It's pretty hard to say what anyone would do in this kind of situation. You can't really say "if I'd just killed 5 people, the last thing I'd do was look for a drink of water". You'd just as likely fill your pants, dance a jig or take a swig of a misshapen water bottle as anything else.
That being said, swigging from a bottle of vodka sounds like something a drunk (or drunk person) would do, and depending on how pissed they are at the time, might not even think it's wrong, think "nobody 'll notice" or be so polluted that they don't even consider how stupid it is. Staggering to the back and tossing the bottle in the "hopper" is just an extension of crazy-drunk behaviour.
I don't mean to trivialize this tragedy or equate it with something so petty, but anyone ever drunk-dialled? Done something really stupid when drunk? What's the first thing you think of doing after you figured out how dumb you are? Have another drink! Can't hurt now, can it?
Seems to me that's what this guy might have been "thinking". Roaring down Macleod Trail at 125 in a cement truck -- well, you just gotta be drunk to do that. So drunk that after the crash you figure another pull from the "customer appreciation" ain't going to change anything now.
|