Re:Drunk Cycling
by silentbicycle on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @10:26PM
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As long as we're flaunting statistics for shock value, it wouldn't hurt to work out "riding drunk in a cab" and "taking the bus home drunk", too.
There are a lot of other variables, not the least of which is that the people who pass out drunk in a snowbank and freeze to death (or who ride a rusty Huffy head-on into traffic) are very likely to be homeless and/or mentally ill. (Speaking as somebody who worked in a public library in a poor neighborhood for several years and has dealt with lots of drunken street people...) It's a different segment of society than people who are arrested for drunk driving.
There are a lot of other variables, not the least of which is that the people who pass out drunk in a snowbank and freeze to death (or who ride a rusty Huffy head-on into traffic) are very likely to be homeless and/or mentally ill. (Speaking as somebody who worked in a public library in a poor neighborhood for several years and has dealt with lots of drunken street people...) It's a different segment of society than people who are arrested for drunk driving.