https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20240811_95687752
How does this STILL happen? We're a few days away from the death of my dad who got into a car crash with another driver under unfluence. I was 9 when this happend. One persons total disregard for their own safety and others cost me, my family and so many others years of grief.
Why are we still not treating alcohol as a drug? Why are there almost permanent promotions in stores about alcohol when those for sigarets have been banned a long time ago? I say this as someone who drinks alcohol from time to time and doesn't smoke. I'm not saying that it has to be illegal (that's just impossible). The dangers of alcohol have been vastly underestimated. If you don't believe me, go visit an ICU where 50 year old alcoholics are dying and leaving their family behind.
/rant over.
by AXPredator
9 comments
This dude murdered a family and should be put to trial as such.
To me it’s not necessarily the sale of alcohol but the mindset people have that shocks me. I know a TON of people, be it young or old, who have this attitude of “no big deal, i know this road” or “well if i crash into a tree that’s on me” and drink and drive.
I don’t care if people kill themselves drunk driving. What i care about is the victims they make and lives they destroy.
It keeps shocking me that even adults are so uncaring and disregard others’ safety so much.
We need zero tolerance margin for drunk driving. You drank something? You can’t drive.
And we need to start permanently revoking licenses for repeat offenders. This isn’t a right. It’s a privilege.
And then we need to put large jail sentences on driving without a license.
It’s enough. These fuckers pushing this shit of “oh my body is different I can handle 8 Duvels and still be fine” need to be removed from traffic.
First of all sorry for your loss 🙏
How sad it may be and i definitely don’t agree with the alcohol consumption in this country, it’s all about the money sadly enough
“He was heavily under the influence of alcohol. He is currently arrested, but cannot be interrogated yet. He probably needs to sober up first. Then we will see what we do with the man. I’m afraid we already know him from the past .”
in de UK komen automoordenaars er niet meer met een miniem strafje vanaf. Ik wens de dader eenzelfde bestraffing in België , voor 3 voudige moord en de gevangenisstraf die erbij past. België is een land waar degoutante , grensoverschrijdende automobilisten niet ( afdoende) ter verantwoording worden geroepen. Erg consequent is onze doctrine rond drugs niet , waarom worden de CEO’s van pakweg InBev, Delirium, AlkenMaes and so on niet als de andere drugsbaronnen vervolgd? Toch zeer inconsequent wat wij wel / niet als gevaarlijke substantie beschouwen en welke levens we het waard vinden te beschermen. Hoeveel agressie, verkeersongevallen, verslavingen , familiedrama’s en gebroken levens nog ? Enorme hypocrisie.
As a brit, punishments I see in the Belgian news always seem very weak.
In the UK it’s a 1 year ban minimum.
Why d don’t we confiscate vehicles? People start driving without insurance when they loose their license.
Sanctions in general for doing stupid things while driving aren’t enough. The problem is we have a culture of flirting with the law, or openly going against it when we disagree. Something about “my time is very important and screw everyone else”. Why else would people do things as stupid as crossing train tracks while the arms are down, for an example other than drunk driving…? I think all the people hogging the left lane on the highway (worse, those going from the merge straight to the left, then from the left straight to the exit) are in the same bag too.
This makes the news because there was a kid, and because they died. If it were some adults and they survived, it’d probably not have made the news, because it happens every day.