Paula Redmond" said:
We have listened as our daughter was portrayed as being a drunken liability when, in all honesty, she did no more than what many teenagers do of a weekend - she went out to celebrate her friend's birthday."
If Paula Redmond thinks that it is acceptable for her daughter to consume so much alochol that the following effects are possible (based on the quoted concentration found in this case 236mg of alcohol per 100ml):
- Severe motor impairment
- Loss of consciousness
- Memory blackout
Then it is, in my opinion, that her daughter
was indeed, to use her words "a drunken liability".
It is a fact she was "drunken". Was she a liability? That's more subjective, but if someone has consumed so much alcohol that the above effects are possible then for anyone not to describe that as a "liability" they must have a completely loopy definition of "liability."
Paula Redmond said:
"The only liability that night was a train guard whom Georgia had the catastrophic misfortune to encounter".
Absurd. In fact, it is the drunkenness of her daughter that caused this incident. Her daughter appears to have committed multiple byelaw offences, such as:
No person shall enter or remain on the railway where such person is unfit
to enter or remain on the railway as a result of being in a state of
intoxication
and
No person shall be in or on any train except the parts of it intended for use by
that person.
and possibly more.
Paula Redmond said:
"For he had very little, if any, regard at all for our daughter and her safety."
That may well be true (though I have my doubts, especially as she is spouting rubbish) but what about her daughter having regard for her own actions?
There are many situations where there is a potential danger and no "guard" type person to protect against it. To some extent we should be responsible for our own actions but this woman appears to be unwilling to accept that and place all the blame on the guard, which is wrong.
Is her message intended to be along the lines of "The train should have waited for however long it took for my daughter to lean on it, she is in no way to blame for this, she has the right to lean on the train delaying everyone, she is not responsible for her actions, being drunk is acceptable and normal practice for anyone that age, and the only person to blame for this is the guard for not shouting at her to stand back and for not waiting all day for her" because that's how it comes across to me!
And therein lies the problem with the attitudes so prevalent in modern society.
Absolutely, totally agreed.