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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GScholz on November 14, 2013, 11:37:56 AM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8
Don't drink and drive. Just don't.
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<S> Thanks for posting
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Seems my idiot censors in our censor free country have blocked the content.
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Our road safety campaigns have gotten a lot more graphic over the years. The next campaign is steering off in a different direction though. The 'stars' of the campaign will be road accident survivors and loved ones of deceased victims.
As we say in Oz, "If you drink and drive, you're a bloody idiot!"
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But if you insist on drinking and driving you can come see me in the ER. We'll cut your clothes off, stick tubes in every opening we can find (and maybe even create a couple for even more tubes), take several thousand dollars worth of xrays, CT scans, MRIs and Ultrasounds to become aware of each of your shattered bones and lacerated, ruptured or punctured organs. Then it's off to surgery where you'll get filleted open (several 10s of thousands of dollars more) to fix what you broke. If you survive with enough brain function you may realize that you'll most likely live the rest of your life with permanent limitations and pain.
Have one for me as well.
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Our road safety campaigns have gotten a lot more graphic over the years. The next campaign is steering off in a different direction though. The 'stars' of the campaign will be road accident survivors and loved ones of deceased victims.
As we say in Oz, "If you drink and drive, you're a bloody idiot!"
I thought the second line was 'If you make It home, you're a bloody legend' :D
but, no, very serious topic and important message
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man I get cold chills thinking about this stuff, I had been at my friends house working on my motorcycle and left to go home, well I had to stop to retie my boot. I started to drive again, and get around a corner to see a smashed up car and a whole family dead inside, and another car about 50 feet away smashed and no driver. Come to find out a couple local farm guys were racing while drunk, and hit a family head on, killing all of them, and he got out unhurt, left the scene. If I hadnt stopped to tie my boot, it would have been me that got hit head on, scares the crap out of me. so anywho, here is a horrible story that was shared when I was in school, have also seen it posted on FB but cant find it to copy and paste so here is the link
http://www.scaryforkids.com/car-accident/
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man I get cold chills thinking about this stuff, I had been at my friends house working on my motorcycle and left to go home, well I had to stop to retie my boot. I started to drive again, and get around a corner to see a smashed up car and a whole family dead inside, and another car about 50 feet away smashed and no driver. Come to find out a couple local farm guys were racing while drunk, and hit a family head on, killing all of them, and he got out unhurt, left the scene. If I hadnt stopped to tie my boot, it would have been me that got hit head on, scares the crap out of me. so anywho, here is a horrible story that was shared when I was in school, have also seen it posted on FB but cant find it to copy and paste so here is the link
http://www.scaryforkids.com/car-accident/
There were two in my senior class who went partying one night. Both guy drunk/high and went out driving in the country. A deer came out into the road and they missed the deer, but nailed a telephone poll. The car burst in flames, one was able to make it out alive. But he had to watch his friend die. He changed after that ordeal.
To the OP, that video was very powerful. Very powerful.
Stay home if you drink gentlemen.
Happy Holidays
:salute
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I responded to an accident when I was just learning to be a volunteer fire fighter. 2 car accident 4 fatalities, youngest fatality was 18 months old. The guy who was drinking and driving blew a .18 and said all he did was scrape the other car. Too bad the other car was split in 2 pieces and he escaped roughly unscathed.
So as a rule of thumb I don't even think about drinking and driving. Also having a CDL my DWI is 1/2 the norm for anyone else, and the fines are doubled plus it jeopardizes my career.
Also it doesn't phase me to turn someone in for DWI, and that includes family members, ask my niece, she learned Uncle Rob is a JERK.
Think twice and remember, THEY ARE WATCHING YOU..
LawnDart
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My father is an alcoholic and over a fifteen year period totaled and damaged many of his vehicles. We're lucky in that he never hurt anybody, including himself, but that is sheer luck and one of his former friends did kill somebody. My dad once woke up running down a hill after he drove his '52 flatbed off of it having fallen asleep at the wheel due to drinking.
He's been sober for almost twenty-five years now.
I don't drink.
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1 kid who graduated from my high school last year, as well as a graduate from another area high school were just killed last weekend down at Ole Miss from drinking and driving. Two other kids that graduated recently were also in the car and were seriously injured as well. :pray
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My father is an alcoholic and over a fifteen year period totaled and damaged many of his vehicles. We're lucky in that he never hurt anybody, including himself, but that is sheer luck and one of his former friends did kill somebody. My dad once woke up running down a hill after he drove his '52 flatbed off of it having fallen asleep at the wheel due to drinking.
He's been sober for almost twenty-five years now.
I don't drink.
I can relate, mother has been an alcoholic for at least the twenty five years I've been old enough to realise it. Lots of terrible things to remember about that. I very rarely drink. Best aversion therapy we could ask for I'm sure.
