So before I even go on with this post that will be me just venting my feelings on some certain situations that have recently come up I would like to go on the record by saying I am about 95% sure this is going to start WW3 and I really do not care. So with that out of the way….here we go!
So lucky for me I had a somewhat normal 21st birthday which is more than I can say for two of my best friends. Both of their birthdays ended in arrests that are now leading to court proceedings, but the parties involved are taking it a little too far.
Lets call the first birthday “July” for “talking shit purposes”. July would have had a lot better luck having the police working with them had they not taking extreme steps as a 14 page letter that was sent out to the whole OBX. Now I am not knocking the letter because it pretty much states a lot of what people want to say but do not have the balls to say. Inevitably it pissed the police off to the point that they do not want to work with July’s family anymore. People are being subpoenaed to court to testify as to what they saw go down that night. That’s all well and good BUT everyone was wasted and so their statements are null and void.
Before I go on much further with July lets go to birthday number two that we will reference as “August”. August is having the same exact problem. Trying to get people to testify as to what they saw go down that night. I for one was standing right in front of the fight that took place that night and I know what I saw but I would never embarrass myself by getting up on the stand and testifying as to what I saw because I was wasted. When someone is drunk and then proceeds to “swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” then they are not telling the truth. You can not swear that in your drunken state of mind that this or that is what really happened. Alcohol distorts your ability to remember and to know right from wrong.
Both July and August are trying to get people to swear to things that would put them in contempt of court. Both parties do not realize that just because you get someone to come and say that they heard someone say something does not mean that’s all they have to do. Yeah they will testify so and so said this or that but then when cross examination comes around and they get torn a new asshole and everything they said trying to defend you gets distorted and turned around, their testimony may actually end up hurting you in the end. I just wish people would #1, think about what they are doing and the position they are putting people in and #2, think about how much alcohol was consumed and how distorted every ones mind is of the actual chain of events that took place on those two nights.
Now this goes to the people that are being threatened for choosing not to want to make a statement. I just want you to remember that you do not HAVE to say or do anything. If you are unsure of what you saw or heard or did that night you are better off keeping your mouth shut rather than incriminating yourself but swearing under oath that one thing or two things happened when quite possibly they really did no. And now this goes to August because one smartass/sarcastic comment is being blown out of proportion and one girl is being threatened to put her family’s job of the seafood slangin’ and tradin’ business on the line. What was said was in a smartass/sarcastic comment stating that yeah that’s why these people showed up, when we all know it was not. They did not even know that we would be at that place that night. They had their own plans and their own friends they were meeting up there and for people to think that all of this is really all about them is wrong and it is wrong to try and make someone swear that something is what you want it to be.
I am not talking shit. I am not putting anyone down. I am just trying to say that when as much alcohol is involved in a situation no one is really in the right to swear under oath that they saw this or that and even if they attempted to, in the end the cross examination would end up hurting you more than helping you. I understand why the parties involved are taking this so serious. July could potentially lose its job and August could lose their potential to pursue a career in the field of criminal justice. I get it, the rest of your life is potentially on the line but since it is both of yall’s first offense in the criminal world the cops and court systems are normally very eager to work with you but when you complicate things and make it more difficult they are not going to want to help you. So take this venting blog as you would like it, I really do not mind but I know that I was not be vicious or rude I was just saying it how it is.
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