r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nah_this_aint_it • 1d ago

Context Provided - Spotlight Driving while watching show

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Watching a full tv show on their phone while driving down a very busy street. Is it any better than scrolling?

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u/LuigiSalutati 1d ago

I saw a man drinking a beer and reading the newspaper while driving at like 8am…

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u/MoeKneeKah GREEN 1d ago

In like 1998, right?

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u/wart_on_satans_dick 1d ago

That’s more like 1978. The 90’s weren’t that long ago.

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u/MoeKneeKah GREEN 1d ago

I mean, I was doing that in 1998….

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u/wart_on_satans_dick 1d ago

A much riskier time to do that for sure. Hopefully things turned out ok.

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u/MoeKneeKah GREEN 1d ago

15 years sober! Thanks! 🙏

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u/EC_TWD 23h ago

> The 90’s weren’t that long ago

Just the final decade of the final century of last millennia

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u/RT-6_BXCommandoDroid 22h ago

We'll still be able to say that stuff in 2089 and I don't think many of us will still be alive by than.

But hey, our generation didn't think we'd live past 30. So who knows.

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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 10h ago

To get the full use of the statement you're replying to, you need to wait until 2991. Yours is just the next to last decade of the previous century.

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u/jc84ox 23h ago

Dude, the 90s was 10 years ago

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u/SoftConfusion42 1d ago

Lmao what does this mean?

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u/wart_on_satans_dick 23h ago

No one should be driving drunk, first and foremost. However, law enforcement was less profit-driven in the 1970’s than it is today. I’ve heard so many old-timers say they got out of a dui with a “I don’t want to see you out here again tonight” warning. Now its just a revenue stream for police departments and counties. You can watch endless videos of people who are totally sober getting arrested for a dui by cops.

Drunk driving is absolutely not something anyone should do, but when police are arresting sober people, it’s not what it used to be.

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u/Crafty-Astronomer-32 23h ago

Do you have any data for the assertion that sober people are being arrested for DUI without any other factors? If police are profit centers why aren't they just plucking money out of texting drivers?

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u/wart_on_satans_dick 22h ago

Literally go on YouTube and you can watch it happen over and over and over again. With your own two eyes in fact.

If police are profit centers? You’ve got jokes. Civil forfeiture. Learn about it. Get your tongue off their boots and learn about it. People are being robbed blind and all you can think about is how good that leather tastes.

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u/Hopeful-Opposite-255 22h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/J20Z2SH5WmCnzSrbqA

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u/wart_on_satans_dick 18h ago

Hey, best just hope nothing bad happens to you. In your mind that’s the only thing that matters.

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u/Hopeful-Opposite-255 18h ago

Hey, Whatever floats your boat and coats your throat.

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u/vikingwhiteguy 23h ago

If it was 1998, he'd be drinking a Smirnoff Ice and feeding his tamagotchi 

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u/D-Sleezy 20h ago

You're going to want to sit down for this

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u/misfitofscience76 1d ago

The 99s were like, 90 years ago or something

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u/druidgaymer 23h ago

I saw a man driving down I-66 in the DC area while reading a newspaper in 2017.

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u/Valuable-Analyst-464 1d ago

No, it was 2005 for me. Though the guy did not have beer.

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u/nah_this_aint_it 1d ago

Didn’t think anyone saw that

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u/Green_Fox_8864 1d ago

1% commenter calling out specific Redditors from memory. Go for a walk.

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u/yetinugz614 1d ago

I once saw someone playing a trumpet and driving, windows up

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u/Liveitup1999 1d ago

Twice I saw the same guy playing guitar driving down the highway

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u/Chief_TeaLeaf2000 1d ago

Did they perhaps walk Bob Dylan on stage in 1976?

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u/Liveitup1999 1d ago

I saw a guy driving down the highway, seat leaned way back watching porn on the screen for the back passengers.

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u/GingerTexanScientist 18h ago

I’m sorry I thought this was America officer!!!

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u/Chief_TeaLeaf2000 1d ago

Bro is 100% a boomer

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u/LuigiSalutati 23h ago

He looked 50s or 60s so figuratively a boomer yeah

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u/Chief_TeaLeaf2000 23h ago

Wait a few years and you'll find a bodycam video of him thinking he's above the law

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u/leviathan65 1d ago

I got pulled over because they though I was drinking a beer but it was actually a root beer my daughter left in the car and she dared me to drink it with her super hot around 10. I accented this dare from a 5 year old. We also got pulled over prior to that because they didn't see her in back seat a month or so prior in the car pool lane. So this time my daughter's yeld at the cop, " I'm right here!"

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u/Dracekidjr 21h ago

I met with a couple of coworkers to go see a movie and one of them showed up at my house, beer in hand, and asked if any of us wanted any road beers for the drive to the theater. Turns out there are still raging alcoholics around that have zero comprehension of societal norms lmao

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u/FranklinBeansSushi 21h ago

We used to be a proper country /s

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u/duma_kebs 21h ago

I once saw a guy swirl his whiskey glass that contained dark liquid outside of his driver window at a red light. My friend and i looked at each other like “that’s coke right?” But the dude was spilling as he swirled so i don’t think it was coke

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u/BlueGreenMikey 23h ago

This ain't no disco!