Cops and Teachers Hoax Drunk Driving Deaths to Scare Teens

[marmar]

from AlterNet's PEEK:



Cops and Teachers Hoax Drunk Driving Deaths to Scare Teens

Posted by Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise at 10:00 AM on June 17, 2008.

Your friends are dead. Psych! By the way, don't drink and drive...



Last month, police officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to inform teens that several of their classmates had been killed in drunk driving crashes over the weekend. Not surprisingly, the students were devastated by the news.

Several hours later, the adults revealed that it was all a hoax. Nobody died. There was no accident. Trusted authority figures cooked up the whole story to teach the kids a lesson.

Unfortunately, the lesson they learn is that adults have to lie to convince them that drinking and driving is dangerous. So, this cruel stunt precisely backfired. The take home message became: Don't trust adults who warn you about drinking and driving.

Great public health outreach, folks.


http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/88443/

[hobbit709]

1. That wil work real well.-NOT!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Whoever was behind this little stunt should be fired

[maxsolomon]

3. we taught our kids:

drive TO the drinking, then don't drive again.

[Elidor]

4. So incredibly fucking stupid, it could only happen in America

Sounds like a good reality show: "Your friends are dead!" Yes, laugh along at home as these cops and teachers make teenagers bawl like little babies! Fun for the whole family.

[varkam]

5. All I can say is if this were a research study...

there's not an IRB in existence that would approve it.

[yella_dawg]

6. But, but, but...

all the lies worked so well in preventing other kinds of drug use!?!

[TahitiNut]

7. Just require 10 hours in the Emergency Receiving of a hospital for Driver's Ed.

That should do it. :shrug:

[JackRiddler]

8. The point is that they consciously traumatized children - should be fired & sued.

[stewie502]

9. that is stupid!

The only thing they probably learned is don't trust the teachers. Lieing doesn't teach people anything.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

10. If they told me that it was a hoax, I would need several "tall ones"

Go shcool to lern from these teechers...reeally :dunce:

[TheWatcher]

11. Again, where is the outrage?

Using what amounts to Psychological Terrorism to teach kids a LESSON?

Where exactly is this going to end?

Whoever said they should be fired and sued is dead on.

Why bother with the obligatory "What The Fuck Is Wrong With This Country?"

At this point it seems rather redundant.