The first truck I ever drove was a GMC General and I had no clue how to start it. You put the key in and turned it... Then there was a button on the dash that you had to push to actually start it.
LOL
Once I figured that out, driving was a snap
I've run across that once or twice, too.
One of the trickiest trucks i ever drove was a Ford Model A.
You shifted on the steering column where the blinker switch normally is now, and the the brake/clutch was like a riding lawnmower.
Not anything like I ever drove before.
In answer to Birchbarlow. My opinion may be narrow minded, but as I see it it was a matter of choices. He chose to use drugs, then he chose to deal with the consequences of that action. My narrow minded opinion is based in personal experience. See I remained clean through out my growing up years, even with living my every day life in a drug infested, and lawless, neighborhood. Basically refered as the low rent district. Also realizing that whil growing up I lost my brother to drug addiction. So please tell me more about my narrow mind and ideas. Like a actor once said (Baretta), if you do the crime be ready to pay the time. You, do the crime then you lose whatever society deems a appropriate punishment, and pay after you get out. As for those who do get incarcerated, when done they can still become productive citizens. But, they made a choice, regardless of when in their life, and now you pay for it.
That's a narrow minded viewpoint Everybody makes mistakes often at young ages 17/25 before maturity sets in.
It says 2006 and this is 2012 so because of a mistake several years past he should be considered unemployable The problem with this short sightedness is we are creating a permanent underclass and because of narrow minded people ex-cons are barred from many educational opportunities and even entire trades so much for a second chance in life the residual effect is we all pay for it when a criminal records limits acess to participation in society these people will often endup on the Dole paid by the taxpayers cause with no job they'll qualify for every handout under the sun worse many will have a chip on they're shoulder and go back to crime to make easy cash and live they're lives in and out of prison which we pay for as taxpayers
I think the punishment should be whatever jail time he did for the bag of drugs and these people need to get reintegrated back into civil society without a dossier holding them back the rest of they're lives and real violent criminals and perverts need to be given long enough sentences to die in prison no parole
His point was that society won't let them become productive citizens because they're blacklisted from any decent paying jobs. And it's contributing to the country's unemployment problem.
People do stupid things when they're teenagers. Why should they be blacklisted from ever getting a decent job just because they smoked a little reefer when they were 17? I only see this "well they need to suffer the consequences for the rest of their lives" type of attitude coming from those who never got to have any fun when they themselves were growing up.
That goes in the category of "Life ain't fair", lol
Quite ironic and just a little hypocritical, isn't it?
We say, "Do the crime, do the time" and legally, like any contract, you pay your debt with time taken from your freedom and/or money and supposedly, the contract has been fulfilled.
But then, society in general says, "Hold it, we have some unwritten clauses that we enforce, and despite what the legal statute says, we might just want this to be a life sentence. Tough cookies."
And at that point, if you're honest with yourself, you have to freely admit that you did this to yourself. Especially if you're a felon, there are always going to be things that you won't ever be allowed to do again - for the rest of your life. And for a few of those things, society may very well have some justification based on the law of averages or just plain fear.
That's not exactly how it's spelled out in the contract and it certainly isn't what you're told by the justice system. In fact, the whole time they tell you to do your time, get out, and if you don't want to ever come back, do us all a favor and "become a productive member of society" or even "an upstanding citizen".
And given the choice, isn't that the best outcome?
Then you have reality to deal with.
Pretty much like an 80,000 load on a long, 10%+ grade........on the ice......with bald tires, a tired old truck and a near impossible deadline to meet.
Now the hardasses will tell you it's a cinch, but we all know that's gonna take a lot of skill and determination to make it.
And we all know there will be plenty in the ditch who didn't.
Throwing a little salt on the road is actually not a bad idea for them - AND the other drivers who are out there on the same highway with them.
