Dad took the blame and went to prison to spare son

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    My Brother Or Dad Will Go To Jail And I Must Choose Who

    After their mom died, the dad became very depressed and developed alcohol problems, and eventually lost his job. The family struggled but after several years the dad finally began getting over his grief and drinking less, and eventually the older brother reached adulthood and got a good paying job to help support his dad and younger brother.

    One evening the dad took his two sons to watch a baseball game. But once they got there, the dad bumped into two of his friends and so the dad told his sons he was going to go hang out with them and they'd meet back at the car in 2 hours. After the game was over, the dad was over an hour late showing up at the car, and it was obvious the dad had gotten drunk with his friends. The older brother was very angry at this, and he took the dad's keys and began driving them back in the car.

    In the car the drunk dad got into an argument with the older brother and began getting aggressive, and kept telling his son how to drive, which was really annoying the older brother. They were fighting and yelling at each other. However, the older brother became distracted and accidentally crashed into a man on bicycle, putting him into a coma.

    At the hospital, the family agreed that it would make more sense to have the dad take the blame, and say that the dad was the one driving the car.
    There were several reasons for this. First, the dad felt he was the one to blame for getting drunk and causing his son to be distracted. Second, the older brother believed his dad had an alcohol problem and believed the only way he was going to get help was to go to prison. Lastly, the older brother had a high paying job and the dad wasn't earning much, so it would make more sense for the father to take the blame so the older brother could continue providing for the family.

    However, saying that the dad was the one who was the one who was driving would be very likely to get the dad in more trouble because the dad had been found to be intoxicated after the crash. If they told police it had been the older brother who was driving, it might be seen as an accident, albeit one with terrible consequences, but if they told police it was the dad who had been driving, it would be drunk driving, with severe legal repercussions.

    They lied to the police, and the dad took the blame and went to prison to spare his son.

    The younger brother was faced with the ethical dilemma about what to tell the police, to tell what actually happened or not, and whether to send his dad to prison or his brother.
    (The best case scenario though, the older brother might not have gone to prison and just permanently lost his license and be held financially responsible for what happened to the man on the bicycle they hit)
     

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