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join:2007-02-16 USA | Re: New service - FTTF I think I would contact a good lawyer. Imagine what you could get out of this. lawyer: My clients home could have burned down if the fire department had not arrived. cable: Well what are you suggesting lawyer: a free oc-3 for life ? | |
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  soganta Premium join:2003-10-15 | Re: New service - FTTF at least they will look into the issue now | |
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 jester121 Premium join:2003-08-09 Lake Zurich, IL | Yeah, well, "could have" doesn't sit too well with judges. | |
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 |   natedj Elected Premium join:2001-06-06 Columbia, SC
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| Re: New service - FTTF Uh, your Honor, If I can remember correctly, that particular 7' section of fence cost me a bundle, cause I had to import the wood from Africa, then fly in a professional installer from the Ukraine ... we used solid gold nails and blah bla bla ... -- Good judgement comes with experience...Experience comes after bad judgements | |
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 |   Chuckles Premium join:2006-03-04 Saint Paul, MN
| It does when you could have killed someone. Like in a DUI case. I've spoken with people who got DUIs when they weren't even driving; just walking to the car. What's that intent to drink and drive? But yeah, could have burned my house down doesn't seem like it would stick. -- kustomerservice.net | |
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 |  |   major marco Res Firma Mitescere Nescit Premium join:2003-02-13 Stepford, CA clubs:
| Re: New service - FTTF said by Chuckles : I've spoken with people who got DUIs when they weren't even driving; just walking to the car. What's that intent to drink and drive? But yeah, could have burned my house down doesn't seem like it would stick. Walking to your car irrrespective of BAC is not "intent" to drive. Walking to your car, getting in, putting the key in the ignition and merely sitting there without turning the key is. Whoever these people you know who were cited for DUI for merely walking to their car in a drunken state should have contested the citation.  -- The Toll
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join:2001-08-23 Minneapolis, MN | Re: New service - FTTF My ex-wife got a DWI just for sitting on the front steps with her keys in her purse. Or so said the police report.... -- "Don't argue with stupid people; they will beat you with experience." | |
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 |  |   GlobalMind Domino Dude, POWER Systems Guy Premium join:2001-10-29 Hollywood, FL
| said by Chuckles :But yeah, could have burned my house down doesn't seem like it would stick. I think it would if the fire was closer to the house, like the other cases we've seen where the siding ended up melting & such.
This seems it was far enough away that the burn the house down argument might not work. | |
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join:2003-07-15 Milwaukee, WI | Re: New service - FTTF I agree. I call bulls%$t! The key HAS to be in the ignition. | |
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 |  |  |  |  fiberguy My views are my own. Premium join:2005-05-20
| Re: New service - FTTF In some states, like CA, simply sitting in the driver's seat, even with the keys on the dash, not the ignition, is grounds for a DUI.
Source: Sacramento PD, CHP, ABC. -- "Complaining is the least path of resistance for the self-serving, the lazy, and Im told its a womans prerogative..." | |
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join:2001-04-29 Winter Park, FL
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| Re: New service - FTTF In Jacksonville Florida, my roommate was in a pickup truck, in the middle seat, the driver was inside a Walgreens, roommate was sleeping in the middle seat and had been drinking, cop pulls up because the truck was still running. The person in the store did not have a license. The cop charges my roommate with DUI even after the person that was inside the store signed a affidavit stating they were the one driving. It was because my roommate had a valid drivers license that he got the DUI. When the cop approached the vehicle, my roommate was asleep, and the cop woke him up, and seen he was in the middle seat and everything. So far, he has paid close to $9,000 in fee's, fines, and DUI classes, and also had 40 hours of community service. IT CAN HAPPEN! | |
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join:2004-05-10 Youngstown, OH | Hell, go for the OC-12! | |
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 |   swsamurai Premium join:2002-04-17 Bakersfield, CA clubs: | Re: New service - FTTF With his luck they would give him the OC, then restrict it back to 1mb with a 20gb per month limit. | |
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