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DVNT

Turbo Monkey
Jul 16, 2004
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This was all over our local news yesterday:

I know it's horrible but how bizarre. It's almost like an urban legend but the local news showed pics of the truck with a blanket over the neck stump where the guys head should of been. Even stranger was the shot of 4 police men standing on the side of the road looking at the guys head.

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details from the news:

A man apparently drunkenly drove off the road early Sunday and hit the support wire of a telephone pole, which decapitated his passenger, according to police reports.

John Kemper Hutcherson, 21, then continued to drive 12 miles home and slept in his blood-spattered clothes, leaving the headless body of Francis Daniel Brohm, 23, in his truck overnight, police said.

"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive (several) miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you in your vehicle," said Cpl. Dana Pierce, spokesman for Cobb County police.

A neighbor out on a stroll with his baby daughter around 8 a.m. Sunday discovered Brohm's body inside the 1992 Chevrolet Z-71 parked in Hutcherson's driveway and called authorities.

Hutcherson has been charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, driving under the influence, failure to stop at an accident with death or injury and failure to maintain lanes. He was being held at Cobb County jail on $10,000 bond Sunday.

Police said Hutcherson and Brohm, who were friends since high school, were hanging out at a bar Saturday night and left after Brohm said he felt sick. About a mile and a half from the bar, Hutcherson swerved off the road and hit the support wire of a telephone pole, which severed Brohm's head, police said. They did not say why Brohm was hanging out the passenger-side window when he was struck.

Officers found Hutcherson asleep inside his home Sunday morning, still covered in blood and visibly inebriated. They later found Brohm's severed head at the crash site.
 

DVNT

Turbo Monkey
Jul 16, 2004
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i wonder what was going through the guys head.

oh well i'll deal with it in the morning so i can sober up and not get a dui???

he had to know if he had blood all over him.
 

LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
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Denver
DVNT said:
"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive (several) miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you in your vehicle," said Cpl. Dana Pierce, spokesman for Cobb County police.
I hate when people say sh:t like that. He (she?) should've said "me" instead of "one". I and many people I know have said they've driven home -- sometimes impaired, usually not -- and don't remember driving at all. You know you drove, you just don't remember anything. It's like walking from your bed to the bathroom in the middle of the night... things become second nature.

I think second degree is more appropriate. It was the dude's best friend. It wasn't intentional or malicious, just criminally irresponsible.
 

DVNT

Turbo Monkey
Jul 16, 2004
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Sure, I'm guilty of driving wasted, I went to college. But I never killed anyone. I think they should tie him down to the road and drive over his head so that it pops like a grape. I also think they should put it on PPV!

Realistically this guy is gonna be back behind the wheel in 4-5 years. Think about the lifetime of pain his friends family is gonna have to go through just because of this. The kid was only 23 that died. He had an entire life in front of him that was taken away because he trusted his buddy when he said he was ok to drive.
 

DVNT

Turbo Monkey
Jul 16, 2004
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loco-gringo said:
I pee'd in the closet once.
I saw my roomate pee on my other roomate while he was passed out on the couch. It wasn't a pretty sight.
 

LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
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Denver
DVNT said:
...he trusted his buddy when he said he was ok to drive.
If you're too drunk to know whether or not your buddy is too drunk to drive, then you're just as responsible.

I don't excuse drunk driving at all, but the drive is also a kid and you wanna destroy his life too?
 
J

JRB

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LordOpie said:
If you're too drunk to know whether or not your buddy is too drunk to drive, then you're just as responsible.

I don't excuse drunk driving at all, but the drive is also a kid and you wanna destroy his life too?
Didn't you get the memo??? Drunk friends just pee on each other.
 

DVNT

Turbo Monkey
Jul 16, 2004
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LordOpie said:
If you're too drunk to know whether or not your buddy is too drunk to drive, then you're just as responsible.

I don't excuse drunk driving at all, but the drive is also a kid and you wanna destroy his life too?

Yes I do.

Now if he would of just pee'd on his friend and not driven off all would be good.
 

DVNT

Turbo Monkey
Jul 16, 2004
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Unfortunately I've grown up in life. I realise that my actions could of had some serious consequences.

Do you have any family? Good friends?

What if you got a phone call 8 am on sunday morning saying they found your brothers head on the side of the road.

How would you feel about it?

Trust me from personal experience, you don't just throw your hands up in the air and say it was unlucky.
 

LordOpie

MOTHER HEN
Oct 17, 2002
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Denver
DVNT said:
Unfortunately I've grown up in life. I realise that my actions could of had some serious consequences.
now you're being an idiot. You grew up? Good for you, the kid's 21. I didn't say let the kid walk. But punishing one person for the rest of his life doesn't solve the bigger problem.

DVNT said:
What if you got a phone call 8 am on sunday morning saying they found your brothers head on the side of the road.

How would you feel about it?

Trust me from personal experience....
Your brother got decapitated? :eek:
 

fuzzynutz

Monkey
Jul 11, 2004
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I bet the passenger was puking out the window. And that is why he had his out hanging out. Then the driver probably thought he was swerving, when in actuality he wasn't, so he jerked the wheel and blammo! Headless passenger.
 

Ciaran

Fear my banana
Apr 5, 2004
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So Cal
LordOpie said:
I hate when people say sh:t like that. He (she?) should've said "me" instead of "one".

I think second degree is more appropriate. It was the dude's best friend. It wasn't intentional or malicious, just criminally irresponsible.
Well, grammatically I believe it is correct. But yeah, I find it very believable that one can get so drunk that one will forget what one has done.

" just criminally irresponsible"
Well, it's not like he forgot to take out the trash. He KILLED someone. I think that is more than just irresponsible.

"But punishing one person for the rest of his life doesn't solve the bigger problem."
It does if it means he will never get behind the wheel and kill someone else. Seriously though, I hope the reality of what he has done will sink in and prevent him from killing someone else "accidentally". Jail is harsh. Most people who have never been there do not realize what it is really like. It is much more than the loss of your personal freedom. It's hell. I am not sure the kid should lose the rest of his life over it, or have his life completely ruined, but it seems that some jail time would be warranted in this case. How long? Who knows. That's tough. If I was in his situation, I would be hoping for none. If it was my loved on who was killed, I would be hunting him down. Tough situation.

"There can be only one" - OK This was really funny.