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 14/06/2008, 20:05
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wiskersnatch
Joined on 13/06/2008
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We have several friends here, French and British and most of them seem to think drinking and driving is OK. Back in the Uk the way they really beat it (I know there are some who still do it) was not to make laws or to 'bag' people, it was to make it socially unacceptable.
I fear that here it is still seen as an OK thing to do. It is up to all of us to tell our friends who drink and drive that is is simply not acceptable.
Drink drivers KILL PEOPLE! Losing a child is just something no one should ever have to endure. To lose a child because someone wants to drink and drive is beyond evil. If you find it embarrasing to tell your friends off picture a child mangled in a car's wheels and try again!
When one man suffers delusion it is called insanity,
when a group of men suffer delusion it is called religeon.
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14/06/2008, 20:07
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woolybanana'sbrother
Joined on 18/01/2008
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You are wrong.
DRUGS KILL PEOPLE and ALCOHOL IS A DRUG.
Particularly children are victims. I speak from experience.
Do not try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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14/06/2008, 21:34
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JMB
Joined on 22/03/2008
Somewhere south of Dover
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Guns never kill people. People kill people with guns.
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14/06/2008, 21:59
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wiskersnatch
Joined on 13/06/2008
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 Cathy wrote: | | wiskersnatch wrote: | |
Drink drivers KILL PEOPLE! Losing a child is just something no one should ever have to endure. To lose a child because someone wants to drink and drive is beyond evil. If you find it embarrasing to tell your friends off picture a child mangled in a car's wheels and try again! |
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You speak a lot of sense, Wiskers. My best friend, aged 15, died because of a drunk driver. 35 years on and I'm still angry.
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Don't blame you Cathy. Take that anger and next time you see a mate getting into a car drunk tell them straight you will phone the police. I have done this and actually got a thrashing for it but we MUST all do this.
When one man suffers delusion it is called insanity,
when a group of men suffer delusion it is called religeon.
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15/06/2008, 6:59
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Tony F Dordogne
 
Joined on 10/04/2005
Small village in the Dordogne, near St Cyprien
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I'm usually the 'designated driver' when J & I go out socially or for lunch/dinner because I really don't care for alcohol any more because of my medical things, police service and after the accident here two years ago where 4 people, including two 10 years old girls were killed when the driver was over the dd limit (I had to identify the bodies at the scene) it sort of put me off for good.
And if we're out in a 4 some, I always drive. Fizzy drinks don't do anything for me so I get through inordinate amounts of water, which is fine cos I have to because of my health thing anyway.
For me, it's comon sense. Get caught, loose your licence ON THE SPOT, three months without a d/licence and being wholly unable to drive, have to jump through all sorts of hoops to get it back and it's not assured that you will and then there's the Tribunal.
No brainer really - but then quite often, the drink drivers are no brainers as well I suppose!!!
Tony F
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