Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 24, 2022

Wiley, your sense of hunour is out of this world

He’s the DUI inter-scepter.

The Grim Rideshare

Outstanding reminder of the dangers of drinking and driving.

This is uber grim.

That is cool, BUT most drunks don’t think they are drunk

Too bad that ploy couldn’t be legit!! Think of the lives that could be saved!!!!!

I bet every bar tender in America wished they could do that!

Like almost everything else these days, the after-life supply line is backed up, and efficiency out-sourcing is in place. And that scythe … will be replaced by high-capacity harvesting combine. Read it and weep, Reaper.

One of my favorite bits from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life:

ANGELA: Mr. Death is a reaper.

GRIM REAPER: The GRIM Reaper.

ANGELA: Hardly surprising, in this weather. Ha, ha, ha.

The “Grim Uber”.

Exiting, with a scythe.

Wish more people would use it.

DWI brings up some interesting legal issues. Which is more egregious: result or intent?

Two patrons at a bar drink and get drunk and get in their cars and drive. Both hit a tree. Driver A hits a pedestrian in the process of hitting the tree.

Who gets the stiffer penalty and why? Both drivers intended to drive drunk. One got lucky and only hit a tree. The other had the misfortune of a pedestrian getting in the way.

“Dead Like Me” TV Series 2003–2004

After being hit on the head by a toilet seat fell from Mir space station, a young temp clerk becomes a grim reaper in death.

A bit dated, but fun stories.

Someone call for Lyft across the River Stx?

Death Called a Taxi

Wow! What a buzz kill.

A new take on “Don’t fear the reaper”.

Drunk driving penalties around the world:

Poland: For the first offense, you lose your license for at least three years and face a minimum fine of $1,635.

South Africa: For your first DUI, you can be sent to jail for 10 years, fined $10,000, or both.

Turkey: Turkey’s treatment of drunk drivers has always been something of a legend, because police officers were known to drive intoxicated drivers 20 miles out into the desert and force them to march back to civilization. They’re even kind enough to find an escort so you’d march the whole 20 miles without help.

United Arab Emirates: Flogging. Yep, you read that correctly. In addition to jail time, you could be flogged with 80 lashes across the arms, back, and legs.

France: Drinking and driving is punishable by the equivalent of a $1,000 fine, imprisonment for one year, and loss of license for three years.

Finland and Sweden: Finland and Sweden automatically sentence drunk drivers to one-year jail sentences including hard labor.

Russia: Drunk drivers simply lose their license for life.

Our city just started this sort of program. One driver gives the drunk a ride home while another follows in the person’s car.

Should become a national policy. They managed to get rid of tobacco in public places. Now it’s time to curb the booze and drugs.

The poor guy drank too much coffee…

oft seen blue suited character sorta looks like the late unlamented richard nixon.

A hell of a way to keep DWI’s down!

“….and a big yellow taxi took away my old man.”

With mushroom bars opening in Oregon, this job should be in high demand soon

Reminded of a Chicagoland funeral home some years back that offered free services to people who preregistered that they were planning to drink and drive on New Year’s Eve.

The …..salmon….mousse

@SHERMAN, Well that’s better than a “ Grim Rubber “

The stuff of nightmares. The “victim” will be hard put to forget that little scene.

Death also called the Grim Reaper from the 14th century onward a personification of mortality. A mixture of Charon and Time. The appearance of the former and the weapon of the latter. Officially not a killer just a psychopomp who takes the souls to the Land of the Dead.

Wish I would have thought of this gag when I was a bouncer in College.

The Grim Uber…