Irony, tragedy, and machismo combine into a tragedy.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=127159

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1301856/posts

 I would like to offer my condolences to the friends and family of Shauna and Kurt Jacobson of Austin,TX.  I assume they were as impressive and interesting in life as they were in passing.
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So a drunken motorcyclist drives his bike into a bar and starts peeling out on the linoleum. After a good scolding, he removes his bike and returns to DRINK for two more hours. In hindsight, serving someone booze after drivng a vehicle into the bar would be an obvious mistake. Personally, I think I would have been in awe of a party animal of that caliber. If I was there, I would have bought him a round even if he was a little tipsy.
Two hours later, the dude (who is obvious tanked) hops on his harley with the old lady.(who is said to be staggering and completely shitfaced.) Only moments after departure, the couple meets their demise in style; Drunk and with the wind in their helmet-free hair… while cruising the Texas highway on a Hog. Poetic.
Blood tests for the man show he was intoxicated three times the legal limit when he died. His old lady obviously matched him round for round because she was almost four times past the legal limit.
Strangely enough, his wife should have known not to ride with her husband on account of her being a POLICE OFFICER. Her husband was a retired detective, by the way.Decades of experience and training were negated by a few too many.
Isn’t this why bartenders don’t serve liquor to people who are already drunk? precisely. Perhaps the bartender would have been more cautious if she wasn’t drunk, as well.
These circumstances would amount to a senseless tragedy, in my opinion. However, The couple was at the bar with 50 to 100 other police officers present.
I am nothing other than mystified, myself.
Is this a bona fide example of irony?

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Wow, drunk motorcycle cops kill themselves. Who’da thunk it?

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:rolleyes: Morons.

Thank God they didn’t kill somebody innocent.

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Yup, I saw this on the news the other night (I’m in Austin), and thought–wow, that’s pretty bizarre. And sad. Sounds like the bar(s) involved will lose their liqour licenses, but I wonder if the bartenders were pressured into serving them because they were cops?