Victim Impact Panel Class M.A.D.D. - Nevada DUI Court Online VIP Class - 123 DUI Online

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摘要

TLDRDans cet épisode de Reno Periscope, John Cadlick, avocat de la ville de Reno, explore les conséquences de la conduite en état d'ébriété, en mettant l'accent sur le panel d'impact sur les victimes, dans lequel les victimes d'accidents de la route causés par des conducteurs en état d'ivresse partagent leurs histoires pour sensibiliser les contrevenants à l'effet de leurs actions. John Hartman, un intervenant régulier de ces panels, raconte comment sa vie et celle de sa femme ont été dramatiquement altérées après avoir été victimes d'un conducteur ivre, subissant de multiples chirurgies et des années de souffrance. Les panels, qui accueillent un nombre croissant de contrevenants contraints de participer par la justice, déplacent leurs sessions dans un lieu plus grand pour répondre à la demande. Le programme insiste sur l'importance de ne pas conduire après avoir consommé de l'alcool, soulignant la disponibilité d'alternatives comme le programme "Tipsy Tow" qui offre un retour gratuit à la maison pour ceux dans l'incapacité de conduire.

心得

  • 🚔 L'importance des panels d'impact pour sensibiliser les contrevenants.
  • 💔 Témoignages poignants de victimes comme John Hartman.
  • 📅 Sessions mensuelles déplacées au Lawler Events Center pour plus d'espace.
  • 💸 30 $ pour assister au panel, finançant la sécurité communautaire.
  • 🔗 Collaboration avec des services comme Tipsy Tow pour des alternatives.
  • 🛑 Vigilance accrue par la police lors des panels pour infractions routières.
  • 🚸 Préoccupation croissante concernant la participation des jeunes aux panels.
  • 🤝 Opportunités de bénévolat et soutien à travers nndtf.org.
  • 🩹 Conséquences personnelles dévastatrices des accidents causés par l'alcool.
  • 📈 Augmentation significative des participants au cours des années.

时间轴

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    John Cadlick, procureur de la ville de Reno, présente une série dédiée à la conduite en état d'ébriété. Les épisodes précédents ont couvert une arrestation pour DUI, un procès simulé, et les sanctions et effets sur l’assurance. Le quatrième épisode se concentre sur la participation obligatoire au panel d'impact sur les victimes.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    John Hartman, un participant actif du panel sur l'impact des victimes, explique que le panel vise à montrer l'impact personnel des conducteurs en état d'ébriété. Les sessions sont tenues mensuellement, coûtent 30 $ et les fonds sont utilisés pour des programmes communautaires de prévention.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Face à l'augmentation du nombre de participants, le panel déplacera ses sessions au Lawler Events Center pour accueillir environ 500 personnes. John Hartman partage son expérience personnelle depuis qu'il est devenu EMT à 18 ans, exposé à des scènes d'accidents causés par des conducteurs en état d'ébriété.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    À 21 ans, Hartman a été impliqué dans un accident avec un conducteur en état d'ébriété, ce qui a nécessité 27 chirurgies pour lui et a causé une immense douleur à sa femme. Il participe au panel pour sensibiliser sur les conséquences dévastatrices de la conduite sous influence.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Le panel présente des témoignages de victimes et de leurs proches, ainsi que d'anciens délinquants. L'objectif est de partager les tragédies personnelles pour sensibiliser les participants sur les ravages de la conduite sous alcool. Chaque histoire souligne les pertes humaines irréparables.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Don, un orateur du panel, partage sa vie avant et après un accident qui l'a laissé presque quadriplégique. Son message est un puissant témoignage des effets dévastateurs de la conduite en état d'ébriété sur les victimes et leurs familles. Sa vie a changé à jamais à cause de son frère ivre.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Cette section continue le récit de Don sur les conséquences de son handicap, nécessitant une assistance quotidienne pour tous les aspects de sa vie. Son histoire met en perspective les choix destructeurs de la conduite sous l'influence et incite à la réflexion chez les participants.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Le panel invite les participants à réfléchir aux conséquences graves et durables de leurs actions, en soulignant qu'ils pourraient se retrouver dans la même situation que les victimes actuelles. Il appelle à la responsabilité personnelle et à l'importance de la conduite sobre.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Cathy raconte l'histoire de son fils DJ, tué par un conducteur ivre. Son témoignage déchirant souligne la perte insoutenable d'un avenir prometteur et appelle à la vigilance pour prévenir de telles tragédies. Le panel vise à faire changer la perspective des participants sur la consommation d'alcool.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:00

    Le panel est majoritairement composé de bénévoles, avec un soutien minimal de personnel rémunéré. Des ressources et des programmes de soutien sont disponibles pour sensibiliser et prévenir la conduite en état d'ébriété. MADD et d'autres organisations offrent une assistance.

  • 00:50:00 - 00:58:05

    John Hartman conclut en réitérant l'importance d'éviter de conduire en état d'ébriété, soulignant les nombreuses alternatives telles que le programme 'Tipsy Tow'. Le panel déménage à la Lawler Events Center pour gérer l'augmentation du nombre de participants, reflétant un besoin croissant de sensibilisation.

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常见问题

  • Qu'est-ce que le panel d'impact sur les victimes ?

    C'est un panel de personnes ayant été affectées par la conduite en état d'ébriété qui témoignent devant des contrevenants condamnés pour les sensibiliser à l'impact de leurs actions.

  • Où et quand se tiennent les panels d'impact sur les victimes ?

    Les panels se tiennent chaque mois à Reno, mais en octobre, ils se déplaceront au Lawler Events Center pour accueillir davantage de personnes.

  • Quel est le coût pour assister au panel d'impact sur les victimes ?

    Le coût est de 30 $ par personne, payable en espèces ou mandat postal.

  • Que finance l'argent collecté par le panel d'impact sur les victimes ?

    Il finance des programmes communautaires tels que les patrouilles de saturation, l'achat de matériel pour la police et des initiatives pour réduire la conduite en état d'ébriété.

  • Quelle est l'expérience personnelle de John Hartman avec la conduite en état d'ébriété ?

    John Hartman a survécu à un accident causé par un conducteur ivre, subissant des blessures graves et de nombreuses interventions chirurgicales. Sa femme a également été gravement blessée.

  • Les panels d'impact sur les victimes accueillent-ils des visiteurs supplémentaires ?

    Pour le moment, le manque d'espace limite l'accueil de visiteurs supplémentaires, mais cela pourrait changer avec le déménagement au Lawler Events Center.

  • Que se passe-t-il si quelqu'un conduit jusqu'au panel avec un permis suspendu ?

    Des vérifications sont effectuées et les contrevenants risquent une amende supplémentaire et une arrestation.

  • Que sont les programmes "Tipsy Tow" ?

    Ce sont des services proposés par certaines entreprises de remorquage pour ramener les conducteurs et leur véhicule chez eux en toute sécurité sans police ni risque de DUI.

  • Quelle est l'ampleur du problème de conduite en état d'ébriété parmi les jeunes ?

    Les panels juvéniles, tenus trimestriellement, accueillent environ 30 à 35 jeunes par session, soulignant une problématique préoccupante.

  • Comment le public peut-il aider le Northern Nevada DUI Task Force ?

    Les gens peuvent faire des dons ou se porter volontaires via le site web nndtf.org.

