Estonian man arrested for driving while blind
This past weekend, police in the Estonian city of Tartu pulled over a car because it was being driven erratically. The officers who made the traffic stop found a 20-year-old driver accompanied by a 16-year-old passenger. Thinking that the driver was drunk, they sought to administer a breathalyzer test, but the driver kept missing the tube he needed to blow into. Ultimately, Estonia Five-O figured out that the driver was blind and was piloting the car based on instructions given to him by his passenger. Hey, maybe they were were practicing for some enhanced form of the World Rally Championship. We'll never know. Anyway, at that point, the cuffs came out, because apparently Estonia requires drivers have the ability to see before getting behind the wheel. What a bunch of killjoys. It can be done! Haven't these people seen Scent of a Woman?[Source: Reuters]
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1337 11:00AM (8/08/2007)
That reminds me of Ricky Bobby when his Ricky's dad makes him drive with a blindfold on...and he drives into a house.
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Jon 11:04AM (8/08/2007)
hoo-ah!
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felipe 11:07AM (8/08/2007)
can you imagine....
officer- "you know i've been behind you the last mile?"
EstMan- "nope"
officer- "do you know how fast ur going?"
EstMan- "nope"
officer- "you know you ran a stop sign?"
EstMan- "nope"
Office- "agh"
Officer- "license and reg. please"
EstMan- "nope"
all the while, you're trying to sit in the passanger seat trying not laugh.
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Allan 12:34PM (8/08/2007)
Now if we can somehow find a story that combines this one with the one limbed man from the other day... and have a blind, one limbed man outrunning cops and then getting arrested.
That would make my day.
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cowboy bob 2:42PM (8/08/2007)
He couldn't be any worse than some of the people WITH eyes I see driving every day here.
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SHOTT3R 7:09PM (8/08/2007)
Gives a whole new meaning to the term "DWB"...
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bathtub gin 1:20AM (8/09/2007)
There's a song in this somewhere.
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