Man drives 12miles with headless corpse
 

The following story is in today's Sydney Morning Herald:

A drunken driver in the US state of Georgia hit a telephone pole support wire that decapitated his passenger, then drove 20km home and slept in his bloodied clothes, leaving the headless body in his truck, police said.

A neighbour walking with his young daughter yesterday morning discovered Daniel Brohm's headless corpse in the truck in John Kemper Hutcherson's driveway in Marietta and called authorities, said Corporal Dana Pierce, county police spokesman.

Officers found Hutcherson asleep inside his home. He was visibly drunk and his clothes were bloody, authorities said. They later found Brohm's severed head at the crash site.

"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you," Pierce said.

Hutcherson, 21, was charged with vehicular homicide, driving under the influence and failure to stop at an accident with death or injury. He was jailed on a $143,000 bond.

Police said Hutcherson and Brohm - friends since high school - were drinking at a bar Saturday night and left after Brohm said he felt sick.

Brohm, 23, apparently was leaning out of the window when Hutcherson hit the support wire about a kilometre from the bar.

*Shakes head* Amazing.

Brohm wasn't complaining. :dead:

Woo, yet another reason I won't touch the stuff!!

What, CW, 'cause it's causing people's heads to pop of now and then? I've heard of people "losing their heads", but I didn't know they meant it this way. I'm going to cut down.

I've spent a few evenings in the company of headless torso's...who hasn't? Most company parties are of this variety. :3eye:

the gene pool needs a little chlorine from time to time. guess it was time in georgia.

Indirectly, yes :D

Wow...um.....wow. :dead: :greenface :thumbsdn: :eek: :(

So--anyone else have a comparable story to share?? :yelsick:

omg
 

If you drive around 20 km with a headless corpse in your car, after a Saturday Night of drinking...

You might be a redneck :p

This story has haunted me for the last few days. I can but still can't imagine it happening. I have such conflicting feelings about the whole situation. Is the driver a blithering idiot for driving so drunk he killed his best friend so therefore he should have the book thrown at him? Or does he deserve compassion for the loss of his friend in such tragic circumstances? Is anyone else really torn over this?

Both. :(
One from family, one from the law.

They should take away his driver's licence for DUI and then send him to old sparky for such a willful disregard of the lives of himself and others that it cost someone their life.

The victims are the family of the headless guy because they lost a family member and the family of the guy who did it because he should be punished for doing it.

As a side note, the headless guy is at least partially responsible for what happened because he drank that much, let his friend drink that much, and still got in the truck with him.

This isn't a complicated situation.

The family of the headless guy was asking for the release of the driver. They want him out of jail.