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Cowboys nose tackle Joshua Brent charged with intoxication manslaughter

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Bob Costas will want to ban alcohol and cars after reading this story:roll:

According to the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Joshua Brent has been arrested and charged with intoxicated vehicular manslaughter by the Irving Police Department following an accident on East State Highway 114 early Saturday morning that claimed the life of Cowboys practice squad linebacker Jerry Brown.

Brent and Brown were teammates at the University of Illinois.

According to the report, Brent was traveling at a high rate of speed when his vehicle "hit the outside curb", causing it to flip over and come to rest in the middle of the road. Brent was given a field sobriety test, which he failed, and had blood drawn at a local hospital before booked on the second-degree felony by the Irving PD. According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN.com, Brent was trying to drag Brown from the burning car when the police arrived on scene.

Brown was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Cowboys nose tackle Joshua Brent charged with intoxication manslaughter | Shutdown Corner - Yahoo! Sports
 
What a tragedy. Drinking + Driving = Bad Things Happen. :(
 
Rocketman said:
Bob Costas will want to ban alcohol and cars after reading this story:roll:

According to the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Joshua Brent has been arrested and charged with intoxicated vehicular manslaughter by the Irving Police Department following an accident on East State Highway 114 early Saturday morning that claimed the life of Cowboys practice squad linebacker Jerry Brown.

Brent and Brown were teammates at the University of Illinois.

According to the report, Brent was traveling at a high rate of speed when his vehicle "hit the outside curb", causing it to flip over and come to rest in the middle of the road. Brent was given a field sobriety test, which he failed, and had blood drawn at a local hospital before booked on the second-degree felony by the Irving PD. According to Tim MacMahon of ESPN.com, Brent was trying to drag Brown from the burning car when the police arrived on scene.

Brown was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Cowboys nose tackle Joshua Brent charged with intoxication manslaughter | Shutdown Corner - Yahoo! Sports
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I don't understand how people "with money" could EVER drink and drive. Call a freakin' cab. Hire a limousine. And why ON EARTH would anyone get into a car with them? This wasn't just a case of slowed reflexes caused by "a buzz." When you're going so damned fast that you hit and curb, flip and burst into flames, you're on Venus.

Frankly? I'm beginning to have little sympathy for people who get into cars with others who are blind drunk. They're as guilty as the driver.
 
Poor guy. Could have happened to anyone. Trying to drag his best friend out of a burning car.

Now his career is over, and he'll probably serve some time. Sad.
 
I'd agree, except I've done it myself more times than I can count, probably on that same freeway. Some people just roll the dice and get lucky, others don't.

MaggieD said:
I don't understand how people "with money" could EVER drink and drive. Call a freakin' cab. Hire a limousine. And why ON EARTH would anyone get into a car with them? This wasn't just a case of slowed reflexes caused by "a buzz." When you're going so damned fast that you hit and curb, flip and burst into flames, you're on Venus.

Frankly? I'm beginning to have little sympathy for people who get into cars with others who are blind drunk. They're as guilty as the driver.
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Well, this certainly is a tragedy, but both were old enough to know better. Now one is dead and other one's career is over and will be doing prison time. What a waste of two lives!!!

I hope they don't want to ban cars now. Where's Bob Costas??
 
How ****ing much could it possibly cost to hire a discrete driver? Probably a hell of a lot less than these fools spend just on drinks.

If you're rich and too damned stupid to hire a driver when you're out getting ****faced, I WANT you to die.
 
MaggieD said:
I don't understand how people "with money" could EVER drink and drive. Call a freakin' cab. Hire a limousine. And why ON EARTH would anyone get into a car with them? This wasn't just a case of slowed reflexes caused by "a buzz." When you're going so damned fast that you hit and curb, flip and burst into flames, you're on Venus.

Frankly? I'm beginning to have little sympathy for people who get into cars with others who are blind drunk. They're as guilty as the driver.
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Because they are young, stupid, and believe themselves to be 'invincible'.
 
Peter Grimm said:
Poor guy. Could have happened to anyone. Trying to drag his best friend out of a burning car.

Now his career is over, and he'll probably serve some time. Sad.
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Poor guy my arse - he deserves nothing but scorn and ridicule for his stupid actions.
 
SMTA said:
Because they are young, stupid, and believe themselves to be 'invincible'.
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This is true. Thank God it was only his passenger that died and not someone else on the street or someone in another car.
 
Rapunzel52 said:
This is true. Thank God it was only his passenger that died and not someone else on the street or someone in another car.
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Yea - usually a family of innocents gets killed and the scum walk away.
 
SMTA said:
Yea - usually a family of innocents gets killed and the scum walk away.
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Happens way too many times and there will proably be ( no, make that there will be ) a citizen killed as I write this being killed by a drunken driver.

And of course the noble thing would be for the "reformed driver" to go on a tour of high schools and preach how it destroyed his life........... which goes through one ear and out the other.

What they need to do is make the penalty for drunken driving so harsh that it would be like playing Russian Roulette getting behind the wheel intoxicated. For starters take their driver licenses away for 5 solid years and jail time. Make it leave a mark.
 
Crosscheck said:
Happens way too many times and there will proably be ( no, make that there will be ) a citizen killed as I write this being killed by a drunken driver.

And of course the noble thing would be for the "reformed driver" to go on a tour of high schools and preach how it destroyed his life........... which goes through one ear and out the other.

What they need to do is make the penalty for drunken driving so harsh that it would be like playing Russian Roulette getting behind the wheel intoxicated. For starters take their driver licenses away for 5 solid years and jail time. Make it leave a mark.
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From what I see here, current OVI laws are not enforced well.

I read about drivers being picked up and having multiple OVI arrests.

Couple this with the lack of prison space, and the increasing cost of incarceration, and our legal system is a failure.
 
Peter Grimm said:
You sound like a real hoot.

I'm sure you're perfect in every way, and never make mistakes.
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Never said that junior.

He did not make a mistake, as he willingly chose to drink excessively and drive drunk.
 
I do not condone or excuse Brent's decision to drive drunk, nor Brown's decision to ride with him. Those irresponsible choices led to the premature death of one man, and a career-ending criminal charge for another.

HOWEVER, Brent will live the rest of his life knowing he killed his best friend and roommate. Those guys had been by each other's sides since college and had roomed together both at school and as members of the Cowboys rosters. I can still feel an immense sadness for Brent while accepting he's ultimately culpable in his friends death....because he did not intentionally kill the guy. Hell, before he realized Brown was dead he tried to save him from the vehicle. He loved the guy; he just made a very, very, very stupid decision. And he'll pay for that decision....whether he serves time or not.
 
Peter Grimm said:
Poor guy. Could have happened to anyone. Trying to drag his best friend out of a burning car.

Now his career is over, and he'll probably serve some time. Sad.
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No, it could NOT have happened to anyone. It could only happen to someone who decides to get drunk and drive, showing utter disregard for everyone else on the road.

Peter Grimm said:
I'd agree, except I've done it myself more times than I can count, probably on that same freeway. Some people just roll the dice and get lucky, others don't.
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When people knowingly decide to "roll the dice" with other people's lives, they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. No sympathy from me.
 
DiAnna said:
What a tragedy. Drinking + Driving = Bad Things Happen. :(
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Drinking + Driving = Bad Things Happen at a Greater Frequency Than Sober.
 
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