Simulation brings home reality of DUI

In a little less than three hours on Tuesday, Havre High School students saw five fellow students pulled from a bloody car wreck caused by alcohol. They saw one student arrested and convicted of negligent homicide and negligent vehicular assault, and they attended the funeral of another.

Afterward the handcuffs were taken off, the face paint cleaned up and the casket - empty - taken back to the funeral home. The convict returned to sixth-period class.

But at least one part of the demonstration - part of Every 15 Minutes, a national campaign to prevent underage drinking and driving - was not st...