Yip.. *hic* Yippy...Yippy ki-yay druther muther.

Phil: Yeah, three cheeseburgers, two large fries, two chocolate shakes and one large coke.

Ralph: And some flapjacks.

Phil: Too early for flapjacks?

What an idiot, he's lucky he didn't hurt a police officer.

baka-san: Yep, makes me proud to see my neck of the woods back up here.

That's not a dumb question, that's a drunk question.

Also, what cretinbob said.

Cybernetic: TFA: Passenger Robert Hamm was charged with public intoxication.

You can be charged with public intoxication for being drunk while riding in a car as a passenger?

"Please step out of the car."
"Okay."

Argument for eugenics complete.

I was in Palestine (pronounced Pal-a-steen) on Sunday afternoon, luckily I wasn't drunk.... still.

Cybernetic: You can be charged with public intoxication for being drunk while riding in a car as a passenger?

Oh, yes. The cop tells you to step out of the car, and there you be.

How do I know this?
Don't ask.

Cybernetic: TFA: Passenger Robert Hamm was charged with public intoxication.

You can be charged with public intoxication for being drunk while riding in a car as a passenger?

Asshole cops had to pay for the damage to the chopper somehow.

Cybernetic: TFA: Passenger Robert Hamm was charged with public intoxication.

You can be charged with public intoxication for being drunk while riding in a car as a passenger?

Being in your car is still being in public.

Murphy's Law: ((U+C+I)*(10-S))/20*A*1/(1-sin(F/10))

Cybernetic: TFA: Passenger Robert Hamm was charged with public intoxication.

You can be charged with public intoxication for being drunk while riding in a car as a passenger?

Yeah, that's got me scratchin' my head too.

Likely scenario: drunk passenger gits outta the car for who knows what reason and mouths off when a cop tells him to 'git back in' da car.' "Okay, dumbass, now yer just bein' drunk in public."

Probably some crappy Eurocopter. Let Redneck Joe smash it to bits so they can buy a Sikorsky.

so why was the helicopter fying so low?

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Yip.. *hic* Yippy...Yippy ki-yay druther muther.

Damn you!
*shakes tiny fist*

TravelingFreakshow: Probably some crappy Eurocopter. Let Redneck Joe smash it to bits so they can buy a Sikorsky.

You know how I know you didn't read the article?

Unfortunately, he plowed into the life-flight chopper's tail fin. (Damages to the chopper were minor and it was apparently able to whisk an injured woman to a local hospital.)

Agent Smiths Laugh: Argument for eugenics complete.

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TravelingFreakshow: Probably some crappy Eurocopter. Let Redneck Joe smash it to bits so they can buy a Sikorsky.

Mmm, I don't think there's a sexier Medivac helicopter than the S-76, we use them around BC and they're amazing helicopters. They're also really really expensive and judging by what I've seen of American rotary wing aviation they want things done cheep.

BigNumber12: At 1:30 a.m. Sunday just outside of Palestine, a Chevy Tahoe driven by Erik Shawn Green

Story can't be true, no such place.


crossed the center line of Highway 287 and smashed into a Toyota Nissan Xterra.

Nice work, there.

it never said grounded and plowing into helicopter would cause some damage
bumping into it might cause some scratches

Flying on the ground is wrong.

cretinbob: shiatty scene control is shiatty. He never should have been able to get that far if the road had been secured correctly. It's fortunate no police or fire personnel were injured, and the bird was able to fly.

Not necessarily. FTA:

"While police and medics were clearing up that disaster, 27-year-old Matthew Mitchell attempted to navigate his Chevy Impala through the swirling sea of flashing lights of the fleet of police cruisers and ambulances on the scene."

You plan for people who aren't paying attention. There isn't much you can do to keep someone from deliberately breaching the perimeter. Idiots can be sooo resourceful.

A Lexus driver once drove through one of my department's pylon barricades and past the traffic control personnel (yes - he saw them) to make his way through fog to a 2-semi, fully engulfed grinder a mile away. One of the pylons was carried several hundred yards under the car. Fortunately, this yahoo stopped before causing any more damage at the scene, and had to drive the mile back to the traffic control detour point and ask for directions. He was in a hurry, you see, so it was OK in his mind.

Standard procedure is to block the road with the trucks, but the rocket scientist in TFA drove around 'em. Whaddya do?

Don't Drive Angry!


/Hot like the adorable little rat in the pic

Deja_VooDoo: cretinbob: shiatty scene control is shiatty. He never should have been able to get that far if the road had been secured correctly. It's fortunate no police or fire personnel were injured, and the bird was able to fly.

Not necessarily. FTA:

"While police and medics were clearing up that disaster, 27-year-old Matthew Mitchell attempted to navigate his Chevy Impala through the swirling sea of flashing lights of the fleet of police cruisers and ambulances on the scene."

You plan for people who aren't paying attention. There isn't much you can do to keep someone from deliberately breaching the perimeter. Idiots can be sooo resourceful.

