Today, one of those things happened near here that reminds me of how stupid people can be and how unfair life can be.

“An infant is dead and two teens are left with life-threatening injuries after a 17-year-old wrecked a vehicle in an alcohol related crash in Carroll County.”

The driver was a 17-year-old who had been drinking and wrecked his car.  He was the only one wearing a seatbelt and wasn’t hurt.  The mother of the child and another man were injured and were flown to the local trauma center with serious injuries.  A baby, who wasn’t in the car seat that the law and common sense mandate, was dead on arrival at the hospital.

The guy who got behind the wheel is alive and whole, sitting in a cell, while a baby is in the morgue and two adults are in the hospital.

Look, if you’re an adult and choose to not use basic safety equipment, so long as you don’t make it my problem by demanding that I pay to fix you when Mr. Murphy inevitably catches up with you, then I have nothing to say about it.  Your body, your choice, your problem.  But to risk the life of your child because you can’t be bothered is downright stupid, and my libertarian-leaning self has no problem with Johnny Law coming down on you in hob-nailed boots over it.

As for why you would let a drunk 17-year-old drive you and your baby around is something I can’t comment on because I try to keep this place PG-13.

I hope the driver lives a long time in a very bad place and suffers for what he’s done. I know the mother who didn’t strap her child in before she let a drunk teenager drive them around will.