<p>Of late, the City has seen a rise in the number of accidents involving young people. Three to four youngsters cruising on the highway either in bikes or in a trendy new car in the dead of night, drunk on alcohol and adrenaline, taking their chances with death has become a common fixture. It is all ‘fun and games’ if no one gets hurt but not if lives are lost.<br /><br />Youngsters today are getting reckless by the hour with complete disregard for their lives as well as the lives of others! Young people in the City spoke about those instances that cost them dearly.<br /><br />Max, an entrepreneur, had a close call when he rammed his car into a tree after a bitter break-up. “We broke up on a very bad note and I ended up drinking too much. I decided to drive back home as I had no one else with me. As I drove on, I just blacked out, and the next thing I knew I was in the hospital. I dislocated almost everything. But I survived,” he said .<br /><br />He added that a friend of his was supposed to be in the car with him, but backed out at the last moment. <br /><br /> “Thank god for that! If anything had happened to him, I would have never been able to forgive myself,” he added. <br /><br />Drag racing is another adrenaline rush that youngsters these days indulge in. Stevan Joseph, a student, regrets the time when he dislocated his shoulder while he was doing a wheelie drunk. Rohit Hasmond, a working professional, took recklessness to a new level when he went after trouble in a fit of drunken stupor. “My friend and I were a little high when we started off on our bikes. A vehicle coming from the opposite direction barely missed us. With the idea of teaching the driver of the vehicle a lesson, I rode back, got really close to him and started bad-mouthing him. <br /><br />He got off the car and we found that he was drunk. We got into a huge fist fight and created a scene on the road. There was no necessity for me to go after him,” he said describing the instance.<br /><br />When caught in a fix, the best option sometimes is to go to the right authorities. Amrutha Kashinath and a friend, both MBA students, went directly to the cops when they had a harrowing time after their bike broke down on the highway at eleven in the night! “We were stupid to go that far out in a 14-year-old bike, with 50 bucks in our pocket! Thank god, we had the common sense to leave the bike at the nearest police station and had a good friend come and pick us up as we waited at the station,” she added.<br /><br />Parents in the City agree that kids these days are more prone to recklessness due to lack of interference and almost zero cross questioning from parents. <br /><br />Veena Manjunath, a mother of two, adds that youngsters these days have a lot of freedom. “They don’t realise how dangerous it is! Luckily for me, my kids know that with freedom comes responsibility,” she added.</p>
<p>Of late, the City has seen a rise in the number of accidents involving young people. Three to four youngsters cruising on the highway either in bikes or in a trendy new car in the dead of night, drunk on alcohol and adrenaline, taking their chances with death has become a common fixture. It is all ‘fun and games’ if no one gets hurt but not if lives are lost.<br /><br />Youngsters today are getting reckless by the hour with complete disregard for their lives as well as the lives of others! Young people in the City spoke about those instances that cost them dearly.<br /><br />Max, an entrepreneur, had a close call when he rammed his car into a tree after a bitter break-up. “We broke up on a very bad note and I ended up drinking too much. I decided to drive back home as I had no one else with me. As I drove on, I just blacked out, and the next thing I knew I was in the hospital. I dislocated almost everything. But I survived,” he said .<br /><br />He added that a friend of his was supposed to be in the car with him, but backed out at the last moment. <br /><br /> “Thank god for that! If anything had happened to him, I would have never been able to forgive myself,” he added. <br /><br />Drag racing is another adrenaline rush that youngsters these days indulge in. Stevan Joseph, a student, regrets the time when he dislocated his shoulder while he was doing a wheelie drunk. Rohit Hasmond, a working professional, took recklessness to a new level when he went after trouble in a fit of drunken stupor. “My friend and I were a little high when we started off on our bikes. A vehicle coming from the opposite direction barely missed us. With the idea of teaching the driver of the vehicle a lesson, I rode back, got really close to him and started bad-mouthing him. <br /><br />He got off the car and we found that he was drunk. We got into a huge fist fight and created a scene on the road. There was no necessity for me to go after him,” he said describing the instance.<br /><br />When caught in a fix, the best option sometimes is to go to the right authorities. Amrutha Kashinath and a friend, both MBA students, went directly to the cops when they had a harrowing time after their bike broke down on the highway at eleven in the night! “We were stupid to go that far out in a 14-year-old bike, with 50 bucks in our pocket! Thank god, we had the common sense to leave the bike at the nearest police station and had a good friend come and pick us up as we waited at the station,” she added.<br /><br />Parents in the City agree that kids these days are more prone to recklessness due to lack of interference and almost zero cross questioning from parents. <br /><br />Veena Manjunath, a mother of two, adds that youngsters these days have a lot of freedom. “They don’t realise how dangerous it is! Luckily for me, my kids know that with freedom comes responsibility,” she added.</p>
