Another reason not ot drive drunk

Kevin · #1 08-30-2004, 02:09 PM

Police: Drunken man drives home after passenger decapitated

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) A drunken driver hit a telephone pole support wire that decapitated his passenger, then drove 12 miles home and slept in his bloody clothes, leaving the headless body in his truck, police said.

A neighbor walking with his young daughter Sunday morning discovered Daniel Brohm's headless corpse in the truck in John Kemper Hutcherson's driveway and called authorities, said Cpl. Dana Pierce, county police spokesman.

Officers found Hutcherson asleep inside his home, his clothes bloody and visibly drunk, and later found Brohm's severed head at the crash site.

"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you," Pierce said.

Hutcherson, 21, was charged with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident with death or injury. He was jailed on a $100,000 bond; it was unclear Monday whether he had an attorney.

Police said Hutcherson and Brohm friends since high school were drinking at a bar Saturday night and left after Brohm said he felt sick.

Brohm, 23, apparently was leaning out of the window when Hutcherson hit the support wire about a mile and a half from the bar, but police did not know why

Xylochick216 · #2 08-30-2004, 02:15 PM

Oh, God, that's horrible

He must've been really drunk to not realize what happened. That's so sad

wrigley · #3 08-30-2004, 02:30 PM

OMG....that is sick!!!! How much alcohol did he drink to be drunk enough not to notice?

What a tragedy.

adpialumcsuc · #4 08-30-2004, 02:44 PM

Oh my!!!! That is so sad!

moe.ron · #5 08-30-2004, 02:46 PM

That is horrible. I hope the driver get long prison sentence. I have no sympathy for drunk drivers.

The1calledTKE · #6 08-30-2004, 05:01 PM

Ah my home town. Yah its has been all over the news and that is all anyone is talking about here.

AUDeltaGam · #7 08-30-2004, 07:54 PM

I think everyone has heard about that by now. I graduated with the driver, the victim graduated a year before us. And where did the driver park his car? My neighborhood.

My question is: how can you be THAT drunk to not know what happened to your friend in the passenger seat?

Jill1228 · #8 08-30-2004, 08:12 PM

Can't nobody be that damned drunk!!!!!

That is just as bad as the chick who left the man on her hood dying in her garage for a week!

I have no sympathy for drunk drivers, I say lock them up and toss the key. I never had sympathy for them and it multiplied ten fold when my bio sister was hit and damn near killed by a drunk driver on St. Patty's day in 1998

James · #9 08-30-2004, 09:21 PM

It was probably more a situation where the person didn't know what to do.

He's really drunk, something terrible happens and he assumes that he is going to be held responsible because he was drunk, even if alcohol wasn't the cause of the accident.

How many people are prepared for that situation?

Lets say you had only a couple drinks and the incident happened to you, you are well beneath the legal limit but you would still catch the vehicular homicide charge because there was alcohol in your body.

I think a lot of people would panic and be utterly confused as to what to do.

Peaches-n-Cream · #10 08-30-2004, 09:24 PM

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Originally posted by Jill1228
Can't nobody be that damned drunk!!!!!

That is just as bad as the chick who left the man on her hood dying in her garage for a week!

I have no sympathy for drunk drivers, I say lock them up and toss the key. I never had sympathy for them and it multiplied ten fold when my bio sister was hit and damn near killed by a drunk driver on St. Patty's day in 1998

I immediately thought about that case when I read this article. Very sad.

wrigley · #11 08-30-2004, 09:51 PM

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Originally posted by James
It was probably more a situation where the person didn't know what to do.

He's really drunk, something terrible happens and he assumes that he is going to be held responsible because he was drunk, even if alcohol wasn't the cause of the accident.

How many people are prepared for that situation?

Lets say you had only a couple drinks and the incident happened to you, you are well beneath the legal limit but you would still catch the vehicular homicide charge because there was alcohol in your body.

I think a lot of people would panic and be utterly confused as to what to do.

James am I reading this right that you're cutting the guy some slack because of the "situation"? A situation does not get people killed.

This wasn't an issue of him having a couple of drinks though. He knowingly got behind the wheel of a car and drove drunk. Even if it was I would hope Tipsy Tommy would still do the right thing. Get the cell phone out and dial 9-1-1. It's not a big secret that drinking and driving is a bad thing.

My prayers are with the parents who have to bury their son.

CatStarESP4 · #12 08-31-2004, 01:03 AM

Sad and tragic!

How drunk did he have to be not to realize what he did to his friend?

I am sure a long prison sentence will make him think about what he did.

James · #13 08-31-2004, 01:40 AM

I don't know what I am cutting him slack for? He drove home with a dead body. An unsaevable situation whether he called the police the moment the other guy was decapitated. You can't put a tourniquet around a neck . . .

What I am saying is that I have seen people freeze up at dinner parties just because they couldn't think of a witty thing to say.

I have seen people freeze during public speaking occasions. How much more will some people freeze up after their friend gets his head chopped up? Its a non-normal situation.

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Originally posted by wrigley
James am I reading this right that you're cutting the guy some slack because of the "situation"? A situation does not get people killed.

This wasn't an issue of him having a couple of drinks though. He knowingly got behind the wheel of a car and drove drunk. Even if it was I would hope Tipsy Tommy would still do the right thing. Get the cell phone out and dial 9-1-1. It's not a big secret that drinking and driving is a bad thing.

My prayers are with the parents who have to bury their son.

Peaches-n-Cream · #14 08-31-2004, 10:52 AM

James, I think that I am missing your point.

The passenger was decapitated because there was a car accident. There was a car accident because the driver was drunk.

The driver didn't encounter a decapitated body when he happened to be drunk. He caused it to happen which is much different from freezing up in an awkward social situation.

#15 08-31-2004, 11:03 AM

I have no sympathy for drunk drivers.........

I hope for that situation alone merits the death penality. From someone who lost a loved one in a drunk driving accident i have no pity for this guy......Life in prison is not worth it....that is living vs. the friend who is dead and who laid dead and headless in his car while he slept.

"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you," Pierce said

to get so plastered not to know your friend has been decapitated .....makes me sick!