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THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS!!!!!!!
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Post by swamp on Mar 7, 2016 10:05:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 10:15:10 GMT -5
That happens here too. We had one neighbor that even got pulled over on his JD riding mower headed home from the bar drunk on a country road at 2am.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Mar 7, 2016 10:16:44 GMT -5
hahahaha
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 7, 2016 10:18:59 GMT -5
Seems every town has a bit of Twin Peaks in them. What's a town without a few surreal characters living there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2016 10:41:31 GMT -5
Grew up in a town like that, we had a "drive a tractor to school" day in high school.
Worst idea ever.... it wasn't the kids that grew up working on the farm we worried about, it was the kids that had never driven a tractor in their lives and had a grandfather or uncle that had one.
Getting behind the wheel of a tractor drunk is incredibly stupid, a tremendous amount of damage can be caused with a powerful machine like that. Every single one of us that worked on my grandfathers farm has a story of when we caused thousands in damage with a simple accident (simple meaning in a car it is a fender bender).
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Post by Bonny on Mar 7, 2016 10:47:21 GMT -5
Nothing suspicious about driving the JD at 2am from a bar? Naaa I won't get caught!  |
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 7, 2016 10:53:09 GMT -5
FIL used to drive his lawnmower up to the convenience store to buy beer. (I don't think we have a smiley for that) Well, except this one  |
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Post by resolution on Mar 7, 2016 11:09:53 GMT -5
In my parent's retirement community, it's golf carts. A few years ago a woman passed out while driving home from a party in her golf cart and fell out of the side, hit her head on the road and died.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 7, 2016 13:04:09 GMT -5
The seniors at our high school have an alternative mode of transportation day just before their last day of school. We get everything from a front end loader to kids kayaking down the river that runs past the school to shopping carts and everything in between (they really are a clever bunch). I am quite certain that not all of those kids are sober on the ride to school that morning.  |
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Mar 7, 2016 13:06:32 GMT -5
Not long after I moved to KY, the mayor of an adjacent small town was arrested for driving a tractor through the town drunk.
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Post by wyouser on Mar 7, 2016 13:37:02 GMT -5
get a wagon and a horse and stay off anything paved. .....ummm....does "designated horse" even work up north?  (I do remember some summers driving semis in the middle of the night in Montana, The horse would make it across the road but would lose the rider in the ditch, hence the thought...get a wagon to put BEHIND the horse)
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swamp
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Post by swamp on Mar 7, 2016 13:40:57 GMT -5
yes, designated horse works. The Amish use them all the time. I see Amish guys sleeping in the buggy while the horse goes down the road. |
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 7, 2016 13:42:46 GMT -5
yes, designated horse works. The Amish use them all the time. I see Amish guys sleeping in the buggy while the horse goes down the road. Equal parts  and !!! |
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 7, 2016 13:45:54 GMT -5
Oh, and thanks, swamp. I now have that song stuck in my head. Now hey lalalalalala, hey now heeeeyyyyy, life in a northern town. Just need some softly falling snow and some Christmas lights.  |
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Mar 7, 2016 13:49:40 GMT -5
My wife wouldn't let me put a holder on the riding mower. So I mowed with one hand. |
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Post by zibazinski on Mar 7, 2016 13:54:48 GMT -5
Not just northern towns.  |
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ken a.k.a OMK
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Mar 7, 2016 14:08:38 GMT -5
BTW I'm not in a northern town. About 40 miles south of the Mason Dixon Line. Southerners consider us Northerners though. |
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 7, 2016 14:10:20 GMT -5
BTW I'm not in a northern town. About 40 miles south of the Mason Dixon Line. Southerners consider us Northerners though. That's because you are.  |
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ken a.k.a OMK
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Mar 7, 2016 14:24:55 GMT -5
Well we are known as the Old Line State or Free Line State. Brothers fighting brothers during the Civil War. I didn't know I was a southerner until I went to college in Philly. Amazing what a few miles will do.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 7, 2016 14:46:04 GMT -5
Well we are known as the Old Line State or Free Line State. Brothers fighting brothers during the Civil War. I didn't know I was a southerner until I went to college in Philly. Amazing what a few miles will do. Don't worry, we won't claim you. I barely give North Carolina credit for being southern. |
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Post by Bonny on Mar 7, 2016 14:49:04 GMT -5
yes, designated horse works. The Amish use them all the time. I see Amish guys sleeping in the buggy while the horse goes down the road. The Amish get drunk!
