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mambo7891 — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:25:51 +0000

funner than pleather said:
A year so or ago, I spent a few months living in Nicaragua. There were no paved roads, there were no seatbelts in any of the cars, and the locals drove like coked-out maniacs with a death wish. Our nicaraguan homie, Luis drove us all around, and that sh!t was sketch. His beat up Landcruiser had no seatbelts. One time, of many,we were driving, no, barrelling down the pan american highway and our rear tire blew up, sending us careening across the freeway towards on coming traffic, which in our case was a big rig going about 80 mph. Luckily, and obviously, we swerved off of the road just in time to avoid being leveled. Kind of funny, we were listening to PUTS on my ipod.

Wow that was long winded, I guess I am really stoned. Dont text, drink, and/or drive, and go travel to the 3rd world, it is an adventure.

THAT is some story man! but u lived and your better for it hell of a story. touch wood, ive never been in anything too bad, closest i got was driving a van, had a front right tyre blowout and it pulled me towards the crash barrier doing 70, luckily i was paying attention, managed to get onto hard shoulder doing no harm.

peace

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funner than pleather — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:45:32 +0000

Hahahaha, that video is pretty intense. I think that by showing that video ad to young students (even if it is a bit sensationalist) is more effective than here in the states. We have a relatively new law here in California that says you cant text and drive, it is a slap on the wrist. What are the fines in Britain? I dont text and drive, but everyone here does it it seems. It seems like it is always girls too. I was at a stop light sitting next to this 20-something chick, and she was texting. We were going straight, and the light to turn left turns green, but ours stays red. Out of the corner of her eye, or something, she must have seen that green light, because she slammed on the gas, and rear-ended the next two cars ahead of her.

A year so or ago, I spent a few months living in Nicaragua. There were no paved roads, there were no seatbelts in any of the cars, and the locals drove like coked-out maniacs with a death wish. Our nicaraguan homie, Luis drove us all around, and that sh!t was sketch. His beat up Landcruiser had no seatbelts. One time, of many,we were driving, no, barrelling down the pan american highway and our rear tire blew up, sending us careening across the freeway towards on coming traffic, which in our case was a big rig going about 80 mph. Luckily, and obviously, we swerved off of the road just in time to avoid being leveled. Kind of funny, we were listening to PUTS on my ipod.

Wow that was long winded, I guess I am really stoned. Dont text, drink, and/or drive, and go travel to the 3rd world, it is an adventure.

mambo7891 on "Skateboarding..."

mambo7891 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:34:28 +0000

SactownConnection said: I didn't really know what thread to throw this in (it's not really important enough for it's own thread), so I'm throwing it here, since this is technically about "vehicles".

A co-worker sent me that graphic "Texting While Driving" 4-minute commerical they released in the UK (Careful, this sh*t is rough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E). Has anyone else seen this? Hella graphic for a regular commercial. Good deterrent, I guess. Any thoughts on this?

Filmed jus up the road from me, roads always having accidents from boy racers anyways so seems like a good place to film.

Pretty grim video, if she had been in a better car than a crappy KA maybe her mates wud be alive, i hate those little tin can cars, theyre dangerous. Shouldnt be allowed on road.

Ive text and driven, ive also phoned and driven, and 2bh, i cant see the problem with using ur phone and to make a call and driving, u talk to passengers. ive seen worse driving from people taking their kids to school and the kids are playing up.

peace

EarthTraveler on "Skateboarding..."

EarthTraveler — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:45:01 +0000

A mate of mine, just bought his first car.
So we went to the KFC, more to drive than for the food, listening to music the way over there, cool relaxin'
On the way home he did like 120-125 miles per hour/200 km per hour on the highway, I thought he was going to get us killed.

SactownConnection on "Skateboarding..."

SactownConnection — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:40:01 +0000

trenchmc said: Don't really think someone needs to text something like "haha" so badly that they need to risk their life. Where does this need come from? I have a hard enough time listening to loud ass music and driving...

yeah, i'm the first to admit I was a dum*ss that time I did that... it was before all the studies and laws and sh*t, but I coulda tried some common sense.

sometimes when I'm pumping some loud, hard sh*t, it actually works up my adrenaline, and my senses all get heightened, and I'm actually this primal, über-aware machine... like I'm one with the car or something. I've done my best driving like that. not a speed freak or anything, just very careful.

trenchmc on "Skateboarding..."

trenchmc — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:27:50 +0000

Don't really think someone needs to text something like "haha" so badly that they need to risk their life. Where does this need come from? I have a hard enough time listening to loud ass music and driving...

SactownConnection on "Skateboarding..."

SactownConnection — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:34:38 +0000

yeah, i tried once too, but all I had to send was "haha, really?" so I did alright, but it was raining hard as f*** and I was actually scared to look away from the road, so that was pretty much my only time.

I've got my ipod/radio set-up in my car working well enough that I never have to look down or fumble with the stereo when I drive. Thank you, Playlist function!

Xellerated on "Skateboarding..."

Xellerated — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:52:13 +0000

SactownConnection said: I didn't really know what thread to throw this in (it's not really important enough for it's own thread), so I'm throwing it here, since this is technically about "vehicles".

A co-worker sent me that graphic "Texting While Driving" 4-minute commerical they released in the UK (Careful, this sh*t is rough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E). Has anyone else seen this? Hella graphic for a regular commercial. Good deterrent, I guess. Any thoughts on this?

WTF sactown! That's some heavy stuff for a public commercial... but seriously, talking while driving is enough of a distraction, but TEXTING!? Who in the freakin' hell does that? I tried to do it once, I just kept hitting the wrong keys, then accidentally hitting send. So my girl sends me "Hey, lets hang out tonight." I send back "j...f" Ruins my evenings!

f*** THAT sh!t. Texting while driving is just plain bad, STOP DOIN IT y'all!

you smoke dodo? on "Skateboarding..."

you smoke dodo? — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:44:00 +0000

Sh!t man if you've been doing it for 11 years you know more than me. I just like wearing the shoes. What's the DC video actually called?

SactownConnection on "Skateboarding..."

SactownConnection — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:40:11 +0000

I didn't really know what thread to throw this in (it's not really important enough for it's own thread), so I'm throwing it here, since this is technically about "vehicles".

A co-worker sent me that graphic "Texting While Driving" 4-minute commerical they released in the UK (Careful, this sh*t is rough: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E). Has anyone else seen this? Hella graphic for a regular commercial. Good deterrent, I guess. Any thoughts on this?