• The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    The woman’s car wouldn’t start because of an installed device that makes her pass a breathalyzer (something courts can mandate). Midwestern people are stereotypically very helpful, but the ones from Wisconsin drink a lot, so nobody present could pass the breathalyzer either. The solution was for all the drunk strangers to physically push her car to where it needed to be.

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          2 days ago

          I had a friend in high school who’s father was an alcoholic attorney, and he’d have his kids pass the breathalyzer for him every morning.

          I actually bought a user 2001 S10 off them in 2004 with like 25k miles on it for only 3 grand because he’d keep rubbing along the side of in the driveway pulling in and out drunk, so it had a bunch of cosmetic damage that I didn’t care about at all.

          I drove that truck for 11 years.

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          7 hours ago

          They’re joking. Interlocks are more sophisticated than that. You’re not going to fool one with a balloon. You have to inhale before exhaling, and a camera records a video of you blowing to make sure there’s no funny business.