I found this link interesting, although I suspect the RUI is probably state specific. I swear someone was busted in AZ in the town adjacent to the one we lived in. I think there are 10 bars on the mile + drag and lots of faux cowboys.
www.askthejudge.info/can-you-get-a-d-u-i-on-a-horse/
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ken a.k.a OMK
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Mar 7, 2016 14:52:44 GMT -5
  my friend, but I married a Northern girl.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 7, 2016 15:00:32 GMT -5
my friend, but I married a Northern girl. They just weren't allowed to mention what they learned down here  |
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Post by mojothehelpermonkey on Mar 7, 2016 15:32:25 GMT -5
yes, designated horse works. The Amish use them all the time. I see Amish guys sleeping in the buggy while the horse goes down the road. I have always wondered if it was possible to get a DUI while riding a horse. My farmer grandpa got a DUI on a bicycle after his license was taken away. I wonder if he wracked up some tractor DUIs before that. |
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Post by wyouser on Mar 7, 2016 15:33:44 GMT -5
Well we are known as the Old Line State or Free Line State. Brothers fighting brothers during the Civil War. I didn't know I was a southerner until I went to college in Philly. Amazing what a few miles will do. Well, that explains the confusion in some parts of the country when you tell them you were born in SOUTH Dakota..........................  |
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Post by zibazinski on Mar 7, 2016 16:20:00 GMT -5
yes, designated horse works. The Amish use them all the time. I see Amish guys sleeping in the buggy while the horse goes down the road. I'd doze off too with that rhythmic motion of the horse and buggy. |
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Post by happyhoix on Mar 7, 2016 16:31:32 GMT -5
Well we are known as the Old Line State or Free Line State. Brothers fighting brothers during the Civil War. I didn't know I was a southerner until I went to college in Philly. Amazing what a few miles will do. Don't worry, we won't claim you. I barely give North Carolina credit for being southern. Nope too far north and too many Yankees living in the Research Triangle for the state to be southern anymore.
Now South Carolina - yep.
NC is kind of like Florida, only instead of scientists and geeks, Florida has little blue haired Yankee grannies.
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Post by happyhoix on Mar 7, 2016 16:33:04 GMT -5
yes, designated horse works. The Amish use them all the time. I see Amish guys sleeping in the buggy while the horse goes down the road. I'd doze off too with that rhythmic motion of the horse and buggy. I got to drive a horse and buggy last year when we visited Mackinaw Island in upper Michigan.
Slowest horse on the island, but it was fun.
I could retire there, if it didn't get to be about 30 below zero in the winter - it was nice not having any cars anywhere.
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Post by Tennesseer on Mar 7, 2016 16:33:50 GMT -5
yes, designated horse works. The Amish use them all the time. I see Amish guys sleeping in the buggy while the horse goes down the road. I have always wondered if it was possible to get a DUI while riding a horse. My farmer grandpa got a DUI on a bicycle after his license was taken away. I wonder if he wracked up some tractor DUIs before that. "Don’t drink and ride. A Kentucky man was charged with DUI after he was busted allegedly riding a horse while drunk, police said. State troopers were called to Betsy Lane, in Floyd County, on Tuesday to reports that an intoxicated man was atop a horse, the Floyd County Times reported. They found a shirtless Michael Kimmel astride a mare. He was wearing just boots, jeans and a cowboy hat." Pony keg cowboy! Kentucky man arrested after riding drunk on horseback: cops |
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 7, 2016 16:34:51 GMT -5
Don't worry, we won't claim you. I barely give North Carolina credit for being southern. Nope too far north and too many Yankees living in the Research Triangle for the state to be southern anymore.
Now South Carolina - yep.
NC is kind of like Florida, only instead of scientists and geeks, Florida has little blue haired Yankee grannies.
NW FL is still full of rednecks so it's a 50/50 state.  |
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