I am never drinking and driving again

[BIG_DADDY]

At least I say that now. Got pulled over for DUI yesterday with my dog in the truck going ballistic. I was getting ready to move so I had been drinking Makers Mark and smoking cigars all day. I must have smelt terrible. The officer immediatly smelled it on me and called for backup. I was right at the intersection of 92 and 101 probably the busiest place I could possible be pulled over. 30 minutes later in what felt like 2 hours in a never ending sobriety tests I drove away. I am thanking my lucky stars today.

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by bunnytrdr

Fugging hedge funds, fuggin screwing up the gd stock market.

Dude my adrenaline was flowing like a MO. I couldn't go to sleep until 1AM after downing almost a 5th of vodka. I still wonder what would have happened to my dog. If anything bad happened to him Rina would lost it. I think she would probably have ended up getting incarcerated as well.

[Ebolapox]

ya know, call me crazy, but drinking/driving is NEVER a good idea... not to side with madd, but... yeah, getting all sloppy drunk and killing a 14 year old gymnast while NOT in vegas isn't my idea of fun...

wait, you b*tches are NOT going to use my trip to vegas against me... LOOK AT THE MOTTO, HOES!! WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, STAYS IN VEGAS


-EB-

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

Dude my adrenaline was flowing like a MO. I couldn't go to sleep until 1AM after downing almost a 5th of vodka. I still wonder what would have happened to my dog. If anything bad happened to him Rina would lost it. I think she would probably have ended up getting incarcerated as well.

There are just some people who function within normal parameters while drunk, just ask Delt.

Then again, perhaps that cop didn't want you to kick his ass.

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

I asked the officer he said he thought it was $40

Try 86 bucks. I fuggin know, my wife got one last year, I started a thread about it.

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

I would have never taken a breathalyzer I'll tell you that much. Smoked the tests though. The other officer even yelled he's fine to the guy giving me the test.

Like I said, they know you would have kicked both their motha fuggin asses.

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by Cochise

Gotta love CA.

We love it!!!

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by Infidel Goat

My dad, a retired physician, hates the helmet law.

He'll admit that it saves lives, but he doesn't think the surviving quadrapelegics it creates are all that thankful.

--Infidel Goat

This is the "freedom" that we are fighting to give to the Iraqi's.

[Calcountry]

Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

The cops are like locust out here too. The Chronical is reporting over 3000 officers joining in the effort.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...AG15D0UVK1.DTL

Fun goes farther on BART.

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by Infidel Goat

My dad, a retired physician, hates the helmet law.

He'll admit that it saves lives, but he doesn't think the surviving quadrapelegics it creates are all that thankful.

--Infidel Goat

I once saw Eddie Lawson get off his GP bike at the Hockenheimring during time trials while traveling in excess of 190 MPH and he raced the next day.

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

Those two go hand in hand.

I read an article in the Boston Globe regarding women in prison. Some amazing stuff.

1. Women constitute about 10% of the US prison population. A little under 200K out of 2M incarcerated.

2. 70% of women in jail are mothers.

3. Some absurdly high percentage (like 60%) are in for nonviolent crimes, usually related to drug usage.

Glad we waste our money locking up these folks.

The federal government spends about $35 billion a year on the "war on drugs," largely to prosecute marijuana users – but it's fighting a losing battle.

While the number of marijuana arrests has risen sharply since the early 1990s, the crackdown has done little to curtail the demand for the drug.

Police make about 700,000 marijuana-related arrests each year, accounting for almost half of all drug arrests. Pot busts peaked at 755,186 in 2003 – nearly twice the number of arrests in 1993.
While marijuana arrests rose 113 percent from 1990 to 2002, arrests for other drugs increased only 10 percent.
About 88 percent of marijuana busts are for simple possession, not dealing, according to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report. And the number of arrests for "sale/manufacture" includes all those caught growing marijuana for their own use or for medical reasons.
Marijuana prices have fallen by 16 percent since 1992, when adjusted for inflation – while potency has doubled.
Since 1990, daily marijuana use by high school seniors has nearly tripled, from 2.2 percent of students to 6 percent.
A marijuana user is arrested every 42 seconds in America, according to the Drug War Chronicle – and the number busted yearly exceeds the population of South Dakota or San Francisco.
"These number belie the myth that police do not target and arrest minor marijuana offenders," said Keith Stroup, Executive Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

"This effort is a tremendous waste of criminal justice resources. These dollars would be better served combating serious and violent crime, including the war on terrorism."

And Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), said that considering the number of marijuana arrests, "it's safe to say that the drug war isn't preventing people from using marijuana."

Bruce Mirken, director of communications for the MPP, pointed out that while marijuana possession offenses usually draw light punishment, the repercussions of a pot bust can be devastating to the offenders.

"It can literally haunt them for the rest of their lives," Mirken told The Drug War Chronicle. "They lose access to federal benefits, they lose job opportunities because of the arrest record, they can't get student loans."

More than 150,000 college students or would-be students can't get access to federal financial aid because of drug crimes, most of them simple marijuana possession, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

The drug war against low-level users also encourages resentment against the police, especially in the minority community. African-Americans account for 14 percent of marijuana users, but 30 percent of arrests, according to The Sentencing Project, a research group favoring alternatives to incarceration.

An editorial in USA TODAY – America's largest circulation newspaper - has called for changes in the enforcement of drug laws: "Today's more potent marijuana carries substantial health and social risks. It can lead to depression, thoughts of suicide and schizophrenia, especially among teens, according to government research. Its use should be discouraged.

"But it's a smokescreen to suggest that rising arrest numbers show the war on drugs is working. It's time for a serious debate on whether massive arrests of low-level users are worth the cost or having any benefit."

[dtebbe]

As far as seatbelts go, I'd be dead right now if I hadn't been wearing mine last year when I got rear-ended. No doubt I would have ate the steering wheel on my way thru the windshield and into the back of a Jeep Grand Cherokee. My chest looked like I had been wacked with a baseball bat from the seatbelt, and my head went thru the back window of my truck, but I walked away. That would not have been the case if I hadn't been wearing it.

And, Makers is some good stuff. I'm not a big bourbon drinker, but I drank Makers and Coke yesterday and was instantly hooked. Makers and ice is pretty damn good too.

DT

[BIG_DADDY]

Originally Posted by dtebbe

As far as seatbelts go, I'd be dead right now if I hadn't been wearing mine last year when I got rear-ended. No doubt I would have ate the steering wheel on my way thru the windshield and into the back of a Jeep Grand Cherokee. My chest looked like I had been wacked with a baseball bat from the seatbelt, and my head went thru the back window of my truck, but I walked away. That would not have been the case if I hadn't been wearing it.

And, Makers is some good stuff. I'm not a big bourbon drinker, but I drank Makers and Coke yesterday and was instantly hooked. Makers and ice is pretty damn good too.

DT

I usually drink it straight. Between that and the cigars he probably could smell me when I drove by. I didn't even have any water in my truck to try and hide the smell.

[tommykat]

I think it is $10 in Mo.........last I heard, but someone come back and tell me different.

BigDaddy......... watch it, seriously!

[Skip Towne]

Originally Posted by tommykat

I think it is $10 in Mo.........last I heard, but someone come back and tell me different.

BigDaddy......... watch it, seriously!

I'll bet you 5 jillion dollars the fine for no seat belt is more than $10 in Mo.

[tommykat]

Originally Posted by Skip Towne

I'll bet you 5 jillion dollars the fine for no seat belt is more than $10 in Mo.

So find it then.........