I did read that part, FYI. Heaps of my friends (two of them dead now, from drunk driving) say the same though, and have been busted bigtime for being over the limit. "Oh, I'd had a few drinks earlier, but I was totally sober when I got behind the wheel".
ing bull, IMO. If you go drinking, then don't take a car, at all. Taxis are expensive, but so are funerals.
My sister has a friend who lived somewhere out in the Australian Bush somewhere, and when going home from the bar he get pulled over and he had to do a breathalyzer test and the ing thing is just red lights and sirens, and the police officer just laughed and told him that if he was still able do drive with that kind of blood alcohol level he was gonna let him be on his way.
Edit: oh and yeah, you're not sober if youve had two or three drinks unless youre rafio, cus he can just out the booze and get sober, it takes the body 12 hours to burn through alcohol. and even if youre not drunk, you're still heavily impaired to drive, compared to sober drivers, and the fact that you dont feel the intoxication just make you THAT more dangerous.
netroM
not me, but this Austrian dude I play Unreal Tournament with was going 110 km/h when another car came into his lane, so he swerved off, hit a tree, flew through the wind shield (no seatbelt on) and landed about 20m from the car. He walked 5km home before he realised what had actually happened and went to the hospital. This was 7 hours after the accident.
2 hours after being in the hospital he was sent home with just a few wounds on his head and some scratches/scrapes. No serious injuries.
pic he took after everything was over: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2905/imag0933.jpg
PivotTechno
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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
vivid has the best driving story off all time.
Yeah, but we're talking cars, not imaginary women.
Been in Omega_Blue's sitch before, but sober, white-knuckling it through a horrendous snowstorm from Toronto to Brockville sometime back in the mid-90s - normal 3.5 hour drive took close to 7. No fun at all - stop, and you're ed, keep going and you might be ed as well. Can't even imagine attempting it zooming.
Hate dredging up the memory, but in my very tumultuous early-20s, I made an ill-planned day's road trip from Toronto to Coubourg with my psychotic then-housemates. Such a frighteningly messy excursion. As example, I bruised my coccyx trying to front flip off an embankment onto the beach, landing flat on my back on the nice, hard sand - didn't feel a thing at the time. Drove back at night on the 401 (major 4+ lane highway for you non-canucks), blurred-vision drunk in my Pontiac Acadian, scared less, while the other morons whooped and hollered in the seats around me. Somehow made it home in one piece, could barely walk the next day.
Needless to say, I've learned from such lessons - incredibly fortunate I didn't harm anyone else or further harm myself.
edit: Thinking back, I guess it took longer than I thought, as since then, I have been a passenger in vehicles with people who shouldn't have been behind the wheel (but not in a long time, and I definitely wouldn't now). There was a certain humour in driving through deserted downtown Manila at 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning, with a happily K'd-out driver covering one eye in order to regain enough depth perception to get us where we were wanted to go.
Of course, there are some who would say it's all about knowing your own limits...
LAdazeNYnights
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Originally posted by prolikewhoa
they took my heart rate and blood pressure and i was like "is that normal???" and they were like "... make better choices."
LOL i can't imagine how you'd ever get the courage to roll again after that situation. what a horrible experience.
LAdazeNYnights
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Originally posted by dj_alfi
Edit: oh and yeah, you're not sober if youve had two or three drinks unless youre rafio, cus he can just out the booze and get sober, it takes the body 12 hours to burn through alcohol. and even if youre not drunk, you're still heavily impaired to drive, compared to sober drivers, and the fact that you dont feel the intoxication just make you THAT more dangerous.
