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Twenty-four year old
Matthew Todd was in a car accident last Friday after drinking at the local bar
in Boaz, Alabama. Drunken driving accidents happen all the time, so this wasn't
abnormal. The police came and he was admitted to Marshall Medical Center. The day seemed about rapped up for
young Matthew, until he made one bad decision after another.
Matthew
convinced the nurses that he needed to go out and have a smoke. Although it is
against hospital rules, Matthew insisted that it was absolutely necessary, and
without it, he refused to corroborate. So he went out to smoke a cigarette.
Then,
out of the corner of his eye, he sees an ambulance (still running with the keys
in the ignition). He then proceeded to steal the ambulance, and drive away.
Still extremely intoxicated, Matthew crashed the ambulance on a tree out side a
farm. He then stole a horse and attempted to mount it. He failed miserably and
found a SUV outside. He hot-wired it, and drove away.
Not long
after that, he totaled it, found another SUV, and stole that one too. He was
then pulled over without resist, and was taken back to the hospital. He is now
in Marshall County Jail on $7,500 bail. He has two charges of auto theft
and one count of burglary.
This all
started because this man was allowed to drink too much at a local bar. I don’t
think we should outlaw beer, but I do think we should make a restriction on how
much one person can drink at a bar.
It is
also ridiculous that the hospital allowed him to smoke for any reason. Smoking
kills people and I am flabbergasted that this was allowed. These nurses should
be fired for not keeping an incredibly intoxicated person inside their
hospital, with somebody watching him at all times!
With all this said, it is still
completely Matthews fault for not being a responsible twenty four year old man.
He could have hurt, not only himself, but also many other people. The community
of Boaz was lucky this time, but if we continue to allow people to make bad
choices like this, people will get hurt.
The fact that this guy did all that is astounding. Something even more astounding is that it all happened because the hospital staff allowed him to go against hospital regulations and let him out. I think that they need to hire better staff, people who will actually adhere to the rules and regulations set for the safety of everyone else instead of ignoring them because it seems harmless.
ReplyDeleteI too find myself flabbergasted that a hospital could let this happen. I mean, what's the point of having rules if you are not strong enough to enforce them? Still, a pretty crazy story, and he is lucky no one was hurt.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there are many people at fault here, but I believe that the bar that allowed him to drink excessively can be blamed the most (besides Todd himself of course). If there was just a simple law that limited the amount of drinks someone can have, then this entire incident would not have happened. There would be ways to get around this law of course, such as getting other people to buy drinks for you, but not only could catastrophes like this be avoided, but drunk driving deaths could also be reduced.
ReplyDeletewell Matt is my brother there is a back story to this story. He is an guy who just got out of the marines a couple of months before. he had stop drinking for a month before this night of crimes. He also has metal plates in his head that makes him black out time to time. Lord knows he was on his way to a work program so he could a good job on the fallowing Monday. far as getting a smoke it inst unusual around here. though my brother may of made it impossible now.
ReplyDeleteWell Marianne, I am sorry if I have offended you or your brother in any way. That was certainly not my intent. I was simply trying to inform my fellow bloggers about this news. Once again I apologize and send my best wishes to your brother.
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