The Eureka Police Department, via its Facebook, is promising lights, sirens, ambulances, people scurrying here and there and even helicopters sometime today, as the St. Bernard’s student body gets one of those dramatic scared-straight lessons about the dangers of drunk driving.

It’s gonna be one of those deals where everyone simulates a gory car crash right out in front of the school. One student will pretend to be decapitated and all the others will come by and gawk at paramedics as they struggle to sew her head back on. Cops will run this way and that, there’ll be some street closures probably, a grieving mother will wail to the heavens so that kids might be edified about the pain they inflict upon their families when they choose to drink and drive.

Don’t be alarmed. Let the kids have their fun.