# Drunk Kills Nun **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 3, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999 "2010-08-03T13:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/1 "2010-08-03T13:05:38Z")
…[and critically injures 2 more. It’s his 3rd DUI in 5 years. I guess he didn’t learn from the first two.](http://www.wric.com/Global/story.asp?S=12909049) I live a block from the school where the nuns work, and the Wife and I go to all of their fundraisers. We speak when they are walking by to and from school. They compliment me on my garden. I am not Catholic, nor did I personally know the nuns (although I recognize one of them in news photos), but they have always been so nice, make such tasty goodies, and believe it or not, they are hilarious! The old stereotype of the evil, ruler-wielding teacher definitely does not apply to this group! 😃 Sad. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/2 "2010-08-03T15:14:59Z")
When I was a kid we thought nuns were immortal. We had both the ruler-wielding Nazi nuns and the nice ones. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough of the latter. The survivors should form a group Nuns Against Drunk Driving.\* \*[sub]NADD. I am so going to hell now.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/3 "2010-08-03T15:27:14Z")
What a shame. Nuns can be cool. I sat next to a 24 year old nun in full metal nun gear (the full-length, old time habits like in the Sound of Music) on a flight once and she was a hoot. She kept trying to get me to join the convent but in a funny way. She was really interesting to talk to and didn’t mind me drinking throughout the flight and laughed when I told her the no sex thing was kind of a deal breaker for me. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/4 "2010-08-03T15:32:01Z")
Driver has a Hispanic name --wonder if he’s Catholic? Extra heaping of guilt there! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/5 "2010-08-03T15:39:52Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Driver has a Hispanic name --wonder if he’s Catholic? Extra heaping of guilt there! With three DUIs under his belt I doubt he has much of a sense of responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/6 "2010-08-03T15:52:14Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > The survivors should form a group Nuns Against Drunk Driving.\* > > \*[sub]NADD. I am so going to hell now.[/sub] Bwahahahahahahaha! I’m right behind you. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/7 "2010-08-03T15:57:45Z")
I saw this on the morning news (Today show maybe, can’t remember.) I thought they were working a story line that the guy is illegal. Something like “Should illegal aliens be killing our nuns?” Am I getting stories mixed up? ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/8 "2010-08-03T16:03:31Z")
For some reason, it seems funnier to me if he was illegal. Like, because he’s illegal, he shouldn’t be killing nuns. Not because he was drunk, but because he was illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/9 "2010-08-03T16:07:23Z")
What difference does it make that the victim was a nun? Shouldn’t we be equally outraged if the victim was an accountant? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/10 "2010-08-03T16:42:51Z")
Sunday a drunk driver killed a man and his three grown sons with families of their own. I think that’s more tragic. Not that the nun’s life was any less important or valuable, the point is people are killed by drunk drivers all the time, I just don’t understand why the victim’s vocation makes this incident more noteworthy. The tragedy is it shouldn’t happen to anyone, but it does. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/11 "2010-08-03T17:54:08Z")
FTR this story is on the front page of the Washington Post today, and he is in fact in this country illegally. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/12 "2010-08-03T18:06:58Z")
> [@Cowboy8467](#): > > FTR this story is on the front page of the Washington Post today, and he is in fact in this country illegally. Well, that sure makes all those deaths by drunk U.S. citizen drivers seem a lot less tragic. Nope. Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/13 "2010-08-03T18:08:20Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > > [@Cowboy8467](#): > > > > FTR this story is on the front page of the Washington Post today, and he is in fact in this country illegally. > > Well, that sure makes all those deaths by drunk U.S. citizen drivers seem a lot less tragic. > > Nope. Not so much. I wasn’t making a judgement call either way, just mentioning it because some people upthread had wondered. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/14 "2010-08-03T18:15:22Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > > [@Cowboy8467](#): > > > > FTR this story is on the front page of the Washington Post today, and he is in fact in this country illegally. > > Well, that sure makes all those deaths by drunk U.S. citizen drivers seem a lot less tragic. > > Nope. Not so much. Well, one does have to wonder how he managed to get a license, get 3 DUIs and have his license revoked all while in the country illegally and yet still be driving around free. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/15 "2010-08-03T19:44:49Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > What difference does it make that the victim was a nun? Shouldn’t we be equally outraged if the victim was an accountant? “Man kills woman” isn’t exciting enough. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/16 "2010-08-03T19:46:38Z")
> [@Cowboy8467](#): > > > [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > > > Well, that sure makes all those deaths by drunk U.S. citizen drivers seem a lot less tragic. > > > > Nope. Not so much. > > I wasn’t making a judgement call either way, just mentioning it because some people upthread had wondered. Sure, it’s nothing personal. Just noting that neither the occupation of the victim nor immigration status of the offender makes this any less tragic. The real tragedy, as **Wile E** noted, is that we can’t prevent this from happening in the first place. Drunk drivers are douchebags. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/17 "2010-08-03T19:53:13Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > > [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > > > What difference does it make that the victim was a nun? Shouldn’t we be equally outraged if the victim was an accountant? > > “Man kills woman” isn’t exciting enough. I guess. Reminds me of a headline I saw recently in our local paper about a carful of youth who died in car crash that read something to the effect of “Local Marine and 3 Others Die in Wreck”. Although there was nothing military related about the car wreck, it seemed important to the paper to mention in the headline that one of the victims was a Marine. They didn’t even mention anything about the “Other” three victims other than the fact that they died. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/18 "2010-08-03T19:55:44Z")
> [@shiftless](#): > > Well, one does have to wonder how he managed to get a license, get 3 DUIs and have his license revoked all while in the country illegally and yet still be driving around free. I wonder that every time I hear of yet another repeat DUI offender causing yet another death. Why don’t we just deport them all the first time they decide to drive drunk? ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/19 "2010-08-03T20:03:08Z")
Well, it was mundane & pointless, so it ended up here. It was more of me wanting to be able to say something about the ladies who make the best blondies I’ve ever tasted. Although this does beg the question: How the heck does someone who isn’t supposed to be in the country get 3 DUI’s? I’m all about immigration, but I would think the first two might have been a clue that he wasn’t our kind of citizen… ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999/20 "2010-08-03T20:03:24Z")
> [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](#): > > What difference does it make that the victim was a nun? Shouldn’t we be equally outraged if the victim was an accountant? Yeah, and maybe the accountant had made more _redemptions_ that the nun ! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drunk-kills-nun/548999.md?page=2)