08-30-2012, 12:18 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale
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Alberta has similar rules. If you're over 75, you need to have an eye test and medical approval before they'll renew your license.
I believe that after a certain age, the renewal period goes from 5 years to 1 year, but I'm not sure about that.
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08-30-2012, 12:18 PM
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#22
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Originally Posted by core_upt
Only in America...
(also if the kids had guns, this wouldn't have happened)
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Elementary aged kids, for the most part, don't have guns yet. Their older siblings might though. This is right smack dab in the middle of South Central.
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08-30-2012, 12:22 PM
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#23
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Originally Posted by Table 5
A few weeks ago, an older gentleman in his late 80's was backing out of a parking lot, and instead of pressing the gas pedal, pressed the accelerator. His car backed up over some stairs and plowed right into a Chinese restaurant to the point where his entire car was inside the kitchen. I know this because it happened in a building where my dad has his business.
Only in Killarney....
According to the firemen, it happens way more than we think (according to them they do this type of call every few days in town).
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Are you sure that wasn't just some sort of Asian gang assassination attempt sans guns? I mean...Chinese restaurant....Calgary....
You see, this is what happens when you have strict gun laws. Gangs turn to ramming cars into other gangs favorite restaurants.
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08-30-2012, 12:45 PM
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#24
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Are you sure that wasn't just some sort of Asian gang assassination attempt sans guns? I mean...Chinese restaurant....Calgary....
You see, this is what happens when you have strict gun laws. Gangs turn to ramming cars into other gangs favorite restaurants.
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This is a level of escalation that simply cannot be tolerated.
Will someone please think of the food!!
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08-30-2012, 03:28 PM
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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Originally Posted by getbak
Alberta has similar rules. If you're over 75, you need to have an eye test and medical approval before they'll renew your license.
I believe that after a certain age, the renewal period goes from 5 years to 1 year, but I'm not sure about that.
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True, but I don't believe they actually have to go for an on-road drivers test.
If they had to do that a lot of elderly seniors would probably fail.
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08-30-2012, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Rerun
True, but I don't believe they actually have to go for an on-road drivers test.
If they had to do that a lot of elderly seniors would probably fail.
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Isn't that what we want? Fewer old people on the road.
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08-30-2012, 06:40 PM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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He backed into them?
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The incident occurred Wednesday afternoon when Carter was backing up from a grocery store near an elementary school in southern Los Angeles.
His Cadillac jumped the curb and plowed into the crowd, according to Richard French, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
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08-30-2012, 06:55 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Table 5
..... and instead of pressing the gas pedal, pressed the accelerator. His car backed up over some stairs and plowed right into a ...
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Can you explain the difference between the gas pedal and the accelerator?
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08-30-2012, 07:04 PM
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#29
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First Line Centre
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Yah know, when are these old #######s gonna learn to stop texting and driving!
I don't care if you caught the early bird at Denny's, just changed your diaper or your friend found your teeth, put down the iphone!!
Something needs to be done
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08-30-2012, 07:12 PM
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#30
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by core_upt
Only in America...
(also if the kids had guns, this wouldn't have happened)
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seriously dude?
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08-30-2012, 07:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
I don't know exactly how driving laws work in America, but don't the people at the DMV has a responsibility to ensure the person they are licensing is in fact...competant to drive? Did no one notice his date of birth? Was he given an eye test? How the F is this even allowed to happen??
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you don't have to have a license to drive. To drive legally you have to but it's not needed to drive.
But they do have written and driving tests that one has to take to get it.
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08-30-2012, 07:20 PM
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#32
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Ban cars. And the elderly.
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08-30-2012, 07:20 PM
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#33
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Tampa, Florida
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somewhere I believe that NASCAR is secretly trying to get him to the next race
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08-30-2012, 08:26 PM
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#34
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Edmonton,AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
'Plowed into the crowd.' Awesome.
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08-30-2012, 10:55 PM
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#35
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: STH since 2002
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just tell the truth you old goat. You were late for Bingo and just finished watching back to back Matlock's. 
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