cars keyed after 4th period gym.

yeah you can't do that

That's fucking sick. I hope everyone of those kids (or really their parents) sue MADD, even if they have a weak case. That organization sucks big time and it's about time they really start getting some negative publicity. Just because you're an advocate for a good cause doesn't give you free reign to do whatever the hell you want. It's bad enough they've lobbied to arrest people who drive after having two beers. Now they're fucking with children. Nice.

Great organiztion when it first was created, but now they're just a bunch of nuts.

If MADD's goal was to save lives one of the bigges things they could do is accept that a certain percentage of the population is going to drive drunk. Then aim to make the roads as safe for these and others on the roads. Well painted and reflective lane and curb lines would save lives. Rumble strips built into curb lines.

No. Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress.

Yeah but imagine how relieved you'd be when you found out they weren't actually dead!? Would totally make up for it, no?