You know, when I’m in Japan and CNN broadcasts a top news topic regarding anything to do with Hawaii, I drop everything to listen to the news. I even called my husband to come and watch the news with me, which I rarely do. This news wasn’t anything positive, it showed a video clip of someone that resembled a druggie who looked as though she was jonesing. Just a face in the drug crowd, another drug abuser. No, it couldn’t have been a one time beauty pageant winner who represented Hawaii in the Miss USA pageant. But indeed it was. Tiffini Hercules, Miss Hawaii - USA of 1998 was arrested on several counts of drug charges.

Since she was once a public figure, I wonder what the state will do to work on the ever-increasing drug problem back home. If she can be rehabilitated, maybe she can use this unfortunate incident to help bring awareness to schools throughout Hawaii. She could show her pageant photos next to her mugshot so kids can relate to the effects drugs can and will have on them if they decided that’s the path they want to take.

In either case, this is not the type of news I look forward to viewing when I think of home. Sad sad sad.