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I can relate, mother has been an alcoholic for at least the twenty five years I've been old enough to realise it. Lots of terrible things to remember about that. I very rarely drink. Best aversion therapy we could ask for I'm sure.
Well, didn't work for my dad.
His father died in a car/train wreck in October of '63. He was passed out drunk in the back seat of a car being driven by my grandma late at night on the way back to Fairfax, CA from a fireman's ball in Berkley, CA. She heard the train, but thought it was on the tracks she'd already crossed. I don't know if she'd had anything to drink as she's never said and, given that she is almost 90 now, I wouldn't ask her. Being drunk was not uncommon for my grandfather.
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Also it doesn't phase me to turn someone in for DWI, and that includes family members, ask my niece, she learned Uncle Rob is a JERK
:salute I like that lol, I feel that if caught DWI, should be charged with attempted vehicular manslaughter or something, and should lose license on the spot. HUGE fines should be included in it also, not a $500 fine but a $5k fine, and if they cant pay for it, they do community service to make it up. There should be ZERO tolerance for drinking and driving, not a slap on the wrist. Was talking to a guy the other day that had 3 DUIs and still driving. Something wrong with that in my mind.
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Over here if you're blowing a .2 to .5 you get a stiff fine (usually equivalent to one and a half months income) and 3 or 4 marks on your license. 7 marks and you're a pedestrian. If you blow more than .5 you're a pedestrian for at least two years, and will probably see some jail time if you're a lot over the limit.
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:salute I like that lol, I feel that if caught DWI, should be charged with attempted vehicular manslaughter or something, and should lose license on the spot. HUGE fines should be included in it also, not a $500 fine but a $5k fine, and if they cant pay for it, they do community service to make it up. There should be ZERO tolerance for drinking and driving, not a slap on the wrist. Was talking to a guy the other day that had 3 DUIs and still driving. Something wrong with that in my mind.
Not a flat fee as that only targets the poor or middle class, make it a percentage of one's income, capital gains included. Make it a deterrent that affects everybody.
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Thanks for this. A family friend of mine was lost about 2 years ago when his brother hid his drunkenness to drive home after a party. He fell asleep going on an over pass, hit the start of the guard rail, and flipped it off the highway, killing them both. This vid has a good message: don't do it.
:salute
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Well, didn't work for my dad.
His father died in a car/train wreck in October of '63. He was passed out drunk in the back seat of a car being driven by my grandma late at night on the way back to Fairfax, CA from a fireman's ball in Berkley, CA. She heard the train, but thought it was on the tracks she'd already crossed. I don't know if she'd had anything to drink as she's never said and, given that she is almost 90 now, I wouldn't ask her. Being drunk was not uncommon for my grandfather.
funny that, my grandma was the same as my mother. She died at 58 from liver failure. Didn't seem to stop my mum. However myself and my brother rarely drink. Infact him not ever, myself I like to on occasion down some beer and whisky with friends, but not often.
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Over here if you're blowing a .2 to .5 you get a stiff fine (usually equivalent to one and a half months income) and 3 or 4 marks on your license. 7 marks and you're a pedestrian. If you blow more than .5 you're a pedestrian for at least two years, and will probably see some jail time if you're a lot over the limit.
Gotta say Scholz, I'm not sure what the numbers are here in the UK and I don't really care.
Sounds pompous I know.
I don't care because if I am driving or going to be driving the next morning I don't touch a drop. If I have a beer, I am on the couch. Simple as. You never need to worry about how much you've had if you live by those simple rules.
My father is also an alcoholic. Has been since I was young so I have never really had a father. Combine that with the fact that when I was a teenager my mother also became an alcoholic and it wasn't a pleasant household. However after my mother was stopped for drink driving, she quit. Good on her, hasn't touched a drop in over 4 years now! Father on the other hand has had 2 strokes and still goes through a bottle of whisky and about 6 cans of beer a day.
Personally I very rarely drink. I like a nice cocktail but I do not go out and get blazing like many of my friends. Never seen the appeal and I see the effect every day.
Thanks for posting this video. It is good to try to spread the message and I am sorry for all those who have lost or have known people who have lost people due to D+D/DUI
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A wise precaution macleod. I've taken the step of buying an alcometer/breathalyzer. They're not that expensive.
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I don't care because if I am driving or going to be driving the next morning I don't touch a drop. If I have a beer, I am on the couch. Simple as. You never need to worry about how much you've had if you live by those simple rules.
It's not you you have to worry about. It's the bloody idiots that do drink and drive.
Our local paper publishes the names of everyone who's fronted court on a DUI charge and lost. They've never missed a Friday list because there has always been a bunch of idiots caught every week.
It's the ones they miss that are the bad news.