An Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction," accused of drunken driving after a weekend accident that killed a passenger visiting from Italy, apologized Monday.
Roger Avary, 42, was driving early Sunday when his car spun out of control and hit a telephone pole in Ojai. He was arrested and booked on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter and felony drunken driving.
Killed in the crash was Andreas Zini, 34, a resident of Italy who was apparently visiting Avary and his wife, Gretchen, 40, according to the sheriff's department. Gretchen Avary was seriously injured but is expected to survive, said Capt. Jerry Hernandez.
"Roger wishes to publicly convey his heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased," said a statement released by publicist Julie Polkes. "Words cannot express how sorry he is, and this tragic accident will always haunt him." ...
Will always haunt him? Too bad. I hope it always haunts him from a jail cell. I have absolutely no sympathy for people who choose to get behind the wheel of a car when they are drunk. Throw their sorry, selfish ass in jail for a good long time, none of this "I'm so sorry" crap. You weren't sorry enough to pull your head out of your ass and not drive drunk. You made a choice and someone else died. Now you get to shut your piehole, cowboy up and pay the piper.
Moreover... Ms. Zini and Mrs Avary or anyone who gets willingly into a car with drunk driver is crazy to think their life is that valueless.
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Take a cab.....
Find a hotel...
Walk!!!!
Exactly. I would not get into a car with someone driving who I thought was less than 100% competent to drive. Which, I suppose, is why I am almost always the (more than willing) designated driver.
ReplyDeleteOn a personal note, I learned my lesson at 17, having had too much to drink at a party and making poor Key Dear drive us home without her glasses and still on a learner's permit. But she was sober, and I was not, not enough to drive anyway, and I figured she was more capable than I was at that point, even though we were probably less than two miles from home. I've never gotten over the guilt, and I haven't been drunk since, never mind tried to drive drunk.
With all the publicity surrounding drunk driving these days, you would think people would smarten up. Maybe it's me and my over-developed sense of guilt and personal responsibility, though.
Also, in some small support of Ms. Zini, we don't know that Mr. Zini was intoxicated. We DO know beyond any doubt that Mr. Avary was. I say throw the book at him, hit him in the head with it, and give him several years to consider his selfishness.
ReplyDeleteI was lucky once, and have never forgotten it. I doubt, given his age, that this is Mr. Avary's first flirtation with drunk driving. He does not have the right, nor does anyone else, to take the life of anyone else into his drunken mitts.
And you can count on this ... if I were in Mr. Avary's position - and I can't imagine allowing it to happen, but nevermind that - my sentiment would be exactly the same. I would neither expect nor deserve any sympathy, and I sincerely hope I would be given no quarter. There is NO excuse for driving drunk. Period.
A nice little village to retreat from the fast-paced lifestyle that can knot the nerves, wow.
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