"He's a fine looking boy," the man said. "That's my son on the swing in the blue sweater." Then, looking at his watch, he called to his son. "What do you say we go, Todd?"
Todd pleaded, "Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes." The man nodded and Todd continued to swing to his heart's content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his son. "Time to go now?"
Again Todd pleaded, "Five more minutes, Dad.
Just five more minutes." The man smiled and said, "O.K."
"My, you certainly are a patient father," the woman responded.
The man smiled and then said, "My older son Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I 'd give anything for just five more minutes with him. I've vowed not to make the same mistake with Todd. He thinks he has five more minutes to swing.
The truth is, I get five more minutes to watch him play."
- Author Unknown
[ 06-29-2001: Message edited by: Kloie ]
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
quote:
Originally posted by Kagrama:
Wow, that was real deep...
Yeah, I'm like that occasionally. 
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Originally posted by Karnaj:
Makes you wonder why prohibition didn't stick around... I say, if you want to be able to drink booze, then your liscence get revoked automatically. Like you trade the booze liscence for the driver's liscence and vice versa.
Forgery. If you are determined enough to DUI even after knowing that it is both a felony and an INCREDIBLY good way to turn your brain matter into an impressionistic piece of modern art, you'll do anything to do so.
Which once again proves people are morons.
quote:
Originally posted by Drakkenmaw:
...people are morons.
True.
quote:
Originally posted by Drakkenmaw:
[some] people are morons.
Nods.
sniff
[ 06-30-2001: Message edited by: Niklas ]
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
...
...Sounds like a plan!
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
I lost my big brother to one when I was still in high school! 
The person had the nerve to try to do a hit and run even, but the cops witnessed the whole thing.I, for one, think it's just sad that someone would even want to get behind the wheel when they're intoxicated.
IMNSHO, anyone caught driving under the influence of ANY mind altering drug (including prescription medicine and tobacco products) should be tried for attempted manslaughter. It's just like waving around a loaded gun.
And it isn't the fault of the gun, it's the fault of the idiot holding it.
Anyone who thinks Prohibition was a good thing, please go back to history class, you missed a LOT of information.
You said it fuzzy dog man.
sigpic courtesy of This Guy, original modified by me
Oh, and believe me when I say there were problems during "The Roaring Twenties." I don't feel like typing out my entire US History lesson on the subject, but if someone wants to take me up on this I probably will.
As for the prevalence of DUIs, here's where we get into trouble because we live in a society that (rightly) values privacy and rights. People can get drunk at home, or at someone else's home. People can ONLY use illicit drugs there, and people can use legal drugs ANYWHERE. So the only way to find out if someone is on those substances, save police notice of erratic driving behavior or an actual accident, is random checkpoints where everyone is tested for them. That, as you can pretty much see, is a very bad thing to happen. For one, it assumes that every single driver is guilty until they prove themselves innocent. I don't really want to post others, since this is quickly becoming a LONG post, but I can.
It is a matter of opinion where the proper balance of privacy vs. safety should be. I don't think it's worth the loss of privacy and the bad precedent to pass such a law. You might. But that's why this is a democracy.
