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Drunk Driving (pg. 6)
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by phlog
how can you say this without knowing how often people are bombed..?
for me it's like 50/50
maybe on average the the general population is hammered or high 35% of the time. that would make you 2% more likely to get into an accident while sober.
you should see my mom drive jacked on zoloft and a large hortons coffee(both of which are legal)... i guarantee i could drive in a straighter line with 6-10 beers in me. |
if you are driving bombed 50% of the time then I hope you get your licence taken away for good.....and I highly doubt the average is even close to 35%.
Maybe its because of the type of job I do and having seen dead people sprawled out on the road because another driver thought he was fine to drive after smoking a J with his buddies....someone who admittedly said that smoking was a daily thing for him.....gives me a different perspective.
To anyone who drives under the influence....do us all a favour and stay off the roads....you might get lucky and not get yourself killed but how about thinking about the people you might kill that one out of a million times you decide to. |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
maybe we shouldn't let sober people drive because they cause more accidents. |
Using that same line of reasoning, maybe we should let drunk/high people drive because they cause less accidents. :toothless |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
Using that same line of reasoning, maybe we should let drunk/high people drive because they cause less accidents. :toothless |
that was precisely his point, Fahad. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
Using that same line of reasoning, maybe we should let drunk/high people drive because they cause less accidents. :toothless |
or even better....make it mandatory that you get drunk or high before driving. Maybe I can get a discount on my insurance if I only drive drunk or high....I think I'm going to call my broker and suggest this. |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
or even better....make it mandatory that you get drunk or high before driving. Maybe I can get a discount on my insurance if I only drive drunk or high....I think I'm going to call my broker and suggest this. |
lol |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
that was precisely his point, Fahad. |
i just wanted to spell it out cuz it sounds funny |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
i just wanted to spell it out cuz it sounds funny |
Your face is funny!!! |
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| phlog |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
if you are driving bombed 50% of the time then I hope you get your licence taken away for good.....and I highly doubt the average is even close to 35%. |
what i meant was that i'm bombed half the time. i don't drive intoxicated. my licenSe is just fine the way it is. |
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| Jem_hadar |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ub3rBreaker
I do also make some mistakes when I drive after smoking, trying to cut that down specially when out at nights like this. |
oh superstar... lol :D |
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| Spam |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
Thats a stupid comment....I am sure the number of times you drive sober out number the few times you have driven high so the chances of getting into an accident while sober are greater. |
Ha, I didn't mean for the comment to be taken too seriously, I even
disclaimed it by tagging "take that for what it's worth" at the end of the statement.
| quote: | | Did you know that 33% of all accidents are caused by someone under the influence...that means 64% are caused by sober people....maybe we shouldn't let sober people drive because they cause more accidents. |
Under the influence of Marijuana? I've read that there are a lot of accidents caused by people with THC in their system, but the articles I've read those stats in always disclaim the comment by stating that in the vast majority of such cases, the drivers were ALSO under the influence of alcohol.
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Chem, do you work in Insurance or some such? I'm getting that hint from your responses. On a totally unrelated matter, I have a question about fault. My buddy rear-ended a lady on Sunday (the big snow-storm) who was parked in the passing lane on an 80km/h road. She wasn't stuck, her car worked, she had just decided to stop while she made a phone call from her cell. I don't know if her emergency lights were flashing, but even so it would have been tough to tell right away that she was stopped since people drive slowly with their 4-ways on all the time during snow storms. Since she was in park, her brake-lights weren't on. It's my understanding that all rear-endings are the fault of the rear-ender, is that in ALL instances? |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| ^ Holy , what is wrong with people in Canada??? Why does something that happens EVERY DAMN YEAR put Canadians into such a daze? Amazing. |
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