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Author:  casual fan [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:36 pm ]
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Driving home last night with wife and kids, speeding car either loses control or was trying to turn in front of us at about 5x the speed it should have. Honestly, happened so fast I'm not sure. Hits us head on/slightly drivers side. Van is totaled, and we're all a little cut and bruised, but after some precautionary tests for my one daughter for neck and stomach pain, we should be good. My knee that was next to the door is sore too, but check by doc seemed ok.

Dumbass failed sobriety test and cops took him, but I didn't even get a look at him. Was too busy with my family to worry about him. As the initial shock is wearing off and I see we should be good, the more and more I want to beat the crap out of this guy.

To add a 'shoutout' to the douchebag.... Thank you to airbags, seat belts and all the other stuff that gets engineered into vehicles these days. 20 years ago there might have been a few less 'casual fans' in the world and the other driver too. The front of his car disintegrated, but the cabin is mostly intact.
Author:  badrogue17 [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:42 pm ]
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Glad everyone is safe. How fast was he going you think? what time did this happen?
Author:  Nas [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:44 pm ]
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Glad your family is okay.
Author:  Big Chicagoan [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 1:55 pm ]
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Happened to me and my wife a couple years ago. Thanks to the great work by the Chicago Police and Cook County Prosecuter, the guy got off. How hard is it to file a police report and arrest a guy that was on parole for reckless DUI? In Cook County, the answer is apparently "very difficult".

Glad to hear you and your family are okay. Make sure you follow up on the charges and make sure he pays.
Author:  Peoria Matt [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 3:54 pm ]
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Glad to hear everybody's OK, Casual.
Author:  casual fan [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 4:28 pm ]
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badrogue17 wrote:
Glad everyone is safe. How fast was he going you think? what time did this happen?


Add this to the "nothing good after midnight" idea. We had gone to the double feature at the drive-in and were coming home (family night of Monsters University and Man of Steel). Posted speed limit is 45 where it happened and we were doing that going east. One of the people that stopped to check on everyone had been going west at about the speed limit and they told the police that the other driver had passed them going a lot faster. What that means, idk.

Kids are doing good, wife at doctor now with pretty bad bruising and "tightness" in her chest. Funny thing is, we had planned to be car shopping today to get rid of my old truck. So if anyone has a BOGO coupon for new cars I could use it. :D
Author:  Terry's Peeps [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 5:07 pm ]
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Glad everyone is safe.
Author:  Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:24 pm ]
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Good to hear the family is okay.

Once hit a guy from behind. Turned out he was illegally in the country, no license, no insurance and drunk. Probably thought he was going to get home okay that night to his family, next thing he knew I had caused him a trip to a jail. I look at it as a really fortunate thing because you never know if an idiot like this is going to kill someone.
Author:  Redneckmommy [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:29 pm ]
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Glad you and your loved ones walked away...few scrapes and bruises but walked away.

years ago when i was a wee lass of 7 or so my parents picked me up from my grandmas and much to today's safety standards they had me in the front seat on my mom's lap, cause if they didn't and i was in the backseat the drunk teen who was drag racing would have caused me to have met Mr. windshield.
Author:  Mini Ditka [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 7:59 pm ]
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I think as a society we could do a lot more to stop drunk driving and not just after it happens. They serve way too much alcohol at restaurants and public sporting events and the people serving the alcohol take no responsibility in trying to stop inebriated customers from driving.
Author:  Scorehead [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:07 pm ]
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There is a simple solution to prevent drink driving. I'm sure Lawyers would be very against it though as it would obviously put many of these clowns out of work.
Author:  Terry's Peeps [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:14 pm ]
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Scorehead wrote:
There is a simple solution to prevent drink driving. I'm sure Lawyers would be very against it though as it would obviously put many of these clowns out of work.


Spill it Jack.
Author:  Chus [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 8:58 pm ]
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Terry's Peeps wrote:
Scorehead wrote:
There is a simple solution to prevent drink driving. I'm sure Lawyers would be very against it though as it would obviously put many of these clowns out of work.


Spill it Jack.


Whatever it is, I'm sure it infringes upon people's rights, which he conveniently supports when it isn't him.
Author:  SomeGuy [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 9:01 pm ]
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We need the National Guard in every bar-restaurant parking lot checking to see if people are sober.
Author:  Rod [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 10:56 pm ]
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Terry's Peeps wrote:
Scorehead wrote:
There is a simple solution to prevent drink driving. I'm sure Lawyers would be very against it though as it would obviously put many of these clowns out of work.


