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From: keaton@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Six Pack as unit of measure
Message-ID: <357@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 21:25:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 21:25:38 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Mar-85 19:44:39 EST
References: <85@pbear.UUCP>, <529@ahutb.UUCP>
Reply-To: keaton@nmtvax.UUCP (David M. Keaton)
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Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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Keywords: DWI, Drinking, Driving


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> From peterb@pbear.UUCP in <85@pbear.UUCP>:
>	I plead the fifth amendment over the origin of this survey.
>
>	This was not meant to be serious, (don't construe that it was meant
> to be humerous).

If you have to plead the fifth amendment, it was serious.

> The real problem of drinking and driving is that people don't think
> about it until its too late . . . .

Kind of like posting an article, only worse.

> . . . so my silly survey was
> aimed to make people think unconsiously of the times that they have drunk
> WHILE driving, and this would (hopefully) make people more aware of THEIR OWN
> habits.

Right.  Next you'll be telling us you're the Easter Bunny.

>	I am sorry if I have offended you (Laura), but what is said is said
> and nothing can change it.

Who's talking about being offended?  We're talking about being killed.
We *can* do something about that, since we're still alive.

>	Driving doesn't kill people.
>	Drinking doesn't kill people.
>	The two in reverse to excess sure as hell does!
>			   ^^^^^^^^^
>						Peter Barada
>						ima!pbear!peterb

Well, that's not quite right.  People do kill other people by
driving; it's just that society has determined that that's
an acceptable risk.  The unacceptable part is that drinking doubles
your probability of killing someone.

> From seb@ahutb.UUCP (s.badian) in <529@ahutb.UUCP>:
>	I seemed to have missed something here. You don't have
> to be driving to answer this survey.
> . . .
> Why do you think I take the bus to Vermont to go skiing? You can't
> party and drive at the same time.
> . . .
> Sharon Badian

Sharon, you're right.  But it's clear from the original article
that the east-west length of Pennsylvania, where the driver had
better not measure, was viewed as an exception.
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                                   David Keaton
                                   New Mexico Tech
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