Houston
Sponsored by

driving around a barricade

5,208 Views | 43 Replies | Last: 7 yr ago by Bondag
The Original AG 76
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
12:37p, 5/28/16
AG
Once again we are seeing stories on the news of numerous incidents where first responders are risking life, limb and property to rescue idiots who willingly drive around a barricade and then require a rescue. Just this morning the rescue guys had to retrieve some sub-moron who drove around the barricades on 249 and Zion in Tomball.

In a perfect world these idiots would be left to DIE and help cleanse the gene pool but we are too infected with all that compassion stuff to allow this SOOO....
I am going to be working with some folks going to Austin next year to craft legislation where the locals can charge these idiots with a big time criminal trespass charge, allow for the recovery of ALL costs associated with the rescue AND to allow the insurance company to deny any and ALL claims for damage or loss to the vehicle.
Barricades are put up for a reason and should not be crossed. We are seeing far too many of these rescues and the valuable time and resources wasted pulling these idiots out of harms way are better used to help the truly needed.
Reply Quote
21
Jack Cheese
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
12:56p, 5/28/16
AG
Just go for the death penalty.
Reply Quote
8
Rustys-Beef-o-Reeno
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
1:14p, 5/28/16
AG
I like it
Reply Quote
2
Milwaukees Best Light
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:14p, 5/28/16
AG
What about fat people that continue to order the supersized meals at jack in the box? Can you draft legislation that would make them ineligible for public health care, or make them responsible for their medical bills when they get rushed to ben taub with an infarction?
Reply Quote
13
jja79
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:16p, 5/28/16
AG
And smokers, don't forget them.
Reply Quote
2
Tone2002
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
2:18p, 5/28/16
Smh. Reminds me of that incident in April with the young lady. Ridiculous people are still yet doing this.
Reply Quote
combat wombat™
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Milwaukees Best Light • 4:46p, 5/28/16
AG
quote:
What about fat people that continue to order the supersized meals at jack in the box? Can you draft legislation that would make them ineligible for public health care, or make them responsible for their medical bills when they get rushed to ben taub with an infarction?


Are first responders risking life and limb to save them?
Reply Quote
17
1 edit
Zemira
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
5:05p, 5/28/16
AG
I drove to Tomball this morning to pick a few things up I needed. I took 249 the Tollway as it wasn't flooded. On the feeder idiots were driving over the cones to go down since they blocked it at an intersection and not at the water where there was no place to turn around. Of course they didn't have an eztag or txtag to use the stupid tollway so instead of finding an alertnate route they drove the flooded road. They could have found an alternate route instead of driving down a flooded road.

They had 2920 blocked off with baracades and I didn't see anyone stupid enough to drive through those.
Reply Quote
AgLA06
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Milwaukees Best Light • 5:16p, 5/28/16
AG
quote:
What about fat people that continue to order the supersized meals at jack in the box? Can you draft legislation that would make them ineligible for public health care, or make them responsible for their medical bills when they get rushed to ben taub with an infarction?


Leave us non-skinny people out of this!!!
Reply Quote
1
230Ag
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to combat wombat™ • 6:09p, 5/28/16
AG
quote:
quote:
What about fat people that continue to order the supersized meals at jack in the box? Can you draft legislation that would make them ineligible for public health care, or make them responsible for their medical bills when they get rushed to ben taub with an infarction?


Are first responders risking life and limb to save them?
they are if they have a heart attack and need an ambulance. ambulance driver could get into a wreck on the way to their house.
Reply Quote
1
sts7049
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to The Original AG 76 • 6:25p, 5/28/16
AG
insurance companies should definitely deny coverage for this kind of stupidity. that might at least help deter if they know they're replacing that car on their own dime. laws aren't going to stop idiots though.
Reply Quote
1
1 edit
combat wombat™
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to 230Ag • 8:46p, 5/28/16
AG
quote:
quote:
quote:
What about fat people that continue to order the supersized meals at jack in the box? Can you draft legislation that would make them ineligible for public health care, or make them responsible for their medical bills when they get rushed to ben taub with an infarction?


