Comments on: Teens and deputy hurt in crash of drunk driving simulator

By: BombBlastLightingWaltz

BombBlastLightingWaltz — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:16:00 +0000

Accidents while using DUI goggles is a not uncommon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=VZwHGaVoan4

By: redesigned

redesigned — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:19:00 +0000

guess it works.

By: retepslluerb

retepslluerb — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:03:00 +0000

Heh. Over here, they actually do this with real alcohol.

Not as a rule, but apparently often enough.

First they get to complete a course sober, then they drink a few beers and then they go again.

Of couse, the legal drinking age is 16 for beer and wine and 18 for the hard stuff and driving age is 18.

By: AsteriskCGY

AsteriskCGY — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:23:00 +0000

Last time I heard of people using goggled drunk simulation was back in like 99, and they were using a video game, cause I read in a PC gamer where a guy tried a racing game while drunk to much success, and a drunk driving awareness program use that idea on their kids.

So what they should have gotten was an xbox.

By: lawrenceperson

lawrenceperson — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:09:00 +0000

If it’s taxpayer money, it’s most definitely not “free.”

By: jackbird

jackbird — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:56:00 +0000

CIA Superior: What did we learn, Palmer?
CIA Officer: I don’t know, sir.
CIA Superior: I don’t fuckin’ know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.
CIA Officer: Yes, sir.
CIA Superior: I’m fucked if I know what we did.
CIA Officer: Yes, sir, it’s, uh, hard to say
CIA Superior: Jesus Fucking Christ.

By: Skipdallas

Skipdallas — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Pilot crashes flight simulator… rescue teams unable to find the “Black Box”. TSA thinks the crash was terror related.

By: pupdog

pupdog — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:10:00 +0000

No, but three lefts will

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:05:00 +0000

After that they can setup a taser simulator. That way kids can experience what it is like in a low stress environment. And once they are on the ground twitching uncontrollably they can go for bonus points and get pepper sprayed at point blank range.

That totally deserves a boy scout badge.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:03:00 +0000

“I’ve been around long enough to know that stuff happens, accidents happen and that’s what this was and that’s all this was. Nobody was doing anything they shouldn’t have been doing, it’s just something that happened,” said Undersheriff Sean Holmes.

Lol

“A gust of wind then blew the cart on its side.”

By: catherinecc

catherinecc — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Technically they got those things for free.. Not anymore though…

By: regnad_kcin

regnad_kcin — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:55:00 +0000

Google Glass!

By: edaddy13

edaddy13 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:43:00 +0000

Stupidometers!!! Civilization would come to a grinding halt.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:42:00 +0000

”Officer Brown? This ‘drug simulator’ looks suspiciously like a large bowl of methamphetamines and crack cocaine.”

By: Ihavenofuckingname

Ihavenofuckingname — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:33:00 +0000

To be fair, this is where hummers are made. I’d be willing to bet that the cart was modified at the hummer plant, or was customized with a little ‘local pride’ in mind.

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:23:00 +0000

Three wrongs don’t make a right.

By: angusm

angusm — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:21:00 +0000

I think somebody learned a very important lesson today, but I’m not sure what it was. The potential lessons that can be learned from this incident may be too many to list.

By: Ethan Taliesin Houser

Ethan Taliesin Houser — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:21:00 +0000

Practicing drunk driving in a golf cart sounds fun.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:11:00 +0000

yeh, actually doing something is not simulating actually doing something, only the drunk part was simulated which is pretty stupid.

After deciding to add actual driving there is no well reasoned argument against adding actual drunk. It’s like teaching abstinence with a vibrator filled with actual sperm.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000

“Stupidometer is reading unsafe levels of Derp in operator, toggle cognition to access ignition.”

Someday all vehicles will be equipped with Stupidometers. Even cop cars.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:57:00 +0000

This is why we can’t have nice things.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:47:00 +0000

Just so we’re clear about this: this was not a “simulator”. The driver “was wearing googles[sic] meant to simulate what it’s like to drive drunk”, but was driving something that is possibly unsafe, and unquestionably an eyesore, at any speed.

I think it’s important to note that because when I first read the headline I thought, how drunk did they have to be to get injured in a drunk-driving simulator?

By: satn

satn — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:43:00 +0000

targeted advertising popup caused the accident.

By: satn

satn — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:42:00 +0000

Homeland security money at work…guess it’s better than them buying some sort of medium tank loaded with machineguns for riot duty, or a another ton of assault rifles.

By: traalfaz

traalfaz — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:38:00 +0000

“Wearing googles”?

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:36:00 +0000

We want to impress upon you kids how important it is to drive safely. We want you to take it seriously. So here’s your beer goggles, two giggling friends in the back seat, a golf cart decked out like a Hummer, and here’s the keys.

By: CSBD

CSBD — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:23:00 +0000

What is up with that electric “golf cart” hummer rip off? That police department either has too much money and bad taste… or they confiscated it at some sort of golf course prostitution sting.

By: John Young

John Young — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:23:00 +0000

Well, let’s get this out of the way: