The "green" way to get arrested

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/2581.html

[schild]

A pre-2009 Prius can go 100MPH?

[Strazos]

It might take about a mile to get up to that speed, going downhill, but sure, why not? 

[eldaec]

Priuses have a perfectly normal medium sized petrol engine in them - so I should hope so. It's a 1.5l unit, but one designed primarily with the European/Asian market in mind, so it's not as shit as you'd expect. 1.5l is only small for an ordinary C class car when compared to the PoS engines that most US car consumers get fobbed off with.

[Sky]

Maybe if you find a flat and straight section of track to push it with a steam locomotive.

[Signe]

They claim it can do 0 - 60 in under 10 seconds.  Of course, there is the danger that you could fall asleep before it gets there.

[Yoru]

Maybe if you find a flat and straight section of track to push it with a steam locomotive.

But then you only get up to 88.

[Big Gulp]

They claim it can do 0 - 60 in under 10 seconds.

10 seconds?  That's really pushing the envelope isn't it?  Why would you ever need to go that fast?  I can't even imagine the human body holding up under the stresses of such speed.

[Signe]

They claim it can do 0 - 60 in under 10 seconds.

10 seconds?  That's really pushing the envelope isn't it?  Why would you ever need to go that fast?  I can't even imagine the human body holding up under the stresses of such speed.

I'm confused.  You're teasing me, right? 

[Lantyssa]

Yes, he is.  You can re-read it as green if you like.

[HaemishM]

He's just tugging your udders.

[Signe]

Gee, I was sort of hoping people would imagine me more like the pretty well dressed lady.   

[Samwise]

I do!

[Gutboy Barrelhouse]

Also going 100 was this 11 year old, and I thought the legal limit for minors was .00?

ORANGE BEACH, Alabama (AP) -- Police who chased a car for miles along a highway at speeds up to 100 mph said the driver was drunk, hardly a rarity in this resort town. But there was more: When they looked inside the flipped vehicle with guns drawn, they found an 11-year-old girl at the wheel.

"You go up there thinking it's a felon you're dealing with," assistant police Chief Greg Duck said.

The girl, who was slightly injured in the crash, is now charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding, reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident. Duck said she sideswiped another vehicle during the roughly 8-mile chase.

The chase began around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when a patrol officer near the Florida line saw the car speeding west along a beach highway, Duck said. When the officer flicked on his lights, the driver sped up. The girl rolled the car just inside the Gulf Shores city limit.

Duck said the girl, whose name was not released because of her age, told police she was on her way to pick up her sister at a concert.

Investigators found no alcohol in the car but believe the girl drank before getting behind the wheel of the car, which belongs to relatives.

Duck declined to release the girl's blood alcohol level but said a blood test at the hospital showed it was higher than .02, the legal limit for minors.

[Righ]

Also going 100 was this 11 year old, and I thought the legal limit for minors was .00?

A single drink will probably raise most minors' BAC over .02% I would imagine that the test is set that high to allow for non-intoxication under permissible use of alcohol in certain medications.

[Lantyssa]

Gee, I was sort of hoping people would imagine me more like the pretty well dressed lady.   

You're a blonde though.

[Signe]

Gee, I was sort of hoping people would imagine me more like the pretty well dressed lady.   

You're a blonde though.

Yes, but I was just hoping to be IMAGINED that way.  Rather than the cow, you know? 

Thank you, Samwise.  Stay blissful.

[Lantyssa]

There is that.  I think of you as a Scandinavian goddess too pretty to show her face lest all conversation here stops. :-D

[Signe]

There is that.  I think of you as a Scandinavian goddess too pretty to show her face lest all conversation here stops. :-D

Yes, that must be it.  -OR-  I'm a fat old cow that likes having her udders sucked by well dressed pretty ladies just like in my avatar.  Oh well... either one is pretty wrong but, then, my avatar will change soon and everyone will forget what I used to be.

[Miasma]

Is that a real cow in the picture?

[CmdrSlack]

There is that.  I think of you as a Scandinavian goddess too pretty to show her face lest all conversation here stops. :-D

Yes, that must be it.  -OR-  I'm a fat old cow that likes having her udders sucked by well dressed pretty ladies just like in my avatar.  Oh well... either one is pretty wrong but, then, my avatar will change soon and everyone will forget what I used to be.

Or they'll just append it and call you zombie feet udders or something.

[Stephen Zepp]

Gee, I was sort of hoping people would imagine me more like the pretty well dressed lady.   

You sure about that? She is after all the one with her lips wrapped around some other mammal's mammary gland.

[bhodi]

Yes, that must be it.  -OR-  I'm a fat old cow that likes having her udders sucked by well dressed pretty ladies just like in my avatar.  Oh well... either one is pretty wrong but, then, my avatar will change soon and everyone will forget what I used to be.

Whatever, feet.

[WayAbvPar]

Also going 100 was this 11 year old, and I thought the legal limit for minors was .00?

ORANGE BEACH, Alabama (AP) -- Police who chased a car for miles along a highway at speeds up to 100 mph said the driver was drunk, hardly a rarity in this resort town. But there was more: When they looked inside the flipped vehicle with guns drawn, they found an 11-year-old girl at the wheel.

