Another Tragic Story Of Alcohol, Driving, and the Tragic Failure of DUI Laws
Today the news in the world of baseball dealt not with the excitement about the start of a new season, but rather with the tragedy of a life cut too short, all courtesy of yet another drunk driver. Nick Adenhart, a 22-year-old rookie pitcher with the Los Angeles Angels died in a horrific car crash, along with two other young people when a drunk driver in a minivan ran a red light and plowed into their car. As is seemingly typical in these awful tragedies, the sorry excuse for a human being who caused this tragedy, emerged relatively unscathed from the crash, and proceeded to flee from the scene. He was arrested a short time later. The degenerate trifecta became complete when it was revealed he was driving with a suspended license stemming from his previous conviction for, wait for it, DRUNK DRIVING. But this story, like so many, is only beginning. You see, Mr. Adenhart had just finished pitching 6 shutout innings of baseball in his team's game earlier that night, in his 4th major l