Drinking and driving

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Drinking and driving
Topic Started: Dec 9 2013, 04:59 AM (534 Views)
yrrabskoorb	Dec 9 2013, 04:59 AM Post #1
Gold Star Member Posts: 3,733 Group: Member Member #850 Joined: June 12, 2011	With the Holidays upon us I would like to share a personal experience with my friends about drinking and driving. As you may know some of us have been known to have brushes with the authorities from time to time on the way home after a "social session" out with friends. Well, two days ago I was out for an evening with friends and had several cocktails followed by some rather nice red wine. Feeling jolly I still had the sense to know that I may be slightly over the limit. That's when I did something that I've never done before - I took a cab home. Sure enough on the way home there was a police road block, but since it was a cab they waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident. This was a real surprise as I had never driven a cab before, I don't know where I got it and now that it's in my garage I don't know what to do with it. oooh 02 oooh 02 oooh 02



wildie	Dec 9 2013, 05:44 AM Post #2
Veteran Member Posts: 12,173 Group: Member Member #442 Joined: October 11, 2006	Nows there's a thought! If I put a TAXI sign on my car, can I d rive around with impunity?



Darcie	Dec 9 2013, 05:50 AM Post #3
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	:wineglasssmile.gif: Funny Barry



Durgan	Dec 9 2013, 05:54 AM Post #4
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	There is nothing funny about drinking and driving. No amount of alcohol is safe. Those days are over. Cops stopping people and checking for alcohol is a smack in the face of human rights. This I object to probably more than drinking and driving. This attack on the sheeple saves not one life.



Darcie	Dec 9 2013, 05:57 AM Post #5
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Durgan Dec 9 2013, 05:54 AM There is nothing funny about drinking and driving. No amount of alcohol is safe. Those days are over. Cops stopping people and checking for alcohol is a smack in the face of human rights. This I object to probably more than drinking and driving. This attack on the sheeple saves not one life. It was a joke Durgan. No one I know thinks drinking and driving is funny but jokes are.



Bitsy	Dec 9 2013, 06:00 AM Post #6
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	Darcie Dec 9 2013, 05:57 AM Durgan Dec 9 2013, 05:54 AM There is nothing funny about drinking and driving. No amount of alcohol is safe. Those days are over. Cops stopping people and checking for alcohol is a smack in the face of human rights. This I object to probably more than drinking and driving. This attack on the sheeple saves not one life. It was a joke Durgan. No one I know thinks drinking and driving is funny but jokes are. It's an old joke that has been getting laughs for years...no one takes it seriously.



Delphi51	Dec 9 2013, 06:35 AM Post #7
Member title Posts: 13,967 Group: Administration Member #441 Joined: October 10, 2006	Good one! I appreciate police checking for drunk drivers. Around Christmas we have police check stops accompanied by teens handing out candy canes and emergency medical techs with stories if needed. I saw a couple of drunk driving crashes very shortly after they happened - that was pretty convincing!



Dialtone	Dec 9 2013, 07:02 AM Post #8
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,190 Group: Member Member #721 Joined: April 1, 2010	Police check stops take many impaired drivers off the roads and as long as people continue to drink and drive, they are a necessary deterrent. Unfortunately even the threat of losing their licence, vehicle, or life doesn't stop some, and every year hundreds are killed and injured as a result.



FuzzyO	Dec 9 2013, 07:16 AM Post #9
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	wildie Dec 9 2013, 05:44 AM Nows there's a thought! If I put a TAXI sign on my car, can I d rive around with impunity? All depends on whether impunity wants to hang around with you!



Durgan	Dec 9 2013, 08:42 AM Post #10
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	There is no evidence that RIDE programs accomplish anything beneficial. The sheeple have bought into the propaganda as usual without any evidence or not even reflecting about the issue. Drinking and driving can only be overcome when alcohol is attacked with the same vehemence as the attack on tobacco.



Durgan	Dec 9 2013, 08:45 AM Post #11
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/cheers-guidelines-drink-driving-penalties Cheers to guidelines on drink driving penalties How Singapore handles drinking and driving.



Dialtone	Dec 9 2013, 09:43 AM Post #12
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,190 Group: Member Member #721 Joined: April 1, 2010	Durgan Dec 9 2013, 08:42 AM There is no evidence that RIDE programs accomplish anything beneficial. The sheeple have bought into the propaganda as usual without any evidence or not even reflecting about the issue. Drinking and driving can only be overcome when alcohol is attacked with the same vehemence as the attack on tobacco. And yet 20% of the population still smokes, worldwide there are over a billion people who smoke. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/which-part-of-canada-has-the-most-smokers-1.1385838 As long as there is tobacco, alcohol, drugs, and other vices, there will be those who will sample the wares, and some who will abuse them. It's the nature of man, and has been such since the beginning of recorded history. Edited by Dialtone, Dec 9 2013, 09:45 AM.



Darcie	Dec 9 2013, 10:27 AM Post #13
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Well we women did stop some cave men from using clubs, now they use fists, boots and sometimes guns. Wonder what else we have to do, making it illegal sure hasn't worked, even for drinking and driving, of dying from the effects of smoking either.



Durgan	Dec 9 2013, 10:39 AM Post #14
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	It has to be a constant educational effort. Banning does little, but pressure to discourage has some effect.



Dialtone	Dec 9 2013, 11:31 AM Post #15
Gold Star Member Posts: 7,190 Group: Member Member #721 Joined: April 1, 2010	You can only educate those who want to learn, and those who learn need to apply the education, an example is seat belts. Time and time again it's been proven, shown, filmed, lectured, fines levied, victims maimed, lives lost, seat belts save lives, and still every weekend is a roll-over where somebody not wearing their seat belts get ejected from the vehicle and are killed. The majority are younger adults who know better, but are bullet proof and have an "it will never happen to me" attitude. (example the 4 teens killed last week in New Brunswick ) . You can only educate and brow-beat a person so much, than it's up to the individual to be responsible for their own decisions.



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