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  • 00:00:06
    i'm john cadlick the reno city attorney
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    and this is reno periscope
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    a look at topics of interest here in the
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    city of reno this is going to be the
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    fourth in a series of shows we've done
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    on the topic of driving under the
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    influence
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    in our first show we did a dui arrest
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    from the actual stop by the officer
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    through the field sobriety test the
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    breath test and the final booking into
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    jail
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    in the second show
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    we did a
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    mini dui trial with a prosecuting
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    attorney a defense attorney in front of
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    the judge with witnesses
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    and then later had a conversation with
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    the judge and the attorneys regarding
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    the topic of driving under the influence
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    our third show we dealt with the dui
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    penalties
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    as well as
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    the effects on your insurance as a
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    result of getting a dui
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    from that we're into the fourth show and
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    the fourth show we're going to cover one
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    topic which is the penalty you get
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    requiring you to attend the victim
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    impact panel
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    because that is something that is very
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    important to understand from the
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    perspective of
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    what has happened to people as a result
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    of drunk drivers
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    and my guest today is john hartman
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    who actively participates in the
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    victim impact panel and he's going to
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    tell us about the victim impact panel
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    and about his story as well
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    now first of all mr hartman i'm going to
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    have to put on my glasses in order to
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    read my questions one of the things
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    about getting a little bit older you
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    need reading glasses
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    mr hartman could you explain to us the
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    purpose of the victim impact panel
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    why it exists and who attends it
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    the victim impact panel is a panel that
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    is comprised of
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    victims and survivors of intoxicated
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    drivers
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    we are a
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    volunteer organization that speaks to
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    convicted offenders who have been
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    sentenced for driving under the
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    influence and our main purpose is to
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    show a different side of a
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    dui not the criminal
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    not the fines and fees but the impact
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    that an intoxicated driver has on other
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    people in the community
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    and
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    how often is the victim impact panel
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    held
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    when and where is it held and how long
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    do the meetings normally last
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    we have a panel approximately
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    actually we have a panel every month but
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    we also do additional panels when we
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    have an overflow
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    the panel is held at the reno council
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    chambers on 9th street
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    and it lasts about an hour and a half
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    sometimes a little more
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    and
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    what does it cost to attend the victim
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    impact panel i assume there is a fee
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    there is a fee it is the victim impact
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    panel is
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    part of the sentence that everybody who
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    is convicted for a drug or alcohol
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    related offense is sentenced to the fee
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    is thirty dollars
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    is that something they pay at the door
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    correct they pay thirty dollars in cash
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    or uh
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    money order
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    and what is the money used for
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    the
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    that you collect for the victim impact
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    panel the northern nevada dui task force
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    uses the money that is collected and all
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    of the money it is a volunteer
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    organization non non-profit
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    the money is used to fund extra programs
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    in the community such as saturation
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    patrols we help to assist the cost of
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    that
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    we
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    pay for computers that go into the
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    patrol cars extra breathalyzer units for
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    the officers
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    we pay for programs like the
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    big drinking holidays typically st
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    patrick's day new year's some of those
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    events we pay for bus rides
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    help to assist with taxis
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    tipsy tow programs it's used in the
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    community to
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    help benefit the community by removing
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    the possibilities of other drunk drivers
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    and
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    this is held at the washoe county
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    commission chambers so on an average
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    month how many how many people are in
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    attendance
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    at the council chambers we can hold
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    approximately 265 people we have folding
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    chairs and that gets us about 280 people
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    every month
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    unfortunately we are seeing such an
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    increase in this now we're turning
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    approximately 80 to 100 people away
