Alcoholism is never a funny subject in my book.
This happened about 3 years ago in our town...
I have an acquaintance in town here, a nice woman I used to work with years ago. Her son was about 19 and was having trouble with his drinking. He then got a DUI and had his license taken away. He began to ride his bicycle around town and to work instead.
A couple of months later he went to the bar at the local bowling alley on his bike and stayed late drinking. It became dark and started raining heavily. Someone offered him a ride but he refused and at 2am started the short 1 mile ride home. He was drunk, had no lights or reflective gear, and apparently began riding down the middle of the wrong lane, the wrong way on the highway in the rain and pitch blackness. He was hit head on by a car which did not stop (likely another drinker since they didn't stop), and he was killed. His mother rushed to the scene and managed to see his mangled body before she was restrained. They never found the driver that hit him.



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