Report: Oscar Taveras killed in a car crash

[Rams Fan]

Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale 3m3 minutes ago
The family now confirms that #STLCards rising star Oscar Taveras died in a car accident driving from Sosua to Puerto Plata per @LigaDomcom

https://twitter.com/BNightengale/sta...30623112876032

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

I guess I just disagree. If I get in a car with my buddy who's drunk and he gets into an accident and I lose an arm and a leg I can tell you that I'd never blame anyone for that but myself. I fail to see how that's batshit insane.

I see that you disagree, and agree that your disagreement is based on a failure to see.

[Hootie]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I see that you disagree, and agree that your disagreement is based on a failure to see.

Perhaps. You seem like a very bright guy. I just don't see why the passenger has any right to feel like a victim when they trusted their life to a drunk driver. Hmm, I can't drive, but I need a ride, so I'll get in a car with blacked out Bobby because at least I'm not breaking the law...and if he gets pulled over, then that's on him! And if he kills me? That's on him, too!

[Hootie]

I feel like they should issue tickets for everyone over the legal limit in the car if the driver is also over the limit. The entire car should get a DUI

[Hootie]

And this is coming from a guy who thinks the DUI penalties are far too harsh. There should be ticketed DUIs that don't ruin your life...I realize that's a slippery slope but, I don't know. Some people are fully functional and more than capable at .13 and some people are embarrassingly fall down drunk at .08

[Swanman]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

And this is coming from a guy who thinks the DUI penalties are far too harsh. There should be ticketed DUIs that don't ruin your life...I realize that's a slippery slope but, I don't know. Some people are fully functional and more than capable at .13 and some people are embarrassingly fall down drunk at .08

I imagine the penalties differ by locality but I think they are far, far too lenient in many cases. There are people with 4 and 5 DUI's getting nothing more than a week in jail and a fine.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

Originally Posted by Hootie 2.0

And this is coming from a guy who thinks the DUI penalties are far too harsh. There should be ticketed DUIs that don't ruin your life...I realize that's a slippery slope but, I don't know. Some people are fully functional and more than capable at .13 and some people are embarrassingly fall down drunk at .08

This is absolutely true IMO. My buddy and I had a cop give us a "courtesy" breath test coming out of a bar one night. He drank far more often than I did, but because I outweighed him by 100lbs he was at .072 and I was at .045 and the cop said I should be the driver even though I was CLEARLY more intoxicated than he.

[jenifer55]

The reason behind different alcohol concentration is how the body of person reacts to it as it might differ with each person. When I worked with a Los Angeles DUI attorney, I saw so many similar cases that people who blew around .09 got away on the pretext of wrong reading as their behavior was quite normal.

[pr_capone]

[Red Dawg]

Damn