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fasternyou929
08-05-2010, 04:29 PM
No date on the jalopnik page, so maybe it's old news and has been posted here already. If not, enjoy the stupidity:

http://jalopnik.com/5604559/how-one-good-samaritan-was-arrested-for-driving-drunks-home
Avatard
08-05-2010, 05:26 PM
No good deed goes unpunished.
Captain Morgan
08-05-2010, 05:54 PM
I hope there is more to this story, otherwise, that city is fucking stupid
Cass
08-05-2010, 06:11 PM
Looks like 8/4/10 .. ?

I agree, it's bullshit... he'll have to change his business model, but I still think it can be done in a way to fack over the taxi companies. They're all BS anyway.
Particle Man
08-05-2010, 06:46 PM
Oh freakin' brother..
njchopper87
08-05-2010, 08:16 PM
Amusingly, he was probably hitting a different demographic, cheapskates who don't want to pay for taxis but want to get home so they drink and drive, but that's beside the point.

This is most likely the case.. I understand the legal point, but damn..
fasternyou929
08-05-2010, 09:04 PM
Legal point? You mean when they changed the wording of the law to make his actions illegal?
Homeslice
08-05-2010, 09:09 PM
What a crock
njchopper87
08-05-2010, 11:53 PM
Legal point? You mean when they changed the wording of the law to make his actions illegal?

I guess I meant the business standpoint of the taxi company. I don't pretend to understand the law anymore.
the chi
08-06-2010, 08:20 AM
Depending on the size of the town, I dont see a cab company losing THAT much money off his service. Like one of the comments in the article, most military bases have a program like that, does that mean it would be illegal in their town too? Stupid. MADD and similar programs needs to chime in for this guys defense.
Apoc
08-06-2010, 12:35 PM
Un-fucking-believable!

The guy deserves a medal, not an arrest. What a fucking sad world we live in.
Krabill
08-09-2010, 04:42 PM
I actually have a friend who does this in my old home town. Started the company himself to help out. He does charge a small fee to get your drunk ass home, but it's cheaper than a cab.
Mudpuppy
08-09-2010, 05:14 PM
What a pile of shit.. Another typical example of how our failed system doesn't work..
HokieDNA01
08-09-2010, 05:15 PM
This is rediculous. My college town had a guy do the exact same thing and he was a HUGE success. I used his service many times to get home and just paid with donations. He now has a large fleet and runs it as a company. I believe he charges money now but it is much less then a cab. Plus the cars in his fleet are GREAT

http://www.hooptieride.com/main/about.php

Plus the cars in his fleet are GREAT

http://www.hooptieride.com/main/fleet.php#purple
Mudpuppy
08-09-2010, 05:16 PM
this is the local service here but they charge:

http://www.thedesignate.com/index.htm

but they also get you and your car home..
Papa_Complex
08-10-2010, 01:33 PM
Depending on the size of the town, I dont see a cab company losing THAT much money off his service. Like one of the comments in the article, most military bases have a program like that, does that mean it would be illegal in their town too? Stupid. MADD and similar programs needs to chime in for this guys defense.

MADD likely won't bother to get involved. Their agenda hasn't been against drinking and driving for years, but rather in favour of prohibition.

In Oshawa, just a little east of Toronto, they've been ticketing people for NOT drinking and driving. A few months back police ticketed an elderly couple for public drunkenness while they were waiting for the taxi that they called, rather than driving home in the car they had parked in the bar's lot.
HokieDNA01
08-10-2010, 03:10 PM
In Oshawa, just a little east of Toronto, they've been ticketing people for NOT drinking and driving. A few months back police ticketed an elderly couple for public drunkenness while they were waiting for the taxi that they called, rather than driving home in the car they had parked in the bar's lot.

My sister got arrested a few years ago for walking to here home a few blocks away from the bar drunk. She wasn't stumbling or anything, just out late and had a curious cop ask what she was doing. Had to spend the night in the drunk tank fearing that her future career in teaching was going to be distroyed. If you can't walk to your house they should just bust you the second you walk out of the bar...shit arrest you for ordering a drink in the first place. Fuckers.:td:
derf
08-10-2010, 04:53 PM
My sister got arrested a few years ago for walking to here home a few blocks away from the bar drunk. She wasn't stumbling or anything, just out late and had a curious cop ask what she was doing. Had to spend the night in the drunk tank fearing that her future career in teaching was going to be distroyed. If you can't walk to your house they should just bust you the second you walk out of the bar...shit arrest you for ordering a drink in the first place. Fuckers.:td:

I hade a cop nab me for riding a bike while drunk once. He lectured me for 20 minutes then let me go once he found out I was mil, but he threatened me with a dui and made me walk the bike home after that.

Edit: it was a bicycle not a motorcycle
Smittie61984
08-11-2010, 02:36 AM
If you can't walk to your house they should just bust you the second you walk out of the bar...shit arrest you for ordering a drink in the first place. Fuckers.:td:

I remember a few years ago about a Texas town that was arresting/ticketing people IN the bar for being drunk. Fucking bullshit.

That does make me think of Ron White talking about getting thrown out of a bar in New York and getting arrested for being drunk in public. "Hey now, I was drunk in a bar. They threw me into public. Arrest them".

Depending on the size of the town, I dont see a cab company losing THAT much money off his service
I googled Quincy, IL and my bet is the only thing to do in that town is get drunk.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=quincy+il&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Quincy,+Adams,+Illinois&gl=us&ei=DkRiTJS7JsL-8Aa30fDsCQ&ved=0CB8Q8gEwAA&z=12