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    every month and we will be moving to a
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    larger location in october
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    where are you moving to do you know the
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    lawler events center
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    so how many will you be able to
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    accommodate there approximately 500.
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    and if a person wanted to bring a guest
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    that is perhaps another family member or
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    someone who has
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    perhaps alcohol issues can they do that
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    right now because of the capacity and
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    the limitations on our size we are not
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    allowing extra visitors
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    as we're able to we get them in
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    we try to get as many people to view our
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    panel as possible we're always open to
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    having visitors in there currently we
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    just don't have the space when we move
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    to our larger location we will allow
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    more visitors to attend and witness
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    so once you go to lawler it'll be a once
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    a month event correct
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    now
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    how and why did you become involved with
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    the victim impact panel so first a
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    little bit about me my name is john
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    hartman
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    was born and raised here in reno
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    when i was 18
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    i became an emt
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    as a result of being raised in the
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    hospital that is now known as renowned
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    medical
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    my dad started the care flight program
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    my parents were very heavily involved in
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    the emergency room my mom was an
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    emergency room nurse so i grew up with a
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    lot of trauma and a lot of time that i
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    spent in the emergency room i saw the
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    broken bodies
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    that were caused by drunk driving or
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    drug related driving
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    i turned 18 i became an emt
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    and i rode along with the local
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    ambulance companies where i got to
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    physically see
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    the bended cars the broken bodies
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    the deaths the trauma
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    and i got to see it up close
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    when i was 18 i was driving home to my
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    parents house on mount rose highway
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    and i witnessed a car pull out of a bar
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    that is down south into town where the
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    new walmart is
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    and i watched it plow into the car in
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    front of me
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    that had a mom and three kids in it
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    as a new emt i got out and tried to
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    render aid
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    and i held the woman's five-year-old my
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    arms until he died
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    in my arms
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    when i became 21
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    i got into law enforcement worked for
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    the washington county sheriff's office
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    for a few years as a deputy
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    where i was exposed to the criminal side
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    of it
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    i.e
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    pulling over seeing you guys
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    arresting you going to court going
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    through the trials
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    so pretty well-rounded
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    and then six years ago this october
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    i was dating this wonderful woman that
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    we'd been together for about seven weeks
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    and
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    we decided to go for a ride on my
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    motorcycle one day up outside of truckee
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    and we met a drunk driver head-on
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    i spent two and a half months of my life
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    in icu
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    i've had 27 surgeries
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    i have one more pending
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    my girlfriend who is now my wife sitting
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    over here
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    has had nine
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    between the two of us
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    million six in medical
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    so there is nothing that you guys
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    have experienced that i haven't
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    personally experienced
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    very very knowledgeable on this and
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    that's part of the reason why i'm here
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    try to sit in a pain clinic
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    watching the love of your life
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    get
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    in
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    and this is
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    a two inch long needle
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    that is eight gauge in diameter which is
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    basically
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    the size of a number two pencil when
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    it's going india
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    and they don't just
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    sin
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    and give you a small injection
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    is there a reason that you won't look
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    over here
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    because this is geared specifically
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    towards you
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    think about what this is like to have
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    this stabbed into you
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    because this is the only thing that gets
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    rid of chronic pain
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    and they don't just stick it in and give
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    you a little shot and take it out they
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    stick it in slowly to avoid all the
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    muscles in your back and around your
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    spine so they don't paralyze you with it
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    and then they inject it
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    and then they lift it up and they move
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    it a little bit and they stick it back
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    down in and they do that three times in
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    every spot
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    and i realize that this is a horrible
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    imposition on your life right now but
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    you're here because you broke the law
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    and this is
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    a result of that
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    this is the stuff that you guys cause
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    to your friends
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    to your families
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    to the other drivers on the road
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    and there is no measure for this kind of
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    pain
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    you said you had an eight-year-old
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    think about watching a doctor stick
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    something like that into your child's
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    body
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    so they can stop hurting
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    does that scare you
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    it should
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    it should scare the hell out of all of
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    you
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    i would rather cut my foot off
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    with a hacksaw
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    than to sit in that pain clinic office
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    one more time
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    while i do that to my wife
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    while she screams in absolute agony well
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    she is literally breaking my hand
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    while she's holding it
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    they gave me fentanyl anybody know what
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    fentanyl is
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    strongest drug on the face of the planet
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    eighteen hundred microgram fentanyl
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    sticks
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    take this that didn't work
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    gave me methadone anybody know what
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    methadone is
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    what's it commonly used for
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    heroin
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    great ex-cop and emt on heroin drugs
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    neat
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    problem with that
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    is that they give you
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    if your heroin had a train load of it
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    take away the heroin they start tapering
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    it down
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    when they use it for pain control and it
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    is a very effective pain med they go the
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    other way
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    now the problem with that is
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    methadone is the
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    most highly addictive
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    prescription on the planet
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    there is nothing more addictive when
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    it's taken for a long period of time
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    they handed out like candy at pain
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    clinics
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    and these people are driving with you
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    because not once did my wife or i ever
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    get told don't drive
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    obviously when you speak at the victim
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    impact panel you tell the people your
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    story how how the drunk driver affected
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    you
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    who are some of the other speakers and
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    how are they chosen to speak
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    we have a number of speakers on our
  • 00:11:54
    panels we have
  • 00:11:56
    younger adults all the way up to
  • 00:12:00
    elderly people that have all been
  • 00:12:02
    touched in one way or another by
  • 00:12:04
    drunk drivers
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    and
  • 00:12:07
    some of our panels
  • 00:12:09
    actually have been offenders in in the
  • 00:12:11
    past and have story along that line too
  • 00:12:14
    what we do
  • 00:12:15
    to screen our applicants we have a
  • 00:12:18
    task force board that
  • 00:12:20
    when we have a new speaker
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    show us interest that they're interested
  • 00:12:25
    in showing their story and telling their
  • 00:12:27
    story
  • 00:12:28
    we review their story with the board and
  • 00:12:32
    make sure that it's an appropriate
  • 00:12:34
    platform and then we will introduce them
  • 00:12:37
    slowly into the group so they can speak
  • 00:12:39
    and and share
  • 00:12:41
    their tragedy with the audience
  • 00:12:43
    so that could mean as in your case you
  • 00:12:46
    were the actual victim of a drunk driver
  • 00:12:48
    but that could also mean like a family
  • 00:12:50
    member who's lost the family member as a
  • 00:12:52
    result of a drunk driver or who has a
  • 00:12:54
    family member who's been
  • 00:12:56
    injured as a result of a drunk driver it
  • 00:12:58
    doesn't necessarily mean the panel
  • 00:13:00
    speakers are all people who've been
  • 00:13:02
    victims they may
  • 00:13:03
    be in the family of victims is that
  • 00:13:05
    correct correct we have one
  • 00:13:07
    speaker
  • 00:13:08
    it's a husband and wife who lost their
  • 00:13:10
    18 year old son dj bonardis to a drunk
  • 00:13:13
    driver
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    let's talk about
  • 00:13:18
    personal experience so we can kind of
  • 00:13:20
    make this a little more
  • 00:13:23
    kind of
  • 00:13:24
    this is what can happen to our first
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    speaker tonight is a man by the name of
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    don
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    don has been with our panel for many
  • 00:13:30
    years
  • 00:13:33
    and is a
  • 00:13:35
    not quite a complete quadriplegic but
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    is in a wheelchair has no function
  • 00:13:41
    of his legs limited function of his arms
  • 00:13:45
    and he will talk to you about his story
  • 00:13:46
    and how he became involved in this
  • 00:13:53
    how many of you know somebody in a
  • 00:13:54
    wheelchair
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    how many of you want to be in a
  • 00:14:01
    wheelchair
  • 00:14:04
    i started drinking when i was 15 years
  • 00:14:06
    old
  • 00:14:08
    i started breaking horses when i was
  • 00:14:10
    about 17.
  • 00:14:13
    i started hunting when i was 12.
  • 00:14:16
    fishing since i was eight
  • 00:14:18
    my life was in mountains
  • 00:14:22
    around animals
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    ranches
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    worked out back stations
  • 00:14:29
    i know the sierra is like the back of my
  • 00:14:31
    hand been into every little lake you can
  • 00:14:33
    imagine
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    even lakes with not even on the map i've
  • 00:14:36
    been
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    what time is it my time is 11th grade in
  • 00:14:42
    high school i was out of control
  • 00:14:46
    full-blown alcoholic
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    like to do my own things didn't like
  • 00:14:51
    school
  • 00:14:52
    rather go fishing hunting
  • 00:14:55
    rather work
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    so i end up dropping out
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    by the time i was 25 i lost all my
  • 00:15:03
    friends family gave up on me
  • 00:15:06
    because all i did was work and drink
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    was it
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    work work hard drink hard play hard
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    that was my life
  • 00:15:19
    finally i
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    moved to winnemucca nevada
  • 00:15:24
    and went to work in elko
  • 00:15:26
    to work on the third biggest ranch in
  • 00:15:28
    nevada
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    about four and a half million acres
  • 00:15:33
    it was the best job i ever had in my
  • 00:15:35
    life
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    because you can't find uh you can't grow
  • 00:15:40
    alcohol on trees
  • 00:15:43
    and you can't
  • 00:15:45
    find drugs out middle of nowhere
  • 00:15:49
    i was into uh pie at first and i got
  • 00:15:52
    into uh heavy with cocaine and crank
