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Had a nasty accident in France due to drunk driving, the drunk twats in the van that pulled out in front of us were so pissed that when they were brought round by the ambulance peeps they started trying to fight them, turned out they thought they'd been in a fight not a crash

We had a 3 year old in the car, she got nasty head injuries.

No fucking excuse. :mad:
 
blackadder said:
If I ever found my self in a similar situation, in which I had to take the motor to the pub, I would lock my keys in the glove box because I just couldn't trust my drunk self.
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Cant work out the logic in this, without the keys how would u lock the glove box. Additionally, if you had a second key to lock the glove box with what stops you from unlocking it anymore than just having the car keys.
 
Lots of people drink drive round here, its the country afterall. Is rather different crawling home on country lanes where you can see the light of an oncoming car half a mile away, if there are any at all. Versus a Metropolitan area with heavy traffic.
 
tw1ggy5 said:
Lots of people drink drive round here, its the country afterall.
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Still no justification tho, is it?

Same sort of place here & some of the very worst instances of severe crashes I can think of have been the result of drunk drivers on the back roads.
 
tw1ggy5 said:
Lots of people drink drive round here, its the country afterall. Is rather different crawling home on country lanes where you can see the light of an oncoming car half a mile away, if there are any at all.
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Can you see the lights of oncoming pedestrians from half a mile away too?

Drink driving in the country is no better than drink driving anywhere else.
 
drink drivers who kill should get done for manslaughter or murder, after all its not as if anyone doesnt know its wrong now.
 
tw1ggy5 said:
Cant work out the logic in this, without the keys how would u lock the glove box. Additionally, if you had a second key to lock the glove box with what stops you from unlocking it anymore than just having the car keys.
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I would put the key in the glove box, get out of the car and lock the door manualy. The following day, I would return with my spare key.
 
Reg in slippers said:
it's so fucking wrong isn't it..?

yet when one does it, it's so right

btw i turned the car over; it's now lying in the central reservation
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Are you having a wee troll here, reg?
 
kill your self reg really kill yourself before oyu kill someone else...

take your car take it to beachy head and drive off while drunk if you choose, stick a hosepipe in the exausht and back in via the window just to make doubly sure but kill yourself...

drunk driving is the action or a muppet
 
felixthecat said:
I've done this once :o - many years ago, and never since as it scared me shitless. This was in a country where drink driving is commonplace, but it terrified as I obviously wasn't drunk enough not to recognise how slow my reactions were. I drove at about 10 mph the 3 miles home and have never been more thankful to see my front door.

Ever since then its been taxis for me or Mr Felixthecat driving (he rarely drinks) and me drinking.
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That's exactly what I did - luckily I didn't meet any police cars as they'd have been able to spot me as a drunk a mile off, crawling down the street at 10mph :rolleyes:

If people could be made to see, when sober, how pathetically useless your reactions are when you're drunk, hopefully people would think twice.

The locking your keys in your glovebox thing is not a bad idea - keeping yourself away from temptation
 
pogofish said:
Still no justification tho, is it?

Same sort of place here & some of the very worst instances of severe crashes I can think of have been the result of drunk drivers on the back roads.
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Just because Im giving a reason for it doesn't mean Im necessarily attempting to justify the action.

Spymaster said:
Can you see the lights of oncoming pedestrians from half a mile away too?

Drink driving in the country is no better than drink driving anywhere else.
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Nope but you dont find any pedestrians out at 3am really here. The times Ive been one Ive been well aware that drunk or sober theres fuck all chance of anyone seeing you at night much in advance and altered my path accordingly.

agricola said:
drink drivers who kill should get done for manslaughter or murder, after all its not as if anyone doesnt know its wrong now.
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Agreed, Im puzzled really as to why its seperated out, the result is the same no matter what the weapon was.
 
Spymaster said:
Can you see the lights of oncoming pedestrians from half a mile away too?

Drink driving in the country is no better than drink driving anywhere else.
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Fucking word!! When I lived in the sticks as a teenager, it was a 2 1/2 mile walk from the bus stop back to the village. If you were on that road after the last bus you spent more time in the ditch than on the road due to the number of pissheads tearing down it.

