Author Topic: MADD: Breathalyzers For Everyone (Read 1916 times)

Maverick · « **Reply #15 on:** November 21, 2006, 04:55:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Personal responsibility takes a back seat when the nanny-state is driving.

To a drunk driver, personal responsibility isn't even in the freaking car much less driving.

john9001 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 21, 2006, 04:57:11 PM »

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Originally posted by VOR
If preventing DUI/DWI was a real priority it would have much, much stiffer sentences for offenders.

easy VOR, DUI provides a healthy revenue stream and provides employment for the executive directors of MADD, you don't want to kill the golden goose.

FiLtH · « **Reply #17 on:** November 21, 2006, 05:10:15 PM »

It would be great if the car would'nt run if you failed. Most people think there are ok to drive when in reality they arent. But I have this ugly vision of that uni-bike Mr. Garrison made with the probes and stuff on South Park.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #18 on:** November 21, 2006, 05:23:03 PM »

About DUIs, my friends dad is a retired Lt.Col in the Army and he told us teenage boys a story once before we went out on the town.

"in Turkey, if the police pulled you over and found that you had been drinking and driving, they drag you out of the car and put a bullet in your head on the side of the road. TURKEY DOESNT HAVE A DUI PROBLEM"

I'm not sure how true the story is but it was quite telling hearing it as a teenager from a rather "militant" dad.

Maverick · « **Reply #19 on:** November 21, 2006, 05:27:19 PM »

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Originally posted by john9001
easy VOR, DUI provides a healthy revenue stream and provides employment for the executive directors of MADD, you don't want to kill the golden goose.

There are far more folks making money getting people out of taking personal responsibility for DUI's than in any other area of endeavor related to it. They have to pay for all those billboards advertising their services somehow.

Yknurd · « **Reply #20 on:** November 21, 2006, 06:09:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Once tabacco is totally under the table.it will only a matter of time before that Prohibition thing comes next...

If that happens I'm putting on my Che shirt and will overthrow the government single-handedly.

Shamus · « **Reply #21 on:** November 21, 2006, 08:49:40 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
The prison system would be overloaded in 24 hours time.

Well I dont think it would be a huge increase, folks would just not be messing with the interlock system, draconian punishment works in behavior modification.

Granted you would have a few more people in jail and prison, then you just build more prisons. Thats how we have handled it the past 30-40 years or so.

Build it and they will come.

shamus

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #22 on:** November 21, 2006, 10:40:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
It's a silly idea. What they ought to do is make the breathalyzer optional equipment and get the insurance companies to offer incentives for using one.

Good idea, but your liberal brain has taken it askew. You automatically assume that the government should mandate all those incentives.

Why not go directly to the insurance company?

The less amount of laws we have, the better.

RightF00T · « **Reply #23 on:** November 21, 2006, 10:54:19 PM »

Anyone remember the hot blonde drunk scene from 40-Year-Old-virgin? Yup wont work.

x0847Marine · « **Reply #24 on:** November 21, 2006, 11:15:26 PM »

DUI related collisions kill 13,000 people a year, so lets make millions of folks pay a little extra for some stupid gadget that the drunks will get around inside 5 min. No thanks, this smells like some special interest BS basking in the glow of a good cause.

Most of those who wipe out others are repeat offenders who have already been arrested numerous times, lost their license, spent time in jail, lost several cars, will be paying fines until well after death, and yet... they drive anyway, and they will drive anyway gadget, or no gadget. Esp the brokeasses who push a 20 year old crapbox down the road.

We had a very effective program against habitual DUI offenders, station volunteers (Explorer scouts / civilian volunteers / neighborhood watch peeps) would "steak out" these dudes cars and alert a dedicated unit should they see em drive.. we nailed em left and right, over 20 arrests the 1st month. The best part was how paranoid they got, thinking the man is always watching... but we lost the budget for that dedicated DUI unit to DARE (which is covered by Federal funds)... I could go on a rant on how Fed funds for local law enforcement is a total face, but I wont...

Sandman · « **Reply #25 on:** November 21, 2006, 11:23:08 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Good idea, but your liberal brain has taken it askew. You automatically assume that the government should mandate all those incentives.

Why not go directly to the insurance company?

The less amount of laws we have, the better.

MADD is the government?

Tumor · « **Reply #26 on:** November 21, 2006, 11:37:24 PM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort

WELL THANK COD I DRINK!!

Sandman · « **Reply #27 on:** November 22, 2006, 12:14:20 AM »

I wonder how many people are killed each year by drivers that are simply tired.

Debonair · « **Reply #28 on:** November 22, 2006, 12:17:05 AM »

they all still have vaginas, and your bottle of booze came in a paper bag...

sgt203 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 22, 2006, 05:35:31 AM »

I dont think they make a paper bag big enough to hold all the booze you would need for those beauties.........