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(CTV) Weird Nickelback's Chad Kroeger, acquitted of an impaired driving charge, but convicted on the charge of driving with a blood-alcohol level over .08, drops appeal. Wait, what? He had appeal?   (ctvbc.ctv.ca) divider line 32
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mekkab [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-05 03:37:24 PM  
His sentence should be to get a hair cut.

 
GooberMcFly [TotalFark] 2009-02-05 03:38:44 PM  
What's the difference between "impaired driving" and "driving with a blood alcohol level over .08"? Is it that he was driving reasonably with the high blood alcohol limit?

 
BobtheFascist 2009-02-05 04:10:28 PM  
GooberMcFly: What's the difference between "impaired driving" and "driving with a blood alcohol level over .08"? Is it that he was driving reasonably with the high blood alcohol limit?

You don't have to have any alcohol in your system to be impaired. Maybe?

 
moriquendi [TotalFark] 2009-02-05 05:47:29 PM  
GooberMcFly: What's the difference between "impaired driving" and "driving with a blood alcohol level over .08"? Is it that he was driving reasonably with the high blood alcohol limit?

Over .08 is pretty self explanatory. To convict on driving while impaired the prosecutor has to prove that the accused's ability to operate a motor vehicle was impaired by drugs or alcohol.

You can be charged with both, but only convicted of one or the other IIRC.

 
quintas 2009-02-05 06:33:33 PM  
Whatever.
nickelback is the best band in probably 15 years.

If you don't agree this rocks, then you are without a soul: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehuyXOmkRs&feature=PlayList&p=E9E2363635 6D1840&p laynext=1&index=21

 
yossarian76 [TotalFark] 2009-02-05 06:52:18 PM  
Worst. Band. Ever.

 
Fleet [TotalFark] 2009-02-05 07:33:39 PM  
yossarian76: Worst. Band. Ever.

A drinking buddy of mine works at BMI, prides himself on musical knowledge. One night, to get his goat, I told him that I thought Nickelback was way better than the Beatles ever were. He actually got a mad look in his eye and asked "What did you say?" So I said "Look, all I'm saying is Chad Kroeger is a much better song writer than John Lennon ever was." He finished his beer, slammed the glass on the table, told me to go fark myself, and stormed out.

/He got over it.

 
horonto [TotalFark] 2009-02-05 08:13:34 PM  
Not the worst band ever just waaaaay over rated. A national embarrassment right up there with Celine Dion

Glad to see rich guys can still get out charges by throwing expensive lawyers at it..

 
ilovelucky 2009-02-05 08:22:07 PM  
One more reason to HATE CHAD KROEGER!

P.S. I hate Chad Kroeger.

 
MadSkillz 2009-02-05 08:37:13 PM  
BTW, roadside breathalyzers are calibrated to give a fail at 0.10 so he has no excuse.

 
Malicoire_ 2009-02-05 08:37:15 PM  
I came for the banana joke and left disappointed.

 
Malicoire_ 2009-02-05 08:38:31 PM  
Malicoire_: I came for the banana joke and left disappointed.

That's what she said?

 
bubbaprog [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-05 08:38:42 PM  
GooberMcFly: What's the difference between "impaired driving" and "driving with a blood alcohol level over .08"? Is it that he was driving reasonably with the high blood alcohol limit?

Canada, not being enslaved by the terrorist activities of MADD, actually separates the concepts of "driving drunk" and "impaired driving." They recognize that there have to be limits on drinking and driving, because that leads to impaired driving. Yet drinking and driving does not GUARANTEE impaired driving.

In the USA you are assumed to be impaired the moment you take the wheel if you've had a single drink in the past eight hours, because MADD is so powerful.

 
MindlessStonedIndulgence 2009-02-05 09:05:44 PM  
Give him the chair. He should be tried for the DUI also.

 
Jarrell86 2009-02-05 09:12:39 PM  
Chad Kroeger is like sex.

Except not awesome.

 
Tsunami Ditka 2009-02-05 09:27:52 PM  
Chad Kroeger sucks. Nickelback sucks.

