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Avinitlarge
16-05-2003, 01:13
This is BAD!!!! (http://www.expressen.nu/html/bildarkiv/Saburido.htm)
I'm lost for words.
This is the reason I always leave my car keys at home when drinking so i am not even tempted.
As far as I am concerned Drink-Drivers should be banned for life - There is NO excuse - EVER!
thejames
16-05-2003, 01:40
That is fooking awful! :eek: :eek: :eek:
Sh1t. That really took me aback.
I was gonna add one of them pics to my reply but it really is summat else.
Its gotta be said though. Seems to be older people that drink-drive rather than younger drivers. Since me and my mates have been able to drive, its never even given a second thought. You just dont drive after drinking. Dont know why this seems to have sunk in with young people where other 'taboos' havent but its just not done. On the whole anyway.
If I do have a drink when I drive, it is only 1 pint of lager whichI have at the beginning of the evening (about 6-ish) From then on I drink coke for the rest of the evening until the pub shuts (Between 10.30 - Midnight) so any alcohol has been absorbed and dealt with.
Like I said before, if I go and intend to get pissed, I purposely leave my car keys at home.
Iain s14
16-05-2003, 08:15
I've never seen anything as bad as that yet, but i've seen some nasty shit due to drink driving!
I haven't looked at the picture because I don't think I want to.
I don't believe in DDing either BUT......
I went out last night and was the driver (darts team) and I drank Pepsi Max (:rolleyes: ).
It was only available in poncy half pint-ish bottles and they cost getting on for £2.00!!!!
Pubs / breweries don't exactly promote the drinking of soft drinks, do they.......:mad:
PS Deterrant (as with all crime) is the key issue here: Don't you get fed up with people who get done for DDing (and I mean when they've injured someone or worse) getting derisory sentences!?
Originally posted by Ripper
Pubs / breweries don't exactly promote the drinking of soft drinks, do they.......:mad:
In the US the allocated driver gets free soft drinks all night, great idea.
As for DDing, it has only recently been deemed as anti social (last 10 years or so), this is why old peeps tend to DD and not younger peeps. The older folks are used to a time when an eye-brow wasn't even raised at DDing.
BTW I've not looked at the pic either as I don't want to open that sort of thing at work.
Dunc.
Duff Man
16-05-2003, 09:28
A pint of orange squash is usually dirt cheap in pubs and usually tastes better than coke from the pumps (failing that I go for the small bottles of coke), I dont drink alchohol so that what I usually do. :D
AD
That is awfull, such a terrible waste, I feel sick.
TBH I would rather be dead..........
I cant even open it at work but I don't think I want to!! :eek:
Dave
It was posted here a while back and it STILL brings a tear to my eye.
I can only hope that a lot of people see it and think about it and that medical advances catch up to give that poor owman back something of what she has lost.
Supraman1
16-05-2003, 09:57
Playing Devils advocate here, whatever happened to the woman (I don't want to look either . . .) could easily be accompanied by the headline "Driver X was doing 29mph through the village and arguing with his wife/fishing around for a can of drink in the footwell/whatever when the woman tripped and fell from the kerb in front of him, and he was unable to stop in time". It's easy to get hung up on one issue and forget that even driving around sober is bloody dangerous, one tiny lapse from anyone on the road can have catastrophic consequences. Driving around drunk obviously increases your chances of bad things happening, but so does changing CDs, using the phone, you get the picture.
Not condoning drink driving, just pointing out that this sort of thing happens all the time due to drivers (and pedestrians etc) not being on the ball for whatever reason.
Nathan_200sx
16-05-2003, 10:05
Originally posted by Supraman
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Not condoning drink driving, just pointing out that this sort of thing happens all the time due to drivers (and pedestrians etc) not being on the ball for whatever reason.
I agree, if you take a look at what drink does to you ie:- slower reaction time, impaired vision, reduced spacial awareness and the abilty to judge speeds and distance reduced.
We let these kind of people on our roads every day, legaly. there usualy called dot or harold and have to be lifted into there cars :eek: :eek: :eek:
Originally posted by Supraman
Playing Devils advocate here, whatever happened to the woman (I don't want to look either . . .) could easily be accompanied by the headline "Driver X was doing 29mph through the village and arguing with his wife/fishing around for a can of drink in the footwell/whatever when the woman tripped and fell from the kerb in front of him, and he was unable to stop in time". It's easy to get hung up on one issue and forget that even driving around sober is bloody dangerous, one tiny lapse from anyone on the road can have catastrophic consequences. Driving around drunk obviously increases your chances of bad things happening, but so does changing CDs, using the phone, you get the picture.
Not condoning drink driving, just pointing out that this sort of thing happens all the time due to drivers (and pedestrians etc) not being on the ball for whatever reason.
Agree with you totally. As someone once put it - a car is a lethal weapon that anyone can get hold of.
That should be publicised more widely. Shocking, but as we have all said, its not us that do the DD'ing. I think people that still drink and drive are beyond realisation of how dangerous it can be.
Nathans point is a very very valid one though - Im sure Id be safer on 10 pints than the silly prat that drove into my Mum after hitting the two cars in front of her as well, and then had to be helped out of his car. He had just come out of a Doctors surgery and was incapable of anything at all (even speaking) never mind driving :mad: :mad: :mad:
As it was, he just damaged the car, but what if that had a been my Dad on his bike??
Or a kid on his bike?? :eek:
Originally posted by docwra
Im sure Id be safer on 10 pints than the silly prat that drove into my Mum after hitting the two cars in front of her as well, and then had to be helped out of his car. He had just come out of a Doctors surgery and was incapable of anything at all (even speaking) never mind driving :mad: :mad: :mad:
As it was, he just damaged the car, but what if that had a been my Dad on his bike??
Or a kid on his bike?? :eek:
Fecking hell! :eek:
I know someone (said as a joke) who was going to try and drive blind to the hospital with their gf giving them directions!!!! It was that blindness that gets caused by being exposed to welding light. He said it as a joke, but I remember thinking that I bet some people would try and do it :eek:
Dunc.
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