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You may think this is a series of bad jokes
Originally Posted by ferd_miller
And BTW: what campaign? Are you organizing a "Critical Sloshed Mass" to push the agenda that motorists should be aware of and make accommodations for drunk cyclists? PS: That actually sounds fairly amusing; I'd love to see a YouTube video of that! *** No, the point is that if they must drink and drive, they better ride (taxi, bus or bike). Your wish... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHYn1fJqXLc |
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You may think this is a series of bad jokes
Originally Posted by Bekologist
I suspect you can find some variation of "the drunken riders club" in every major city. *** It won't have as many members as the Hypocritical Club --those who know that those who drink also drive and yet deny it. How you think those millions of Americans who go to parties and clubs every week make it home, the magic carpet? |
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You may think this is a series of bad jokes
Originally Posted by Pat
I just checked a web site on FL DUI laws. It was well peculiar. The site stated that bicycles, golf carts, horses and farm machinery were all considered to be vehicles. I believe that golf carts are not legal vehicles. They can not be operated legally on the road. I don't know about horses. I think tractors and such can operate on the roads. I have read all of the bike specific laws in FL and there is no attenuation of DUI under statute for bicycles. On the other hand, people who lose their licenses for DUI in motorized vehicles can ride bicycles and I think they can do so legally. No drivers license is required for cycling in FL. In facts, I think people with DUIs are sort of encouraged to use bikes as an alternate form of transportation. I have heard of people who had multiple DUIs in autos switching to bicycles and driving drunk all the time. Maybe the police figure it is best just to tolerate them and let natural selection take its course. *** I think the people who put together the Florida laws (where I live) must also have been drunk --or high. I know politicians and lawyers attend a lot of parties. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Riding a bike costs peanuts --which is why monkeys love biking" http://webspawner.com/users/donquijote88 |
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You may think this is a series of bad jokes
Originally Posted by Allister
"I think all mobile phones should be replaced with Bananaphones." I think it deserves serious consideration... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWKV4uC9qpM (Well at least they won't be as "deadly" serious as in a regular phone) |
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You may think this is a series of bad jokes
Originally Posted by wabbit
"i got squeezed over to the side of a road almost onto the sidewalk, by a car that was drifting over...wouldn't you know it, the stupid idiot was looking down at her iphone and texting, not even looking at the road." That calls for a banana (or middle finger). |
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You may think this is a series of bad jokes
Originally Posted by genec
"Having been part of the cell phone industry for a number of years... I hated the lack of courtesy that these things seem to have brought to society... but then I would remember it was the user, not the cell phone, that was the problem. I still work in wireless, but not the cell phone industry." They say the same things about guns and SUVs. I don't know why they attract some dangerous people. Bikes though appeal to many nice people. |
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I guess everything is not normal out there
I guess everything is not normal out there...
In this other forum whenever I make comments to draw lessons from accidents, I'm banned under the rules of the forum. Fine, I tell the people to stop posting things about accidents and pretend like "everything is normal"... 'I think this kind of "bad news" where there's death and mayhem should be banned... The reason is that then one starts drawing lessons from them and gets carried away, and voila! you are banned. Just pretend everything is nice and normal out there.' And I get this reply... No, it's not "Nice and Normal" out there. People are freaking idiots and will kill you if you give them the chance. More on the story.... DUI ? Suspended license ? Yeah, people are idiots. http://www.gazette.com/articles/spri...lice_free.html SUNRISE: 2 women arrested in crashes that killed 3 cyclists Comments 1 | Recommend 0 August 7, 2008 - 7:47AM The Gazette Two women were arrested this week on suspicion of vehicular homicide in separate crashes that killed three people. Barbara Thomas, 64, is accused of killing two bicyclists Wednesday on Colorado Springs' west side when her one-ton pickup drove into a group of five cyclists, according to police. Thomas was traveling southbound on S. 26th Street in her 1986 Ford F-350 when she attempted to turn left onto Westend Avenue. She struck at least two of the bicyclists, who were riding northbound on 26th Street. Thomas's arrest was also based on a suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs, driving with a restricted licenses, and making an improper left turn. Names of the victims have not been released. Motorcyclist killed Tina Kelly, 33, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing a motorcyclist Aug. 1 in southeast Colorado Springs after first lying to police, police reported. Andrew Allman, 25, of Colorado Springs, died at the scene near Airport and Chelton roads when his motorcycle crashed into the back of a Mercury compact car backing out of a driveway about midnight. A passenger on the motorcycle, Amanda Diaz, 22, remains hospitalized in serious condition with a head injury and fractured hip. Kelly told police at the time of the accident that she was the passenger in the Mercury and the driver, a man, had fled the scene. Police later determined she was the alleged driver. In addition to vehicular homicide, she was arrested on suspicion of false reporting, driving under the influence, driving under restraint, and other charges. |
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It's like Orwell used to say
On Aug 4, 10:01 pm, Tom Sherman
wrote: Brent P wrote: Cops don't care. They charge people with DUI either way. I've read news reports of people being charged with DUI while riding bicycles, motorized coolers, wheel chairs (yes, that's right the handicaped can't drink outside their home at all without risking a DUI), practically anything that moves human powered or not. Cops charge people with DUI when they decide to sleep it off in their vehicle. Cops charge people with DUI when they use on-star to call a cab. The list goes on and on. Cops need to make DUI arrests for their next review. I have known people in Illinois (Brent P's state) to get a DUI while sleeping in the back of van because they had the engine on for heat. There are way too many laws restricting harmless behavior, and way too many overly aggressive police who get off on being authoritarian. For all the talk of the US being the "Land of the Free", the people sure act like sheep. -- Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia “Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken / She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”- I think the sheep are basically free, but have been trained from birth to follow the leader. It's like Orwell used to say... "Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip" -George Orwell |
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Cell phone junkies are as bad as drunks!
On Aug 2, 8:25*pm, (Tom Keats) wrote:
In article , * * * * (Bill Z.) writes: One might figure that driving like you are drunk for 1 second per hour is less serious than doing the same thing for 20 minutes per hour: a difference of a factor of 1200 in the total enhanced risk per hour. Even if you change stations 6 times per hour, its still a factor of 200 (figuring on 1 second per station change). Unless one is dealing with a bunch *of dozy *******s who have to put their reading glasses on, in order to answer the phone, while asleep or otherwise distracted at the wheel. *And hurtling a ton & a half of machinery down the street, and hoping to not hit anything in the process. Reading glasses: I put 'em on to see what I'm doing, and take 'em off to see where I'm going. It's a bitch. I hope you don't run anybody over. -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca Because I work the graveyard shift, I am at risk of being hit by a sleepy driver with poor night vision. |
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