At about 7.00 this evening my two children and I were waiting in a take away in Callington, Cornwall for our meal when we heard a screech of wheels spinning and then a THUMP!
The take away, busy on a Saturday evening emptied and we were all treated to the scene of a fiesta impaled onto a post just in front of the church. The driver staggered (and I mean staggered) out of the car. He was very incapable of driving, let alone seeing if his passenger was OK. Another lad helped him out of the car and the passenger was also drunk.
some 15 minuites later the police turned up when the passenger and his helper decided to leave the scene too. Fortunately, one officer was pointed in the right direction and went running to grab both relevent collars. He duly brought them back to start establishing who was driving at the time of the accident. It is then you realise how a professional PC gets answeres!
Callington is a small community and a number of traders and residents have long complained about the growing yob culture in the town centre. The ironic thing was that it seemed to be one of their own that was hurt and about 10 lads all crowded round to see the results of a peer's antics.
Will it make the blindest bit of difference? I think not! Though there is now a hunt to establish the identity (shouldn't be too difficult since a load of locals saw him), and the whereabouts of the driver.
I'm just glad no one else was hurt.
Hugo
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In my experience younger drivers are far less likely to drink and drive than those in their 40's and 50's who were around when it was it still considered acceptable.
I don't know anyone under 25 who routinely drinks more than one or two drinks and drives, but I could give you a list as long as my arm of older drivers who regularly have a good few drinks and drive home.
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Completely agree Quinny. Not that I want to sound self-righteous but if I know I'm going to be driving (i.e. - at Uni)I won't drink. You'd think this would be difficult surrounded by young people but they all make the same rule and it's only occasional that someone will drink. Even then it's only 1.
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"Ah...beer - my only weakness - my achilles heel if you will"
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Probably due to the fact us olds think we know better. Mostly we dont.
Have to say tho that most of my age group 40-50 that I mix with dont D&D either. We mostly need to be mobile for work. No mobility, no job, problem with big mortgage.
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Big problem with young drivers is not drink, but drugs. When I was instructing I only ever had to refuse a lesson on two occasions when the pupil came out smelling of drink. I once turned down a client who was reeking of marijuana, but other drugs are not so easily detectable.
My suspicions were often aroused about certain people, big mood swings depending on what time of the week they had their lesson and gossip from their mates about what they got up to when out clubbing. No way of being certain and no blame on me if they were caught so I just remembered where the dual controls were and got on with it, but I think it's a far bigger problem than most people realise.
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People came out for a driving lesson drugged up?!?
I'm actually finding it hard to clealy put how aghast I am at that combination of idiocy and complete lack of survival instinct. Do you think some subconscious thought is telling them they shouldn't be part of the gene pool?
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People came out for a driving lesson drugged up?!?
My gf is a teacher at an Essex school. You would be surprised at the number of kids that turn up for school under the influence of drugs these days and in this caring sharing PC society of ours how little they can do about it.
When she is on the violent end of a mood swing, the only way to resolve the problem is to threaten the parents with police involvement. Unfortunately many of the kids who are using drugs don't seem to have parents that are that bothered about the actions of their offspring.
Extremely frustrating, bring back six of the best!
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