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I'm Perfectly Safe On The Roads, Says Blind Driver
Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 9/5/2006 | Nick Britten

Posted on 09/05/2006 11:13:47 PM PDT by Dallas59

A police officer described yesterday how he pulled over a motorist who was veering across the road and found that he had no eyes.

Omed Aziz, who lost both his eyes in a bomb blast and is also deaf, was caught behind the wheel with a friend sitting in the passenger seat giving him instructions on when to steer and brake, and how quickly to drive.

Omed Aziz Bomb victim Omed Aziz

Aziz, who also suffers from leg tremors, claimed he was perfectly safe and denied a charge of dangerous driving before being convicted.....

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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And it looks like he smokes too...


1 posted on 09/05/2006 11:13:48 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59
Unbelievable.
2 posted on 09/05/2006 11:15:10 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Dallas59

3 posted on 09/05/2006 11:15:43 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Dallas59
"Omed Aziz, who lost both his eyes in a bomb blast and is also deaf, was caught behind the wheel with a friend sitting in the passenger seat giving him instructions.."

HOW?

4 posted on 09/05/2006 11:17:49 PM PDT by decal (The Key To Flexibility is Indecision)
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To: Dallas59

Sounds like the DNC.


5 posted on 09/05/2006 11:18:09 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Dallas59
And it looks like he smokes too...

Hard to know which is worse, huh? Driving blind or smoking? : )

6 posted on 09/05/2006 11:23:08 PM PDT by radiohead (Hey Kerry, I'm still here; still hating your lying, stinking, guts you coward.)
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To: Dallas59
Omed Aziz, who lost both his eyes in a bomb blast and is also deaf, was caught behind the wheel with a friend sitting in the passenger seat giving him instructions on when to steer and brake, and how quickly to drive.

That makes absolutely no sense. (pardon the pun).

7 posted on 09/05/2006 11:23:14 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Dallas59

well, if the Kennedys are allowed to drive...


8 posted on 09/05/2006 11:23:30 PM PDT by verum ago (Proper foreign policy makes loud noises.)
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To: decal
HOW?

I think they do hand to hand pressure "symbols". My question is why? If he felt he had to tool around just for the experience why didn't his friend take him to an empty field?

9 posted on 09/05/2006 11:23:45 PM PDT by Dosa26
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I think they do hand to hand pressure "symbols".

Ah, that must be how they do it at the Helen Keller School Of Defensive Driving.

10 posted on 09/05/2006 11:25:59 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Dallas59

In other news ... special books for the deaf.


11 posted on 09/05/2006 11:28:47 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: decal
Timothy Gascoyne, defending, said Aziz, who did not give evidence, should be cleared because "the question is not whether his driving was dangerous, but whether being blind makes it dangerous".

He said: "If my client hadn't been blind he wouldn't have been arrested for dangerous driving, so it doesn't fall far below what is expected from a careful and competent driver."


I read this and I've gone mute.

12 posted on 09/05/2006 11:29:10 PM PDT by Bronzewound
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To: decal
"HOW?

Perhaps his "joy" stick?

Semper Fi

13 posted on 09/05/2006 11:29:42 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: decal
I was just driving behind a car last week with the vanity license plate "DEAF". He was weaving all over the place. As I got closer, I saw the reason for the weaving. He was carrying on a spirited conversation in sign language (both hands) with his passenger. Not watching the road or keeping a hand on the wheel. A truly dangerous dumbass.
14 posted on 09/05/2006 11:29:52 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Dallas59

I'd still ride with him before I would ride with Ted Kennedy.


15 posted on 09/05/2006 11:31:47 PM PDT by Pylon (Remember boys, flies spread disease, so keep yours closed.)
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To: Dallas59

I think this was the same guy who was swinging his seeing eye dog around over his head at the department store. When asked what he thought he was doing, he said that he was just looking around.


16 posted on 09/05/2006 11:32:38 PM PDT by BulletBobCo
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To: Dallas59

Poor guy.


17 posted on 09/05/2006 11:33:42 PM PDT by stinkerpot65
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To: Dallas59

At least he has an excuse for being a lousy driver.


18 posted on 09/05/2006 11:34:13 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Dallas59

Suicide bomber in training.


19 posted on 09/05/2006 11:36:29 PM PDT by LibWhacker (There are no such things as moderate muslims, only jihadis in a larval stage.)
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To: Dallas59
He may be "perfectly safe" but no one else is.
20 posted on 09/05/2006 11:37:56 PM PDT by RedCell ("...thou shalt kill thine enemy before he killeth you by any means available" - Dick Marcinko)
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