  • 00:15:57
    rich man drug and i wasn't that rich so
  • 00:16:00
    i had no money i was pretty well
  • 00:16:02
    strapped all the time
  • 00:16:06
    but because i was up in
  • 00:16:08
    line shacks and cabins and
  • 00:16:11
    up by myself working on fences and
  • 00:16:14
    working with cows
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    i was able to sell myself sober myself
  • 00:16:18
    uh get off the drugs
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    and uh
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    realized i knew what i want to do in
  • 00:16:24
    life
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    and i'd just be a full-time cowboy
  • 00:16:30
    make a little bit of money work hard
  • 00:16:33
    but have a good life
  • 00:16:37
    on the night of july 3
  • 00:16:39
    1991
  • 00:16:41
    my life would change forever
  • 00:16:45
    my brother and his serial daughter came
  • 00:16:47
    by the ranch
  • 00:16:49
    so we could go to his house just spend
  • 00:16:51
    the fourth of july
  • 00:16:53
    watch a parade
  • 00:16:56
    hang out together
  • 00:16:58
    watch the um fireworks
  • 00:17:00
    it's gonna be a
  • 00:17:02
    good weekend plan
  • 00:17:04
    i had spoke with my brother for about a
  • 00:17:06
    year and a half
  • 00:17:08
    because of
  • 00:17:10
    all the stuff i was into and
  • 00:17:12
    we kind of had it out
  • 00:17:15
    so it was a good makeup
  • 00:17:17
    time
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    but when he picked me up he probably
  • 00:17:22
    drank probably a six pack on the way
  • 00:17:24
    there
  • 00:17:26
    probably had another four beers
  • 00:17:28
    as we stopped by this lake so his my
  • 00:17:31
    niece could fish and play in the water
  • 00:17:33
    and
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    we could catch up
  • 00:17:36
    he offered me a beer i drank about a
  • 00:17:38
    half of one
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    i don't know and if you ever stop
  • 00:17:42
    drinking and then try to drink again
  • 00:17:44
    it's
  • 00:17:45
    the first taste of berry kind of make
  • 00:17:46
    you sick to your stomach you had to get
  • 00:17:48
    used to that taste again
  • 00:17:51
    so i just i had a half beer
  • 00:17:54
    through and threw it away
  • 00:17:57
    well he drank another couple more beers
  • 00:18:02
    and we were off and jump in the truck
  • 00:18:06
    because i used to work seven days a week
  • 00:18:09
    12 to 15 hours a day
  • 00:18:12
    i was pretty tired
  • 00:18:14
    and i fell asleep
  • 00:18:17
    i heard my brother yelling hold on
  • 00:18:20
    truck with fish changing from one side
  • 00:18:21
    of the road to the other
  • 00:18:24
    then everything went black
  • 00:18:27
    when i woke up i was halfway through the
  • 00:18:29
    passenger window
  • 00:18:32
    i wanted to go get help i want to get
  • 00:18:34
    out
  • 00:18:36
    see if my niece was okay see if my
  • 00:18:37
    brother was okay
  • 00:18:39
    i tried to move my hands and they
  • 00:18:41
    wouldn't move
  • 00:18:42
    i tried to move my legs
  • 00:18:44
    they wouldn't move
  • 00:18:46
    i went oh my god what am gonna do
  • 00:18:49
    i asked god to help
  • 00:18:52
    and then i heard my niece crying for his
  • 00:18:55
    her daddy
  • 00:18:57
    and i calmed her down and said her daddy
  • 00:19:00
    was coming
  • 00:19:02
    my brother
  • 00:19:03
    finally got to the truck
  • 00:19:05
    and he broke his hand trying to break
  • 00:19:07
    the window
  • 00:19:09
    so he can get into the
  • 00:19:11
    the window so he could pull her out
  • 00:19:15
    then he came to my side and want to pull
  • 00:19:17
    me out no my neck's broken
  • 00:19:21
    so i told him go get help they went
  • 00:19:26
    luckily for us a car came by and they
  • 00:19:28
    went got help
  • 00:19:30
    the almonds got there the paramedics
  • 00:19:33
    they forgot one important part of the
  • 00:19:35
    equipment
  • 00:19:36
    a neck collar
  • 00:19:39
    because we're way out middle nowhere
  • 00:19:41
    outside of battle mountain
  • 00:19:46
    um the only one that had it would have
  • 00:19:48
    been the ambulance and
  • 00:19:50
    they already used it with their next
  • 00:19:53
    um patient before me and
  • 00:19:55
    forgot it at the hospital
  • 00:19:58
    they had to roll two towels up
  • 00:20:00
    put them on either side of my neck
  • 00:20:03
    fireman had to put his hands around my
  • 00:20:05
    neck hit the towels
  • 00:20:07
    and then they'd duct tape his hands
  • 00:20:10
    then they cut me out of the truck and
  • 00:20:12
    got me to the ambulance
  • 00:20:16
    when i got to the
  • 00:20:18
    hospital battle mountain
  • 00:20:20
    i laid on the table and he asked me
  • 00:20:23
    doctor asked me if i could uh
  • 00:20:25
    move my fingers i couldn't move him
  • 00:20:29
    asked me to raise my arms i
  • 00:20:31
    just laid there
  • 00:20:33
    asked me to wiggle my toes raise my legs
  • 00:20:37
    i couldn't move nothing i just laid
  • 00:20:39
    there
  • 00:20:41
    they took a sharp instrument and started
  • 00:20:44
    poking me
  • 00:20:45
    from my toes
  • 00:20:47
    all the way up to my chest
  • 00:20:49
    and finally up above my nipple line i
  • 00:20:51
    was able to fill
  • 00:20:57
    they finally
  • 00:20:59
    they gave me x-rays
  • 00:21:02
    came back and said i uh my neck's broken
  • 00:21:05
    they had to fly me to reno
  • 00:21:09
    they i had i cracked my head open pretty
  • 00:21:11
    good
  • 00:21:12
    had like
  • 00:21:14
    16 stitches and 20 staples
  • 00:21:20
    got to the
  • 00:21:21
    where they flew me i went into the
  • 00:21:22
    airplane
  • 00:21:24
    the nurse there
  • 00:21:26
    asked me about how i was and
  • 00:21:28
    i was comfortable
  • 00:21:31
    i said yeah i asked her if i would ever
  • 00:21:33
    walk again
  • 00:21:35
    she couldn't answer me she just held my
  • 00:21:37
    hand
  • 00:21:41
    and i couldn't even feel it i couldn't
  • 00:21:43
    even feel her hold my hand
  • 00:21:46
    when we got to the hospital
  • 00:21:49
    they gave me x-rays
  • 00:21:52
    more tests
  • 00:21:54
    and came back this said i shattered my
  • 00:21:56
    vertebrae
  • 00:21:59
    the fourth and fifth
  • 00:22:02
    which i was too away from being a
  • 00:22:04
    christopher reed
  • 00:22:09
    i went through surgery
  • 00:22:11
    result
  • 00:22:13
    two steel plates
  • 00:22:15
    piece my hip bone
  • 00:22:17
    and four screws
  • 00:22:19
    to keep my spines together
  • 00:22:22
    the doctor and surgeon told me i'll
  • 00:22:24
    never walk again
  • 00:22:26
    i will never have control of my bowels
  • 00:22:28
    or my bladder
  • 00:22:31
    most likely i'll probably end up in the
  • 00:22:33
    nursing home for the rest of my life
  • 00:22:36
    having someone feed me
  • 00:22:40
    i went to rehab
  • 00:22:42
    and
  • 00:22:44
    work and
  • 00:22:45
    by luck i was able to get a little bit
  • 00:22:47
    more back
  • 00:22:48
    i was able to do so much on my own
  • 00:22:52
    they taught me how to teach people how
  • 00:22:54
    to dress me
  • 00:22:55
    how to give me a shower
  • 00:22:57
    how to take care of my personal care
  • 00:23:02
    i live on my own
  • 00:23:04
    have my own apartment
  • 00:23:07
    i do pretty good i had to have someone
  • 00:23:09
    come in and get me up in the morning
  • 00:23:11
    give me a shower
  • 00:23:13
    help me with my bowels and bladder
  • 00:23:15
    and then put me to bed at night
  • 00:23:18
    if they don't show up then i gotta wait
  • 00:23:20
    till somebody show up to put me to bed
  • 00:23:23
    i've been left up all night before
  • 00:23:26
    i've been left in bed all day before
  • 00:23:31
    and it happens all the time
  • 00:23:34
    i rely on people to help me
  • 00:23:37
    every day of my life
  • 00:23:42
    i was able to learn how to do certain
  • 00:23:44
    things
  • 00:23:45
    i can feed myself
  • 00:23:48
    pick some things up
  • 00:23:50
    i was able to get the reno rodeo
  • 00:23:52
    association bought me a saddle
  • 00:23:55
    so i can get back on a horse again
  • 00:23:58
    but i had to have someone help me get on
  • 00:24:00
    this horse
  • 00:24:01
    then they had to velcro me in the saddle
  • 00:24:04
    strapped me in
  • 00:24:06
    i can barely ride but it's it's still
  • 00:24:10
    pleasurable i enjoy it
  • 00:24:13
    i've been water water skin snow skin
  • 00:24:17
    i have scuba dive
  • 00:24:20
    i keep myself pretty busy
  • 00:24:23
    but imagine
  • 00:24:25
    you have to have someone every day of
  • 00:24:27
    your life
  • 00:24:29
    to have to be to rely on
  • 00:24:33
    for a little bit of independence
  • 00:24:36
    i had to rely on somebody
  • 00:24:45
    i want you to think about when you're
  • 00:24:47
    back out and you leave this
  • 00:24:50
    program
  • 00:24:52
    and i'm not sure what the percentage is
  • 00:24:54
    but there's a percentage
  • 00:24:56
    of you
  • 00:24:58
    it will be back out there drinking
  • 00:25:01
    and driving
  • 00:25:02
    and doing the same thing again
  • 00:25:07
    and while you're doing that i want you
  • 00:25:08
    to think about this
  • 00:25:10
    as you're driving
  • 00:25:13
    hammer or high
  • 00:25:16
    you look at that person next to you
  • 00:25:20
    your best friend
  • 00:25:22
    your wife
  • 00:25:23
    husband
  • 00:25:25
    girlfriend
  • 00:25:27
    boyfriend
  • 00:25:29
    your child
  • 00:25:31
    look behind you in that child's seat
  • 00:25:34
    a little baby innocent baby
  • 00:25:38
    that child who is helpless
  • 00:25:40
    who rely on you to help that child
  • 00:25:45
    because their independent belongs to you
  • 00:25:49
    and as you go around that corner
  • 00:25:53
    you take a good look at me and you take
  • 00:25:57
    a good listen to the other speakers
  • 00:26:00
    and then your vehicle wrecked
  • 00:26:04
    and this is what's going to happen not
  • 00:26:06
    you
  • 00:26:07
    the percentage is you're going to be
  • 00:26:09
    fine
  • 00:26:11
    but then you get to understand
  • 00:26:14
    what my brother lives with every day of
