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Offline Shuffler

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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #30 on: July 28, 2009, 12:26:04 PM »
Quote from: OOZ662 on July 25, 2009, 01:14:45 PM
I'm interested in the fact that I'm sure everyone here would laugh themselves silly if a stand-up comedian told this, as Billy Connolly has built his career on such things. However, once one person says something about how wrong and vile it is, everybody hops on.

I'd give 9/10 odds that it never actually happened and was something somebody dreamed up to be funny.

Never heard of this billy connolly.

If yall want to get technical about it.... of the percentage of accidents that mention a drunk driver... quite a few were not caused by the drunk. The drunk was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Record keeping and the use of those records is questionable at times. It doesn't make driving while intoxicated any less dangerous though.
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #31 on: July 28, 2009, 01:06:58 PM »
Quote from: Shuffler on July 28, 2009, 12:26:04 PM
The drunk was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

wasnt aware there was a right place or right time to be drink drivin
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #32 on: July 28, 2009, 01:10:21 PM »
Quote from: minke on July 28, 2009, 01:06:58 PM
wasnt aware there was a right place or right time to be drink drivin

Wrong place meaning getting hit. Never good to D&D.

Many Groups use records that say involved alcohol.... not that says caused by alcohol.
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #33 on: July 28, 2009, 01:21:10 PM »
drove 8 miles down the motorway today saw at least half a dozen examples of dangerous driving,its scary how bad some people are,never mind when alcohol is involved.
stuff i'd like to see here in the uk

get rid of the 'you can have a couple and still drive legally' bs. You drink and are caught,you lose your license and your car is crushed

mandatory retest in the event of an accident

heavy fines for mobile phone usage too.

oh and this time the joke wasn't funny
 :rolleyes:
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Offline Flipperk

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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #34 on: July 28, 2009, 01:49:20 PM »
See Rules #4, #6
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #35 on: July 28, 2009, 02:42:59 PM »
See Rule #4
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #36 on: July 28, 2009, 02:49:58 PM »
See Rule #4
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Offline DJ111

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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #37 on: July 28, 2009, 02:54:33 PM »
See Rule #4
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Offline Flipperk

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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #38 on: July 28, 2009, 02:56:33 PM »
See Rule #4
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #39 on: July 28, 2009, 02:59:48 PM »
Deminished capacity.  Be it by drugs, alcohol, tiredness or age is a bad thing when behind the wheel.  Why is it that if you have three beers and drive home at two o'clock in the morning, you'll go to jail, but if you're ninety with alzhiemer's and drive up to the post office (through the school zone, during school) you're a person who deserves their freedom of mobility?

I have often wondered if the founders of MADD realize that their cause has been twisted by the powers that be into a cash cow for law enforcement and the judicial system...
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #40 on: July 28, 2009, 03:04:30 PM »
Quote from: Flipperk on July 28, 2009, 02:56:33 PM
See Rule #4

That the guy tricked the cop into letting all the drunk drivers drive home?

Sure.

It's a real knee-slapper.
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #41 on: July 28, 2009, 03:29:51 PM »
Quote from: sluggish on July 28, 2009, 02:59:48 PM
Deminished capacity.  Be it by drugs, alcohol, tiredness or age is a bad thing when behind the wheel.  Why is it that if you have three beers and drive home at two o'clock in the morning, you'll go to jail, but if you're ninety with alzhiemer's and drive up to the post office (through the school zone, during school) you're a person who deserves their freedom of mobility?


For the record: if any ninety year old Alzheimer's sufferers wish to run me over in the parking lot of the New Britain, CT post office, they may freely do so :aok
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Offline Bodhi

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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #42 on: July 28, 2009, 04:04:59 PM »
That joke was funny when it first made it's rounds and I still get a chuckle out of it from the point of pulling one over on the system.  Before some of the PC Nazi's scream bloody murder, I do not think it is funny that people get killed by drunk drivers, and Yes, I have seen the results of people killed by drunken drivers.

I guess the bottom line is this:

Drunk Driving enforcement is far more about making revenue than it is about saving lives.  If the system wasn't so damned hypocritical about the enforcement issue of a DUI, I might actually have more sympathy towards said system.  Instead, they support flagrant 4th Amendment violations through DUI check points, fund programs on anticipated DUI arrests, and tailor the law to ensure these funds continue to come in.  The truly sad thing about is that you stand a higher chance of fines and incarceration for DUI's than you do for molesting a child.  That's what is wrong.
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Offline john9001

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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #43 on: July 28, 2009, 05:03:14 PM »
a new study just out shows that DWT (driving wile texting) kills more people than DWI.

so when you are driving and see someone texting, text the police their tag number.
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Re: Designated Decoy
« Reply #44 on: July 28, 2009, 05:27:37 PM »
Quote from: john9001 on July 28, 2009, 05:03:14 PM
a new study just out shows that DWT (driving wile texting) kills more people than DWI.

so when you are driving and see someone texting, text the police their tag number.

I bet all the holier than thou's in here never talk on the phone or text while driving....   I wonder how many eat and drink non alcoholic beverages while driving?  That's a high source of deaths as well....  how bout those that drive while exhausted and fall asleep...?

The list goes on and on and on...
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