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RE: Distracted Driving Penalties
November 13, 2020 at 10:52 pm
(November 13, 2020 at 10:29 pm)Rank Stranger Wrote: (November 13, 2020 at 9:42 pm)Sal Wrote: Not cool, dude. All that "snitches get stitches" jazz is such bullshit.
Is it?
If I follow a drunk slowly until he gets off the highway so that nobody will run into him- then wish him the best and carry on with my merry way- he and his family are better off for it.
Law enforcement in the U.S. is like a box jellyfish. It's a damn shitty thing to provoke contact for somebody unless there's an immediate reason to do so. Most drunks are no worse than the phone-addled. You're putting a man's job, health, and finances at risk by snitching on him.
Do that if you want- I'm told that it's a free country. But I won't do it unless somebody's life is truly and immediately at risk. Vast majority of the time that's not the case.
Seriously? The guy is swerving all over the road, and
fortunately, nobody got hurt. He deserves what he night have gotten. Nobody got hurt, in this instance. What about next time? What if the driver of the truck was a diabetic, and approaching diabetic shock? Police response would be appropriate to determine the reality. If the guys was actually diabetic, how is his family served by him killing someone when he's impaired thus?
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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RE: Distracted Driving Penalties
November 14, 2020 at 1:54 am
(November 13, 2020 at 10:29 pm)Rank Stranger Wrote: (November 13, 2020 at 9:42 pm)Sal Wrote: Not cool, dude. All that "snitches get stitches" jazz is such bullshit.
Is it?
If I follow a drunk slowly until he gets off the highway so that nobody will run into him- then wish him the best and carry on with my merry way- he and his family are better off for it.
Law enforcement in the U.S. is like a box jellyfish. It's a damn shitty thing to provoke contact for somebody unless there's an immediate reason to do so. Most drunks are no worse than the phone-addled. You're putting a man's job, health, and finances at risk by snitching on him.
Do that if you want- I'm told that it's a free country. But I won't do it unless somebody's life is truly and immediately at risk. Vast majority of the time that's not the case.
My dude, I can easily concoct another hypothetical where you allow some wasted asshole to plow through a crowd, because you didn't inform the local cop on guard duty down the street corner that an acquaintance of yours went inside a car and just drove off with his car ... and into a crowd of people a couple of streets down, after flooring the accelerator. Think these things though. Me, personally, I'd wrestle the car keys from the acquaintance if it came to it, if I failed in convincing him to take a motherfucking cab or just walking home, but that's just me ... and this is an actual IRL situation I've come across more than once of convincing wasted people in bars to not get into their cars, OK?
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
