Becca's Thoughts

Broken Heart!!!

About five minutes ago we had breaking news. That news was the release of the blood alcohol level of Scott Owens. In case you don’t know the story, police say Scott Owens was driving the wrong-way down the Old Las Vegas highway early June 28th. That ended in a head on crash between he and a car full of five Santa Fe teenagers. Four of those teenagers are dead, the drive is in the hospital, and he walked away from the crash unharmed. Reports say he smelled of alcohol, had blood shot eyes and stumbled around the crash scene. He refused a breathalyzer test from officers at the scene. Officers then woke up a judge and a warrant for his blood was ordered. From here on the story just gets worse. Parents are having to bury their children, while another set of parents sit in the hospital in urgent care hoping their child survives. This past weekend was the last memorial service for one of the teens. Memorial services for all four of them were held all last week and along with them came very sad stories. So back to the breaking news. The Santa Fe District Attorney decided to not release Scott Owens blood alcohol level to minimize pretrial publicity. As you can guess some of the media did not take that choice lightly. Some requested the results from the State Health Department. The department told the DA they will be releasing the results, that’s when the DA decided to send out a press release with the results. Scott Owens was driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.16, that is over twice the legal limit. A search warrant was also given to the driver of the other car Avree Koffman, for her blood to test her blood alcohol level. Her results were 0.0. So basically four teens lost their lives because a man decided to get behind the wheel after having a few drink. I hope that this man is locked away for a long time, it’s just too bad the death penalty is no longer available in New Mexico because i think he would be a prime candidate!!!! This terrible tragedy give me yet another reason not to drink and drive!!! 

Talk in the Steam Room....

so this week i did really good and went to the gym every day… that is something that I am really proud of!!! So on thursday I swim laps, sit in the hot tub and wait for another woman to go into the steam room so I am not the only one in there with a bunch of guys. So another woman comes and i go into the steam room also. So once the steam gathers the men come running. So two of them start having a conversation about losing weight. one of the men is rather large and the other is the same. So they start asking eachother how much they have lost, what they are doing to lose weight and so on. So the one guy says do you drink they guy answers no. So then he says do you do drugs, he says no again, then he  says do you smoke weed and he’s like no. I don’t do any drugs they are bad. So then the guy goes on about all the drugs he has done and how he was a junkie and all and all the time i was like wow… is this really something you talk about in the steam room!!! So then he says this “I was in deep, then i found God and he took it all away.” When I hear someone say some thing like that it really makes me think!!! What I usually think is why did you start in the first place…. or why did it take you so long to stop…. or if you are faced with it again can you really turn away. Then of course the news person comes out in me and although it is more of a feature I though it would make like a good news topic… just to hear what diffferent strangers have to say when they are in a steam room of all places…. ok maybe not a news story but i think it would be interesting. It will be called Conversations through the Steam!!! haha

LIKE ROB SAID!

RULE NUMBER 2 PEOPLE…. DO BETTER!(i think that’s rule number 2)

WHO DOES THAT REALLY! HAHA

MY SIX WORDS!!

So I am not sure what this six words is that Anthony and Rob always do… but after reading them almost everyday I have seemed to finally come up with my own. Working in the news business I haven’t been to affected by the murders, crashes, deaths, digging up of bones on the west mesa (if you watch fox 2 or news 13 you would know about this! hahaha) robberies etc. What has gotten to me is having to report on the constant layoffs that are happening daily. So therefore here are my six words.

THANK. GOD. I. HAVE. A. JOB!!!!!