Originally posted by Vivid Boy
So i was driving back from a buddies cottage on sunday night. it was like 9 pm and i was on the 400. Pitch black. i got a car full of drunkin friends and we're in around mooning cars as we drive by typical drunkin . I'm telling a joke facing my friend in my backseat (stupid me should have had my eyes on the road) and when i turn back. I see 2 in deer on the road. I slam on the gas and swerve missed one deer but i cracked one in the nose. the dder went flying. i stop the car on the side im like "Holy i just cracked a in deer!". i get out of the car and check out my car huge in dent on my drivers side fender. . I see the deer on the ground and the other one near it looking at it. we walk over and the one deer runs off. we get closer to the dder and notice the bugger is still alive. hes laying their limp on the ground bleeding on the ground looking at us with these blank eyes. we poke it a few times with this branch we found to make sure its alive. it reacts with a moan so we knew it was alive. we all felt sorry for it and decided we should take it out of its misery because it was basically almost dead but we didnt have anything to end its loife with. i figured it had a broken neck from the impact and if we moved it it would probably pass away. so i tried moving it but those things are heavy. my friends and all started trying to move it and it gave this loud cry. it was still alive. so my friend Mike kicked it once in the head thinking it would put it over. it did but moan a bit. so we all started kicking it in the head trying to end its poor life. so here we are 9 pm at night middle of the 400 beating the out of this deer. we're all tkaing turns kicking it in the face. my friend comes with a branch he found in the woods and starts whacking it in the head. we stop hitting it and see if its dead. once it again its still moaning! so we started beating it some more and thats when i grab the in stick from kmy friend and jabb it in the in eye. Like i in lodged this mother****** right in there i was hoping it hit his brain. but still not dead. so now we got this branch lodged in its in eye and it wont come out and its yelping like an old man taking a brick . we kickit a fewmore times and i finally got the idea just to run over its head with my car. so we line up the car with the wheel right before its head and i hit the gas. and the damn thing wont go over. its head is too big. so i get everyone to jump in my car and i back up and take a running start at it. cruunch. i dont know if its still alive but ill tell u one thing i had to go thru the damn car wash twice to get the blood off.
ed up end to a ed up weekend. what did u guys do this weekend?
srussell0018
Your body processes 1 drink (.02% bac) per hour. So if you slam 3 shots at once, 3 hours later your bac should be 0%.
prolikewhoa
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Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
LOL i can't imagine how you'd ever get the courage to roll again after that situation. what a horrible experience.
as long as i wasn't in a car, i was fine. i have had some awesome rolling experiences after, but yeah that first one was a doozy.
Omega_Blue
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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
That story went from tragic to sadistic in no time, eh? The first thing I thought while I was reading it was "why wouldn't you just run the poor bastard over again?" Lol.
prolikewhoa
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Originally posted by Omega_Blue
That story went from tragic to sadistic in no time, eh? The first thing I thought while I was reading it was "why wouldn't you just run the poor bastard over again?" Lol.
i know! instead of putting it out of its misery, they ended up beating/torturing it :(
srussell0018
A tire iron would probably do the trick fairly easily too.
dj_alfi
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Originally posted by Zharen
Had a weird experience about 6 years ago. I had just gotten off of work with a friend and we both headed off inside my car. The whole time I'm driving, my friend is telling me about this dream he had last night. He dreamed that he had been inside a car, the rain was falling down hard, and he had gotten into a major accident with a large vehicle, although he wasn't the one who drove in the dream. It was kinda funny, because a few minutes after he had told me that, the rain had started coming down hard and my visibility was getting a little ed. My friend starts getting a little spooked too but I assured him that everything would be fine. We reach the exit to the freeway and I start to accelerate. There's a large truck driving on the lane beside us, and the lane I'm currently in is about to merge with the truck's in a couple hundred feet. So I'm thinking that I can beat the truck before the merge happens, since those rigs never go faster than 65mph anyway. So I'm gunnin' it getting ready to cut it off. I had gotten the speed up to 75, but the truck was going much faster than I expected, and I was only half-way past it. At the last minute I realize I'm not going to make it, and I hit the brakes, just barely missing the truck's backside as I slid behind it. I look back over to my friend, he was so freaked out about the whole thing that he had actually tried to open my passenger side door in order to jump out of the car. I don't know what the he was thinking but I just remember laughing my ass off about it as soon as the danger had passed. The rest of the ride he's just going off about having the worst case of de ja vu ever. I gotta admit though, the timing of that still kinda creeps me out to this day. Maybe we did get lucky.
You are a ing moron, and the way you write about it shows that you have no clue just how stupid you really are. I hope you never, ever endanger the lives of others like that again. You ing tool.
