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To: Billthedrill

Since a riding lawn mower isn’t licensed as a vehicle and doens’t require an operator’s license to drive, I think the only charge they can get him on is public intoxication and public urination. I don’t think the DUI will stick. Sure sounds like an interesting neighborhood, though.


5 posted on 04/10/2009 2:58:30 PM PDT by downtownconservative (As Obama lies, liberty dies!)
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To: downtownconservative

Now wait a minute. You’re tellin’ me is isn’t OK to take a leak off a moving lawn mower in the middle of town? Who knew?


8 posted on 04/10/2009 3:00:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: downtownconservative
A good Minnesota joke:

Three guys are out fishing in a lake when one snags an old oil lamp and reels it in.

His buddies rib him about whether it is magic and he decides to give it a try. He rubs and, much to everyone's suprise, a very old Genie comes out coughing and wheezing. When the coughing and wheezing die down, the Genie announces he is only good for one wish, having been underwater so long and having caught a cold.

The guy who hooked the lamp, like all his buddies, has had a little too much to drink and makes his wish.

"I'd like for this lake to be turned into ice cold beer!!", he says. And just as quickly, the Genie says "done!" and slithers back into the lamp.

For awhile, the guy and his fishing buddies are happy, dipping in their bailing bucket and passing it around to drink their fill.

But when one has to pee, he screams "Idiot, now we're going to have to put into shore or I'll have to pee in the boat!"

10 posted on 04/10/2009 3:06:17 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: downtownconservative
Actually, in Texas the elements of the crime are:
a) A person
b) operating a motor vehicle upon a public street or highway
c) While intoxicated.

Doesn't say anything about a “licensed” vehicle or anything needing a drivers’ license. If you are operating an unlicensed vehicle (let the tags expire perhaps), still counts, as does driving a go-cart, doesn't matter, you are on a public street and driving while drunk.

I suppose every other state is nearly the same. You operate a motor vehicle while drunk, you are “toasted.”

11 posted on 04/10/2009 3:11:34 PM PDT by Hulka
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