Are first responders risking life and limb to save them?
they are if they have a heart attack and need an ambulance. ambulance driver could get into a wreck on the way to their house.


You are being intentionally obtuse. The danger/risk to the first responders isn't even remotely the same.
Reply Quote
6
1 edit
AgLiving06
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to sts7049 • 9:00p, 5/28/16
quote:
insurance companies should definitely deny coverage for this kind of stupidity. that might at least help deter if they know they're replacing that car on their own dime. laws aren't going to stop idiots though.

My exact thought as well.
Reply Quote
aduey06
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
9:01p, 5/28/16
Was driving in Tomball waller today and drove around a couple of barricades with no water behind them. Obviously had not been out there to remove them yet. Should I be charged because I did that.
Reply Quote
htownag10
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Zemira • 9:02p, 5/28/16
AG
quote:
I drove to Tomball this morning to pick a few things up I needed. I took 249 the Tollway as it wasn't flooded. On the feeder idiots were driving over the cones to go down since they blocked it at an intersection and not at the water where there was no place to turn around. Of course they didn't have an eztag or txtag to use the stupid tollway so instead of finding an alertnate route they drove the flooded road. They could have found an alternate route instead of driving down a flooded road.

They had 2920 blocked off with baracades and I didn't see anyone stupid enough to drive through those.


Tomball is the area where all the stupids live
Reply Quote
2
1 edit
Zemira
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
9:04p, 5/28/16
AG
I thankfully live south of Tomball.
Reply Quote
Diggity
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
9:04p, 5/28/16
AG
I've never known a law in the world that prevented an imbecile from being an imbecile.
Reply Quote
19
Jugstore Cowboy
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Diggity • 1:37a, 5/29/16
AG
Yeah, I'm not sure how a law stops someone from driving around a barricade. But I guess the OP is more about recouping costs.
Reply Quote
blackgoldag11
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to htownag10 • 2:03a, 5/29/16
AG
quote:
quote:
I drove to Tomball this morning to pick a few things up I needed. I took 249 the Tollway as it wasn't flooded. On the feeder idiots were driving over the cones to go down since they blocked it at an intersection and not at the water where there was no place to turn around. Of course they didn't have an eztag or txtag to use the stupid tollway so instead of finding an alertnate route they drove the flooded road. They could have found an alternate route instead of driving down a flooded road.

They had 2920 blocked off with baracades and I didn't see anyone stupid enough to drive through those.


Tomball is the area where all the stupids live

Said every loser ever
Reply Quote
JSKolache
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to combat wombat™ • 10:01a, 5/29/16
AG
quote:
quote:
quote:
quote:
What about fat people that continue to order the supersized meals at jack in the box? Can you draft legislation that would make them ineligible for public health care, or make them responsible for their medical bills when they get rushed to ben taub with an infarction?


Are first responders risking life and limb to save them?
they are if they have a heart attack and need an ambulance. ambulance driver could get into a wreck on the way to their house.


You are being intentionally obtuse. The danger/risk to the first responders isn't even remotely the same.
What did you call me? Solitary. A month.
Reply Quote
8
Ragoo
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Diggity • 10:07a, 5/29/16
AG
quote:
I've never known a law in the world that prevented an imbecile from being an imbecile.
i bet the OP is a "small government" type too. Irony is a funny thing.
Reply Quote
4
schmellba99
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to The Original AG 76 • 10:39a, 5/29/16
AG
They have a law like this in Arizona. It is called "The Stupid Motorist" law. I fully support laws of this nature.
Reply Quote
2
combat wombat™
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to schmellba99 • 1:34p, 5/29/16
AG
quote:
They have a law like this in Arizona. It is called "The Stupid Motorist" law. I fully support laws of this nature.


