Next Stupid Question.....

[JustKev]

Used to be you could ride the roads in unorganized townships either as a youngster learning to drive or as an adult who wanted to have a couple of soothing beverages while he/she rode along. Not so anymore. If you're drinking and driving on the dirt roads in an unorganized township now days, the game wardens can ticket you just as if you were in downtown Portland and the Portland PD caught you.

[dubord207]

I don't sense that anybody is suggesting that drunk driving is ok because it's not..period. It is not a crime or violation to have a beer and then drive. That's why the State runs adds about responsible drinking. Di and I had two beers apiece yesterday, out of the car after some caches that were hikes. Nothing wrong with that (or the lobster rolls we had with them) in my book. The picnics we have while caching are a big part of the fun for us, plus if we pack everything we need we're not tempted to eat junk food.

[CARoperPhotography]

Yes, again someone reads what I say in a post and assumes something or puts words into my mouth (or in this case, keyboard). I never said in my post that we drink while we are driving. While doing Stud Mill both times we were up there and on the road, we pulled over and hung out with our lunch or snacks and enjoyed a beer. This is not "drunk driving". This is no different than driving somewhere for lunch and having a beer or two, then leaving and then going to dinner six hours later and having another beer or two with dinner, then driving home.

If you really want to talk about the breaking of driving laws, especially while Geocaching, I am going to go out on a limb here and guess (not assume) that the vast majority of us have broken Maine's distracted driving law while caching, or even while not caching by either eating a McDonald's quarter pounder while driving, texting while driving, reaching for something while driving, or entering cords into a GPS or using the GPS in some manner to navigate to a cache while driving.

Studies have shown that texting while driving increases your stopping distance and reaction time while driving considerably more than even being intoxicated while driving. I wonder what the reaction time and stopping distance are on someone who is fiddling with their GPS while driving?

[CARoperPhotography]

oh great a couple of more idiots out there who drink and drive!!!!

As I recall, in a recent thread that was closed by the site administrators, when I supposedly implied that someone was a moron, that post was deleted and I was pilloried by the rest of you all.... I wonder if Brdad will do the same for this post? I think not..... ahhh the hypocrisy.

[LaughingTerry]

Distracted driving. Yep putting coords in, looking at the screen, but not with traffic or people around. My insurance is bad enough now. LOL

I almost got rear-ended by a kid today. Every time I looked in my mirror he was riding my bumper while looking down in his lap. Hmmmmmm Then he was upset that I kept slowing down so I wouldn't get too close to the truck in front of me. THEN the car behind him passed all 3 of us, he peeled out from behind and passed me and the pickup in a no passing zone. THEN the pickup passed both of them even though he had been going 5 miles under the speed limit up to that point. From there it went stupid and I finally called dispatch and asked them to send an officer that way if one was close. Last I saw they were doing 65 in a 35 coming into some small town and I wasn't about to try and keep up.

Now what was this thread about again?

[WhereRWe?]

Yes, again someone reads what I say in a post and assumes something or puts words into my mouth (or in this case, keyboard). I never said in my post that we drink while we are driving. ?

What you said was "Marcipanek and I always make sure we have an assortment of good beers in a cooler in the back of the Jeep..... they sure made Stud Mill (both of our times up there) more lively ;-)"

1. You "ALWAYS MAKE SURE" you have an "ASSORTMENT" of beers in a cooler. How many beers do you take in that "assortment?

2. "THEY sure made the Stud Mill (both times) more lively. (Implies that you had more than one and were under the effects of alchohol. Why else would the trip be "more lively"?)

3. The ";-)" implies something as well. What? (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, you know what I mean? You know what I mean?)

From what you've said, it is very easy to infer that drinking during a caching trip is normal for you, is it not? Without even putting words in your mouth.

[CARoperPhotography]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/dri...cle4776063.ece

There you are...

[WhereRWe?]

As I recall, in a recent thread that was closed by the site administrators, when I supposedly implied that someone was a moron, that post was deleted and I was pilloried by the rest of you all.... I wonder if Brdad will do the same for this post? I think not..... ahhh the hypocrisy.

And this thread was about eating and taking lunches on caching trips. You are the one that hijacked the thread and started talking about the "assortment of beers" you ALWAYS bring on caching trips. (No mention of food to go along with that ASSORTMENT of beers...)

[CARoperPhotography]

Drinking during a caching trip. Not drinking while driving down Stud Mill at 60 mph and using a GPS at the same time.

Yes an assortment of beers. Who wants to drink one kind? For example, to celebrate #100 on our first Stud Mill Trip, we had some delicious Belgian Cherry Lambec with us.

As far as the effects of drinking? Yes I have been under the "effect" of drinking alcohol before and then driven. Why would I drink a beer or two if I wasn't going to have some sort of an effect? However, Maine has an blood alcohol limit. I know how many drinks it takes for me to be above that limit. I have used a BA analyzer to determine what my limit is, and I know what my limit is. Mind you, two beers for me, doesn't do much and doesn't raise my BA over the legal limit in Maine however for light weights, it may. I am 6'2", and weigh 210. Volumes of beer effect different sizes of people differently.

I hijacked the thread??? HA! I added to the thread and mentioned that I usually bring some adult beverages along for LONG days of caching. It was about snacks and what we eat and consume on caching trips. I added what I consume. What's your issue?

Sorry if I didn't give you my recipe for granola, but I don't have one. I can email you one damn fine home brew recipe though....

[brdad]

Good point, although I do see a few differences in the post. I think most people will agree drinking and driving is not a good thing as well as being against the law when it meets a certain limit and anyone doing so might be rightfully named something other than smart. Plus, not one person had reported haffy's post.

I think both of your posts could be taken wrong. Yours can easily suggest you drink while caching, His could be taken as suggesting you you are an ***** for doing so.

For the sake of keeping this thread out of the gutter, lets keep this subject off limits. If anyone feels the need to discuss it, lets start another thread, or discuss it in Hiram and WhereRwe's Beer Chat Thread.