{"id":30,"date":"2008-12-15T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2008-12-15T00:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T07:44:04","slug":"a-stupid-way-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/a-stupid-way-to-die\/","title":{"rendered":"A stupid way to die"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. \u00c2\u00a0But please, oh please… let it not be a an (avoidable) car accident.<\/p>\n

Here we are worried about terrorist threats in Mumbai, when what we should be worried about are stupid drunk drivers.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Going about 5 miles an hour in downtown Mayaguez some drunk driver decided to turn into our lane and hit us head on.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 The man was so drunk he could barely stand up.<\/p>\n

At the police station we realized this was not the only drunk driving case for the night– maybe the 3rd.<\/p>\n

Oh, and guess what the punishment for drunk driving in PR\u00c2\u00a0 is: driving school and a $300 fine.\u00c2\u00a0 What the fuck!\u00c2\u00a0 Drunk drivers should lose their license for 3 years, spend 30 days in jail, and pay a $3000 fine to get their license back.\u00c2\u00a0 Second offense?\u00c2\u00a0 6 months in jail and you lose your license for life.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh yeah, and 6 month community service at a car wash… in Santurce.<\/p>\n

We’re all right, though we have to spend our first day back from vacation going to court.\u00c2\u00a0 Can’t wait…<\/p>\n

Well, provided no more drunk drivers, we should be in the airport in about 3 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 Excuse the typos, it’s 3:30am.\u00c2\u00a0 Yawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. \u00c2\u00a0But please, oh please… let it not be a an … Continue reading A stupid way to die<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quesejoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}