  • 00:26:17
    his life
  • 00:26:19
    what he done to his little brother
  • 00:26:23
    it will never go away i will never walk
  • 00:26:27
    i don't care what the
  • 00:26:29
    government says about this or this and
  • 00:26:32
    this
  • 00:26:33
    i will never walk there's no
  • 00:26:36
    cure there's no cure for spinal cord
  • 00:26:41
    you check look around the malls and
  • 00:26:43
    around
  • 00:26:44
    there's a lot of people out there in
  • 00:26:46
    wheelchairs
  • 00:26:47
    just like me
  • 00:26:51
    and you know most most spinal cords
  • 00:26:53
    are because the drugs and alcohol
  • 00:26:56
    driving
  • 00:26:58
    either vehicles motorcycles or diving
  • 00:27:01
    because they're high or they're drunk
  • 00:27:04
    and that's a fact
  • 00:27:08
    all i ask you please
  • 00:27:10
    take this program serious
  • 00:27:12
    take a good look at me
  • 00:27:15
    and listen to the other speakers
  • 00:27:18
    because you don't want to ever have to
  • 00:27:20
    live
  • 00:27:22
    what i do
  • 00:27:23
    every day
  • 00:27:25
    thank you
  • 00:27:27
    first of all
  • 00:27:29
    i always like to look around the
  • 00:27:30
    audience
  • 00:27:32
    because after all
  • 00:27:35
    we're experts at this you know
  • 00:27:38
    it's your first time here son
  • 00:27:40
    been here before
  • 00:27:42
    you've seen us before probably
  • 00:27:45
    so we've only done this
  • 00:27:51
    a little over a hundred times
  • 00:27:54
    looking at someone just like you
  • 00:27:56
    and you
  • 00:27:59
    and always i'm interested to know
  • 00:28:04
    who doesn't really give a damn
  • 00:28:13
    you
  • 00:28:15
    how about you
  • 00:28:17
    you
  • 00:28:20
    how about you
  • 00:28:21
    feel like superman
  • 00:28:26
    think you could stop that car
  • 00:28:30
    so do i
  • 00:28:34
    see what it did to that jeep
  • 00:28:42
    we got a lot in common
  • 00:28:46
    you and i
  • 00:28:47
    all of you
  • 00:28:50
    you don't want to be here tonight
  • 00:28:52
    but you got to be
  • 00:28:55
    you don't want to be
  • 00:28:57
    but you got to be
  • 00:28:59
    you too
  • 00:29:03
    we don't want to be here tonight
  • 00:29:06
    we got to be
  • 00:29:10
    we got a message for you
  • 00:29:13
    if you pay attention
  • 00:29:15
    it could save your life
  • 00:29:18
    could save you from the cemetery
  • 00:29:20
    ever think about that
  • 00:29:24
    probably not when you were having that
  • 00:29:25
    drink
  • 00:29:32
    now john said
  • 00:29:33
    get to know your neighbor
  • 00:29:38
    what you were getting to know
  • 00:29:40
    was a potential killer
  • 00:29:46
    you think
  • 00:29:49
    that with your pistol
  • 00:29:51
    you could do that kind of damage
  • 00:29:57
    you know the
  • 00:29:59
    challenge we have
  • 00:30:02
    is trying to get you to
  • 00:30:04
    pay attention and care
  • 00:30:07
    i mean you live in a land of
  • 00:30:09
    freedom you got men overseas getting
  • 00:30:12
    killed
  • 00:30:13
    to
  • 00:30:14
    give you your freedoms your freedoms of
  • 00:30:16
    choice and what right
  • 00:30:18
    do you think
  • 00:30:21
    that you can conduct yourself in such a
  • 00:30:23
    way
  • 00:30:25
    that you could kill yourself
  • 00:30:27
    or somebody else
  • 00:30:29
    does that ever occur to you
  • 00:30:32
    or do you even give a damn
  • 00:30:34
    how about you
  • 00:30:36
    you care
  • 00:30:39
    you care
  • 00:30:43
    because if you don't
  • 00:30:45
    i got a great solution for you
  • 00:30:48
    you care son
  • 00:30:51
    how about you folks
  • 00:30:53
    you think this is a waste of time you
  • 00:30:55
    think we get up here and
  • 00:30:57
    go through this
  • 00:31:02
    how about you getting the message son
  • 00:31:05
    sorry
  • 00:31:10
    me too
  • 00:31:12
    no
  • 00:31:13
    but for those of you don't care
  • 00:31:17
    i understand the uh
  • 00:31:20
    us army
  • 00:31:23
    is looking for a few good people men and
  • 00:31:25
    women
  • 00:31:27
    you know what
  • 00:31:29
    they'll train you to kill
  • 00:31:32
    i'm going to give you a gun
  • 00:31:34
    and you're going to send your rear end
  • 00:31:36
    overseas
  • 00:31:39
    but the difference is
  • 00:31:41
    when you get overseas
  • 00:31:44
    the person that you're going to be
  • 00:31:46
    coming up against is going to have a gun
  • 00:31:48
    too he's going to want to kill you
  • 00:31:52
    and you
  • 00:31:53
    or any of the rest of you that really
  • 00:31:55
    don't give a damn
  • 00:31:57
    so i'd suggest in the morning
  • 00:32:01
    call up the us army
  • 00:32:04
    and get with it
  • 00:32:05
    and get the hell off our streets
  • 00:32:08
    when you've got the weapon at the bottom
  • 00:32:10
    of your foot
  • 00:32:13
    why don't you try that
  • 00:32:15
    if you don't give a damn
  • 00:32:20
    it's licensed to drive folks
  • 00:32:23
    it's not a license to kill and i'll tell
  • 00:32:24
    you something
  • 00:32:26
    you may not make it home tonight
  • 00:32:29
    you know that
  • 00:32:31
    what john tell you
  • 00:32:33
    only getting about 10 of them 250 of it
  • 00:32:36
    in here tonight that's 2500 out there
  • 00:32:47
    or
  • 00:32:49
    someday
  • 00:32:50
    you might be up here
  • 00:32:53
    you might be speaking in my place
  • 00:32:57
    and you lose somebody in your family
  • 00:33:02
    or
  • 00:33:04
    maybe be in prison
  • 00:33:05
    because you killed somebody
  • 00:33:12
    how about you
  • 00:33:14
    big band there
  • 00:33:16
    no no don't look around i'm talking to
  • 00:33:18
    you the gray
  • 00:33:21
    you give a damn
  • 00:33:24
    it's a waste of time
  • 00:33:27
    i hope we don't see you here again
  • 00:33:35
    to get to the
  • 00:33:36
    victim impact panel
  • 00:33:39
    i assume some people drive even though
  • 00:33:41
    their license has been suspended as a
  • 00:33:43
    result of driving under the influence
  • 00:33:46
    what happens to people who may drive to
  • 00:33:48
    the victim impact panel after their
  • 00:33:50
    license has been suspended
  • 00:33:52
    unfortunately it happens very very
  • 00:33:54
    frequently we have law enforcement staff
  • 00:33:57
    that
  • 00:33:59
    sit in the parking lot and surrounding
  • 00:34:01
    areas and anybody who comes into the
  • 00:34:03
    panel or the surrounding areas has their
  • 00:34:06
    driver's license and license plates
  • 00:34:08
    checked and when they show up driving on
  • 00:34:11
    a suspended license
  • 00:34:12
    they have an additional fine and can be
  • 00:34:14
    arrested for that as well because
  • 00:34:16
    they're not following their court order
  • 00:34:18
    so in other words the word to the wise
  • 00:34:22
    is to not drive yourself to the victim
  • 00:34:25
    impact panel
  • 00:34:27
    i believe that they tell that to people
  • 00:34:30
    anyway but not everybody
  • 00:34:32
    listens to good advice and
  • 00:34:35
    as far as
  • 00:34:36
    i assume that sometimes people who come
  • 00:34:38
    to the victim impact panel may choose to
  • 00:34:42
    more or less have a few drinks before
  • 00:34:44
    they come does that happen on occasion
  • 00:34:46
    it happens almost every occasion
  • 00:34:49
    that we have a panel unfortunately we
  • 00:34:52
    deal with people who not only have had a
  • 00:34:55
    cocktail at dinner and gotten arrested
  • 00:34:57
    for driving but also people who
  • 00:35:00
    have some problems and have an ongoing
  • 00:35:02
    addiction problem and are unable to come
  • 00:35:05
    to the panel sober and when they do
  • 00:35:07
    we show
  • 00:35:09
    them what happens when they're driving
  • 00:35:11
    drunk we have officers there that and
  • 00:35:14
    our staff is trained to screen the
  • 00:35:16
    people as they come through for drug and
  • 00:35:18
    alcohol
  • 00:35:19
    intoxication and we have breathalyzers
  • 00:35:22
    that we run random checks on people as
  • 00:35:25
    well as anybody that we feel is under
  • 00:35:26
    the influence
  • 00:35:28
    so if someone is found to be under the
  • 00:35:30
    influence what happens then
  • 00:35:32
    they are taken aside from the group they
  • 00:35:34
    are given a preliminary breath test
  • 00:35:37
    through a
  • 00:35:39
    breathalyzer check
  • 00:35:40
    they if they do not pass they are taken
  • 00:35:43
    directly to washoe county jail and
  • 00:35:46
    arrested for another
  • 00:35:48
    alcohol related offense
  • 00:35:50
    i assume that most people that come to
  • 00:35:52
    the victim impact panel at least
  • 00:35:56
    act civilly but i assume that there are
  • 00:35:58
    times that you may
  • 00:35:59
    have people who are uncooperative what
  • 00:36:02
    happens then
  • 00:36:03
    unfortunately we see a tremendous amount
  • 00:36:06
    of the
  • 00:36:08
    participants that
  • 00:36:10
    are angry because they've been caught
  • 00:36:12
    and
  • 00:36:12
    take that out on the victims that are
  • 00:36:14
    speaking at the panel when we identify
  • 00:36:17
    an individual in the audience that has
  • 00:36:20
    acted inappropriately they are removed
  • 00:36:22
    from the panel
  • 00:36:23
    and they have to go back and do it again
  • 00:36:25
    correct if they are
  • 00:36:27
    removed from they're warned once if they
  • 00:36:29
    are removed from the panel because of
  • 00:36:31
    their actions
  • 00:36:32
    such as you know mouthing off sleeping
  • 00:36:35
    some of the other things that happen
  • 00:36:37
    they are removed they have to go back
  • 00:36:39
    before the judge explain
  • 00:36:41
    why they were removed from the panel and
  • 00:36:43
    then come back the following month
  • 00:36:45
    to apologize to the panel and view the
  • 00:36:47
    panel again
  • 00:36:49
    sir in the green shirt
  • 00:36:51
    i've watched you sleep through this
  • 00:36:53
    whole evening
  • 00:36:56
    i can't believe it
  • 00:37:06
    listen to dawn speaking and cordy
  • 00:37:08
    speaking of her daughter
  • 00:37:12
    and nothing of it is important to you
  • 00:37:15
    do you have children
  • 00:37:19
    i want to introduce dj to you