Ate you going to make us look it up?
Reply Quote
Reloadags1998
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to aduey06 • 2:00p, 5/29/16
AG
quote:
Was driving in Tomball waller today and drove around a couple of barricades with no water behind them. Obviously had not been out there to remove them yet. Should I be charged because I did that.


If your actions to disregard the barricade forced another entity to spend their resources to save you, then absolutley.
Reply Quote
4
dubi
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to schmellba99 • 6:54p, 5/29/16
AG
quote:
They have a law like this in Arizona. It is called "The Stupid Motorist" law. I fully support laws of this nature.
https://www.phoenix.gov/fire/safety-information/onthemove/motorist
Reply Quote
htownag10
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to blackgoldag11 • 9:46p, 5/29/16
AG
quote:
quote:
quote:
I drove to Tomball this morning to pick a few things up I needed. I took 249 the Tollway as it wasn't flooded. On the feeder idiots were driving over the cones to go down since they blocked it at an intersection and not at the water where there was no place to turn around. Of course they didn't have an eztag or txtag to use the stupid tollway so instead of finding an alertnate route they drove the flooded road. They could have found an alternate route instead of driving down a flooded road.

They had 2920 blocked off with baracades and I didn't see anyone stupid enough to drive through those.


Tomball is the area where all the stupids live

Said every loser ever


You wanna fight this out brah? Get in your kayak and meet me at 4 corners.
Reply Quote
1
Post removed:
by user
In reply to Diggity • 6:56p, 5/30/16
schmellba99
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to Diggity • 7:45p, 5/30/16
AG
quote:
I've never known a law in the world that prevented an imbecile from being an imbecile.


You cant stop it. But you can make them foot the bill for their stupidity.
Reply Quote
schmellba99
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to combat wombat™ • 7:47p, 5/30/16
AG
Its called "The Stupid Motorist Law" and is exactly lime the OP described. If you defeat a barrier duri,g flood or other weather events and need to be rescued, you pay the bill. And the bill usually exceeds $10k sometimes by a significant margin.
Reply Quote
schmellba99
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
In reply to [removed post] • 7:49p, 5/30/16
AG
Class B isnt squat when compared to the cost associated with a rescue for driving around the barricade.

It really floors me that people are against EMS services recouping costs if you are dumb enough to need rescue because you cant figure out a barricade is there for a reason.
Reply Quote
1
Diggity
User Profile
Private Message
Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
7:52p, 5/30/16
AG
I'm not against recouping costs at all.

The OP seemed convinced that the new laws would act as a major deterrent for people ignoring barriers. I tend to disagree.
Reply Quote
Post removed:
by user
In reply to schmellba99 • 8:01p, 5/30/16
schmellba99
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
8:16p, 5/30/16
AG
You would be surprised at what type of idiot drives around barricades. Look at the UH professor that drove into 8 foot deep water on live TV. Not everybody that does stupid things falls,into the LOL poor category.

Arrestable offense costs money, i would much rather see the various agencies have the ability to recoup costs so that my fugskin taxes dont continue to go up because of idiots. EMS is usually a small portion of the costs in water rescue as well, it is the FD and other agencies that have the specialized equipment that foot the lions share of the bill.

And laws like this work in other states, simply because Texas has not done something does not mean it will not work here. I have no visions of grandeur that this law will eliminate the problem, but I fully support the ability of the rescuing agencies to at least have the ability to come after those that would do stupid things that require rescue financially.
Reply Quote
1
Post removed:
by user
8:22p, 5/30/16
schmellba99
User Profile Ignore User Stop Ignoring
How long do you want to ignore this user?
24 hours One week Permanently Cancel
9:48p, 5/30/16
AG
Thenby all means, do whatever research you want. Not going to change my mind no matter what you find. I am a proponent of stupidity having a financial cost,
Reply Quote
2
Page 1 of 2 ▼
 
×
subscribe Verify your student status
See Subscription Benefits
Trial only available to users who have never subscribed or participated in a previous trial.