You know, if I’m going to die young, let it be something worthy of a story– a heart attack in a bike race (as I cross the finish line, hands pumping in the air), a terrorist attack, or maybe a a parachute that doesn’t open. Â But please, oh please… let it not be a an (avoidable) car accident.
Here we are worried about terrorist threats in Mumbai, when what we should be worried about are stupid drunk drivers. We were running some errands a few hours ago for our trip, and I decided to avoid the highway because I thought it’d be safer. Going about 5 miles an hour in downtown Mayaguez some drunk driver decided to turn into our lane and hit us head on. Luckily he was also going 5 miles an hour, so it was just annoying– having to lose 2-3 hours while he got arrested and sobered off barely enough to have the situation explained to him. The man was so drunk he could barely stand up.
At the police station we realized this was not the only drunk driving case for the night– maybe the 3rd.
Oh, and guess what the punishment for drunk driving in PR is: driving school and a $300 fine. What the fuck! Drunk drivers should lose their license for 3 years, spend 30 days in jail, and pay a $3000 fine to get their license back. Second offense? 6 months in jail and you lose your license for life. Oh yeah, and 6 month community service at a car wash… in Santurce.
We’re all right, though we have to spend our first day back from vacation going to court. Can’t wait…
Well, provided no more drunk drivers, we should be in the airport in about 3 hours. Excuse the typos, it’s 3:30am. Yawn.
Ves??? No todos los accidentes los provoca Yano!!!!
300 dollar fee? WTF?! let’s all drive drunk…
PR– the land of the free. The root of the problem is not drunk drivers, it’s the law and it’s enforcement.
BTW –Good luck in court (for the next 5 ~ 10 yrs to get nothing).
Oh my goodness! That is crazy! I don’t know if you remember the car accident I was in when I lived there. But it was on the way from the house me and Denise lived in my last year there, and a drunk driver hit us head on, not 5 miles an hour. There were three people in the back seat, then me and the driver. They hit us head-on, so hard that it left an imprint of the steering wheel on the drivers chest and he bent the steering wheel. oooh I think his name was Johnny. Anyway, he got like $500 for his care while none of us got anything from it. Well I got an injured hip for life, but yeah. So here here, on the suckage of drunk drivers!