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I enjoyed watching Tolly every morning. This is really tragic. What a shame.

I've only seen him on air a couple of times but he struck me as a talent: a personable guy, good sense of humor, made the telecast enjoyable. Now he's in for a very hard time.

I hope young people will really pay attention to what can happen when you make this sort of mistake.

What Carr did was inexcusable and the bulk of my sympathy goes to the young man who died.

Having said that, I can't help but feel bad for Carr. His life isn't over, but it is pretty much ruined. He'll never work again in TV news and he's probably going to jail. Just a tragedy all the way around.

Very, very bad judgment yields tragic consequences. Young people should learn from this!

Yes, young people should learn from this. Old people should remember another name -- Dr. Ramesh Krishnaraj.

Only the Krishnaraj incident was relatively harmless. He lost his job, but otherwise no one was hurt.

That certainly wasn't the N&R's position at the time, Doug.

To read the N&R's news coverage of the Dr. Krishnaraj incident, you would've thought he gunned down a crowd of school girls carrying bunny rabbits on their way to visit a nursing home.

I wasn't here at the time although I recall my editorial position at the High Point Enterprise was that he should lose his job. Drunken-driving is not acceptable conduct for the county's health director. Yes, no one was injured, but there's the risk of that when one is DWI. In his situation, of course, there was no issue of jail time as it was his first offense.

I hope part of Tolly's sentence is that he has to go to High Schools and talk to our young drivers about drinking and driving. He could make a big impact. I'm sure it'll take him a long time to get over this--but something tells me he'll have plenty of time to do it.

This case notwithstanding, and not to beat a dead horse, accidents are mostly always tragic losses. Not just for the deceased, but often for the person who is responsible. That being said, I really hope that deaths due to drunk driving become mandatory life sentences or death by lethal injection because people have to realize, that after all these years, all the commercials, M.A.D.D., S.A.D.D., D.A.R.E., the countless TV movies and afterschool specials, after all this-- DRIVING DRUNK IS WRONG! I can't tell you how many times as a child, or just by happenstance, I unwillingly rode with a drunken driven (before I actually got a license). Maybe if the punishment for these crimes started being more severe, people would think twice, then a third or fourth time. I like Tolly Carr a lot, definitely a guy on the way up, but this is unacceptable. But the Lord forgives, so who are we to hold it over his head forever.

Excellent suggestion that Tolly should speak to young people about the consequences of making this sort of mistake.

With all due respect, not so excellent suggestion about the death penalty. This is not premeditated murder. However, if he is charged of felony death by vehicle and convicted, he could get a significant prison sentence -- enough to set a strong example.

That youtube site is making fun of him, drawing up pictures of him and doing it's best to be one-sided. It's wrong. That makes a bad situation worse, and they should be ashamed for that.

They are making fun, and who are they that have never made a mistake- this is the worst mistake ever. It seems not enough to call it a mistake- an error, or a tragedy. It's a nightmare, hell on earth. And then you consider the loss of a human life.

Anyone who pretends to understand this situation better have walked a mile in both side's shoes.

Good points. I haven't seen the site you refer to, but making fun of any part of this is wrong. Thanks for your comment.