/i contributed

 
Military Industrial Complex 2009-02-05 09:49:28 PM  
On behalf of the entire nation of Canada.....I apologize for Nickelback.

 
John Buck 41 2009-02-05 10:06:07 PM  
bubbaprog: GooberMcFly: What's the difference between "impaired driving" and "driving with a blood alcohol level over .08"? Is it that he was driving reasonably with the high blood alcohol limit?

Canada, not being enslaved by the terrorist activities of MADD, actually separates the concepts of "driving drunk" and "impaired driving." They recognize that there have to be limits on drinking and driving, because that leads to impaired driving. Yet drinking and driving does not GUARANTEE impaired driving.

In the USA you are assumed to be impaired the moment you take the wheel if you've had a single drink in the past eight hours, because MADD is so powerful.


Shouldn't there be a huge distinction between 'driving while drunk' and 'drinking and driving'?

 
EL_FABREZ 2009-02-05 10:26:36 PM  
Lock him up and throw away the key. He should also have to pay for driving drunk.

 
blairdobson 2009-02-06 01:42:04 AM  
Who?
I thought that was Little Turd Fondleroid.
that guy could scare food off a plate.
He is a male Sarah Jessica Parker.
all things a big bab of payola can buy and more.


yuch.

 
dpava 2009-02-06 02:55:10 AM  
He Had Appeal. Awesome. Here all weeks. You can appeal a banana Chad but you can't appeal to me.

 
DerekSD 2009-02-06 03:03:05 AM  
John Buck 41: GooberMcFly:

Shouldn't there be a huge distinction between 'driving while drunk' and 'drinking and driving'?


20 years ago or so, while driving through new mexico, i had a state trooper ignore a beer in a window cupholder and give me a ration of shiat because i wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

 
Herunar 2009-02-06 06:10:30 AM  
Why hasn't anyone commented on the awesomeness of the headline yet?

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-02-06 08:39:27 AM  
quintas: Whatever.
nickelback is the best band in probably 15 years.

If you don't agree this rocks, then you are without a soul: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qehuyXOmkRs&feature=PlayList&p=E9E2363635 6D1840&p laynext=1&index=21


You know how I know you attend St. Rita's School For the Deaf?

God, they are absolutely dreadful.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-02-06 08:43:37 AM  
He needs to be executed for Crimes Against the Throne of Almighty Rock and Roll. And for being an ultimate douche.

 
Madbassist1 [TotalFark] 2009-02-06 08:53:11 AM  
Well they've sold over 26,000,000 albums so I would say they have appeal.

Kroeger is a supreme douche, though. I read an interview with him in playboy, apparently he was a notorious thief when he was a kid, and a leering ass who treats women like merchandise now. I never particularly liked the band, but I never hated them either. I actively loathe them now.

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2009-02-06 09:45:35 AM  
Madbassist1: Well they've sold over 26,000,000 albums so I would say they have appeal.


And Van Gogh was an utter failure in his lifetime, selling exactly one painting...to his brother.

Fortunately for us, he will be remembered in 100 years and these scuzoids will be long forgotten in 12.

Popularity means s***.

 
because good is dumb [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-06 10:41:24 AM  
I don't know why that Chad Kroeger guy reminds me of Nicolas Cage, I just can't figure it out.

 
DecemberNitro 2009-02-06 11:09:30 AM  
You could say they convicted him for all the right reasons, right?

Get it? The album title?

/hate Nickelback
//almost as much as I hate Theory of a Deadman
///don't even get me started

 
FeedTheCollapse 2009-02-06 11:20:47 AM  
www.planetfeedback.com


/got nothing.

 
codeboy 2009-02-06 12:09:24 PM  
img11.imageshack.us

 
Madbassist1 [TotalFark] 2009-02-06 01:53:37 PM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Madbassist1: Well they've sold over 26,000,000 albums so I would say they have appeal.


And Van Gogh was an utter failure in his lifetime, selling exactly one painting...to his brother.

Fortunately for us, he will be remembered in 100 years and these scuzoids will be long forgotten in 12.

Popularity means s***.


I said they had appeal...in this case a synonym for popularity. I didnt say it meant anything. It does, though it means he dont have to work.

 
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