Category Archives: Quickies

Dead DRUNK?

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Passersby thought a New York man was dead behind the wheel of a locked car in a Lake George motel parking lot. They called the law.

The poor fellow was instead really really really drunk. Like passed out drunk. Like too drunk to walk, let alone drive drunk. Like not bothering a soul drunk.

motel carsWarren County sheriff’s deputies saw the car was locked and the man couldn’t respond so they broke the window. That’s when they discovered he was alive, but very drunk.

A blood test (I guess he couldn’t blow in the tube) showed his blood-alcohol content was 0.27 percent. The legal limit in New York for driving while intoxicated is 0.08 percent.

He was parked in a motel parking lot. Parked. On private property. Sleeping it off.

Sheriff’s deputies broke his car window to get to him. The law won.

He was charged with aggravated DWI.

Say what?

Thursday Thoughts

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parking meter46 years ago today, the St. Albans City Council approved $100 for training meter maids.

On Monday, the St. Albans City Council praised the police department for its investigation into the death of Christopher Davis. The inquiry and five arrests “took the entire department” and cost $36,000.

St. Albans no longer has meter maids.

Tuesday Thorn

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ObamaCare zealots like to point out that “45,000 Americans die every year from lack of Health Insurance.

“If Terrorists killed that many Americans we would be nuking the whole world.”

Leaving aside the fact that our zealots made up the statistic from whole cloth, I don’t notice any of them lining up to nuke the automobile industry.

Friday Foibles

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“People are pleased that gas prices have dropped about 40 cents from the near four dollar high,” the Burlington, Vermont, DJ said.

Say what?

I don’t know what planet the Burlington, Vermont, DJ gets his gas on but it isn’t Planet Vermont where gas prices didn’t drop, didn’t drop, didn’t drop and have only now slid slightly to about 20 cents lower than the near four dollar high and have held there for a few weeks. Gas in New York State (number ONE in the nation by fuel taxes) were lower than gas prices here last week.

The average price of gas nationwide dropped below $2/gallon in November, 2008.

Vermonters are almost ready to drive to Canada for gas.

Tuesday Twaddle: the Mommy Wars

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Timothy Geithner is just the latest Administration mouthpiece to try to convince American voters that the number of women laid off during Mr. Obama’s stewardship of the recession is a ridiculous, meaningless number.

Pfui.

Statisticians know the figures show that George W. Bush likes women while Barack Obama prefers men because all the men were laid off under Mr. Bush; under Mr. Obama, only 7.7 percent of those who lost their jobs were men.

Of course, statisticians also know that fewer workers of any gender would have lost jobs had Obamanation actions not lengthened the recession.