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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: MP-Ryan on December 16, 2011, 09:31:03 am
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I know we have a lot of young people around here, I know the pressures out there, and I just wanted to remind everyone of something they already know:
Do not drink and drive. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_popout&v=Z2mf8DtWWd8) (Disturbing image warning.)
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I remember seeing at least a few of those ads growing up over here in Aus. Message is echoed, posted as my status on FB, especially since as a 2011 high school graduate, this is exactly the time when all of my classmates are getting their probational licenses and such.
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Can this be stickied? Please. A friend of mine was involved in a crash with a drunk driver yesterday (he's fine) but I'm still woried about what could have happened.
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That was pretty well put together, I must admit though the age many of the cars coupled with the crash cinematography was very Mad Max(1979). I was half expecting someone to cut in with "I am the Nightrider. I'm a fuel injected suicide machine. I am the rocker, I am the roller, I am the out-of-controller!"
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aaaaaaaand now I've got REM stuck in my brain. Which isn't a bad thing, necessarily, 'cause, y'know, everybody gets that song stuck in their head sometimes.
A drunk driver almost killed my sister two months ago. Drunk driving is bad. Also, don't kick puppies.
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Also relevant is the true story of Jacqueline Saburido (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Saburido).
Warning: The pages mentioned below include graphic images.
One night in 1999, 20-year-old Jacqueline Saburido and her friends were coming home from their friend's birthday party. That same night, 18-year-old Reggie Stephey was driving home with a few friends from a drinking party. Reggie thought he was sober enough to drive home, but his SUV hit Jacqui and her friends' car, which then skidded off the road. Two of the passengers in Reggie’s car died from the collision, along with two of Jacqui’s friends. Unlikely to survive, Jacqui was pinned down on the front passenger seat, and minutes later, the car caught on fire. Over 60% of Jacqui’s body suffered burns in the fire.
[Slightly adapted from here (http://www.msd.k12.ny.us/community.cfm?subpage=1065).]
More from the Texas Department of Transportation here (http://facesofdrunkdriving.com/).
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Reckless Driving (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEcFy7tFhto)
Texting and driving UK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E)
More texting and driving (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6-1hBfZY90)
Distracted texter vs. Semi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPAajshrsa8)
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Christ...I can't believe they could air those on TV. Brutally effective for sure. Jeez.
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Christ...I can't believe they could air those on TV. Brutally effective for sure. Jeez.
UK TV at least can have some really brutal ads about things like drunk driving. I mean, shockingly brutal for prime time TV.
Not an issue for me, I neither drink nor drive. Public transportation master race! Getting you roughly where you wanted to go several hours late
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While you're at it, drinking and posting is also dangerous.
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More importantly, ghost chips, bro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIYvD9DI1ZA).
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My strategy is to continue the strategy I have used for the past two years.
Don't drink at all.
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More importantly, ghost chips, bro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIYvD9DI1ZA).
Wow.
I honestly understood about 5 words the guy said there. :P Silly kiwis.
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While I the brutality is effective, I quite liked the campaign they had on UK TV a few years ago with Dennis Leary. What will stop drunk driving dead in it's tracks is if people think it isn't socially acceptable in a way that makes it not cool. Having a song repeatedly call you an arsehole for driving drunk is probably more effective than all the brutal adverts you can watch.
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My strategy is to continue the strategy I have used for the past two years.
Don't drink at all.
Good advice, but remember as well, that just because you're sober, doesn't mean the other guy is. I was sober when a nutter in a Dodge Charger did this to my car, back in 2009:
(http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/DeadFocus4Thm.png) (http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/DeadFocus4.png) (http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/DeadFocus5Thm.png) (http://home.comcast.net/~blueflames/DeadFocus5.png)
In case you're curious about the driver's seat position, I had a back-seat passenger, who needed to be let out, after the crash.
Stay alert out there.
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My strategy is to continue the strategy I have used for the past two years.
Don't drink at all.
Good advice, but remember as well, that just because you're sober, doesn't mean the other guy is. I was sober when a nutter in a Dodge Charger did this to my car, back in 2009:
Stay alert out there.
Better strategy:
Part 1: Dig hole in back yard, climb in, and cover with wooden boards.
Part 2: Win forever.
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Didn't work for Saddam. :p
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BlueFlames, just curious, what year / make / model was that? Looks like it did a good job considering a larger car plowed into it... although, how fast were the vehicles going?
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BlueFlames, just curious, what year / make / model was that? Looks like it did a good job considering a larger car plowed into it... although, how fast were the vehicles going?
That was a 2009 Ford Focus. I was traveling just under 40mph. It's hard to say how fast the Charger was going, when he ran across my front end, but the speed limit in his direction of travel was 45mph. (You tell me if the muscle car running a red light at midnight was speeding or not.) In any case, the size differential was more than made-up for by the front crumple-zone. Aside from the deployed airbags, there was no damage to the inside of the passenger cabin at all.
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Wow, score one for recent Ford engineering.
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And to think I live in a country where people were driving with 6 promiles of alcohol in their blood and actually survived...
Any wonders I want to get out of this place? :)
Though when it comes to drunk driving records, Lithuania takes the cake, with a truck driver with 8 promiles of alcohol in blood. That's twice the official lethal dose. And he survived, IIRC.
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What decimal amount does a promile translate to? I found the Polish Wikipedia page on it, but I couldn't exactly figure it out.
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"Per mille is a tenth per cent , ie. another name for one thousandth (whole)"
so 0.08% is drunk, what he is referring to is 0.6%.
