NBC San Diego Commenters--FEEL MY FURY

After the recent death of a Veronica Aguirre, just one of a string of teenage deaths in alcohol related car accidents in the area, there has been a decent amount of news coverage on tv, radio, and online. Someone posted the link to this article on Facebook, and I think it's a good thing to look at if you have a minute. For those three or four people who read my blog regularly, I am sure that you will be as horrified as I at the comments on it.


This is the article, although it's not essential to the story. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Two-More-Teens-Die-in-Crashes-79115062.html


These are the comments left on the article.

"Accidents happen. More than 3 mil. people live here. Not to bad of odds."

"Yawn...why is this even news? Stupid chicks and their cell phones and texting texting addiction! It wouldn't surprise me if she was trying to text a friend while driving, and lost control of her car because her frick'n thumbs and fingers were too busy on her iPhone keypad! Idiots!"

"Why is it that teenagers have this need to make accident site visits a big event? Please shut up and don't tell me that it's part of their so-called "healing process", because that's a bunch of $h*t! The CHP should bill PUSD for using law enforcement resources for traffic control, so these stupid kids can hang out holding candles & $h*t! Every god*amned time one of these teen fatalities happens, it's always the same drill....build a frick'n shrine plastered with a bazzilion frick'n photos, helium ballons, ribbons, flowers, etc., then gather by the hundreds to just hang out and look at the frick'n shrine, than go home and learn absolutely nothing from the experience.....because most of these stupid kids will go right back to their drinking parties and driving while intoxicated!"

"Yeah, I agree. Half the Poway High School will crowd the mortuary at the service (most of whom who didn't even know this party tart chick), and getting all sucked into the sadness scenario. Like all of these teen funerals, it'll be some sappy song playing in the background like that Sara McGlaughlin tear-jerker, "I Will Remember You". Idiots!"


I was shocked, and I could not be more angry. What's worse, I wrote out a reply and the frickin site WOULD NOT LET ME POST IT. I don't know what the deal was, but I was awfully mad about that too. THANKFULLY, someone with some sense replied to those fucking assholes.

"I'm a former poway high student, and I honestly can't believe what i just read. I knew her and I can't even put into words how disgusted I am with whoever you are. Just because she was a teenager, doesn't mean she wasn't a human being with people who love and care for her, and are sad that she is gone. This person is a daughter, a sister, a friend, and an amazing person. You have no idea how this has affected the people here and of course there are people who will not learn from this, but so many will. You need to learn to keep your horrible opinions to yourself. This did just happen yesterday. It is clear to me you have never had any type of close friendship with any other person, or else you would have had more sympathy."


For ME, I will not feel right with myself until I have called out the desensitized bastards who think that it's no big deal a teenager died on Thursday night. I know that they'll never see it, but I want to post MY comment here.

"Wow. How insensitive can you get? NO ONE deserves to die at age 17. No brother deserves to lose a sister, no parent deserves to lose a child, no girl deserves to lose her best friend. These teens have made bad choices and they have paid for it. Obviously, to local teenagers it's not real until it happens to someone you know--that's how teenagers have been for decades and that's how they will probably be for years to come. As a student at Poway High School, I can tell you that this death has a HUGE impact on the student body. Don't you DARE piss away her death by saying "Stupid party tart chick, she should have known better." Yes, she made a mistake, and it cost her her life and caused the suffering of hundreds of people who loved her. But if we say "Big deal, another teen dead"--if we forget about Veronica, and Nieves, and Gerardo, and William, and Michael, and Alex--then more teens WILL die because they'll make the same mistakes. And those who have already paid for their mistakes will have done so in vain.

Rest in Peace, Veronica--Poway High misses you."