i completely agree

eye for an eye

4/21/2009 7:12:47 PM

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"I very strongly believe that killing someone while driving under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs should carry a mandatory death penalty."

I'm good with that, as long as the person under the influence voluntarily reached that state.

4/21/2009 7:16:58 PM

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"there's three kinds of people: folks who learn from the mistakes of others, folks who learn from their own mistakes, and folks who never learn"

4/21/2009 7:17:30 PM

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"folks who learn from their own mistakes,"

yep

4/21/2009 7:19:00 PM

^^nah, they learn, they just don't choose to use what they've learned

4/21/2009 7:20:05 PM

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"and people wonder why I narc on suspected drunk drivers at every opportunity"

4/21/2009 7:21:25 PM

This is really terrible. Did anyone notice this?

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"Bonham and husband-to-be Brandon Tedder, 23, had been together for nearly eight years."

They have been together since he was 15?

4/21/2009 7:23:48 PM

Meh, I've got friends who met in middle school who are now very happily married. Good catch though.

4/21/2009 7:24:54 PM

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"eye for an eye"

makes the whole world blind.

4/21/2009 7:30:14 PM

makes me happy

4/21/2009 7:30:55 PM

Why does the name Brandon Mintz sound familiar?

4/21/2009 8:05:43 PM

Fuck the fucking fuckers who drink alcohol for a meaningless short-term buzz.

4/21/2009 8:07:43 PM

please keep the whole "fuck you drunk drivers, you fuckers get what you deserve, ill go out of my way to make your life hell" bullshit to the lounge thread please.

4/21/2009 8:10:49 PM

fuck you drunk drivers, you fuckers get what you deserve, ill go out of my way to make your life hell because you fucking deserve it.

4/21/2009 8:16:52 PM

fuck you drunk drivers, you fuckers get what you deserve, ill go out of my way to make your life hell because you fucking deserve it.

4/21/2009 8:20:48 PM

I ♥ Chit Chat.

4/21/2009 8:54:43 PM

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"fuck you drunk drivers, you fuckers get what you deserve, ill go out of my way to make your life hell because you fucking deserve it."

i go out of my way to crash into drunk drivers

4/21/2009 8:58:28 PM

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"Murder charges in wreck; N.C. groom, two others killed WHITEVILLE, N.C. — A grand jury has indicted a North Carolina man on three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of a groom and two others in a wreck less than an hour before the wedding. The Fayetteville Observer reports John Kelley, 43, of Whiteville, was initially charged with driving while impaired in the wreck April 18 on state Highway 214. Troopers say Kelley's Chrysler Sebring convertible drifted into the opposite lane of the two-lane highway, striking a Honda Prelude head-on. Killed in the wreck were the groom, Brandon Tedder, 23; best man Brandon Mintz, 19; and groomsman and Tedder's brother, Daniel Sykes, 13. The paper says Kelley's wife refused to talk about the indictments."

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/5117279/

5/10/2009 9:41:18 AM

I just read the OP.

They should have let this fucker burn. When will this state wake up and start frying these fucks?

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"and people wonder why I narc on suspected drunk drivers at every opportunity"

good to hear. I call when I see this too.

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"Just last week I saw a car pull out of Carolina Ale house and as we were driving down the road I noticed he was driving slower than usual and weaving just a little bit. Guess who got pulled over, compliments of my phone call, about 5 min. later on I-40?"

gg

5/10/2009 9:46:42 AM

this is a good thing to read this morning

5/10/2009 10:27:41 AM

You gotta wonder if there's really a God when these such events take place

5/10/2009 10:31:18 AM

I'm sure there's a perfectly valid reason why God used a drunk driver to kill three people on the way to a wedding.

5/10/2009 10:38:21 AM

my steering column sucks, and I weave a little, so plz dont call the cops on me

No one deserves a chance to learn from their mistakes when it comes to drunk driving. The folks that this person killed are not getting a second chance.

I dont understand how people can sympathize with drunk drivers unless they have been/are one themselves.

5/10/2009 10:43:14 AM

^if you drink and then drive at all im sure youve been guilty of driving over the legal limit at some point

5/10/2009 11:05:30 AM

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"we should name and shame TWWers who are known to have driven drunk. I'll start:"

mine got dismissed, neener neener

^^ And I don't see how people can sympathize with blacks. They all become criminals eventually, so we should just lock them up at birth without any evidence of a transgression.

[Edited on May 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM. Reason : ^]

5/10/2009 1:19:00 PM

i think drunk driving is horrible, don't get me wrong. but i think that the idea of having a breathalizer in all cars is horrible as well. but there's another thread about that.

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"Her reaction right now just a coping mechanism. Whether or not she truly forgives in the longterm that horrible person who chose to drive after drinking is an open question. I'm sure she'll go through many phases of grief and feel plenty of emotions towards them in that process. "

agree w/ this

[Edited on May 10, 2009 at 1:24 PM. Reason : oops i guess i had this open for a really long time]

5/10/2009 1:23:49 PM

i agree that a breathalyzer in the car is a horrible idea

5/10/2009 1:27:06 PM

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/18083.php

Drivers drunk at the 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level drove a bit more slowly than both undistracted drivers and drivers using cell phones, yet more aggressively. They followed the pace car more closely, were twice as likely to brake only four seconds before a collision would have occurred, and hit their brakes with 23 percent more force. "Neither accident rates, nor reaction times to vehicles braking in front of the participant, nor recovery of lost speed following braking differed significantly" from undistracted drivers, the researchers write.

"Impairments associated with using a cell phone while driving can be as profound as those associated with driving while drunk," they conclude.

How about a zero tolerance mandatory 1-year minimum license suspension for talking on a cell phone while driving? Hey Solinari how about sitting outside soccer practice and calling the police on soccer moms driving erratically while chatting on their cell phone?

Oh, does the level of impairment seem more managable now? Perhaps .08 is arbitrarily low.

I guess a thread about a drunk driver claiming a life isn't the best place to go on about this, but Solinari's self-righteous faggotry on the first page kind of pissed me off. I don't think many people would have a problem with DWI laws if the BAC recognized as intoxicated was .16 (like it was pretty much nationally before this recent MADD insanity), or if it were only an aggravating factor in the event of an actual at-fault accident (arrests for being more likely to be involved in an accident are sort of like arrests for being black since you're more likely to be involved in a crime, as I alluded to earlier).

[Edited on May 10, 2009 at 1:45 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2009 1:34:15 PM

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"I dont understand how people can sympathize with drunk drivers unless they have been/are one themselves. "

can't you sub out drunk driver for any crime/behavior you don't like? sometimes i feel bad for murderers. i guess i am one myself.

5/10/2009 1:45:59 PM