IIRC 1.0% is generally accepted as lethal.
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IIRC 1.0% is generally accepted as lethal.
(http://fortnightlitpress.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/knapp01.png?w=480)
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I always feel sorry for my neighbour at this time of year. During the last 16 years he's had to rebuild the front wall on his property an average of once every 2 years due to drunk or reckless drivers losing it on a rather heavily signposted bend.
In addition I've seen a bus and on one occassion a police car lose it and hit something on that curve.
My neighbours across the street though probably have the best stories. They came home once to find a strange car parked in their driveway which turned out to be a stolen car left there when someone being chased by the police lost it on the bend and ended up parked there. The guy decided to simply hop over their fence and run for it rather than reverse out. Another time someone did a hit and run on a bollard near his house. I went out side and asked him if he had his number only to have my neighbour hold up the licence plate he'd left behind. :D
In short, drinking and driving near my house is a very, very bad idea.
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I always feel sorry for my neighbour at this time of year. During the last 16 years he's had to rebuild the front wall on his property an average of once every 2 years due to drunk or reckless drivers losing it on a rather heavily signposted bend.
In addition I've seen a bus and on one occassion a police car lose it and hit something on that curve.
My neighbours across the street though probably have the best stories. They came home once to find a strange car parked in their driveway which turned out to be a stolen car left there when someone being chased by the police lost it on the bend and ended up parked there. The guy decided to simply hop over their fence and run for it rather than reverse out. Another time someone did a hit and run on a bollard near his house. I went out side and asked him if he had his number only to have my neighbour hold up the licence plate he'd left behind. :D
In short, drinking and driving near my house is a very, very bad idea.
In my neighborhood, it's been the fault of a white chihuahua that god deemed either yippy enough or too plain dastardly to die. The little bastard has crashed SUVs to Prius wankers. Either way, the owner is to stupid to realize the pooch wants more attention, but to attest in a funny and sad anecdote, more than one time the mumu laden owner has been spotted asking "Where has Princess gone?"
And that little fellar is named Princess, and has a habit of gnawing on jeans and pants when not crashing cars.
As for the drinking, if you intend to get smashed, throw the key in the pool, board yourself up and drink until your liver can't scream anymore. In other words, get so damn drunk you can't move anymore and get anywhere near a car.
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I am so very glad I will always be in the bigger vehicle
It's called a bus
They've been cracking down with roadstops here none stop for drinking and driving. Afterall, not only have they lowered the considered intoxication level, they also use breathalyzers that seem to give more false positives than anything. Worst part, is you still suffer the consequences anyhow (impounded vehicle, license revoked temporarily, etc). Another thing, you can't refuse to take the test either as the officers have been given by law, the ability to give you one regardless
EDIT:
Drivers caught within the warn zone -- defined at having a blood alcohol level of between 0.05 and 0.08 -- will be banned from driving for three days and fined $250. The fine, combined with the towing and storage fees, means that offending drivers can expect pay about $600.
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"Per mille is a tenth per cent , ie. another name for one thousandth (whole)"
so 0.08% is drunk, what he is referring to is 0.6%.
IIRC 1.0% is generally accepted as lethal.
Ah, I probably should have been able to guess that. And holy crap, 0.6? That's ridiculous.
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There was too much blood in his alcohol stream, apparently.
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"Per mille is a tenth per cent , ie. another name for one thousandth (whole)"
so 0.08% is drunk, what he is referring to is 0.6%.
IIRC 1.0% is generally accepted as lethal.
I've read that 0.4% is considered the lethal dosage in most of the world, except the Eastern Europe, especially Poland and Russia. 1.0% might be the generally accepted lethal dosage in here (as the guy who had 0.8% survived, and I didn't heard about a case of a living person having more). Also, some time ago there was a story about a driver so drunk that when he was tested with a breathalyzer, the device turned off. It's limit was around 0.4% (must have been imported from the west :)), so he had at least that much. And he drove a car. A man from Western Europe would have been dead by that point.
There was too much blood in his alcohol stream, apparently.
Indeed. A great Polish comedian, Krzysztof Piasecki, had a field day with both drunk drivers and incompetent police (it was some time ago, they're getting better now. If only the laws the have to uphold weren't so stupid that nobody wants to obey them...).
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I always feel sorry for my neighbour at this time of year. During the last 16 years he's had to rebuild the front wall on his property an average of once every 2 years due to drunk or reckless drivers losing it on a rather heavily signposted bend.
That sucks. Do you mean the front wall of his house, or is there some sort of retaining wall on his lawn? If it's that big of a problem, perhaps he should invest in a ditch or moat to intercept the car before it moves too far onto his property.
Also, holy crap on the video in the first post. I've added a disclaimer.
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That sucks. Do you mean the front wall of his house, or is there some sort of retaining wall on his lawn? If it's that big of a problem, perhaps he should invest in a ditch or moat to intercept the car before it moves too far onto his property.
OR (Imported from Truly Ridiculous Crimes thread)
(http://i40.tinypic.com/14l7gjn.png)
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Very good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymiF-okrdMg
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That sucks. Do you mean the front wall of his house, or is there some sort of retaining wall on his lawn?
Fortunately it's the latter.
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Very good one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymiF-okrdMg
Yikes! Best one I've seen.
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This thread reminds me of the video where the Irish drunk man was handed a breathlyzer and he tried to take a swig from it. Granted there are no funny drunk drivers, but there are a few hilarious drunks.
(this vid is probably on youtube somewhere but I can't link to it at the mo as I am in work.)