Thistledown and Trailwood

Tell your friends!

8/24/2008 1:44:19 AM

i told one person

8/24/2008 1:48:00 AM

I'm so glad I drink alone at home.

8/24/2008 1:49:35 AM

that's called alcoholism

8/24/2008 1:51:50 AM

No shit.

8/24/2008 1:59:09 AM

I yelled it from my balcony at Campus Edge.

I doubt it did any good :/

8/24/2008 2:24:01 AM

went through one, good thing i was sober

8/24/2008 2:25:35 AM

HOW ABOUT::
TELL YOUR FRIENDS to not FUCKING DRIVE when they are DRUNK

8/24/2008 2:29:37 AM

you CAN get a dui WITHOUT being DRUNK

8/24/2008 2:34:20 AM

Sometimes you're too drunk to stand so you have to sit down and drive home

8/24/2008 2:35:25 AM

yes you can.... its a bad idea to drive after drinking anyway though.



thats why i walk everywhere.

8/24/2008 2:36:07 AM

well this came up because my underage friend had a few beers when we were out and he drove home and went through the check point. they checked his license and talked to him a bit and let him go on his way

8/24/2008 2:40:41 AM

your friend is lucky b/c he is an idiot

8/24/2008 3:15:00 AM

Hooray for the continuous erosion of the Constitution! It's okay though, I'm sure they'll protect a bunch of people from drivers with failed inspections and unbuckled seatbelts.

8/24/2008 3:17:27 AM

Uh yeah, drunk drivers behind bars is an infrigement on our rights.

8/24/2008 3:18:20 AM

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"I'm so glad I drink alone at home."

i do this too. best method to not get a DUI. and I never drink and drive. when I'm out drinking its normally a cab or a friend is driving, but above all. I PREFER DRINKING @ HOME ALONE. ESPECIALLY IN THE MORNING.

8/24/2008 3:24:43 AM

Amen.

8/24/2008 3:28:57 AM

beer:30

8/24/2008 3:29:29 AM

well, i dont know about you NC folk, but SC has been going through a major DUI blitz the past week and a half.

8/24/2008 3:32:52 AM

you can get a DUI on a scooter, even a motorized beverage cooler...

8/24/2008 3:34:09 AM

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"your friend is lucky b/c he is an idiot"

uh huh, oh righteous one

8/24/2008 3:37:18 AM

^^ I think you can even get one for riding a non-powered bike too.

8/24/2008 4:07:13 AM

I would like to test that out and waste the court's valuable time and money.

8/24/2008 4:14:01 AM

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"you can get a DUI on a scooter"

You sure can. I saw it on Scrubs.

8/24/2008 4:18:34 AM

^^It's been tested before. The only states where you'd tend to be safe from a DUI charge are states like CA that have a seperate statute dealing with intoxication and operation of a bicycle. In states that don't have seperate statutes, the courts tend to go with the reasoning that they extend the same rights and restrictions to people in human powered vehicles as motorized ones; that tends to mean they include DUI laws and stuff like that as covering bikes.

8/24/2008 4:21:10 AM

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"you can get a DUI on a scooter"

8/24/2008 4:30:37 AM

I wonder what's the reasoning behind that? DUI on a human powered device just seems like a bad idea anyhow, but the only one getting hurt is the one whose powering it...

8/24/2008 4:33:18 AM

wow i just went RIGHT through there and there was 2 cop cars on the edge. they didn't stop me or anything thouhg.

8/24/2008 5:32:55 AM

what time did you go through? They usually start the check points right before the bars close up and usually up till 3:30am.

8/24/2008 5:39:24 AM

like 10 minutes before i posed that

8/24/2008 5:58:30 AM

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"I'm so glad I drink alone at home live within walking distance of my favorite bar."

8/24/2008 6:05:37 AM

Anybody driving drunk should be caught IMO, they make life for me and everyone else that much more dangerous.


On that note, I don't believe checkpoints are particularly constitutional and I hate them.


