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This kinda makes you think twice about drinking and driving!

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Valind
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Wow, yea i am guilty of drinking and driving.  This kinda blew my mind though.
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Almost 17,000 people died in alcohol-related crashes in 2005. That figure represents 39 percent of all traffic fatalities. In the U.S., between 250,000 and 300,000 people are seriously injured each year in alcohol-related crashes. To continue with this strong message here are some other disturbing facts:

  • In 2005, of the 16,885 people who died in alcohol-related crashes, 14,539 (86%) were killed in crashes where at least one driver or nonoccupant has a BAC of .08% or more.
  • Nationwide, 75 percent of all the people killed between the hours of midnight and three in the morning were killed in alcohol-related crashes, according to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) Web-Based Encyclopedia 2005 Report.
  • More than one-third (34 percent) of all pedestrians 16 years of age or older killed in traffic crashes in 2005 were intoxicated.
  • In 2005, 21% of the children 0 to 14 years old were killed in motor vehicle crashes were killed in alcohol-related crashes.

(Statistics presented were found in The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's report titled, Traffic Safety Facts 2005: A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System.)

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
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Oct 18 2007 4:18PM
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J.D.
Posts: 21362 - Karma: 5,141
If it were up to me (and once I take over the earth, it will be), anyone caught drinking and driving would be unable to drive for 6 months. Triple it each subsequent time until your fourth offence, when it's permanent. Anyone caught with a BAL over .15 would have their license taken away for 10 years. Fuck drunk drivers.
Oct 18 2007 4:25PM
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Valind
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In colorado for the first time they take your DL for three months ,have to do 24 hours of thearopy and 42 hours of education, wait its the other way around.  Then if your B.A.C. is over .175 you have to have that device that you blow in that is in your car in order to drive. 
Oct 18 2007 4:29PM
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sherpasrock
Posts: 2382 - Karma: 10
agreed...

but regarding the thread title....you have actually needed to think twice about drinking and driving?
Oct 18 2007 4:40PM
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t-roy
Posts: 4041 - Karma: 52
didn't make me think twice. i just don't do it.
Oct 18 2007 5:05PM
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Sufferboy
Posts: 4241 - Karma: 122
thank god i dont drink
Oct 18 2007 5:11PM
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Valind
Posts: 4358 - Karma: 17
Yea, some people have had to think twice. 
Oct 18 2007 5:13PM
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The_Oakley_Kid
Posts: 3128 - Karma: 179
too many people I have known have died doing this.  so please, don't drink and drive.
Oct 18 2007 5:58PM
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proZach
Posts: 7163 - Karma: 917
homo





haha, just kidding.
Oct 18 2007 6:05PM
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snwbrdmilf
Posts: 22441 - Karma: 2,805
Thank god I'm on your good side. :)
Oct 18 2007 6:18PM
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TheQuailman
Posts: 7381 - Karma: 144
Stilll, I think its a little ridiculous that someone under 21 with a BAC of .01 has to pay like 4,000 dollars
Oct 18 2007 6:33PM
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beer.
Posts: 3096 - Karma: 44
word, I think parents should be allowed to let their kid have a beer or glass of wine at dinner even if they are under 21.  not that big of a deal
Oct 18 2007 8:30PM
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wrenegade
Posts: 6631 - Karma: 41
4 is too many.

1st offence, 6 months, big ass fine.
2nd offence, 1 year, bigger fine.
3 strikes your out. Turn in your licence.
Oct 18 2007 8:35PM
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ijibgoremtn
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yea i just dont drink and drive, i tried driving wasted in my friends giant field out in the stix with a field car and i could just tell that driving on an actual road would be a terrible idea
Oct 18 2007 8:37PM
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Scharff2003
Posts: 656 - Karma: 14
i drink and drive all the time i live in indiana where no one os around the cops kinda care but not really you just pay a fine and you are let go for the most part 
Oct 18 2007 9:16PM
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snwbrdmilf
Posts: 22441 - Karma: 2,805
^ I wish I could smack you upside the head. Just because you live in a quiet area, something terrible wouldn't happen? I mean come on.
Oct 18 2007 9:29PM
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Bloom.
Posts: 3533 - Karma: 13,167
i forgot who but someone in the government is trying to lower the drinking age to 18
Oct 18 2007 10:06PM
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860
Posts: 2930 - Karma: 166
We'll see what you say when you hit a tree and die. Or maybe you kill a mother and her baby. Don't drink and drive just because you live in the middle of nowhere, one time you'll fuck up and someone is going to die or be seriously injured
Oct 18 2007 10:16PM
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skibum193
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my bro got a fencepost in his forehead, 65 stitches and had to get reconstructive surgery... soo yes, its not good to drink and drive
Oct 18 2007 10:57PM
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jimmychung
Posts: 6857 - Karma: 25
why drink and drive? it's pure stupid, i don't understand why people even think about it, never mind actually doing it.
Oct 18 2007 11:07PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
in soviet russia im pretty sure if you got caught driving drunk you were banned from driving period. I think if your liscense were suspenned for 5 or 10 years if you drove intoxicated no one would risk it.
Oct 18 2007 11:09PM
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lushlaxstr
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i was drivng around the other day and iwas so trashed
Oct 18 2007 11:32PM
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Mat.
Posts: 7167 - Karma: 94
who the fuck even considers driving while drunk?
Oct 18 2007 11:46PM
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Shadows
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you know, youre really not helping the argument to lower the drinking age.
Oct 18 2007 11:48PM
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N-John360
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It's people like you that are proud of it and share the experience that need to be punished the most. Your not cool because you don't follow the rules. 
Oct 19 2007 1:00AM
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2planking
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no fucking kidding
"makes you think twice" are you kidding why do need something to make you think twice?
Oct 19 2007 1:03AM
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uni-corn
Posts: 13846 - Karma: 651
4th strike, Lynched and head put up on major highway to make example of
Oct 19 2007 1:06AM
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ATLskier
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I agree.  Actually, I think what they do in scandanavia, or what they used to do was in the winter, if you were caught drunk driving, they would take the car and your shoes and make you walk home.   They should do that here.  I have friends of mine that try to drive drunk every once in a while.  fucking pisses me off.   I dont let them drive though.
Oct 19 2007 2:03AM
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KEVTRON
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your a good friend.
Oct 19 2007 10:07AM
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naftel
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it would be way cooler to make all cars - bumper cars! and pad the edge of the roads so cars would be contained. in this way we would exponentially increase the fun of motoring (even in rush hour traffic) and make the state of the driver a non-factor!
Oct 19 2007 4:06PM
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