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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867515
08/02/19 01:57 PM
08/02/19 01:57 PM
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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 7,383 Meridianville
DryFire
14 point
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14 point
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Meridianville
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My younger brother was a drunk driver. Charged three times, convicted twice. Killed by a texting teenage driver (while sober). Karma is a bitch. I miss him, but we as a family could not get him to stop drinking and driving.
Last edited by TexasNative; 08/02/19 01:58 PM.
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867519
08/02/19 02:02 PM
08/02/19 02:02 PM
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Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 25,333 Guntersville, AL
IDOT
OP
I am Cornholio
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I am Cornholio
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 25,333
Guntersville, AL
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Loss of life
Drunk driving claims 29 lives per day, more than 10,000 per year. Distracted driving claims 9 lives per day — approximately 3,500 per year.
If you’re a common sense person, you probably don’t feel you have a home in this world right now. If you’re a Christian, you know you were never meant to.
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867521
08/02/19 02:05 PM
08/02/19 02:05 PM
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Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 8,262 Moundville, Al
SuperSpike
The 46 Year Old Bowhunting Virgin
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The 46 Year Old Bowhunting Virgin
Joined: Sep 2014
Posts: 8,262
Moundville, Al
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Loss of life
Drunk driving claims 29 lives per day, more than 10,000 per year. Distracted driving claims 9 lives per day — approximately 3,500 per year. I think a distracted driver is a little harder to prove than a drunk. You can blood test a drunk. You can pick up a phone and they may or may not have been texting. Could've been reading, looking at weather or maps. I don't think those stats you going by are as cut and dry as you think.
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867567
08/02/19 03:00 PM
08/02/19 03:00 PM
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Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 10,484 Bham
Dallas County
Booner
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Booner
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Posts: 10,484
Bham
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IDOT, I'd say you were very lucky, at least you were behind them and not in front of them!
not sure what the best way to handle them is but they shouldnt be on tv and gettn married and raisin kids
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867575
08/02/19 03:07 PM
08/02/19 03:07 PM
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Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 6,095 Anniston, AL
ikillbux
ishootatbux
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ishootatbux
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 6,095
Anniston, AL
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They aren't talking about it much, but texting and driving is why your car insurance keeps going up and up and up and up... In roundabout figures, distracted driving claims have increased 3X in the last 10 years. I agree with whoever it was above that said 2/3rds of the cars they pass are holding their phones in their lap and peeking down constantly.
We were on the edge of Eternia, when the power of Greyskull began to take hold.
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: One Leg Dan]
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08/02/19 03:19 PM
08/02/19 03:19 PM
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Joined: Aug 2018
Posts: 3,884 Montgomery, Alabama
bama1971
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10 point
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Posts: 3,884
Montgomery, Alabama
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There is one local LEO who parks in the same place and every time I drive by he's playing his phone at least he's not driving .... Half the time they’re typing on those laptops
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867589
08/02/19 03:22 PM
08/02/19 03:22 PM
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Joined: Oct 2018
Posts: 190 Alabama
One Leg Dan
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3 point
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Posts: 190
Alabama
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Oh no he's playing his phone ..we've talked He parks by my kids school and I asked him one day why he didn't stop some.of.these people speeding by the school during child pick up when school is let out He flashed his screen at me and was playing candy crush ... Different generation of men
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867591
08/02/19 03:23 PM
08/02/19 03:23 PM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 6,661 Trussville Alabama
inatree
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14 point
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Posts: 6,661
Trussville Alabama
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Having just buried a great young man yesterday that was like a son to me who was killed by a drunk driver on the wrong side of the road, I have to say it's left a really bad taste in my mouth. There's no reason for either drunk driving or distracted driving. I believe they both should carry the same sentences and or consequences. No need for someone to take a life by making stupid ass decision. I'm not saying that I haven't made bad choices in my past but by God's grace I didn't hurt someone or myself
Free men aren't equal and equal men aren't free! I choose to defend my freedom!
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: GKelly]
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08/02/19 03:42 PM
08/02/19 03:42 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 18,942 North AL
AU338MAG
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 18,942
North AL
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How you know they're drinking and driving? Serious Question? the new thing is staring at a phone screen and driving,every damn person I get behind and end up having to pass 2/3rds have a phone in their hand This. It should be legal to shoot these sumbitches. The difference between drinking and driving and texting and driving is that the drunks are at least paying attention to the road.
Last edited by AU338MAG; 08/02/19 03:45 PM.
Dying ain't much of a living boy...Josey Wales
Molon Labe
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867611
08/02/19 03:48 PM
08/02/19 03:48 PM
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Joined: May 2013
Posts: 3,289 Chelsea
lectrode
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10 point
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You better not drive 3 mph over the limit drunk through reform or Gordo or yo arse goin to jail.
You haven't been blocked until you've been flock blocked!!!
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
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08/02/19 03:57 PM
08/02/19 03:57 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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Posts: 38,489
N. Bama
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You can drive from exit 37 on I65 to exit 334 and never see a trooper. I’ve done it so many times it’s sad. Zero enforcement
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
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08/02/19 04:08 PM
08/02/19 04:08 PM
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Posts: 10,554 Alabama
whack-n-stack
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Booner
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Posts: 10,554
Alabama
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What if instead of a HOV lane, we made a drunk lane? Put some bumpers on the sides of it like a bowling alley. If we gotta spend tax dollars efficiently, might as well do that instead of paying troopers to enforce it.
Last edited by whack-n-stack; 08/02/19 04:09 PM.
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: 257wbymag]
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08/02/19 04:22 PM
08/02/19 04:22 PM
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 30,910 Clanton, AL
Out back
Grumpy Old Man
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Grumpy Old Man
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Posts: 30,910
Clanton, AL
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You can drive from exit 37 on I65 to exit 334 and never see a trooper. I’ve done it so many times it’s sad. Zero enforcement They there. Plenty of them. Too many of them. Just because you didn't see them don't mean they didn't see you.
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Re: Drinking and Driving
[Re: IDOT]
#2867716
08/02/19 05:37 PM
08/02/19 05:37 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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Posts: 38,489
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Yea I can spot the unmarked ones pretty easy. I’m a 56-60k mike a year driver.
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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