A Lexus driver once drove through one of my department's pylon barricades and past the traffic control personnel (yes - he saw them) to make his way through fog to a 2-semi, fully engulfed grinder a mile away. One of the pylons was carried several hundred yards under the car. Fortunately, this yahoo stopped before causing any more damage at the scene, and had to drive the mile back to the traffic control detour point and ask for directions. He was in a hurry, you see, so it was OK in his mind.

Standard procedure is to block the road with the trucks, but the rocket scientist in TFA drove around 'em. Whaddya do?

Duh, mines in the gaps you leave open.

But seriously, it's easy to drive somewhere that has been blocked off, it's also stupid.

Ok, if we can't have a Texas tag can we at least get an East Texas tag ?!?

BigNumber12: This happens to us in construction all the time. We were building a new corporate campus that required maintaining a public access road through our site so that employees could reach an adjacent campus. One guy, who was also probably in a hurry, almost got his cute little BMW flattened by a 150,000 lb. scraper doing about 30 mph on a haul road that intersected the public one. Just couldn't be bothered to obey any of our multiple stages of warnings.

All the damned time.

You should have to do a 3-month workterm as a flagger on a construction site before you graduate from high school. Or have cars drive through your office as the penalty.

My supervisor for one job was able to flick, with very near perfect accuracy, a traffic cone onto the windshield of a car driving through the zone at 60km/h. He'd do this without kicking up, just a flick of the ankle. It was really, really smooth. A car driving through the zone at 60km/h that suddenly encounters a traffic cone in the driver's face will come to a complete stop very quickly.

One car I remember that I had to stop (10km/h, we're marking the roads so we're crouched down) had two small kids in the backseat. (4-5 years old) I told her she had to "slow down, it's 10km because you have to go slower than I can run." What I should have said was "I was once that age and my mom would still cry if I got hit by a car."

muzzrphochr: Oh but the dumbest question that evAr was, is and will be.....(queue in drumroll......wait for it......)~ "Can I ask you a question?"

I generally answer "No!", or "Sure, but you only get one and now your all used up!"

/I farking hate that question.

"You already did."

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Cybernetic: BurnShrike: Cybernetic: TFA: Passenger Robert Hamm was charged with public intoxication.

You can be charged with public intoxication for being drunk while riding in a car as a passenger?

Being in your car is still being in public.

By this logic, taking a cab home from a bar because you're too drunk to drive can get you rung up for public intoxication. In other words, the only safe place to get drunk is in your own house, provided that you don't leave the house before you sober up.

There's something wrong with that.

One of my co-workers tells that story:

"I was walking back to the base after a night of drinking. I had enough for cab fare or [Chinese Food]. So, I start walking. I get to about here (he points at the sidewalk, it's about 20 minutes of walking away, and about halfway to the base) The police pull over and say, 'hey, you're drunk!'

I say, 'I know, that's why I'm walking.'

So they arrest me, bring me back to town, and then make me sleep overnight there. The bastards didn't even offer me a ride back."

Cybernetic:

By this logic, taking a cab home from a bar because you're too drunk to drive can get you rung up for public intoxication. In other words, the only safe place to get drunk is in your own house

In Texas? Yeah, pretty much.

ShawnDoc: BigNumber12: One guy, who was also probably in a hurry, almost got his cute little BMW flattened by a 150,000 lb. scraper doing about 30 mph on a haul road that intersected the public one. Just couldn't be bothered to obey any of our multiple stages of warnings.

If the laws don't apply to the 1%, why should they think you're silly "signs" apply to them?

If I had not been doing my job I probably could have killed 10 or 12 of that 1% over the course of my constrution carear.

/the 1% is so stupid around real men at work
//Heavy equipment don't care what BMW you drive
///gravity and inertia are a biatch
//slashys

"They thew me into pub-lick".

Like my ole boss used to say....There aren't any stupid questions, there are just stupid people asking questions....

NEWJERSEYFARKTAG: ShawnDoc: BigNumber12: One guy, who was also probably in a hurry, almost got his cute little BMW flattened by a 150,000 lb. scraper doing about 30 mph on a haul road that intersected the public one. Just couldn't be bothered to obey any of our multiple stages of warnings.

If the laws don't apply to the 1%, why should they think you're silly "signs" apply to them?

If I had not been doing my job I probably could have killed 10 or 12 of that 1% over the course of my constrution carear.

/the 1% is so stupid around real men at work
//Heavy equipment don't care what BMW you drive
///gravity and inertia are a biatch
//slashys

Ahh, irrational judgments. They're awesome. You don't even need to be close to being in the top 1% to own a BMW.

I was driving by a flagger today who got her stop and slow sign mixed up. She got mad when I went slow and wasn't stopped.

So was the question ever answered?
I do not want to crash into any low flying helicopters.

Happy Hours: muzzrphochr: Oh but the dumbest question that evAr was, is and will be.....(queue in drumroll......wait for it......)~ "Can I ask you a question?"

I generally answer "No!", or "Sure, but you only get one and now your all used up!"

/I farking hate that question.

I always respond to that by asking "You mean besides that one?"

Of course, if you're being TRUE pedantic, literalist asshats about it, you'd have to say "Yes, you just did."

/may
//not can