Alcohol-Influenced Violence: A Harrowing Tale

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Good-Morning/ After-noon I’m Kirra Lee, I’m here to talk about one of the Four Corners Documentary’s called the “Punch Drunk”, uploaded February, 26 2013 by Janine Cohen and Karen Michelmore. A quote I saw once said that “Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity behaviour” by Sammy Davis, Jr, and the purpose of this documentary is telling us about violence under the influence of alcohol and what it does to use while under the guidance and what we can do to others without thinking about it. This story is about a young boy going out on his first time drinking out in the clubs, while walking with his girlfriend, he gets severely punched in the head by a drunk person and now has ended up half crippled on one side of the body for the rest

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