When the USA became a communist country
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Before you know it THEY will even recommend a vaccine to help stop the spread of a disease. Arrrrgggghhhhhh
MADD ruined it for red blooded Americans.
Around my parts, grabbing a roadie on the way home from work is still a lot more common than you'd expect.
Last year I was going down the road and the guy in front of me took an entire bag of McDonald’s and threw it out his car window. Then we got about a mile down the the road and he threw out his soda. The cup hit the ground and the lid and straw popped off.
I was in actual tears I was laughing so hard. It was like going back in time
Back in the day I measured distances by the number of beers it took to get there.
And now I measure distance by the times I have to stop and piss.
I used to visit my friends at southwest mo state. We’d have a contest on how many beers you could down without stopping to piss on the drive. Car just full of empties.
Drinking driving was second nature
We called those….dead soldiers
We were drinking beer and playing cards and my brother and a buddy stopped by. His buddy said he was heading back home in the morning. I asked him how far was the drive. He said, “It’s a two dip trip”
What DANC was saying about dwis in some places was sort of right. Forever it was discretionary to hold them at the municipal level. So it wasn’t uncommon for a guy to have half a dozen or more. They’d just keep paying higher fines and the charge would get reduced. I had an uncle with five.
Here a cardinal tried a dram shop case and it led to a fleecing of the whole dirty racket. Then Michael brown led to another round of it and those days were over
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Years ago in Bton the word was that if you needed to get off a DUI, hire Sam Shapiro. He charged a fortune, but he evidently knew who and where to pay, because people claimed that eventually the charges just disappeared.
I was living in Toledo when the wink-wink-nudge-nudge disappeared in NW Ohio. Some drunk asshole went from the Taco Bell onto the highway, but in the wrong direction, and killed a family in a minivan. Before that happened, a DUI was a fine and maybe a weekend or two in fake prison (it was a lockup that you had to report into Friday evening, and you'd get released Monday morning, for however many weekends worth you'd pissed the judge off). After that, prosecutors and judges came down hard, and weekend excursions got exchanged for actual time in real prison.
Wow!!!! Here a 1st time dwi is basically nothing. You get an sis that falls off after 2 years. Zero jail time. Through an admin process you don’t even lose your driving privileges even for a day. You just can’t delete it immediately or rack up a ton like back in the day
Things may have cooled off since then. I've been gone for a while.
The yokels in the video are not incorrect. Stricter DUI laws have not cut down on drunk driving fatalities.
They have stretched the government ever further into one’s own day to day life. Papa government is here to protect you.
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Will be wild if new cars are installed with ignition interlock. One of my best soccer buds had a felony dui and they installed an interlock. Played pro in Ireland for 3 years and became a drunk. I used to leave the field early and hide behind his car. Then when I’d see him get ready to blow I’d shake the fck out of his car!!! He’d have to wait an hour to try again 🤣
This reminds me of a very effective campaign from the last 70s, early 80s. I was in elementary school, and we listened to some talk about how bad littering was, how easy it was to find a trash can, etc. They made all us little kids sign a "No Litter Bug Pledge" that we would always throw things away in the garbage and if we saw stray litter on the ground, we would pick it up and throw it away, to make our country that much cleaner.
To this day, I stop and pick up random trash I see on the ground if I can, and think of signing that pledge like some type of blood oath. Weird.
I do too. I’ve lived on the coast and the litter on the beaches makes you want to want to shoot people
The brainwashing in our schools has to stop. They've been doing it for decades! 😇
But those red blooded Americans fought back with their group called DAMM.
I was working in the UK and went out to eat and started pounding down the beers. Got kind of blitzed, talking to the bartender and having a good time.
Place closed and I had to drive back to the hotel. Uh oh - driving on the left side, with a manual....... and knowing they don't fvck around with drunk driving in the UK. That was one intense drive.
Pretty sure Wisconsin 1st DUI is just a civil offense on par with a traffic ticket. Think you need to get into the double digits of arrests before they start cracking down on you. Of course this was the state that allowed minors of any age to drink in bars with parents permission until a few decades ago.
I'm pretty sure in Wisconsin it's a misdemeanor to be sober.
It's not uncommon for us to take extra trash bags on a canoe trip and police up campsites that have been trashed by newbies who don't understand what Leave No Trace principles are. That's a fairly common theme among folks who have spent time in the wilderness.
Even on backpacking trips we'll pick up little bits of trash and fill a gallon ziploc with it. It's crazy how many little bits of plastic people leave behind from just opening the wrappers of cliff bars or beef jerky.
Good on you for picking up after others.
