Drunk Drivers

TheDuke · Post by **TheDuke** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:26 pm

[quote="Dragonmaster Zoc";p="226938"]This is why I disapprove of alcohol and automobiles.[/quote]

You disapprove of drunk driving because accidents happen?

That's... HOLY CRAP DUDE! THAT'S REVOLUTIONARY THINKING!

I am SO glad you told us that you disapprove of drunk driving because people might crash their cars. THAT IS BRILLIANT!

Kits · Post by **Kits** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 7:02 pm

LMAO, Duke.

As for my friend, surgeries went okay. He's able to hobble around on a walker. It's still about six months they say until he can walk again, though. His laptop was in his car and is now smooshed, or I'd direct him this way. I think he'd like the forum. He loves the comic already. Anyways, the guy's insurance doesn't want to cover all of the $, so his family's suing. Don't know much more at the moment.

Accer · Post by **Accer** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 3:43 am

Out of curiosity, is he in school? Or worse, does he have a job that forces him to be on his feet all day?

I'm glad to hear about his surgery, though, yay!

Dragonmaster Zoc · Post by **Dragonmaster Zoc** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:01 am

[quote="TheDuke";p="229741"][quote="Dragonmaster Zoc";p="226938"]This is why I disapprove of alcohol and automobiles.[/quote]

You disapprove of drunk driving because accidents happen?

I am SO glad you told us that you disapprove of drunk driving because people might crash their cars. THAT IS BRILLIANT![/quote]
You should read what I write, not what you want to see.

Kits · Post by **Kits** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 10:29 pm

He was in college, but he had to drop out. Good and bad things happened because of this whole mess, though. Good: he quit smoking cigarettes Bad: he's now constantly high (from mary jane) because it 'helps with the pain'.

Phong · Post by **Phong** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 10:36 pm

Why couldn't he just get some good --legal-- painkillers ?

Ender_Wiggin · Post by **Ender_Wiggin** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 10:41 pm

Things I hate about drunk driving:

1) "I've driven my car home when I was drunker than this and nothing happened. I'll be fine"

--Go ahead and flip the proverbial coin, my friend. Thats the great thing about probability. You can flip the coin 100 times and get heads and on the 101st time, its still a 50 50 chance.

2) "So, you're the designated driver?" -- "Yeah" -- "So why are you drinking?" -- "Well I'm only having 1 beer. thats nothing". -- "..."

--DD stands for 2 things in my opinion. Designated Driver...and DON'T DRINK. I don't drink. I'm not 21 yet. When I turn 21, I might drink every once in awhile. 1 or 2 beers a party. BUT I'M NOT GOING TO DRIVE. If beforehand I find that no one will be DD'ing, I wont drink. But thats in 3 years, I'm getting ahead of myself.

3) "I'm sorry man...I didn't see your mom/dad/uncle/relative"
--Thats because you're a fucking idiot who deserves to burn in the 7th layer of hell. I hope you die a slow and painful death that lasts for days. (Even those words are weak compared to what I really would say)

Grimwatch · Post by **Grimwatch** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 8:55 pm

I apologise for the necro, but somewhat naturally, since I said I hadnt lost any friends to drunk driving, murphys law has caught up.

As I write this, a good friend of mine is slowly recovering in hospital. He has broken ribs, a smashed arm, has lost the sight in one eye, and most of the sight in the other. Best estimation is 2 years in rehab. He's a mountain climber and tour guide along Franz josef glacier by trade. That aint happening now. And of course, none of this was his fault.

If by any chance you are the complete <censored> who drove up a PRIVATE access road in a campervan at 2:00am, then did a u-turn in the WRONG direction, burn in the deepest pits of hell. There was an accident. You drove off without even checking. You made the rescue services swerve to avoid you as they raced up said access road to cut my friend out of the passenger seat. And you haven't owned up. We have traced you to the company that you rented the campervan from. We WILL find you.

Unfortunately the driver had been drinking, but blood tests wont be in til after new years so we dont know wheter or not it was a factor. Guys, please. Dont drink and drive.

Merry friggin xmas.

TheDuke · Post by **TheDuke** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 10:45 pm

Driving while on acid is SO much fucking worse.

