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Originally Posted by ken0042
Well, it was a Saskatchewan think tank.
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No kidding. Probably spawned when a few of them couldn't get home from whatever pub they were at when visiting Calgary.
Also makes you think that maybe that Rider fan who jumped the cop from behind just wanted a ride early back downtown as the RIder were getting shallacked.
I also agree the lack of cabs excuse for any sort of justification for driving home plowed is weak. Most of the time you can anticipate the chances of probably getting hammered when you go out somewhere, so basic planning and common sense should kick in well in advance.
If you plan not to drink, but you drive, and it turns into one of those nights, you take responsibility for your actions and suffer the consequences of your car being stuck where it is, and the fact that you didn't wear a jacket. If there's no cabs when you want to leave and you get kicked out of the place you were at, maybe it means drying out at someone's house for the night or stumbling to a diner for 1h until more cabs come..whatever it is, you do it. That's what most of my buddies did and do when things turn from the original plan.
Its lazy, selfish people who make the decision to throw common sense and self control and paitence out the window, and use excuses like this as crutches to justify their dangerous actions. If there were more cabs, there would just be a different reason for people justifying getting behind the wheel.
I do agree some more cabs are needed just for better service/ competition. I really have never had an issue getting one, or, at least am conditioned over all the years here there there isn't going to be one on every corner/bar the exact time you need it, and some paitence is required. The last couple cabs I've taken downtown will give you any excuse in the book if you're going well into the deep south of suburbia, they want to stick around the dt it seems. So my buddy that lives in the deep south doesn't tell the cabbie until I get to my place that he has to go down there...he can't refuse it then.