Last night, at 5:30, there was a terrible accident. A drag race gone horribly wrong... at a time when people were outside enjoying the cool ocean breezes on the beach road... One car flipped several times - narrowly missing a homeowner and his children - and eventually landing on its side against the house.
The cause? Well.... youth must try things - and often without thinking beyond the moment. Alcohol, sadly, played a large part too.
The accident occurred at 5:30 pm - by 6:45 pm - the 'teen grapevine' via Facebook and text messaging had more details than local law enforcement....
By the time the press got the article and posted it, the teen grapevine knew who was involved, what they were doing, drinking, listening to, where they came from, where they were going to, why they were racing, who was to blame, who ran away, who was in the other car, who was in the hospital, which hospital and why....
Part of the 'grapevine' lives with me - hence I could see it function first-hand. By the time the article appeared with some details - we knew everything that was printed and quite a bit more.
And we thought telephones were amazing.............
Same subject, other thread:
One of the boys in the flipped car was a friend of my children and well known to me also. Thankfully -he survived. Seriously injured - but, he has survived.
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Information these days is amazing!
My parents rely on magazines & newspaper-I know the info as it's happening, they get it and to me it's ancient already!
Traffic cams & radar,twitter at my finger tips. And all my relatives & friends- I am thankful to be growing old with the internet I will never be alone and always learning :)
(glad their friend,and your daughter,are ok)
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