Teranfirbt · Post by **Teranfirbt** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 11:12 pm

Hmm, I didn't think people could get the key in the right hole to drive a car while on acid?

dmpotter · Post by **dmpotter** » Sun Dec 28, 2003 11:26 pm

Apparently they can, although the guy in college says that he was driving at 5MPH tops to avoid the pink elephants. (Seriously, this guy I knew from college claims that on his only acid trip he attempted to drive but kept slow to prevent from crashing into the halucinations. You meet a lot of idiots in college.)

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:34 am

Hurm. I, for one, am glad this thread got necroed. I must have missed it the first time around.
I'm going to post something which is not likely to increase my standing here or endear myself to a lot of people but I write it in the hope that it will be a cautionary tale which might stop a few people making the same mistake
This is written from the other side of the steering wheel because I have been prosecuted for drink driving
Am I ashamed? Yes. Am I embarrassed? Hell yes. Have I paid for my mistake? Fucking right I have. Have I learned anything. Definitely.
Because that's all it was a mistake; a stupid, immature mistake that I, as a drunken and foolish kid, made years ago
I was out with friends, we got drunk, I offered to drive us somewhere else
I was picked up on the motorway (or freeway if you prefer) by the police after meandering over many lanes.
I was picked up, breathalysed, charged, taken to a police station, stripped of every metal item on my possession and held in a cell until the morning
Am I glad I was caught? Fuck yes. According to the policemen whom I had to face the next morning, I was all over the road. The police stopped me. It could just as easily have been another car that stopped me. I could have killed someone. And then we are talking some serious jail time, had I been alive to do it (which, if I had been responsible for the death of another human being, I can assure you, I would not)
I was banned from driving for 15 months and fined £400. Quite a lenient sentence really as I was nearly three times over the limit
Which is the ironic nub; I have never been convicted of any crimes, I consider myself a decent and a - usually - sensible person
I never would have driven drunk unless I was drunk enough to drive drunk
So now the chances of me being able to afford car insurance before I am thirty are very slim indeed. This has affected my working life, my social life and my romantic life - all in the negative
Deservedly so you might say, I'm not looking for sympathy - I just want to make the point that I made a bad, bad choice several years ago and because of it my life has been affected very badly indeed
I have no sympathy for drink-drivers, I offer no excuses here, I just want people to know what a difference shelling out for cab fare can make on your life

Teranfirbt · Post by **Teranfirbt** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:33 am

Not to sound.... mean, or condesending, but you got what you deserved.... I think this thread is more about the people who get off hitting and killing or nearly killing a person while drunk with community service or some other bullshit... what you got for what you did sounds about right, but if you kill someone while behind the wheel drunk it should ruin the rest of your life, you just ruined theirs.

adamjaskie · Post by **adamjaskie** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:59 pm

penalties should be:
1st offence drunk driving: lose liscence for 1 year, a month in jail, 6 months probation, large fine
2nd offence: lose liscence for 10 years, 6 months in jail, 1 year probation, very large fine
3rd offence: revocation of liscence, with no chance to get it back, ever, 1 year in jail, very very large fine

If you kill someone, it should count as murder. If I walk into a mall with an automatic weapon, and spin in a circle holding the trigger down, and end up killing someone, I would be charged with murder, not manslaughter. Drunk driving is the same thing.

Alcohol should be heavily taxed. Very heavily. If it is rediculously expensive, people might only buy it for a special treat now and then. If you like a good bear/scotch/brandy/whatever now and then, theres nothing wrong with that. But buying several bottles of cheap vodka just to get as drunk as possible in the shortest time possible, there is something very wrong with that.

Gowerlypuff · Post by **Gowerlypuff** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:56 pm

Alcohol itself is not the problem. It is already taxed rather heavily (over here, in the UK at least). Increasing the price will not help. We can still get a cheap trip to France or something and get it cheaper. The problem lies with the people who drink it and then drive. As Ror demonstrated, perfectly sane and sensible people can do really moronic things when drunk. Something has to be done, however, but we can't let the idiocy of a few spoil it for the rest of us. The people who do do it need to be stripped of driving privilages for a long time.

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