Yay! This should have the "spiffy" tag.

I'm moving there! Beer, fast cars....fast women??? Hope so!

If they had 268 fatal crashes there last year, about 267 must have been tourists because the state population is what, 6?

It's impossible for the state to enforce the speeding laws because so many areas of Montana have seceeded from the US.

Montana's rebellious streak has always been visible when it comes to conforming with federal highway safety demands. More than two decades ago, legislators railed against the federally imposed speed limit of 55 mph by making violations punishable by just a $5 fine.

I like their style.

Of course they're going to get an F from MADD. Montana refuses to ban such simple things as open containers, so what does one expect? Of course, I have no problem with this. MADD should spend its time researching more important things relating to drunk driving, rather than giving report card grades on the various states' laws.

Also, it's amusing that the lawmakers in Montana are utterly unconcerned. Apparently, the constituents aren't complaining, so the representatives are doing a good job representing that attitude. I like it when government works like that.

Finally, why doesn't the Gumball ever go through Montana? Sure, it would only be one state they run through (although a farking huge one, like the article said), but that'd be one state in which virtually no cops would stop anyone.

Drinking while driving doesn't cause any harm. Being too intoxicated at the wheel does. So why outlaw drinking while driving? Should we also outlaw roadside bars? And why is it that people fail to realize that Montana has had a speed limit for years.

And you're drunk.

When I grow up, I'm going to Montana University!

can you drive naked too?

Not the state to own a bicycle.......

Montana has had a speed limit for a couple of years now, headline writer. It's 145 on the interstate. Except for semis--you know how dangerous they are.

This isn't as stupid as when I lived in Georgia and they had drive-thru liquor stores. And Georgia isn't the only place, either.

ok, so let's see how montana stacks up to other states in terms of crashes, dui incidents, etc.....

/scurries off to try to find the info

When I drove through Montana in '92 or so, the best I could manage was about 15-20 MPH...

Comes from driving a Toyota Celica through a blizzard, you see...

Nature does a fine job of enforcing the speed limit there.

Once again, the article has nothing to do with the headline. I do love this fark thing.

Ah yes the drive-thru liquor store. They used to have one near the Mayport Naval Station but they tore it down to widen the road. I always wondered how it could possibly be legal to get a rum and coke from the drive-thru.

Honda must know about Montana. My owners manual says if you're planning to drive over 100 mph for extended periods you should inflate the tires to 35 psi. It doesn't say if you need to do anything special to the cup holders.

Hmmm. Speed and IQ inversely proportional; minus 3 points for each beer, minus 5 points for every shot. What a bunch of farking geniuses -just waiting their turn in line for the Darwin Awards.

...one activist against drunken driving blames on the state's cowboy culture.

Wait a minute: do cowboys ride their horses at 110mph while knocking back a fifth of Jack Daniels? That's not cowboy culture, that's farking arsehole culture!

Cryinoutloud: Plenty of drive thru liquor/beer stores in Texas. What's so weird about it? Whether you go inside the beer store or have someone bring it out to you, your intoxicant of choice is riding with you in the car on the way home.

*drives to Montana in his drunken stupor while eating a Big Mac to piss off both MADD and PETA*

Duke sucks.
France surrenders.
Domo-kun rocks.
It's a trap.
Doo-dah-doo-dah.

*is now the God of Fark*

I had something witty to say, but i forgot what it was. Oops.

I remember the drive through liquor stores in Louisiana. They would server you a drink in a styrofoam cup with a straw, but they put a piece of tape over the straw so it wasn't an open container. That was a fun state.

145 on the interstate? What would rumble strips feel like at that speed?

'Republican state Rep. Jim Shockley, who has led the push against a ban, said such a law would be mostly a feel-good measure. He suggested greater enforcement of laws already on the books would do more to curb drunken driving.'

that's the american way. if a law doesn't work...pass new ones. why bother enforcing the ones already on the books?

Plenty of those drive-thrus here in TX. You can even get a free cup of ice with your drive-thru order.

Helena handbasket, I tell ya.

as a Montana boy, I'd like to mention that while there was "no" speed limit for three years, it was possible for a State Trooper to pull you over at his discretion, if you were driving too fast for what "in the trooper's opinion" the current conditions were. rain, snow, sleet, hail? ticket. crappy car? ticket. driving while ugly? ticket. and there were no more piddly $5 "wasting gas" conservation tickets for speeding. they became $175 reckless driving tickets.

and it was still 55 at night.

Go Griz!

Ignore_This_Post, I thought Drew was the God of Fark.

Either that or Walken.

FarkinFarker the difference is that at the drive through they give you a cup with ice and coke already in it with one of those little bottles of rum.

Driving the 550 miles from North Dakota to Idaho is the equivalent of driving from the Indian Territory circa 1833 to Bavaria circa 1933. I would drink too. Heavily. And drive fast -- like, all the way to Oregon.

They have one here where they serve daquiris, but they're sealed up. I've never seen one that would give you a rum & coke or whatever your poison may be premixed.

kitsch-N*Sync: That photo is old and busted. 75 is the new hotness.

Drunks Against Mad Mothers

DAMM

In Denton, TX you can get a draft beer to go at the drive through beer barn. They'll put a straw in it for ya. There's usually about three cops waiting to pull you over as soon as you leave too.

look for him to guest host the jimmy kimmel show before his show airs

Kitschnsync I've got that picture. I snapped the sign by my house before they took it down. That, and the sign by someone changes every year from "Ennis 70 miles" to "Pennis 70 miles"

Everyone in Montana drives Subaras, and they only go about 75 MPH max, downhill with a tailwind. At least we can drink in them.

down with the nanny-state!

I got pulled over for speeding and they took my sealed bottle of vodka. Bastards!!!

Of course, I was 19.

Drinking while driving as fast as you can is fine...as long as you cover up one eye.

That is the law.

A surprisingly deserted-ass state is Mississippi. I drove down through it to New Orleans last January on the Natchez-Trace Parkway, until I almost died of boredom, and came back up on the interstate to Memphis.

Didn't see one cop (or much of anything) the whole trip, and hit my all-time fastest speed of 120 somewhere between Jackson and Memphis. Probably the best speed zone in the east.

Man, all the sarcastic comments are taken. Loyal Farker surrenders. (Don't call me France)

Ah, Montana: The United States version of a terrorist training camp. The only good thing about Montana is that Neil Gaiman lives there.

TheAnvil = France

Francey France France France.

"It's not their business to change our culture," Shockley said. "If they don't like our culture, they should go somewhere else."

Gee, where have I heard *that* before....