I hate Drunk Punks!

[turbo36]

There are more opportunities for death and destruction than we could record and write on this webpage... denoting a few doesn't change anything..

If my wife swerved to miss something in the road and opted to hit something in the median or swale, then I would ahve to assume she chose the lesser of the 2 dangers.. which is what i would choose. IE.. If I immediatly say a semi barreling down my lane and impact was iminent, and my only out was to the right swale, where a power pole happened to be.. you got it.. I'd be aiming to shear off a power pole.. 2 choices.. neither of them good.. oone worse than the other.. I'd probably make the same choice if it was a soft human being that jumped out in the road as well.. me strapped into my truck will have a better chance of living , hitting a power pole, than a soft pinky hitting the front of my truck going 55mph.

Lifes all about choices... you try to make the best ones you can. there is no guarantee that you will always have a 'good' choice as an option.. IE.. there isn't always an 'out' Sometimes you have a frying pan / fire situation.. you pays your money and you takes yer chances.. try to make the best choice.. then deal with the consequences.

next comes the issue of driver error, or mechanical failure.

If my wife just plain flubs up and spins out of control and shoots of fthe road and crashes into a house.. it will be a sad day... but I'm not going to sue the people that live on that street because their house was in the way ( borrowed that analogy from another poster ) lets face it.. it was an error .. it may or may not have been preventable under the circumstances.. however.. there is no re-wind button.. it happened.. got to deal with the consequences. Similar with mechanical failure.. except there may be some liability on the part of the manufacturer, IF that were the case.. " IF".

Callous? Naa.. I enjoy life.. I just don't stick my head in the sand to avoid seeing and realizing all the hardships and issues the world has.

Rarely has candy-coating the truth ever helped much. You can either choose to deal with life as it unfolds, or burry your head in the sand and then call everyone else callous... ( lots of other choices between those two I'm sure... ) I'm simply not afraid to call it as i see it. A person who does something irresponsible and then expires.. well.. it may be sad.. but who is really to blame.. The guy inthe dump truck stopped at the stop light.. or the person looking in their back seat that plowed into the back of the dump truck because they were not paying attention? Sad .. maybee.. but I don't see anything other than clear careless driving.. and lack of responsibility at work there... past that.. it's all physics and luck. We all know what high speed things do when they hit large mostly non moving things. Throw a little random vector in there, and you can have anything from scratches and bruises, traffic tickets and a tow truck.. to a herse... sorry you don't like that.. it's just the way this world happens to work. ( Maybee if you were in charge.. it would be all different?? let me know how that works out if it ever happens )

soundguy

Isn't the argusment about "life choices and dangers" a little stale by now? Are you so naive to think I don't know about life just because I still have empathy for my fellow man? Some day I have to stand before my maker and explain the things I did in life, I don't want to explain how i killed a mother and child because I was too lazy to replace a mailbox every now and then. How about you are you prepared for that????

I'm a little tougher then you think, I just choose to look at the bright side of things. You an the other hand want to see all the bad in a person and execute them for a minor infraction. You seem to think I don't see the real world but how about you? Most of your posts are about how tough you are and all your guns , you even talk about your intruder plans and the training that you and your wife go through. Either the neighbor hood you live in is a war zone or you have a warped view of the world and go to bed scared at night.

 

[Podunkadunk]

Most of your posts are about how tough you are and all your guns , you even talk about your intruder plans and the training that you and your wife go through. Either the neighbor hood you live in is a war zone or you have a warped view of the world and go to bed scared at night.

What the heck is all this? What do guns have to do with this post, much less you dragging your 2nd Amendment right into this thread? While you may/may not choose to exercise your right, a lot of members on this forum do. Are we all "warped"? I guess the founding fathers were all "warped" too. That's a pity, I think they had a great plan for a great nation

I've never read a post where Soundguy is self-described as "tough" in the literal sense you are referring to!

As for intruder plans, there's nothing wrong with running a drill like you would for a fire or other emergency. Planning for that sort of thing isn't for everyone, much less the liberal, but it doesn't make one "warped"...just prepared. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone when mr. burglar/rapist/serial-killer/crackhead kicks your door in at o'dark-thirty Nobody wants a fire or home invasion, but IF it happens, preparation is the key. Nobody wants a war either, especially the soldier/sailor/airman/marine/coastie, but they train for it every day. It doesn't make them "warped".

I'm sure Soundguy (like me) goes to bed every night scared...scared for the knucklehead who tries to violate us or our families.

I hope you have a blessed day.

Podunk

 

[Wayne County Hose]

Quote: everybody in reference to everybody else.

I don't think anybody here is going to change anybody elses mind. This coming from, of all people, me.

 

[YanmarFever]

Re: I Drunk Punks!

This discussion is the same old argument. FACTS - VS - FEELINGS

Facts are what made this country great (reality).

Feelings are what has brought this country to its present state (sad).

I also dont think its wise to attack someone's clean law abiding lifestyle.
After all this is still the USA.

Men think with their brains
Women think with their hearts

I will stick with brains any day. they will keep you alive every time.


The root of the problem is that our laws need to be inforced.
The drunk punks should be jailed, and the parents should pay for their damage, then take it out on their .........

A liberal is really a conservative thats has'nt been mugged yet !

 

[hazmat]

This thread has long since served it's purpose (to let JohnBud vent about his busted mailbox.) I'm closing it now before it escalates any further.