Today in history

[alfsauve]

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.

[Pecos Bill]

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No respect for your elders            

Not all my elders just some of them.

[jaybet]

If a steam powered cab crashes into a tree in the forest, and no one hears it, did it actually happen?

[Magoo541]

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 

[tombogan03884]

On Oct 24 1980, the city of Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a key to the city.

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