Driving While Stupid
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thewayneFrom the Autopia blog on Wired.com:
While cars are getting smarter, people continue to get reach new heights (depths?) of stupidity. Here are few tidbits about people who should have just taken the bus.
-- In Roxbury, Massachusetts, a 38-year old man achieved the rare driving infraction trifecta. He made an illegal u-turn in front of a cop car while having cocaine and open beer in the car, and oh yes, he was driving with a suspended license.
-- Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch was pulled over for speeding and suspicion of DWI in Arizona (not Florida). Lucky for him the breathalyzer "malfunctioned" (probably while he was signing autographs for the officers), so he avoided a drunk driving charge. Nevertheless, Roush Racing benched Busch for the rest of the NASCAR season.
-- A man suspected of stealing a car from an auto dealership applied for a loan at a check cashing agency (I guess he needed gas money) later that day, but was denied. The next day he came back, and after his loan application was again rejected, he said he had a gun, which wasn't bright considering he had already provided a copy of his driver's license. He came back to the same agency a third time and was caught by police. The car is still missing.
-- A woman in Claremont, California was in an early morning car wreck on the San Bernardino Freeway. She survived the accident, but rather than waiting for her car to be towed to the shoulder, she walked back onto the highway to get something out of her car, but was then killed by a suspected drunk driver.
While cars are getting smarter, people continue to get reach new heights (depths?) of stupidity. Here are few tidbits about people who should have just taken the bus.
-- In Roxbury, Massachusetts, a 38-year old man achieved the rare driving infraction trifecta. He made an illegal u-turn in front of a cop car while having cocaine and open beer in the car, and oh yes, he was driving with a suspended license.
-- Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch was pulled over for speeding and suspicion of DWI in Arizona (not Florida). Lucky for him the breathalyzer "malfunctioned" (probably while he was signing autographs for the officers), so he avoided a drunk driving charge. Nevertheless, Roush Racing benched Busch for the rest of the NASCAR season.
-- A man suspected of stealing a car from an auto dealership applied for a loan at a check cashing agency (I guess he needed gas money) later that day, but was denied. The next day he came back, and after his loan application was again rejected, he said he had a gun, which wasn't bright considering he had already provided a copy of his driver's license. He came back to the same agency a third time and was caught by police. The car is still missing.
-- A woman in Claremont, California was in an early morning car wreck on the San Bernardino Freeway. She survived the accident, but rather than waiting for her car to be towed to the shoulder, she walked back onto the highway to get something out of her car, but was then killed by a suspected drunk driver.
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Date: 2005-11-21 05:07 am (UTC)But then, that was all hearsay so take it for what it's worth.
Zombie Mechanics...& a Car Story, too...-
Date: 2005-11-22 02:16 pm (UTC)I own FUDGE, and was not especially moved by it.
It is an interesting mechanic, and I had something similar to it before reading it, but I'm going for a number-vale similar to T&T's DARO Saving Rolls, except that multiple d6 are used and can generate more than one pair of doubles (not triples, or pentuples, etc.)
Yeah. I've read all the stuff you have for your zombie game that I could find on the web over the year or so since I found you.
I'm not much for 'funny' games.
This one is low-level cinematic,and geared to flow well within the Romero zombie sub-genre.
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Just recently, someone had to use a frozen turkey they had just bought to break the window & free themself from their wrecked car.