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Creche
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.08.22 14:40:00 -
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NANCY, France (AFP) - A blind journalist was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (750 dollars) by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license.
The owner of the car, who was also drunk as he sat next to the blind man when he drove the vehicle, was given the same sentence and had his license suspended for five months by the court in the northeastern town of Nancy.
The pair were arrested on a country road in the early hours of July 25 by police who spotted their car zig-zagging suspiciously and moving at a very low speed.
The police were astounded when the 29-year-old driver informed them that he was blind, and when they breathalysed him and his passenger, a 52-year-old photographer, they found they had drunk twice the permitted level of alcohol.
"I really wanted to do it (drive the car)," the blind man told the court. "I expressed this wish. He (the owner of the car) agreed."
The owner said he saw "a lot of happiness emanating from him" as he drove, adding that he had "one hand on the handbrake and one hand on the steering wheel" as the blind journalist drove.
"I was very concentrated on the road," he said.
The judge retorted that, as he was well over the legal alcohol limit, "that didn't make you a vey reliable monitor."
The blind journalist had previously driven on a closed circuit, an experience which he had recounted in a regional newspaper in an article which was accompanied by his photographer friend who was in court with him Friday.
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Shadowsword
COLSUP Tau Ceti Federation
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Posted - 2008.08.22 15:30:00 -
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What a pair of irresponsible morons... ------------------------------------------
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Micheal Dietrich
Caldari Terradyne Networks
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Posted - 2008.08.22 15:37:00 -
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That sounds like a really bad joke.
A blind man and a photographer leave a bar.....
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EnslaverOfMinmatar
Yarsk Hunters DeaDSpace Coalition
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Posted - 2008.08.23 02:36:00 -
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it's almost the same as a blind man hunting
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JAQUE ALERA
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Posted - 2008.08.23 03:13:00 -
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Come on! We have all done some stupid stuff when we're drunk. "Moving slow and zig zagging" doesn't represent mortal danger to anyone.
For those planning on saying; "I've never done something that stupid drunk." One day...you will.
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Manu Hermanus
IDLE GUNS IDLE EMPIRE
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Posted - 2008.08.23 06:13:00 -
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******* cops
if it was in the middle of a city well then **** them, but out on a country road, **** the police!
and they should have to prove that at 2x the legal limit the photographer was an unreliable monitor
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Creche
Gallente
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Posted - 2008.08.23 10:52:00 -
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I just kept laughing at this bit- The owner said he saw "a lot of happiness emanating from him"
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Lord Zoran
House of Tempers
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Posted - 2008.08.23 11:03:00 -
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Originally by: JAQUE ALERA
For those planning on saying; "I've never done something that stupid drunk." One day...you will.
that for sure hehe
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Unity Love
Caldari Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2008.08.23 12:31:00 -
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Originally by: Shadowsword What a pair of irresponsible morons...
Lighten up.
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Kazuma Saruwatari
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.08.23 16:26:00 -
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drunk driving has killed people, people like my good buddy before his 18th birthday.
Whilst I still have my hate towards such irresposible behavior, I lol'ed at the fact that both idiots were shitfaced to the point they let the BLIND one drive -
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Dantes Revenge
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.08.23 20:03:00 -
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So much fuss over nothing. The cop obviously didn't let the guy finish his sentence. He was trying to say he was blind drunk.
If you've ever driven on the roads here, you'd soon realise that most of the drivers are blind.
-- There's a simple difference between kinky and perverted. Kinky is using a feather to get her in the mood. Perverted is using the whole chicken. |
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