So I am very torn on whether or not I like these threads. On the one hand, they help law abiding citizens like myself avoid dealing with the bullshit. On the other, they help drunken cocksuckers avoid getting caught.

8/24/2008 9:46:29 AM

^ I don't think most drunken cocksuckers check TWW for these threads before driving. I mean when you are in a bar have you ever heard a drunk person call somebody at home and have them check chit-chat before driving away intoxicated?

8/24/2008 10:12:12 AM

^^good thing nobody cares whether you like it or not

8/24/2008 11:24:29 AM

iwonder if you can walk though one

8/24/2008 11:30:13 AM

jaywalking?

8/24/2008 11:39:20 AM

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"I don't think most drunken cocksuckers check TWW for these threads before driving."

Well, the reasoning is that if there was a party and someone was about to leave they could check. Hopefully the person wasn't drunk to begin with, but this would be more reason to not drive yet. If the person was underage it could persuade them to not drive at all, even if they were no where near to being intoxicated. Also, if you know your friends are out and you see this thread, you can call them at the bar and warn them.

8/24/2008 11:43:05 AM

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"good thing nobody cares whether you like it or not"

Kill a biker, go to jail, fuckface.

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"I don't think most drunken cocksuckers check TWW for these threads before driving. I mean when you are in a bar have you ever heard a drunk person call somebody at home and have them check chit-chat before driving away intoxicated?"

Not all drunk people are in bars, in case you haven't noticed. So, yeah I'd be willing to bet that there are a lot of drunk people on TWW, who may be headed out to get something or meet someone and would find out about the checkpoint.

[Edited on August 24, 2008 at 1:40 PM. Reason : ]

8/24/2008 1:37:52 PM

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"but the only one getting hurt is the one whose powering it."

It's not that unusual to punish victimless crimes a bit excessively (before anyone flames me, I'm talking about drunk bicycle riding not driving.) The reasoning behind seperate statutes making it illegal but NOT the same as a DUI is that a drunk bicyclist could cause accidents and be a hazard to people driving on the road. The reasoning behind DUI's for drunk bicycling is most semantics and gaps in the law.

8/25/2008 2:45:05 AM

Maybe if we made a DUI checkpoint thread for every road around campus people would just stop driving drunk.

8/25/2008 2:53:42 AM

DUIs on bicycles are STUPID.

I have pissed off a cop by walking my bicycle home from the bar. All the way. He thought he was gonna be meeting his quota and instead wasted his time.

8/25/2008 3:04:06 AM

HA

that's crazy

a ton of my friends have dui's, and a lot that don't still drive drunk all the time

8/25/2008 3:05:13 AM

Uh oh

We're in trouble

Something's come along and it's burst our bubble.

8/25/2008 3:08:35 AM

yeah yeah

8/25/2008 3:08:51 AM

most of my friends got DUI's underage, although if they were of age, they'd still be legal.

Now, when will the talks of changing it back to 18 will happen?

8/25/2008 3:09:57 AM

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"Hooray for the continuous erosion of the Constitution! It's okay though, I'm sure they'll protect a bunch of people from drivers with failed inspections and unbuckled seatbelts. "

RAWR RAWR BIG BROTHER RAWR RAWR RAWR WHITEY RAWR

8/25/2008 8:27:48 AM

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"Now, when will the talks of changing it back to 18 will happen?"

Huh?


^GO SUCK YOUR BALLS IN THE CORNER SON.

8/25/2008 8:34:11 AM

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"Hooray for the continuous erosion of the Constitution! It's okay though, I'm sure they'll protect a bunch of people from drivers with failed inspections and unbuckled seatbelts."

Tell us more

8/25/2008 8:34:52 AM

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"^GO SUCK YOUR BALLS IN THE CORNER SON."

8/25/2008 8:35:32 AM

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"I'm sure they'll protect a bunch of people from drivers with failed inspection"

after being down in a state with no inspections, im surprised that more people arent killed

i regularly see bald tires to the cord, and total hunks of shit driving down the road

8/25/2008 8:38:49 AM