"You go up there thinking it's a felon you're dealing with," assistant police Chief Greg Duck said.

The girl, who was slightly injured in the crash, is now charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, speeding, reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident. Duck said she sideswiped another vehicle during the roughly 8-mile chase.

The chase began around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when a patrol officer near the Florida line saw the car speeding west along a beach highway, Duck said. When the officer flicked on his lights, the driver sped up. The girl rolled the car just inside the Gulf Shores city limit.

Duck said the girl, whose name was not released because of her age, told police she was on her way to pick up her sister at a concert.

Investigators found no alcohol in the car but believe the girl drank before getting behind the wheel of the car, which belongs to relatives.

Duck declined to release the girl's blood alcohol level but said a blood test at the hospital showed it was higher than .02, the legal limit for minors.

Please go find her parents and sterilize them ASAP. Probably good to stop her from breeding as well.

[Signe]

I think she's on her way to becoming a fine brazen hussy!

[qedetc]

all cars are racecars.

[Signe]

all cars are racecars.

Why?

[Furiously]

Also going 100 was this 11 year old, and I thought the legal limit for minors was .00?

I'm sure it's .02 because you naturally produce alcohol. Otherwise everyone under 18 would blow a .01 or so. Eat some yeasty bread, then a ton of sugary berries and some water, guess whats in your belly then.

[Murgos]

I was curious so I looked it up.  33 states allow the possession of alcohol by a minor.  Many of them just require consent of a legal guardian.

I presume that, as a minor, if you are allowed to have alcohol then you fall under the same set of rules on drinking and driving as everyone else unless your state has specific rules otherwise (I am pretty sure Florida has a no drinking and driving at all under 18 law.)

Personally, I consider outlawing underage drinking to be another one of those puritan strictures that only makes the act itself more appealing.

[cmlancas]

I was curious so I looked it up.  33 states allow the possession of alcohol by a minor.  Many of them just require consent of a legal guardian.

I presume that, as a minor, if you are allowed to have alcohol then you fall under the same set of rules on drinking and driving as everyone else unless your state has specific rules otherwise (I am pretty sure Florida has a no drinking and driving at all under 18 law.)

Personally, I consider outlawing underage drinking to be another one of those puritan strictures that only makes the act itself more appealing.

Florida BAL for drivers under 21 is .02. Hence why I never touched a drink while I was driving anywhere sub-21. However, after 21, it is .08. .08 is two beers in a half hour. I know many, many people where this would be too much to drive.

[Sky]

Of course, breath analysis is utter bullshit. So is the sobriety testing police give. I once had a buddy who failed his test, I passed it and was allowed to drive, though we both drank the same amount (he was around 275lbs and I was 175lbs). He was just a shitty drunk and I can handle massive amounts of alcohol (at least, I used to be able to).

That said, drinking and driving is fucking stupid.

[cmlancas]

Of course, breath analysis is utter bullshit. So is the sobriety testing police give. I once had a buddy who failed his test, I passed it and was allowed to drive, though we both drank the same amount (he was around 275lbs and I was 175lbs). He was just a shitty drunk and I can handle massive amounts of alcohol (at least, I used to be able to).

That said, drinking and driving is fucking stupid.

At one of my brother's mandatory fraternity meetings at the University of Florida (A very well-known party school) on drinking and driving, the fraternity advised him to refuse all breathalizer tests and field sobriety tests. He may lose his license for a year, but he gets no mark on his record for a DUI. Apparently, he says it is much, much harder to convict someone of drinking and driving if you don't have any hard evidence other than the officer's remark that the suspect appeared to be drunk.

[Chimpy]

At one of my brother's mandatory fraternity meetings at the University of Florida (A very well-known party school) on drinking and driving, the fraternity advised him to refuse all breathalizer tests and field sobriety tests. He may lose his license for a year, but he gets no mark on his record for a DUI. Apparently, he says it is much, much harder to convict someone of drinking and driving if you don't have any hard evidence other than the officer's remark that the suspect appeared to be drunk.

Dangerous advice to throw around in some states. In Illinois, refusal to take a breathalizer or blood test is considered an admission of guilt, and thus an instant DUI.

At least it was when I was in college, it may be different now. They did not have field breathlizers back then though.

[Samwise]

I've always been told that it's best to refuse the breathalyzer and insist on a blood test.  They can't convict you of anything for that, at least in CA.

[Paelos]

I've always been told that it's best to refuse the breathalyzer and insist on a blood test.  They can't convict you of anything for that, at least in CA.

In Georgia, you have the right to request an independant blood/urine test at your expense. Check with your lawyers, state by state. Officers will lie their ass off and tell you that you have to do what they say, and if you don't comply you will be arrested. While they will take you into custody, a prosecutor can't make a case against you unless your tests that you complied with establish your guilt. Under no circumstances ever believe one word that comes out of an officer's mouth if you are pulled over for DUI.

Then again, the better bet is to take a cab like a normal person. I was Risk Manager/VP of my fraternity and had to give this advice to the new kids over and over. It still didn't take on a few of them.