There is an accepted view in the country (especially in Ireland) that DD isn't as serious in the sticks, and more morally justifiable due to the severe lack of public transport.

This is of course pure bollocks. Taxis have been available locally for years now and you're only talking about 10 EUR for a safe ride home, less if you share. FFS it's only one bloody round, if you don't want to pay then fucking WALK home, you cunt!! You can be as pissed as you want and will only damage yourself (assuming you manage to stay off the roads and leave the sheep alone :))

It is getting better now. The Gardai have upped the number of late night DD checkpoints, often using non-locals which makes it harder for the few who are well connected to wiggle out of charges.
 
tw1ggy5 said:
Lots of people drink drive round here, its the country afterall. Is rather different crawling home on country lanes where you can see the light of an oncoming car half a mile away, if there are any at all. Versus a Metropolitan area with heavy traffic.
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It was a drunk driver, in the country, on a quiet lane that killed my friend. Drunk driving is wrong, everywhere, every time.
 
dessiato said:
It was a drunk driver, in the country, on a quiet lane that killed my friend. Drunk driving is wrong, everywhere, every time.
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I just said I wasn't justifying it, exactly what about this was unclear to you?
 
tw1ggy5 said:
Just because Im giving a reason for it doesn't mean Im necessarily attempting to justify the action.

Nope but you dont find any pedestrians out at 3am really here.
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That didn't seem entirely clear. :)

I have to say that I've often been surprised by all sorts of people staggering or simply going about their buisness around the roads near me in the dead of night. I've told my Goth in a wheelchair/ballgowns at the big house stories here before & many farm workers start their day in the dark at 4 or 5am. Never mind other hazzards like stray livestock, spilled dung/neeps, the odd poacher/survivalist/painball-battlers, crap from ploughing/all-night harvesting & boy-racers going for a lap-record on the b-road circut. Few seem to take heed of their even more limited visibility away from street lighting so you do need to keep your speed down & wits about you!
 
I see loads of peole driving who are blatantly shit faced. Soemtimes they're driving right at me when they pull out of the Bowling Green pub car park (it's in the middles of a big traffic island) and turn left.

I almost never see anyone pulled over by the cops though. :rolleyes: :mad:
 
chieftain said:
thats a good troll so far
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It's not. It's a shit troll. The point of trolling is to make some remark that gets everyone arguing amongst themselves; not to get as many people as possible calling you a fucking moronic cunt. Which, Reg, you are. I notice he's adhered to at least one rule of trolling and not posted again on this thread, which I can only hope is due to him taking a fucking long hard look at what he did and why everyone is laying in to him for it, rather than to any sense of achievement in having started this thread.
 
FreddyB said:
I almost never see anyone pulled over by the cops though. :rolleyes: :mad:
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A few years ago I ended up chauffering a local darts team to an away event because I was the only one who had not been breathalysed and had a clean licence. (They were lent a large limo for the job as long as the driver had a clean licence).
 
tobyjug said:
A few years ago I ended up chauffering a local darts team to an away event because I was the only one who had not been breathalysed and had a clean licence. (They were lent a large limo for the job as long as the driver had a clean licence).
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So.................you are ok about chauffering a darts' team around who have all been done for drunken driving, but you condemn people who have the odd spliff/snort of coke as scum? :confused:
 
Stobart Stopper said:
So.................you are ok about chauffering a darts' team around who have all been done for drunken driving, but you condemn people who have the odd spliff/snort of coke as scum? :confused:
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I don't condone drunk driving in any way shape or form. Taking illegal drugs is and entirely different issue. I have no desire to associate with current users of illegal drugs due to the baggage and culture that goes with it.
 
I'm not entirely sure Reg was saying it was right, just that when you're pissed, and driving, it feels good. Which it used to for me. I used to have a real problem with drink driving, to the extent where my friends would have to hide my keys. Thank fuck I live in London and don't need a car.

I'm not proud, I'm just saying I think people have got what Reg has said wrong.
 
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