  • 00:37:24
    mostly
  • 00:37:27
    so you can get a glimpse of the kind of
  • 00:37:29
    person he was
  • 00:37:32
    and what he had to offer
  • 00:37:35
    the beautiful gift that he was to us
  • 00:37:41
    and
  • 00:37:43
    to give you some sense
  • 00:37:46
    of the change of life in the blink of an
  • 00:37:48
    eye
  • 00:37:53
    in this beautiful summer evening and
  • 00:37:55
    here we are in this room
  • 00:37:58
    and we're all here
  • 00:38:00
    it's a common thread between us
  • 00:38:04
    has to do with driving drinking drugging
  • 00:38:08
    life
  • 00:38:09
    your life
  • 00:38:12
    our lives
  • 00:38:16
    and for those of you who are parents
  • 00:38:20
    i would imagine that most of you have a
  • 00:38:22
    fairly good idea where your child is
  • 00:38:24
    this evening
  • 00:38:30
    and jim and i have an absolute
  • 00:38:36
    absolute where our child is
  • 00:38:39
    his body is our mother of sorrows
  • 00:38:42
    cemetery
  • 00:38:44
    on north virginia street
  • 00:38:47
    buried in his homecoming suit
  • 00:38:53
    and i pray
  • 00:38:55
    his soul is with
  • 00:38:56
    the good
  • 00:38:58
    lord and i feel that he is with us
  • 00:39:05
    all the time
  • 00:39:09
    but you know
  • 00:39:11
    it's just a thought
  • 00:39:14
    there's nothing physical there
  • 00:39:17
    and there's no voice
  • 00:39:20
    and the voice that we hear of dj
  • 00:39:23
    is on that video in his junior year
  • 00:39:27
    dj was killed april 2 1996 on tuesday
  • 00:39:34
    and until
  • 00:39:36
    probably about eight months ago nine
  • 00:39:38
    months ago
  • 00:39:40
    i haven't been able to watch that tv
  • 00:39:42
    interview
  • 00:39:43
    but i just wanted to hear his voice so
  • 00:39:46
    badly
  • 00:39:53
    deej was a
  • 00:39:54
    senior at bishop minogue high school
  • 00:39:57
    when
  • 00:39:58
    minogue was over this direction before
  • 00:40:01
    they moved out on south virginia
  • 00:40:05
    and he was very
  • 00:40:06
    academically involved in sports involved
  • 00:40:11
    and
  • 00:40:15
    involved just with humanity
  • 00:40:19
    he was
  • 00:40:22
    president of the national honors society
  • 00:40:24
    had been president of his classes
  • 00:40:26
    throughout high school
  • 00:40:28
    he attended boys state
  • 00:40:30
    a nevada high school scholar
  • 00:40:35
    he was quarterback and co-captain
  • 00:40:38
    of his football team this is dj in his
  • 00:40:41
    senior year
  • 00:40:43
    at his
  • 00:40:45
    football banquet
  • 00:40:47
    and this is the end of dj's life
  • 00:40:52
    the freeway not very far from here
  • 00:40:58
    tj was accepted to the university of
  • 00:41:01
    notre dame
  • 00:41:02
    and as the video said he just received
  • 00:41:04
    that acceptance letter
  • 00:41:06
    the evening before
  • 00:41:09
    so he didn't even get to think about it
  • 00:41:11
    for 24 hours
  • 00:41:14
    something he'd waited for for years
  • 00:41:18
    he also was accepted to the university
  • 00:41:21
    of washington in their honors program
  • 00:41:24
    university of colorado
  • 00:41:26
    and oxford university in england
  • 00:41:29
    and the acceptance to oxford dj did not
  • 00:41:34
    know about because that
  • 00:41:36
    letter
  • 00:41:37
    arrived two weeks after we buried our
  • 00:41:39
    boy
  • 00:41:46
    he was running track at reed high school
  • 00:41:49
    on saturday
  • 00:41:53
    and he was in a mortuary on tuesday
  • 00:41:59
    so what did this boy have to give
  • 00:42:06
    and what did this life have in store for
  • 00:42:08
    him
  • 00:42:14
    well basically
  • 00:42:17
    it's centered around a man sitting in a
  • 00:42:20
    bar
  • 00:42:21
    all afternoon
  • 00:42:23
    tuesday april 2nd while dj was sitting
  • 00:42:26
    in his class in school
  • 00:42:29
    and his killer
  • 00:42:31
    was happyers
  • 00:42:35
    and decided he was going to share
  • 00:42:40
    his
  • 00:42:41
    irresponsibility
  • 00:42:43
    with everybody else on the road that day
  • 00:42:50
    dj drove as you can see
  • 00:42:53
    bright yellow and blue jeep
  • 00:42:56
    and it was very heavy equipped it had
  • 00:43:00
    big roll bar and it was designed for
  • 00:43:02
    off-road so
  • 00:43:03
    we felt he was
  • 00:43:05
    safe in that car but we'd not ever
  • 00:43:08
    had to deal with a drunk driver
  • 00:43:11
    never thought about it wasn't part of
  • 00:43:13
    our life
  • 00:43:15
    certainly wasn't part of our son's life
  • 00:43:21
    so dj left our driveway tuesday morning
  • 00:43:26
    with his big grin
  • 00:43:28
    and we were so excited because that
  • 00:43:31
    evening we were going to chat all about
  • 00:43:32
    going away to school
  • 00:43:34
    to notre dame
  • 00:43:37
    4 45
  • 00:43:38
    pm
  • 00:43:40
    dj was on the freeway almost directly
  • 00:43:43
    across from here on i-80
  • 00:43:46
    heading east waiting to exit onto 395.
  • 00:43:51
    the traffic was stopped
  • 00:43:53
    and dj was the last in a line of cars
  • 00:43:57
    and i can just imagine
  • 00:44:00
    dude sitting there had his music on and
  • 00:44:05
    windows down and just thinking life is
  • 00:44:08
    so good and spring break is coming up
  • 00:44:10
    that next
  • 00:44:12
    weekend and
  • 00:44:14
    it's great
  • 00:44:19
    his killer
  • 00:44:23
    left his place of drinking
  • 00:44:28
    driving down the freeway
  • 00:44:30
    i-80 going east
  • 00:44:33
    cutting across the lanes of traffic
  • 00:44:40
    endangering every single person that he
  • 00:44:44
    met on the freeway that day
  • 00:44:47
    but encountered our son who was stopped
  • 00:44:51
    waiting to exit
  • 00:44:53
    smashed into the back of dj at 66 miles
  • 00:44:56
    an hour dj was zero
  • 00:44:59
    the force of the impact so great
  • 00:45:02
    dj blew up inside
  • 00:45:05
    in the blink of an eye
  • 00:45:08
    his precious
  • 00:45:10
    life was gone
  • 00:45:14
    and in the blink of an eye
  • 00:45:16
    quite frankly so is ours
  • 00:45:24
    dj's jeep had seatbelts in it that
  • 00:45:28
    airline pilots where where and
  • 00:45:34
    he just couldn't survive a bomb on the
  • 00:45:37
    freeway
  • 00:45:41
    so instead of
  • 00:45:43
    chatting about going away to school and
  • 00:45:46
    preparing for spring break
  • 00:45:49
    we're in a mortuary
  • 00:45:52
    and we're picking out a casket
  • 00:45:56
    and we're just trying to figure out how
  • 00:45:58
    to put one foot in front of the next and
  • 00:46:00
    how can this life be anything
  • 00:46:03
    without him
  • 00:46:07
    and i can tell you ladies and gentlemen
  • 00:46:09
    this is 12 years later
  • 00:46:12
    dj would have turned 30 this year in
  • 00:46:14
    february
  • 00:46:18
    and it does not get better
  • 00:46:21
    and time doesn't heal
  • 00:46:24
    you just learn to cover it up better
  • 00:46:30
    his older brother is going to have his
  • 00:46:32
    first baby in september and the first
  • 00:46:34
    thing i thought of when
  • 00:46:36
    our older son told us that they were
  • 00:46:40
    expecting
  • 00:46:41
    was
  • 00:46:43
    he isn't going to get to know dj as an
  • 00:46:45
    uncle
  • 00:46:47
    and that's the way you base everything
  • 00:46:50
    everything
  • 00:46:52
    there's pre-dj
  • 00:46:54
    and after dj
  • 00:46:58
    and the reason
  • 00:47:00
    i mean the reason that we're all in here
  • 00:47:04
    is incredibly ridiculous
  • 00:47:08
    he should be here just like we are
  • 00:47:12
    enjoying
  • 00:47:13
    these beautiful summer days
  • 00:47:23
    when deej left our driveway tuesday
  • 00:47:26
    morning
  • 00:47:27
    he had on his notre dame hat
  • 00:47:31
    i've kind of flattened it over the years
  • 00:47:33
    but
  • 00:47:35
    this was on his head
  • 00:47:38
    and this is all that came home to us
  • 00:47:44
    this is what's left of dj and his
  • 00:47:46
    beautiful memories and a lovely legacy
  • 00:47:52
    but he should be here
  • 00:47:58
    and if we're going to take space on this
  • 00:48:01
    earth
  • 00:48:02
    we darn well better do something good
  • 00:48:04
    with it instead of trying to ruin each
  • 00:48:07
    other
  • 00:48:09
    and it's such a simple solution
  • 00:48:13
    you just don't get behind the steering
  • 00:48:15
    wheel
  • 00:48:16
    the end
  • 00:48:18
    and everybody knows that it's not a
  • 00:48:21
    surprise and it's not new news
  • 00:48:25
    and the ones that suffer
  • 00:48:28
    a beautiful 18 year old boy
  • 00:48:31
    wonderful mama with two young children
  • 00:48:35
    don whose life has been severely altered
  • 00:48:39
    john
  • 00:48:40
    michelle
  • 00:48:42
    these aren't things you just read about
  • 00:48:44
    in a newspaper
  • 00:48:45
    this is this is all really real
  • 00:48:50
    really really real
  • 00:48:54
    so let's just do a good job together
  • 00:49:00
    and make sure
  • 00:49:01
    it doesn't happen again thank you
  • 00:49:04
    as far as the victim impact panel itself
  • 00:49:07
    are these made up all of volunteers or
  • 00:49:09
    are there any paid staff
  • 00:49:11
    there are a couple of paid staff that
  • 00:49:14
    oversee the project but the entire
  • 00:49:17
    makeup of our panel with the speakers
  • 00:49:19
    and the volunteers that are out front
  • 00:49:22
    completely voluntary all the deputies
  • 00:49:24
    volunteered their time
  • 00:49:26
    majority of the
  • 00:49:28
    highway patrol that we see that run the
  • 00:49:31
    actual
  • 00:49:33
    breath test van when we have it
  • 00:49:35
    available they are paid officers that
  • 00:49:37
    are on shift
  • 00:49:40
    and
  • 00:49:41
    now if someone wants to help support the
  • 00:49:44
    dui task force
  • 00:49:46
    who do they get in touch with
  • 00:49:48
    we are on the web we have a website
  • 00:49:51
    that can be searched
  • 00:49:53
    through any of the
  • 00:49:55
    search engines but the actual website is
  • 00:49:57
    the
  • 00:49:59
    nndtf
  • 00:50:01
    dot org
  • 00:50:04
    and
  • 00:50:05
    so i assume that they if people wanted
  • 00:50:07
    to make donations they could do that on
  • 00:50:09
