Only in Alabama.......

[Jeffrey Travis]

I guess after 13 years in GA I can start to officially start making Alabama jokes, although many times they make themselves.



JT#14

 

[Axel Deneselya]

hell, I have only been in georgia 10 months and I make alabama jokes.

 

[Jeff C]

At least we can still make fun of Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Komifornia.

 

[Brandon Hovater]

It is amazming that dumb things ONLY happen in Alabama.

 

[Tom Schindler]

I was working a job in Opelika, AL a few years back. We were driving back to the hotel around noon when we got stopped at a sobriety checkpoint.



We said to the officer, "at noon?"

His reply? "This is Alabama!"





Tom

 

[Paul Howard]

My Uncle Daddy said he was glad they didn't include Kentucky in this thread.

 

[Johnny O]

Reminds me of a handicapped guy here who got a DUI in his electric wheelchair.

 

[Matthew W]

Beats Ohio (can get a DUI on a lawn mower, unicycle, and if a drunk could ride one far enough, a skateboard

 

[Jeffrey Travis]

Ohio probably put that 'lawn mower' part in to protect from George Jones -

Jones' autobiography, I Lived to Tell It All, recounts in painfully stiff prose the one-way ticket to Hell his life became. All the stories are there, including the time Jones rode his lawn mower to the liquor store after being denied the car keys.

 

[Scott Doughtie]

You may laugh at a mid-day sobriety checkpoint. They set them up along the interstates here in Georgia. I was heading to the girlfriend's condo on the Georgia coast Memorial day weekend. I was on I-77 south and saw a mobile electronic road/announcement sign saying "DUI Checkpoint Ahead...All Vehicles." My first thought was "not on an interstate". Well, they had the checkpoint set up on one of the exits. I saw at least 5 cars bite for it and there must have been another 10 cars waiting in line....on top of every police vehicle in the county. Everyone in the left lane just breezed on by at 80 mph. There was no one making you pull over and there were no police cars directly at the beginning of the exit. I later heard that that exit/county nabbed 200 drunk drivers that Friday alone.



And, I went to school in the (sic) great state of Alabama - Auburn University. Never saw a DUI checkpoint, but they did make me take a DUI test when I turned in front of a car with no headlights on at 1:00 am. I asked what I was being pulled over for. The officer said failure to yield because I turned left in front of a car. I said, the one I saw at the last second b/c they didn't have their lights on? He said yes...I pulled you over b/c you were closest. Of course, I passed the test with flying colors. And, the ticket got dropped because I appealed and the officer was on tape/video admitting I had unwhittingly turned in front of a vehicle w/o headlights on.

 

[Johnny O]

The wife and I went to the Pirates game on Friday night and hit a DUI checkpoint on the way home. I had a few beers in me too, her only one drink but that was later than mine. We get up to the checkpoint after sitting in traffic for almost a half-hour for this, they wave through the two cars in front of us, me, and a few behind me. Either they wanted to move traffic along or they figure people in Sport Tracs don't drink. :lol:

Three beers in four hours, I think I was probably okay though.

 

[Michael Martin]

Don't forget there was recently an arrest for DUI of the drunk guy riding a horse in a downtown location!



Ah! Alabama! The best thing to come out of Alabama is I-20! :lol:

 

[Jeff C]

Ah! Alabama! The best thing to come out of Alabama is I-20!

I-85. It's how we get to Braves games.