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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on September 10, 2012, 09:48:58 AM
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This one will win you some free Coopers. ;D
September 10, 1897
A 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pled guilty and was fined 25 shillings.
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Pity the horse.
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beer did someone say beer
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beer did someone say beer
Hardly. They said "Fosters". ;D
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Pity the horse.
Bill, it had to be an automobile . they could not have charged him if the horse was sober. ;D
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Hardly. They said "Fosters". ;D
ahh fair enough I miss read it.
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I edited it for clarity. ;D
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Bill, it had to be an automobile . they could not have charged him if the horse was sober. ;D
Didn't know there were automobiles in 1897 but then I guess you're old enough to remember. ;D ;D
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Cugnot had a steam-powered carriage in the late 1700's........ gave 'em a lot of time to perfect both the auto and drunk driving. ;D
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Didn't know there were automobiles in 1897 but then I guess you're old enough to remember. ;D ;D
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No respect for your elders >:( ;D
Cognot 1770
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarssteama.htm
Oliver Evens 1779
http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/oliver_evans.htm
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September 10, 1897
A 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pled guilty and was fined 25 shillings.
The question being if there were no crash would he have still been charged? Some sources say there were no DUI laws at the time, so he wouldn't have been arrested just for drunk driving, but for the crash itself, or maybe for endangerment.
Or it could all be an urban legend repeated by the myriad of DUI lawyer web sites.
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No respect for your elders >:( ;D
Not all my elders just some of them.
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If a steam powered cab crashes into a tree in the forest, and no one hears it, did it actually happen?
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If a steam powered cab crashes into a tree a tree hugger in the forest, and no one hears it cares, did it actually happen?
FIFY ;D
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