Culture of Drunk Driving

Posted By Brenda Walker On 17 August 2007 @ 2:19 pm In General, Immigration, Crime | Comments Disabled

This crime story encompasses so much that is objectionable in Mexican culture that it is hard to ignore.


The central fact is that six-year-old Bryan Mendoza was killed as a result of the criminal recklessness of his father, with the complicity of his mother in a drunk driving crash.



The father, Rodrigo Mendoza, argued with his wife that he was not too drunk to drive the family home from an Escondido swap meet on May 5 and she relented. The accident occurred as he swerved over the highway at speeds estimated to reach 80 mph. He had a blood alcohol level of .30, nearly four times the legal limit, hours after the crash.

The vehicle rolled down an embankment and little Bryan, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was thrown from the car and killed. A nine-year-old brother had fastened his seatbelt and survived. An 18-month-old girl who was in a car seat that was not secured to the car also lived.

Incidentally, hispanics are culturally disinterested in using seatbelts, which goes against their progress-resistant, fatalistic view of life. They believe that children should be held tightly on their laps in the front seat of the car and regard American safety constraints as cold and unloving.

Rodrigo Mendoza, an illegal alien, was sentenced in late July to six years in prison.

A judge told Rodrigo Mendoza at a sentencing hearing Thursday that his behavior was “despicable.â€