Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Traffic School, revisited

Here's another story from traffic school:
We're talking about drunk driving, and this one lady (not the same lady from yesterday) says, "I think police officers should stand outside the bars and give people breathalyzers (spelling?) so they don't drive drunk."
The instructor said, "Some people would say that's entrapment, though, if cops were waiting outside bars."
The lady responded, "Well, it IS entrapment."
So, she doesn't want to accept responsibility for driving drunk, and wants the police to spend their time and resources waiting for her outside a bar so they can stop her from driving drunk. But she also does not want police to wait for her outside a bar, because that's entrapment. So basically she doesn't want to accept responsibility for drinking too much and then driving -- she wants the police to accept responsibility for that. And she doesn't want the police to accept responsibility for her drinking and driving.
So she wants to drive drunk, I guess, but not get in trouble for it because it's not her fault and it's not her responsibility NOT to drive drunk.
Also, she said that the photo radar vans that photograph people speeding are unfair because they are distracting to drivers because they make drivers look at their speedometers. So she doesn't want to accept responsibility for speeding because it's not her fault because it's so distracting to have to look at her speedometer.
Are you kidding me?
Even if her car doesn't have cruise control, it's not that hard to maintain a constant speed, especially on a road where the speed limit doesn't change. If you're paying attention to driving, then you should be able to travel at the speed limit. When you are driving, you have only a few things you have to do: watch traffic, travel at the speed limit, follow traffic signals and watch out for dogs, cats, people, bicycles and the occasional skunk.
And THEN, she said EVERYTHING was a distraction, from the yellow recommendation signs to the other drivers on the road. Come on!
I'm sure it wasn't her fault that she got a seatbelt violation ticket while speeding, drunk, in a car that had no headlights and three flat tires -- all after getting into a fistfight with a police officer who entrapped her with a breathalyzer outside the bar where the bartender forced her to drink seven shots of tequila before her friends forced her to drive them home and wouldn't let her put on her seatbelt.
Seriously!

1 comment:

  1. Man, if looking at your speedometer is a distraction, she should NEVER drive with children in the car!

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