Jacqueline Saburido

[Kremlar]

This is probably old news to some, but I was going through a lot of random images I had saved over the years and came across a picture I remembered getting emailed to me - a completely disfigured girl on a drinking & driving poster. I had never looked into it, but her name was on the poster, so for the heck of it I googled her name and came up with her site:

http://www.helpjacqui.com/

I guess I was hoping to google it and find out it was just a hoax photo, but sadly it wasn't.

Anyway, I felt it was worth a post - it's just a ridiculously sad situation.

 

[LeiZaK]

:brokenheart::brokenheart:

 

[Black88GTA]

She was burned over 60% of her body; no one thought she could survive. But Jacqui lived. Her hands were so badly burned that all of her fingers had to be amputated. She lost her hair, her ears, her nose, her left eyelid and much of her vision. She has had more than 50 operations since the crash and has many more to go.

Quite honestly, I would rather have died. Very sad situation. The "after" pic is horrendous.

 

[conjur]

Hmmm...thanks for posting. Hadn't heard much about her in quite a while. I know she was living here for a while at one point.

 

[geecee]

This is so very sad.

Sadly, I wonder if a picture/campaign like this even affects/deters those that would drive drunk. I would almost think people like that would need a picture of themselves being bent over and used as a pleasure toy by inmates. That might be more effective in appealing to the selfish nature of such individuals.

 

[Kremlar]

Who knows how much it deters. It's just terrible - one of those things that makes you wish you could help.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: geecee
This is so very sad.

Sadly, I wonder if a picture/campaign like this even affects/deters those that would drive drunk. I would almost think people like that would need a picture of themselves being bent over and used as a pleasure toy by inmates. That might be more effective in appealing to the selfish nature of such individuals.

unfortunately drunk driving most of the time is not really driving drunk....big $$$ for everyone though.

 

[eLiu]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: geecee
This is so very sad.

Sadly, I wonder if a picture/campaign like this even affects/deters those that would drive drunk. I would almost think people like that would need a picture of themselves being bent over and used as a pleasure toy by inmates. That might be more effective in appealing to the selfish nature of such individuals.

unfortunately drunk driving most of the time is not really driving drunk....big $$$ for everyone though.

huh?

 

[tami]

yup, i remember reading this extensively and staring at the picture, at which point i realized it's NOT cool to say that people are ugly, no matter how disfigured they may be. such a sad story. poor girl. i'm glad that there are so many people devoted to helping her.

 

[silverpig]

She was on Oprah once I think (was dating a girl who made me watch it at the time...).

But yeah, I don't think her thing will really do much. I mean, if someone is out at the bar, having a great time, loses track of the time and realizes he's gotta get his ass home quick, do you think he'll think of Jacqui or where he can get some Excel gum?

 

[Barfo]

I remember downloading the before bikini pic and running the hell away

 

[Mo0o]

Personally I would rather die. Very sad story.

 

[mchammer]

Originally posted by: eLiu

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: geecee
This is so very sad.

Sadly, I wonder if a picture/campaign like this even affects/deters those that would drive drunk. I would almost think people like that would need a picture of themselves being bent over and used as a pleasure toy by inmates. That might be more effective in appealing to the selfish nature of such individuals.

unfortunately drunk driving most of the time is not really driving drunk....big $$$ for everyone though.

huh?

wha?

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: mchammer

Originally posted by: eLiu

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: geecee
This is so very sad.

Sadly, I wonder if a picture/campaign like this even affects/deters those that would drive drunk. I would almost think people like that would need a picture of themselves being bent over and used as a pleasure toy by inmates. That might be more effective in appealing to the selfish nature of such individuals.

unfortunately drunk driving most of the time is not really driving drunk....big $$$ for everyone though.

huh?

wha?

For a lot of people, being over the legal limit doesn't necessarily mean you're inebriated or impaired.

 

[Ryan]

I feel bad for her - reading the story of how it happened is hard

 

[ironcrotch]

wow so crazy..

 

[mchammer]

It is true that drunk driving deaths are much too high a percentage of total driving deaths. I say drinking establishments have one way only parking lots. People have obviously shown they are too irresponsible to handle these decisions on their own.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea saw that long ago. she was pretty...its a shame

 

[Drizzy]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: mchammer

Originally posted by: eLiu

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: geecee
This is so very sad.

Sadly, I wonder if a picture/campaign like this even affects/deters those that would drive drunk. I would almost think people like that would need a picture of themselves being bent over and used as a pleasure toy by inmates. That might be more effective in appealing to the selfish nature of such individuals.

unfortunately drunk driving most of the time is not really driving drunk....big $$$ for everyone though.

huh?

wha?

For a lot of people, being over the legal limit doesn't necessarily mean you're inebriated or impaired.

And thus we see the reason many people get into these sick types of accidents. "No really I'm alright. I can handle my alcohol..."

 

[compuwiz1]

Very sad, very un needed.

Kids will never get it. Every year we bury someone from every hi school in town. When we are (were) young, we feel we are (were) invincible. Been there, done that, and frankly, I should not be here today. I guess I dodged the bullet. Most of my friends that ran that way did not.

Also, as is the way of the forums, pretty soon some un-sympathetic ass will muddle their way into this thread and spew a bunch of crap.

 

[intogamer]

:shocked:

 

[IGBT]

..there was a 3 strike law for DUI shot down by the California Legislature not too long ago. I don't know why they didn't pass it. But it's time to start locking up DUI's for 25 and pull their lic.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: mchammer
It is true that drunk driving deaths are much too high a percentage of total driving deaths. I say drinking establishments have one way only parking lots. People have obviously shown they are too irresponsible to handle these decisions on their own.

Most people don't understand the statistics, and even here when I stated one may be over the 'legal' limit and be ok to drive, they assumed this was the person themselves banking on that.

There is a lot of science behind it. However, like I said, most people that go through DUI cases just touched the BAL limit, when driving fine but caught in either a roadblock, or by coincidence.

MADD/SADD are a huge political lobby pushing far more issues than just DUI law through our courts. They are very profitable and have a great hook, who is going to tell a parent whose kid just got maimed that it was OK?

read about the law, how unconstitutional it is etc. It's like speeding though, no one says they speed usually although everyone has.

Same with drinking and drinking, most who drink probably have no driven 'drunk', but many probably would have failed at 0.08 BAL/BAC.

That's just the point I am making. Plus statistically there are thousands and thousands of drivers at that BAL driving each day and they are not statistically adding to more accidents, but with out a presentation on this most aren't going to see that.

 

[imported_ArtVandalay]

Originally posted by: tami
yup, i remember reading this extensively and staring at the picture, at which point i realized it's NOT cool to say that people are ugly, no matter how disfigured they may be. such a sad story. poor girl. i'm glad that there are so many people devoted to helping her.

You had to see this to come to that realization?

Anyway, R x 100, but still a sad story. Pretty inspiring that she has the courage to use her story to help fight drunk driving. 50,000 people a year in the US die in alcohol related crashes while we're too busy locking people up for marijuana to do more than slap DUIAs on the wrist .. /sigh

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Personally I would rather die. Very sad story.