St. Louis Cardinal pitcher, Josh Hancock, was recently killed while driving drunk. He hit a tow truck that was parked on the highway. Fortunately, no one else was hurt. Unfortunately, Hancock's father is very sad.
So sad, in fact, that he is suing the owner of Shannon's restaurant in St. Louis (Josh had a few drinks there the night he died).
I hate it when sad turns into pathetic.
Apparently, Mr. Hancock is incredibly distraught because his son was killed while driving drunk. When people get incredibly sad because they have a problem, they typically look to blame someone else for said problem. This happens to be my least favorite trait within humanity.
From anonymous old ladies who rear-end perfectly innocent drivers to Brittney fucking Spears blaming her drug addictions on Justin Timberlake, people always find ways to force blame for their problems. After all, it's always someone else's fault. Especially when someone dies.
Mr. Hancock is obviously being very philosophical about this situation. He's wallowing in his grief and wondering why his son died. And I can tell him.
Mr. Hancock, your son died because he got drunk and hit a tow truck.
That's it. End of story.
He did not die because a bar kept serving him past his legal limit. He did not die because a tow truck was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He did not die because Capricorn is rising and Venus is on her period. He died because he got drunk and he hit a tow truck. It's sad, but such is life.
We live in a very litigious society, which is a way of saying that everyone sues each other at the drop of a mesh trucker hat (those are still in style, right?). That does not, however, make blaming others the right way to go. Even if it will make you money.
Whether or not Josh Hancock was served by the devil himself, it was Josh Hancock who drank too much alcohol.
Whether or not the tow truck he hit was in the wrong place, it was Josh Hancock who was too drunk to react to it.
Whether or not Josh Hancock's dad realizes it, Josh died drunk. While driving.
And suing a restaurant is not gonna bring back any one, it's not gonna help any one and it's certainly not gonna polish Hancock's posthumous image.
On the other side though, Senior Hancock will probably turn an easy fifty grand.
And that's why we all have children anyway.