Merry Christmas to all regardless of your religious persuasion or lack thereof. This is the time of year we wish for peace, goodwill and kindness for everyone we know and even those we do not. If you are on the road travelling or safe at home, please take care and please never, never drink and drive. Wishing you all the best throughout the season and right on into the New Year. Old Guys (Brian and Joanne)
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Merry Christmas to all regardless of your religious persuasion or lack thereof. This is the time of year we wish for peace, goodwill and kindness for everyone we know and even those we do not. If you are on the road travelling or safe at home, please take care and please never, never drink and drive. Wishing you all the best throughout the season and right on into the New Year. Old Guys (Brian and Joanne)
And the same to you and yours.
Regarding the drinking and driving caution, I'm curious to know how the Canadian authorities handle this problem.
In Texas, the consequences of doing so are quite severe and expensive as they should be.
Of course,the human costs in doing so cannot be measured in dollars.
Our police departments provide warnings about drinking and driving though the media, but yet stupid people continue to do so.
I to would like to wish all a very Merry Christmas, stay safe and healthy.
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Merry Cristmas everybody, only 3 more months until March Camping in the Great Northeast begins. At least we can go to an RV show.
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Merry Christmas to you all! Here's wishing you all a holiday with lots of family (whether by choice or by blood) and friends.
And if you indulge, call Tipsy Taxi, if you have that in your area.
We have Tipsy Taxi services here. They'll pick you up wherever you are and take you *home* or wherever you plan to stay the night....never to another bar or party. All totally free.
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Everyone be safe cause camping season is not that far away.
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Greetings B47. With the winter we are having so far the consequences of drunk driving can easily be quite expensive and very embarrassing. That being said; the local and provincial police here in Ontario are very diligent about enforcing the anti drinking laws on a firm is fair basis. In other words no let goes. They are out, often en mass, almost every night throughout the holiday season doing what they call ride checks where everyone is stopped and given a cursory check for impairment (drugs or alcohol) If you blow near the legal limit for booze you may be given an immediate, 24hr license suspension and someone else must drive or you take a taxi (don't get caught driving then). If you blow over I believe it is an immediate 2 week suspension, a night in jail and a date with a judge for more punishment which I think is a full year suspension. You also have to retrieve your car from the impound and pay for towing. Multiple D.U.I.'s get you an ignition controller that won't let you drive unless you blow zero alcohol once you are relicensed. Of course if you should, God forbid, kill someone you would probably get D.U.I. plus careless and motor manslaughter charges. MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, also runs ads about the problem all year but especially in the holiday seasons. I don't know the exact penalties as I no longer will drink and drive but they are quite severe and getting more so. If anyone wants to correct anything in this post, please feel free to do so. Old Guys (Brian and Joanne)
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OG - sounds similar to what we got here in Texas although I only know what I read in the paper and see on the TV.
Check points have been used here on a limited basis,but they have their defenders and those who are against them.
Just too bad people can't or don't use the common sense they were born with.
Thanks for your reply - always interesting to read what our neighbors to the North are doing and how they handle things.
Merry Christmas to you also.
Where we are there are "twin cities". The city across the river has bars that stay open later than over here.
So the city cops over here set up just across the bridge on this side and get all the drunks that party over here til the bars close, then go over there.
Obviously DUI laws here aren't strict enough, as you see arrest reports where someone just got arrested for their 5th (or higher) DUI.
__________________ If age is a state of mind, and I've lost my mind, I'm AGELESS, right?
Give me 40 acres and I'll turn this rig around:
Flagstaff 5er 2014 8528 IKWS, Platinum Package, Regency Interior "Buffy" F250 Super Duty 2013 Tuxedo Black "Biff" Days camped 2014: 30
__________________ If age is a state of mind, and I've lost my mind, I'm AGELESS, right?
Give me 40 acres and I'll turn this rig around:
Flagstaff 5er 2014 8528 IKWS, Platinum Package, Regency Interior "Buffy" F250 Super Duty 2013 Tuxedo Black "Biff" Days camped 2014: 30
Greetings B47. With the winter we are having so far the consequences of drunk driving can easily be quite expensive and very embarrassing. That being said; the local and provincial police here in Ontario are very diligent about enforcing the anti drinking laws on a firm is fair basis. In other words no let goes. They are out, often en mass, almost every night throughout the holiday season doing what they call ride checks where everyone is stopped and given a cursory check for impairment (drugs or alcohol) If you blow near the legal limit for booze you may be given an immediate, 24hr license suspension and someone else must drive or you take a taxi (don't get caught driving then). If you blow over I believe it is an immediate 2 week suspension, a night in jail and a date with a judge for more punishment which I think is a full year suspension. You also have to retrieve your car from the impound and pay for towing. Multiple D.U.I.'s get you an ignition controller that won't let you drive unless you blow zero alcohol once you are relicensed. Of course if you should, God forbid, kill someone you would probably get D.U.I. plus careless and motor manslaughter charges. MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, also runs ads about the problem all year but especially in the holiday seasons. I don't know the exact penalties as I no longer will drink and drive but they are quite severe and getting more so. If anyone wants to correct anything in this post, please feel free to do so. Old Guys (Brian and Joanne)
One other thing is that drunk driving is a crime as per the criminal code so if you want to cross the border you have to declare that you are a felon. No one wants anyone impaired on the road but the ride programmes are a bit much, "we stopped 22000 drivers and got 2 drivers who were just over and three that were just under" does not seem very cost effective and inconveniences a heck of a lot of people.
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Rest in Peace Mary my darling wife.
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