[fake] drunk driving accident at north

I would hope, but I'm not entirely sure, if every school in our area does this, but there was a fake crime scene/car crash outside of school today for all of the Juniors and Seniors to see to showcase the effects of drinking and driving. You could consider it an assembly I guess, but it was more so an 'informational scare-tactic'. It all has to do with Prom coming up and stuff, which makes it appropriate.

You are always going to have the bastards who laugh at the actors that are screaming in "pain", but for the most part everyone was...respectful. Scariest thing I heard throughout the whole thing, was that while I sat in class for the rest of the day, twenty eight people (ages 15-20) died in an alcohol-related accident. Your mouth kind of dropped, didn't it? Now I'm not one to stand up and tell the kids laughing to shut up or anything, but when no one goes to the back of the cafeteria and signs the 'Pledge of Sobriety', you know the impact was hardly there...which is often frightful.

I understand that when the Coroner is talking, and trying to make a point, yet all he is really saying is "when you're dead...you're dead...uhm...it's really real..." it's hard not to chuckle. It's just probably something none of us will take seriously enough until it actually happens.

Hopefully everyone still has a good time at Prom, with keeping some of the things that happened today in the backs of their minds...