    through that website correct
  • 00:50:11
    and there are contacts available on that
  • 00:50:13
    side and
  • 00:50:15
    i assume if they wanted to volunteer
  • 00:50:16
    also they could do that through the
  • 00:50:18
    website
  • 00:50:19
    yes you can make contact through there
  • 00:50:21
    there's a phone number
  • 00:50:22
    if we're not in the office you can leave
  • 00:50:24
    a message and somebody will return a
  • 00:50:26
    call and we'd love to hear from people
  • 00:50:29
    anybody that is interested in speaking
  • 00:50:31
    too
  • 00:50:32
    so does the
  • 00:50:33
    do you have an office then you mentioned
  • 00:50:35
    that
  • 00:50:36
    we have an office here in town but it is
  • 00:50:38
    not staffed because it is a
  • 00:50:40
    volunteer organization
  • 00:50:42
    so it is a message machine and
  • 00:50:46
    non-staffed office
  • 00:50:48
    now
  • 00:50:49
    you know if a person has
  • 00:50:51
    for example a friend or a family member
  • 00:50:54
    that has a problem with
  • 00:50:56
    alcohol and or drugs
  • 00:50:59
    i mean who do you recommend they go to
  • 00:51:01
    to get some help as far as that is
  • 00:51:03
    concerned there are several
  • 00:51:04
    organizations that through our side with
  • 00:51:08
    victims
  • 00:51:10
    can get some help matt is a wonderful
  • 00:51:13
    organization's mother's against drunk
  • 00:51:14
    driving on their website they have links
  • 00:51:17
    to several different counseling and
  • 00:51:19
    self-help agencies the state also offers
  • 00:51:22
    on their website a group called the
  • 00:51:25
    national commission against drunk
  • 00:51:27
    driving
  • 00:51:28
    and they have a tremendous amount of
  • 00:51:30
    resources also um that is on the state
  • 00:51:33
    website state of nevada website
  • 00:51:36
    you can also contact local counseling
  • 00:51:39
    through the yellow pages
  • 00:51:41
    for drug and alcohol
  • 00:51:43
    and
  • 00:51:45
    you know
  • 00:51:47
    do you have any recommendations to
  • 00:51:49
    anyone who's thinking about
  • 00:51:51
    you know i can drive my vehicle i've
  • 00:51:53
    only had a couple of drinks i'm i'm able
  • 00:51:56
    to drive
  • 00:51:58
    i love that story and we hear it every
  • 00:51:59
    single month and one of the points that
  • 00:52:02
    i drive home when i speak at the panel
  • 00:52:04
    is
  • 00:52:05
    the woman that hit my wife and i
  • 00:52:08
    had one glass of wine three hours
  • 00:52:10
    earlier
  • 00:52:11
    so
  • 00:52:13
    we have the laws in place that say zero
  • 00:52:17
    you know the legal limit is .08 but
  • 00:52:20
    if you're going to go out and have a
  • 00:52:21
    cocktail
  • 00:52:22
    don't drive
  • 00:52:25
    and you know that is something i think
  • 00:52:27
    we emphasized in the last show where we
  • 00:52:29
    talked about
  • 00:52:30
    getting the dui the effects on your
  • 00:52:32
    insurance alone the costs
  • 00:52:35
    that you will pay
  • 00:52:37
    you could have driven a limousine many
  • 00:52:39
    times from the bar or from the
  • 00:52:41
    restaurant back home for the cost to pay
  • 00:52:44
    just any insurance alone and that and
  • 00:52:46
    that's the easy part when you compare it
  • 00:52:49
    to the fact of like what has happened to
  • 00:52:51
    you
  • 00:52:52
    and to others as a result of drunk
  • 00:52:54
    drivers i mean that's something that you
  • 00:52:57
    can never get back that part of your
  • 00:53:00
    life
  • 00:53:00
    you know 27 surgeries your wife nine
  • 00:53:03
    i mean those are things like the time
  • 00:53:06
    that you've had to spend the pain you've
  • 00:53:08
    had to suffer can never come back and
  • 00:53:10
    the message out there to everyone is
  • 00:53:12
    don't drink and drive let someone be a
  • 00:53:14
    designated driver or take the cab take
  • 00:53:16
    the limo take something else but just
  • 00:53:18
    don't drink and drive absolutely and
  • 00:53:21
    when you talk about the cost of it the
  • 00:53:23
    average cost of a first time dui is five
  • 00:53:26
    to seven thousand dollars
  • 00:53:29
    the average cost of a cab ride is 40. so
  • 00:53:32
    it's
  • 00:53:32
    quite a difference and
  • 00:53:36
    there are so many programs that are out
  • 00:53:38
    there with
  • 00:53:39
    free bus rides and you know the cab
  • 00:53:41
    companies helping out and the tipsy toe
  • 00:53:43
    program there's just no excuse for
  • 00:53:46
    driving
  • 00:53:47
    intoxicated
  • 00:53:48
    what is the tipsy toe program i've never
  • 00:53:50
    heard of that one tipsy toe program is a
  • 00:53:53
    program that is not very well known and
  • 00:53:55
    several of the tow companies have gotten
  • 00:53:57
    together to discuss
  • 00:53:59
    ways that they could help and
  • 00:54:02
    they
  • 00:54:03
    will come out and take you and your car
  • 00:54:06
    home
  • 00:54:07
    no law enforcement no dui
  • 00:54:10
    you call them they come pick you up and
  • 00:54:11
    they take you home
  • 00:54:13
    well that's good
  • 00:54:14
    are they listed somewhere in the phone
  • 00:54:16
    book or is it something how do you find
  • 00:54:18
    out about that i've like i said that's
  • 00:54:19
    something new to me i'm trying to get
  • 00:54:22
    the actual list of who's involved in it
  • 00:54:24
    but call the tow companies and ask them
  • 00:54:26
    if they are participants in the tipsy
  • 00:54:28
    toe program
  • 00:54:29
    and
  • 00:54:30
    i assume you're looking forward to
  • 00:54:33
    moving to the lawler events center in
  • 00:54:34
    light of the fact that
  • 00:54:36
    you know the bad part of that is is that
  • 00:54:39
    you have to move at all because there
  • 00:54:41
    isn't enough room to accommodate anybody
  • 00:54:43
    but
  • 00:54:44
    at least
  • 00:54:45
    the good part is that you'll be able to
  • 00:54:47
    you won't have to have special sessions
  • 00:54:49
    because you'll have enough room to
  • 00:54:51
    accommodate everybody and i think that's
  • 00:54:53
    the good and bad of the situation
  • 00:54:55
    correct our first panel in october of
  • 00:54:57
    1990 had 20 people in it and that
  • 00:55:00
    included
  • 00:55:01
    all of the media and all of the
  • 00:55:03
    convicted offenders and now we are
  • 00:55:05
    turning so many people away
  • 00:55:08
    it it's staggering to see the amount of
  • 00:55:10
    increase just in the last four years
  • 00:55:12
    that i've been on the panel how many
  • 00:55:14
    more people we're seeing and how much of
  • 00:55:16
    an impact
  • 00:55:18
    our extra efforts are having on the
  • 00:55:20
    community
  • 00:55:21
    and i'm not looking forward to moving to
  • 00:55:23
    to unr but unfortunately that's where we
  • 00:55:26
    are at at this point
  • 00:55:28
    we have such an increase in
  • 00:55:31
    the epidemic of driving under the
  • 00:55:32
    influence that we have to have a larger
  • 00:55:34
    venue
  • 00:55:35
    so hopefully we can get in there and
  • 00:55:37
    relieve a little bit of the strand on
  • 00:55:38
    our volunteers so that we don't have to
  • 00:55:40
    do two or three panels per month
  • 00:55:42
    and that's good so there have been times
  • 00:55:44
    then you had to actually do that many
  • 00:55:46
    three
  • 00:55:47
    i we also do a juvenile panel so
  • 00:55:50
    then that's done quarterly so if we have
  • 00:55:53
    the regular panel and then an overflow
  • 00:55:55
    the following week and the juvenile
  • 00:55:57
    panel we have three panels i didn't
  • 00:55:59
    realize there was a juvenile panel
  • 00:56:01
    because the city attorney's office
  • 00:56:03
    doesn't deal with juvenile crimes so
  • 00:56:05
    there is one then for
  • 00:56:06
    those who are under the age of 18.
  • 00:56:09
    correct it is done held at the jan evans
  • 00:56:11
    juvenile facility and done quarterly
  • 00:56:15
    and
  • 00:56:16
    how many
  • 00:56:17
    juveniles do you see at it at a typical
  • 00:56:20
    victim impact panel
  • 00:56:21
    average is probably 16
  • 00:56:24
    for both boys and girls so total of
  • 00:56:27
    about 30 to 35.
  • 00:56:30
    and these are all
  • 00:56:32
    juveniles under the age of 18. correct
  • 00:56:35
    and because once you're 18 you're in the
  • 00:56:37
    adult system even if you're still in
  • 00:56:39
    high school and you you're handled
  • 00:56:41
    through the adult courts correct so that
  • 00:56:44
    should be a concern to the community
  • 00:56:46
    just even thinking that quarterly you
  • 00:56:48
    have that many
  • 00:56:50
    juveniles get caught drinking and
  • 00:56:52
    driving that doesn't even count the
  • 00:56:54
    adults between 18 and 21 who are not
  • 00:56:57
    supposed to drink
  • 00:56:58
    so absolutely and
  • 00:57:01
    some of the things that that we're
  • 00:57:02
    seeing are just
  • 00:57:03
    staggering when you see the age of the
  • 00:57:06
    offenders
  • 00:57:08
    this is a
  • 00:57:10
    unfortunate uh offense that covers all
  • 00:57:13
    the boundaries but we're seeing more and
  • 00:57:15
    more young people college kids seem to
  • 00:57:18
    be the biggest number in our audience
  • 00:57:21
    well
  • 00:57:21
    mr hartman i want to thank you for
  • 00:57:23
    participating in this and telling us
  • 00:57:25
    your story and telling us about the
  • 00:57:27
    victim impact panel
  • 00:57:29
    i hope that if
  • 00:57:30
    anything comes out of this the thing
  • 00:57:32
    that will come out of this is that
  • 00:57:34
    people will
  • 00:57:35
    think about drinking and driving again
  • 00:57:38
    take the cab take the limo home
  • 00:57:40
    have a designated driver learn something
  • 00:57:43
    from
  • 00:57:44
    the pain that you and your wife have had
  • 00:57:46
    to suffer and others have had to suffer
  • 00:57:48
    as a result of drunk drivers i hope
  • 00:57:50
    that's the message that will come out of
  • 00:57:52
    this and i thank everybody who's watched
  • 00:57:54
    reno periscope and i hope that this has
  • 00:57:57
    been informational to you thank you
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