the guy makes 140k per episode 13 shows per season you do the math. get a grip i work as EMT how many people do we allow
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heavyflowe — 16 years ago(July 26, 2009 10:20 PM)
up yours, you whiny douche. "i'm a emt,..blah blah blah death is bad" i'm sick and tired of all this nazis against drunk driving rhetoric. get the real numbers. drunk driving doesn't account for anymore deaths than, say, hatchets do. it's all bs marketing. they've just said that driving and talking on the celly telly is like having a .08 bac, yet no one is out there villifying the ol' flip fone
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Earl_Grey_Hot — 16 years ago(August 01, 2009 07:50 AM)
Just because something else is just as bad or worse, doesn't make it right for some rich spoiled beep to go around driving drunk. "bs marketing" doesn't cause people to needlessly die from drunk drivers, drunk a$$hole drivers do.
The fact is that going out on the roads is the most dangerous thing that people do every day. Its not the deaths per year (about 15,000) you should worry about, its the fact that you'll be alive for decades, and that you go out on the roads almost every day. So the chances of you being among those dead from drunk driving in any given year, increases every year you live. Especially if you drive late at night or early in the morning.
About one third of all Americans will be involved in an alcohol related crash at some point in their life. Maybe if it happens to you, you'll get lucky maybe you'll just be gravely injured instead of killed. Then you won't show up in the "real numbers".
Not that any of this matters to someone who is so stupid they will call an EMT a "whiny douche" b/c he spoke out about a spoiled, rich, and now criminal actor. -
mojorecords — 15 years ago(December 20, 2010 01:10 AM)
Drunk driving is one of those "Minority Report" type of crimes, where a person hasn't actually done anything wrong yet but is charged with something anyway. Operating a vehicle with alcohol in your body doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to cause an accident. In fact, I see perfectly sober people every day operating vehicles in manners which should never be legally allowed on public roads. I know with probable certainty that I could probably operate a vehicle more safely while over the legal limit than some of the sober people I share the road with. The fact of the matter is that ALCOHOL, just like speeding, doesn't cause accidents the driver losing control of their vehicle causes accidents. When a driver attempts to exceed their driving ability, whether they're impaired by something or not, then they will lose control of their vehicle. So I personally don't think that being drunk while behind the wheel should be a crime.
The sad part is that drunk driving laws are constantly abused. For instance, if you leave the bar and sit in your car to sober up, and a cop finds you, he can usually charge you with drinking and driving. Some states require the key to be in the ignition, but if it's a cold winter night, you're probably going to want to stay warm. Some states don't even care whether they're in the ignition or not; if you have possession of your own keys, and you are inside of your own car, then you are considered to be "operating" a motor vehicle.
The point is that drunk people have gotten DUIs for trying to NOT drive drunk. Is that right? If you say yes, then you should realize that this simply encourages drunk driving. After all, why is a drunk person going to sit outside of a bar like a sitting duck waiting to sober up when they might be able to make it home safely and avoid a DUI?
Everyone's got their own opinions on this, and DUIs have been so thoroughly demonized in the media that most people automatically jump on the DUI bandwagon, but the truth is that despite these laws, and probably in some cases BECAUSE of them, a LOT of people drive home drunk all the time. They certainly hasn't eliminated drunk driving.
If you're worried about dying in a car accident, you should probably avoid riding in cars. Car accidents kill something like 1 in 800 people every year. Distractions and driver fatigue both contribute to more accidents than drunk driving, with distractions causing an estimated 25-50% of ALL accidents. That is why I pay great attention to what other people are doing on the road, and often find myself avoiding them. -
cuteyoshipup — 16 years ago(August 01, 2009 11:34 PM)
Wow I can't believe you just trivialized drunk driving. I'm sure you would feel the same if a drunk driver killed someone you care about.
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MartinP666 — 13 years ago(May 11, 2012 12:22 AM)
Of course they won't be over it. But how do you know the accident wouldn't have happened with a sober driver as well?
Maybe it was clear-cut in that specific case, but most of the time it isn't. People just like to blame alcohol. Even the person responsible for the accident usually prefers to blame alcohol. It is just so much easier to blame a thing than a living person. -
anny385385 — 12 years ago(July 12, 2013 01:55 PM)
Because she was crossing the street the right way and the drunk driver went through the light and killed her. A driver that wasn't drunk would have stopped at the light not gone through the light.
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theboxingcannabyte — 11 years ago(April 10, 2014 07:50 PM)
That's BS, plenty of people have been killed by sober people going through lights without paying attention. As the poster said, more people die from distraction while driving than they do from intoxication.
And no, I'm not justiifying drunk driving, neither was the other poster. He was stating some verifiable facts about certain hypocrisies within our society. Hypocrisies that people are more than happy to buy based on emotional knee-jerk reactions. Just like say, the Drug War. Unlike the Drug War, however, there is justification for keeping drunk drivers off of the road, it's just we go about it quite imperfectly and actually can create laws that encourage drunk driving in our zealousness.
This is historical fact, and it's repeated itself throughout history again and again because people can't/won't/don't learn, it'238s not fair, it's not always their fault, and we (mostly) do the best we can with what information we have. Willfully ignorant people and those ruled by their emotions the majority of the time are the problem. -
ami_nayaki — 16 years ago(August 01, 2009 04:04 PM)
Everyone makes stupid choices sometimes, if not this particular one. I agree that it's stupid and wrong, a drunk driver took my best friend three years ago (we were 15) but it's no reason to insinuate that he should loose his career- he doesn't drive for a living.
AND since the incident, i've noticed he's hardly driving on the show. -
shadow_7815 — 16 years ago(August 02, 2009 02:16 PM)
Wow!Really are we having this conversation right now! For god sake he is in the wrong! No one and I mean no one should drive drunk. I really respect Jeffery Donovan I think he is a kick as actor and producer! I aspire to be like him. But I think he made a poor decision and will def think twice about next time. (I hope!) But to say he isn't in the wrong is Fuc*ing ridiculous. If I can call a cab so can he. Thats all I am saying.
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