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re: Pretty huge drop in youth DUIs in Baton Rouge
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:38 am to Dire Wolf
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:38 am to Dire Wolf
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Seems obvious but for some reason Louisiana fought ride sharing in spots
I posted a few years ago(before Uber and Lyft) how I had an 'a-ha' moment driving down Nicholson one Sunday morning. I looked over at the Tigerland parking lot and there were about 20 cars there.
I initially wondered what the hell was going on at a Tigerland Bar at 8 am on a Sunday then it hit me.
Aha! College Kids don't drink and drive like we use to in the 80s and 90s. Cool
This post was edited on 1/6/20 at 10:39 am
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Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:41 am to mikelbr
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Aha! College Kids don't drink and drive like we use to in the 80s and 90s. Cool
There really wasn't as much of a stigma back then. I'm not proud of it now but it's a damn miracle that I never got a DUI.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:45 am to fallguy_1978
Same, it was almost a weeding out the weaklings thing, can’t believe how stupid we were.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:49 am to fallguy_1978
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There really wasn't as much of a stigma back then. I'm not proud of it now but it's a damn miracle that I never got a DUI.
I did get a DUI when I was 25 (before ride share and not proud of it), but it was because there was no other option. I, like a few others I know, attempted to be responsible and call a cab. 2 hours later at 4 am, still no cab and no other option.
Had BR had some kind of viable option before ride share apps, DUIs would have been down a long time ago.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:52 am to rowbear1922
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I did get a DUI when I was 25 (before ride share and not proud of it), but it was because there was no other option. I, like a few others I know, attempted to be responsible and call a cab. 2 hours later at 4 am, still no cab and no other option.
Had BR had some kind of viable option before ride share apps, DUIs would have been down a long time ago.
We would have used Uber. It just wasn't an option. I was a passenger when my buddy got one leaving the Caterie. I also got pulled over in my hometown pretty sauced once but the cop knew my grandfather and followed me home.
We were idiots.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 10:58 am to fallguy_1978
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We would have used Uber. It just wasn't an option. I was a passenger when my buddy got one leaving the Caterie. I also got pulled over in my hometown pretty sauced once but the cop knew my grandfather and followed me home.
We were idiots
Absolutely. Nowadays, there is never an excuse for anyone to get a DUI. If you can't afford the Uber/Lyft to get home, you should be out anyway.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:09 am to rowbear1922
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bsolutely. Nowadays, there is never an excuse for anyone to get a DUI. If you can't afford the Uber/Lyft to get home, you should be out anyway.
In HS, I was with my girlfriend and a buddy leaving Don Carters after drinking a fifth of gin and taking a rohypnol. The guy who gave it too me told me not to drink alot but I was a 17 yr old IDIOT.
Woke up the next morning with muddy clothes on the floor, a ticket on the fridge and some pissed off parents.
What had happened was:
I got pulled over for running a redlight on Airline. Cop saw I was hammered and told my GF to drive us the hell home immediately.
Then, in the neighborhood I apparently jumped out the car and ran through a ditch to my parents' house.
I don't know how I lived to 21. I sure hope none of my kids are as stupid as I was.
This post was edited on 1/6/20 at 11:11 am
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:39 am to mikelbr
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In HS
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I got pulled over for running a redlight on Airline
The red light had already been invented back then?
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:56 am to rowbear1922
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The red light had already been invented back then?
Watch your pretty mouth, boy!
Posted on 1/6/20 at 11:58 am to burgeman
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I'm so confused, does the ot think people should be able to drive drunk?
I don't drink and drive, but I also have a huge problem with the government making ordinary conduct (good or bad) illegal. That definitely happened, and societal standards of behavior had to catch up to the law.
That's the very definition of oppression.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:00 pm to SlowFlowPro
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government hates the free market solving its alleged problems
especially if those problems are monetary extraction schemes among various levels of government
Uber and Lyft have done more to eliminate drunk driving than any effort by law enforcement. FACT.
Posted on 1/6/20 at 12:56 pm to Aubie Spr96
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Uber and Lyft have done more to eliminate drunk driving than any effort by law enforcement. FACT.
well yeah, law enforcement was never trying to eliminate drunk driving
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