[speaker001:] ah so Beverly what do you think about drug testing
[speaker002:] I think in some professions it's uh essential things like pilots and things that involve the safety of other people particularly
[speaker001:] yeah we've we got a lot of mistakes here uh in no Maryland Baltimore area because of um train conductors uh on drugs I think we've had two terrible accidents here recently and also on um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] just like I bet you within five days a truck where the uh a dump truck where the driver was uh high on marijuana I guess he smoked marijuana for lunch and uh drove his truck up the back of two small cars in a tunnel that goes underneath the uh a river that leads into the Chesapeake Bay
[speaker002:] oh my goodness
[speaker001:] and it would that would tried up traffic for a long time everybody died the fire was terrible it was awful so I yeah I think you're right I I think I if if if it's if you're in a field but then you know who would test all truck drivers
[speaker002:] they that's that is a problem and every time before they get into a vehicle
[speaker001:] you know right yeah I think I think at looking at athletes being drug tested
[speaker002:] I mean um-hum
[speaker001:] I don't know even I think the random drug testing I don't know in my own mind if it has reduced the athletes from taking drugs because they're still being caught does that make sense um
[speaker002:] right yes it may make a difference for some of them
[speaker001:] yeah and then uh I think
[speaker002:] because they don't want to lose that lucrative uh career
[speaker001:] yeah I I I think in the long run I think it's it would be good I think in the short run they think because so many of those tested have gotten away with it you know the the test hasn't come down hard on anyone I don't I don't know
[speaker002:] um-hum right um-hum however here in Dallas uh we had a a player Roy Tarpley on the Mavericks team
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] and he had been suspended a couple of times because of drug testing and was to the point he is on probation it's to the point that if he was caught another time that he would lose his contract and they wouldn't have to pay him and the Mavericks wanted to get rid of him but they couldn't afford to replace him and still pay his contract
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and uh just recently he was uh missing from practice and whenever he missed like that usually he had some kind of problem and so a mandatory drug test was done was positive so they were able to get rid of him and not have to pay his contract
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah get rid of him right yeah but
[speaker002:] and so in his case he lost his whole career he's been in the paper in jail and it's just been awful and talk about a terrible role model
[speaker001:] yeah right I I think that that that's a terrible thing you know it's really funny though um I guess my dad was hit by a a drunk driver who was also high um when I was probably eighteen my senior year in high school
[speaker002:] um oh my goodness
[speaker001:] and um though he's alive today and everything worked out fine it it it happened about two blocks from the high school and a friend came and got me and I was there and I could smell the dope and I could see the beer cans from the guy that hit him
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and nothing ever happened and from from that point on I became so anti-drunk driving you know now I think people should be allowed to drink I think that's an adult responsibility whatever
[speaker002:] oh that's terrible um-hum
[speaker001:] but I really uh I'm so anti-drunk driving and and drugs have uh long lasting effects and I I guess when I younger I was um probably a little more liberal on the subject
[speaker002:] um-hum I think most of us are
[speaker001:] yeah and but as I've as as as soon as that happened I guess when I was eighteen years old if you'd have asked me I'd have thought it was fine but it by the time I was nineteen my opinion had totally changed yeah
[speaker002:] um-hum yes if you know someone for example we have uh some friends whose son was driving home from work was hit head on by a drunk driver the drunk and his wife in the car were killed
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and uh Bobby missed his whole junior year of high school
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] he went through surgery after surgery and for a long time they didn't even know whether he'd be normal again and he as far as his athletics athletics he's lost all of that
[speaker001:] hm traction and all that terrible stuff right
[speaker002:] he uh has been tutored and he'll catch up in school and everything but he's still not back where he was he may never have all those motor skills back
[speaker001:] right yeah I don't think somebody yeah you don't you don't you don't have the right to interfere in somebody else's life I can't even say you know I wouldn't even say ruin somebody's life you don't have the right to interfere in somebody's life
[speaker002:] no another thing that we saw here recently one of some of our high school kids were out goofing around in a park area that a a train track ran through
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and one boy who had been drinking decided for some stupid reason to try to play with the train well he missed the train missed him but uh a big mirror type thing sticking out like a metal thing sticking out hit him in the head
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] he was in a coma for four months he's out of the coma now and eventually they think he will come back
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but you don't know that and but he's lost he was an outstanding football player
[speaker001:] right