Their daughter was a 2-bit drunk.

Nothing is more annoying than grieving parents having to blame others so they can keep their daughter up on a pedestal.

Guess what: your daughter had an alcohol problem. She made very poor decisions that directly caused her death. Get over it.

::gasp from mother of decedent. Father of decedent shuffles feet and looks to floor.::

The parents are clearly in a revengeful mode of anger and denial. However, there is no lawsuit worthy of merit here. The girl died, and that’s a shame. A true shame….But these things happen when parents do not properly warn children of the dangers of alcohol abuse before they are of legal drinking age. This is, your honor, precisely what happens.

::booing noise from father of decedent. Mother audibly hisses at me. Jury nods solemnly in agreement.::

Judge: Case dismissed!

::bangs gavel::

Yet, I like to know where our tax money is going to higher education(both private and public) when it comes to economic stimulus from within a campus community that supports bars and clubs in the area. You tell me if campus drinking is related to the politics of college administrators in charge of our academic institution through decision making at the state capitol like the UofMN or MSU from various lobbyist groups.

If I was to be “responsible” and take people to the emergency room, I’d be taking probably two people per night. I’d probably would’ve ended up there myself dozens of times during my college career.

What a waste of everything. Glad I survived that stupidity. The hole “college is about partying” mentality is completely moronic in the US. It is for “studying” not partying. I wish I had spent my time drinking doing something else. Oh man….

I suppose I can blame the culture in college, but I will accept responsibility for being a moron in college.

I called an ambulance on a wasted friend once in college. By the time we got to the hospital, she was sobering up, so they just turned her around and sent her home, but at the time when her eyes were rolling back in her head and I couldn’t keep her upright, it was the right choice.

And she was out $400 for her pointless ambulance ride and the college called her parents and they were pissed, but you know what? She never got that shitfaced ever again. She eventually thanked me for it, because it scared the bejesus out of her that she could get to the point where someone thought she might die. If someone had done that for Amanda just one of the “hundreds of times” she had been that drunk, maybe she’d still be alive.

When I was in college, there were plenty of people that would pass out, but the drinking, while probably still qualifying as binge drinking, was at a slower, more steady pace, and got slower as they got closer to passing out. If a person finally passed out, their BAC wasn’t going to rise much further.

Now days, it seems much more common to be slamming as many drinks down as fast as you can (the so called “power hour”, etc.). So when a person does pass out, there is so much more alcohol that can still enter their system, they’re at a much greater risk, since an unconscious person can give you few, if any clues they are in danger.