In a powerful online video, a young man says he is prepared to pay for a night of heavy drinking and a head-on, wrong-way crash on I-670 near Third Street.
The man promises to tell the truth about how he caused the death of a 61-year-old photographer and Navy submarine veteran from Gahanna.
“I struck a car. I killed a man,” the man says in the video posted Tuesday to becauseisaidiwould.com and YouTube.The video is helping launch a new dot com called Because I Said I Would.
When the camera blur fades and his reflection comes into view he says, “My name is Matthew Cordle and on June 22, 2013, I hit and killed Vincent Canzani. This video will act as my confession.” Mr. Cordle continues to say that he will plead guilty when charges are filed against him and intends to take full responsibility for his actions. The county prosecutor has already said he intends to ask the state to indict Mr. Cordle.
The video is powerful and serious testament to the dangers of drinking and driving and the importance of taking responsibility for poor choices, but it’s also something else: it’s a promotional video for a new not for profit startup called Because I Said I Would.
The nonprofit’s website calls it “a social movement dedicated to bettering humanity through the power of a promise.” In addition to helping “execute charitable projects in support of other non-profit organizations,” Because I Said I Would offers free “promise cards,” little postcards that users can write on to help them remember to keep the promises they’ve made.I watched the video. Some things about the confession lead me to believe it could be a fake, but after watching it a few times I'm not so sure it is a fake. Click to see the video at the jump.
"I killed a man."
The Columbus Dispatch, BetaBeat
9 comments:
Confession is good for the soul, but the problem is don't expect any sympathy for your stupidity and expect the worst to come your way. Using the excuse of poor choices is a stupid way to deflect the fact that A) you drank yourself into oblivion and gambled on someone elses life and yours. B) I'm assuming you did it with friends and no one stopped you. And C) You're a moron for using 'poor choices' as an excuse for what you did.
Couldn't this be interpreted as a charm offensive?
Did MADD have any sort of hand in this 'confession'?
As it appears way too slickly made to my mind.
Hindsight is a magical motherfucker, both from the perpetrator, and the first comment here. Not that I necessarily disagree with the particulars of that comment, just that, as a drunken youth, I never used them in this way. No excuses was my motto.
As with many public messages of societal taboos today the message is one of mindless zero tolerance born of a fear that anything other than zero tolerance is endorsement.
Blacking out and drinking are not the same thing. Neither is pot and crack. Neither is pointing your finger and pointing a loaded gun, nor is legally carrying a gun and being a thug, nor is using the n-word and lynching comparable, nor rape and a woman having regrets. We lose all moral authority when we fail to discriminate, use judgement, common sense, or perspective like intelligent creatures can.
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Q: What did one little bird say to the other?
A: Talk is cheep.
He feels the appropriate amount of guilt and has taken the appropriate action to remedy the wrong he has done. I'm as cynical as the next person, but sometimes people do the right thing for the right reason. I hope that this is what it appears to be.
This is a performance, a reenactment of a confession, possibly a scripted reenactment of a confession, but not a confession.
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