Cenk Uygur
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High Schoolers Bully DUI Speaker Offstage
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October 20, 2012
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3:29Now PlayingSarah Panzau has traveled the country telling teenagers about her near-fatal decision 10 years ago to drink and drive.
She speaks of a blood alcohol content nearly four times the legal limit and of the 40 painful surgeries to reconstruct her scarred body.
"What I do isn't easy. It's emotionally exhausting," Sarah Panzau said. "What I do isn't easy. It's emotionally exhausting," Sarah Panzau said.
But at Ashley Ridge High School this week, some students saw her story more as a joke than serious.
The professional speaker hired by brewer Anheuser-Busch said she was so thrown off by chatter and disruptive conduct by some members of the school's junior class that she gave up talking and walked off during her 45-minute appearance Thursday.
"I felt the entire time I was trying to compete with certain students in the audience," said Panzau, who put her microphone on "full blast" and still couldn't overcome the audience noise.
While about 80 percent of the 600 or so students in the auditorium wanted to hear her story, she estimated about 20 percent were intentionally unruly, something she pegged to a lack of faculty presence.
"What I do isn't easy. It's emotionally exhausting," she said of telling the students her account.
The last of the disruptions came when someone mocked her appearance.
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