# Worse than drunk driving... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925 "2017-04-21T13:46:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/1 "2017-04-21T13:46:05Z")
It seems that driving while in the throes of extreme blue balls might be worse than driving drunk. At least that is what I can deduce from something that happened in Portugalete (Basque Country). A young driver was arrested by the local police after a short car chase. The young man was driving at top speed through the city, running traffic lights in red (for a grand total of _ **15** _) and not respecting zebra crossings, or anything of the sort. Just zooming through the city. A patrol car from the Ertzainza (Basque police) saw him pass by them like a bat out of hell, and immediately gave chase. It transpires that, not long before then, the young man had received a Whatsapp message from his girlfriend, wherein she told him that her parents would be out of her home for one hour, and that if he wanted to have some sex, he should be getting there A.S.A.P. When the police stopped him he pleaded with them in earnest, asking them please please please to let him go and that he would give himself up in one hour, as soon as he was done with something he had to do. But the agents did not listen to his pleas and arrested him then and there. That was cold, man… That was cold 😛 😛 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/2 "2017-04-22T18:01:50Z")
Obviously a hardened criminal. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/3 "2017-04-22T19:14:40Z")
She did say to come quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/4 "2017-04-22T19:21:43Z")
Odd that the cop would end up being the dick in all this. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/5 "2017-04-22T21:55:22Z")
Damn blue meanies. And the cops, too. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/6 "2017-04-22T21:57:09Z")
Wasn’t Bill Cosby’s son en route to a late-night/early-morning booty call when he was murdered? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/7 "2017-04-22T22:24:49Z")
Well our Fast and Furious Romeo did end up screwed, just not how he intended. And please let’s think of the young lady who was left waiting and wanting. Hope she had fresh batteries. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/8 "2017-04-22T22:34:20Z")
It had to be done. and for the good of the community. If he had reached her, it might have been manslaughter. Sara: “So, did you find anything interesting?” Grissom: “A lot more of the usual than I would have expected. There is extreme penetration damage to her pelvic region and the entire lower half of her body seems to be covered in almost two quarts of semen. DNA won’t be a problem.” Sara: “What the hell is wrong with her face? Is that a smile or a death-grimace?” Grissom: “Your guess is as good a mine. I just work here and she’s not talking.” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/9 "2017-04-23T14:07:37Z")
They busted him because the cops noticed that he was driving while leaning back with both hands behind his head. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/10 "2017-04-24T03:11:24Z")
Was he driving an automatic, or a stick? ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/11 "2017-04-24T17:59:35Z")
It was a half cocked idea. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/12 "2017-04-24T18:15:23Z")
i heard pretty much this exact story twenty years ago in Chicago, minus the arrest. Urban legend repeated, or life finally imitating fiction? ETA: or, heck, maybe both were true. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/13 "2017-04-24T18:28:15Z")
Basque women apparently being pickier than our counterparts from other regions is something that’s led to a number of insults (apparently “matriarcate” is an insult, when said by someone who thinks that women should be kept in the kitchen with a broken leg), jokes and urban legends. We make jokes such as “why are all Basque children born in the spring? Because nobody has sex in the Basque Country; kids are all born nine months after their parents were on vacation outside.” One of my current coworkers likes to blame the dry year he suffered while on location in Pamplona on those jokes being true (by his own account, he was just boring). Maybe we should start blaming the cops. After all, they’re used to being blamed for lots of things… ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/14 "2017-04-25T06:57:18Z")
> [@JoseB](#): > > and not respecting zebra crossings, or anything of the sort. Do they have a lot of zebras wandering across roads in Basque country? I thought they lived mostly in Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/15 "2017-04-25T09:31:56Z")
_The_ Basque country. And only a few, in a nature park and they’re very bad about crossing on the actual zebra crossing. Can’t get 'em to obey the traffic lights either, from what I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/16 "2017-04-25T09:47:08Z")
Hope the cops weren’t hard on him. mmm ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/17 "2017-04-25T11:36:20Z")
Will he have the balls to try it again? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worse-than-drunk-driving/784925/18 "2017-04-25T11:48:33Z")
He should have told the police that he suspected it was just surging due to a blocked injector.