Just hold up, I'm late for work and a bit drunk, I'm sure I can clip a few on the way down there!
- Thread starter caribmike
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Semana Borracha 2013
COE published their final boletin:
Boletin No. 4 Final Operativo Semana Santa 2013
they put the number of dead as 29: 27 in road accidents and 2 drownings.
if you add 12 from arguments (a number i mentioned earlier) we get 41.
Boletin No. 4 Final Operativo Semana Santa 2013
they put the number of dead as 29: 27 in road accidents and 2 drownings.
if you add 12 from arguments (a number i mentioned earlier) we get 41.
not happy about though...I guess from my childhood days in Puerto Rico, I never understood the glamor or concept behind drunken driving and disregard of human life in the name of ahh.... I don't know.... celebration?
Are people that repressed or bored with their lives it seems?
Are people that repressed or bored with their lives it seems?
getting in the car and driving completely sloshed has a universal appeal, i think. poland is no different and that is quite far from latin culture... what stops polaks is the fear of the law rather than preoccupation they may kill someone. that is missing from here, i guess. killing someone is a car accident is not considered a big deal. you can either pay up (there is even a set amount of money to pay) or serve a short sentence. in europe you are likely to lose your licence, car, freedom, job, family....
In New York you lose your car, your driver license and if the victim survives, pretty much your life as well.
When I was told it was completely legal to drive with alcohol in your hand in DR, I immediately knew not to find myself out there driving at night, if at all possible.
Interestingly, if you are stopped and found intoxicated, there are big penalties for that for a foreigner. Go figure.
Rational is that foreigners are not used to driving drunk, thus don't know how to handle it. Dominicans have been doing it since they can get their hands on a car (driver license or not)...so if you're Dominican you get a pass...:cheeky::cheeky::cheeky::cheeky:
I never understood why so many people drowned here during Semana Santa,..........until, I drank a litters of rum,mixed with 2 litters of Coke, while floating in a truck tire inner tube in a small pond in New Hampshire.
I was too drunk to extricate myself from the tube after a 3 hour soak.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo, I rolled out, sank straight to the bottom, and had no idea what I was supposed to do!
I looked up at the surface of the water, and decided to walk to shore.
It was like I was taking an afternoon stroll, but under water.
Just as I realized what was going on, I reached shallow water, and broke through in to the AIR!
A little farther, and I was going to sit down and rest.
"Drowning" was not anything I was thinking about!
Now, I KNOW why they drown.
But it's a "Happy Death"!
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I was too drunk to extricate myself from the tube after a 3 hour soak.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooo, I rolled out, sank straight to the bottom, and had no idea what I was supposed to do!
I looked up at the surface of the water, and decided to walk to shore.
It was like I was taking an afternoon stroll, but under water.
Just as I realized what was going on, I reached shallow water, and broke through in to the AIR!
A little farther, and I was going to sit down and rest.
"Drowning" was not anything I was thinking about!
Now, I KNOW why they drown.
But it's a "Happy Death"!
CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
I find it hard to believe that there were not more fatalities and injuries reported for the whole country.
My husband went to Servi-Med in Cabarete Saturday morning to get an injection for his back pain. Apparently, there was blood all over the floor from the previous night.
The nurse told him that they had 100 patients in a 12 hour period of 4pm Friday to 4am Saturday. Injuries from gunshots, machetes, knives and just plain fighting! 20 had to be sent to Puerto Plata, numerous others to CMC, because they couldn't help them in Cabarete.
Given the amount of people that flock here for Semana Boracha it makes sense, but this is only one little place. Or is it just Cabarete and other tourist areas where things are nuts?
My husband went to Servi-Med in Cabarete Saturday morning to get an injection for his back pain. Apparently, there was blood all over the floor from the previous night.
The nurse told him that they had 100 patients in a 12 hour period of 4pm Friday to 4am Saturday. Injuries from gunshots, machetes, knives and just plain fighting! 20 had to be sent to Puerto Plata, numerous others to CMC, because they couldn't help them in Cabarete.
Given the amount of people that flock here for Semana Boracha it makes sense, but this is only one little place. Or is it just Cabarete and other tourist areas where things are nuts?