Spill it Jack.



You could make an Intoxalock mandatory on every vehicle. A lot of bars would go out of business, no doubt. I'd change the Douchebag of this topic to "Drunk and Reckless Driver". If you've ever had a couple glasses of wine at dinner and gotten in your car, you've driven drunk.
Author:  conns7901 [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:01 pm ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
You could make an Intoxalock mandatory on every vehicle.


Cops want Drunk Drivers. Money talks. Which is why I only get blasted by myself at home.
Author:  Baby McNown [ Sat Jun 29, 2013 11:24 pm ]
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Glad you and your family are ok man.

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
You could make an Intoxalock mandatory on every vehicle.


THIS. Sadly it's another case of "follow the money" in our current society. They mandated airbags, why not Intoxalock? I'm betting it's cause the flow of fine money into State / local coffers would decline immensely so it will never happen.

I'm really not one to preach, cause back in the day I had many "how the hell did I ever get home / not kill somebody" nights than I'm embarrassed about now. Now older / wiser / married with a family, my rare drinker wife drives home most every time or if she decides to drink we stay over. This would be an easy solution to cutting the number of DUI accidents / deaths dramatically.
Author:  Colonel Angus [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 12:08 am ]
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Mini Ditka wrote:
I think as a society we could do a lot more to stop drunk driving and not just after it happens. They serve way too much alcohol at restaurants and public sporting events and the people serving the alcohol take no responsibility in trying to stop inebriated customers from driving.

Typical Liberal garbage. Blame everyone else but the criminal.
Author:  Don Tiny [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 12:29 am ]
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conns7901 wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
You could make an Intoxalock mandatory on every vehicle.


Cops want Drunk Drivers. Money talks. Which is why I only get blasted by myself at home.



No reason for a law if ain't nobody gonna break the damn thing.
Author:  Furious Styles [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 10:54 am ]
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SomeGuy wrote:
We need the National Guard in every bar-restaurant parking lot checking to see if people are sober.


You just described Scottsdale AZ.
Author:  Dallas Winston [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:07 am ]
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Glad you and the family are ok. I'm guilty of being that douchebag for years. I am so grateful I never hurt anyone. Now that I'm a little older, I realize what a selfish prick I was every time I got behind the wheel hammered!
Author:  Dallas Winston [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:10 am ]
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Mini Ditka wrote:
I think as a society we could do a lot more to stop drunk driving and not just after it happens. They serve way too much alcohol at restaurants and public sporting events and the people serving the alcohol take no responsibility in trying to stop inebriated customers from driving.


Come on dude! Seriously? What the fuck about personal responsibility/accountability? No one ever held me down and poured a drink down my throat!
Author:  Darkside [ Sun Jun 30, 2013 11:36 am ]
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DD accidents are way too rare to mandate peope spend another 2000 or more on a new car.
It's hard enough for lower middle class families to buy safe newer vehicles as it is.
Plus they require constant calibration.
Can you imagine not getting it started because it needed calibration and there's an emergency?

Plus, it kinda flies in the face of innocent until proven guilty.
Author:  a retard [ Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:39 pm ]
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GENIUS!

From http://www.arlingtoncardinal.com/2013/0 ... n-heights/

Quote:
DUI Arrest After Man Found Urinating on East Wall Of Village Hall on East Sigwalt St, Arlington Heights

Arlington Heights police arrested a DUI driver 2:20 AM Wednesday at Village Hall, 200 East Sigwalt Street Arlington Heights, IL. A police officer pulling into the police department parking lot observed a man urinating on the east wall of Village Hall, with a blue 2013 Chevy van parked nearby. Police observed a strong odor of alcohol on the man’s breath. Another police officer had observed the man driving, and the police officers identified the man as Tae H. Kim, male age 43, of the 1500 block of Virginia Avenue in Glendale Heights.

Police transported Tae H. Kim in custody to Arlington Heights Police Department Headquarters. His Chevy van was towed to a police holding area.

Tae H. Kim is charged with DUI, Aggravated DUI (Licensed Revoked for DUI), Aggravated DUI (greater than or equal to third DUI), and driving on a revoked license,

Court date is October 9, 2013.
Author:  Urlacher's missing neck [ Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:44 pm ]
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Tae Kim home already.
Author:  Chus [ Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:46 pm ]
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Urlacher's missing neck wrote:
Tae Kim home already.


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Author:  W_Z [ Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:48 pm ]
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Urlacher's missing neck wrote:
Tae Kim home already.


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