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pithy closing line? yeah, not from me...

but I can't resist:

"Fly High, and get Great Gas Milage! All in a Prius!"

on the more serious note: from somebody that has to drive the heck across town every month to get a physical prescription from my doctor, because I pay attention to everything and can't focus on one thing... and from somebody that has to divulge everything but my blood type to wal-mart so I can unclog my sinuses using an OVER THE COUNTER DECONGESTANT!!!

faugh, guys like this just make them tighten the laws, even though the law doesn't seem to apply to guys like this... so lock him the frell up and figure out who he got the stuff from and revoke their frickin' license...

hmmm, perhaps I'm a little bitter on the subject? :eyeroll:
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Although the Prius will readily do 100mph and then a few, it ironically ceases to be an "environmentally friendly car" at that point -- as with all vehicles moving at high speeds, once you exceed about 45mph the wind drag becomes a substantial impediment to motion, and fuel economy drops proportionate to further increases.

Is it just me, or does it seem rather weird to drive that fast on a holiday like the Fourth of July, when traffic cops are out in force, and you've got a bunch of illegal contraband in the car?

I don't understand why the article finds it odd that Gore would have prescription drugs on hand but not "prescriptions." Once you get the bottle, you don't generally tote the documentation around.

Given his history, it's not a stretch to guess that Gore III has been in constant pain since childhood, not unheard of among supposed drug abusers. Given Tipper's history of depression, he may have "earned" his anti-depressants too. Some of what he's done in his life is self-medication then, not atypically for chronic pain and depression sufferers.

None of the above excuses the reckless driving, though. If we could get to the point where society blames him more for the reckless driving than the pills we'd be better off.

I don't understand why the article finds it odd that Gore would have prescription drugs on hand but not "prescriptions." Once you get the bottle, you don't generally tote the documentation around.

Don't you think what is meant is that the prescriptions don't exist?

And usually the prescription is referenced on the bottle label - and you DO usually keep them in the issued bottle...

"Don't you think what is meant is that the prescriptions don't exist?" -A.S.

while we could be selling the punk short, generally when you have such prescriptions, you keep the bottle with it's indications with you. Especially if you are travelling, you need them for just such circumstance. If you have a little baggy with pills? Yeah, you're going to have to tell it to the judge...

"it ironically ceases to be an "environmentally friendly car" at that point " -anony-m

Say it isn't SO! You mean that Al the III might just be using the car as a token environmentalist? Shocked! I am Shocked!

OK, OK, so I'll turn down the glee... I'm sure normally he's happy with the great milages, and how it isn't adding to SoCal smog.

I think I'd cut some more slack, but really, how many peopole believe that this sort of thing isn't just going to go away? He pays some lawyers, they make some pleas, and no skin is off the nose... sucks to be him, at the moment.

Hmm, do you think he was just trying to keep the people in LA from suffering because, at 2 a.m., the smog level is getting low and there might be people out there starting to have Smog Withdrawal? Just like his old Pops, he's a man who thinks of his fellow citizens first, to endanger the Gore family repurtation as the Greenest Family in the Land of the Free (Mega Energy Using House, jetting all over the freakin place to be the modern Paul Revere and warn of Globale Wurming).

Frankly, any prescriptions I've had have my name, doc's name, etc., all on the label of the bottle. Police don't say a werd after looking at that, they just hand it back and the matter is closed. Maybe he was a tad arrogant? A Chip offa de ole Block?

I'm amazed at the fact that the Prius can do 100. (I'm not surprised that someone in SoCal is doing 100 mph. Seems to me that CHP is completely toothless or has given up entirely.)

My little car gets all funny anywhere around 85 mph. I can't imagine what 1) it must be like to moosh on the gas pedal to get a Prius to go 100 mph and 2) what that must be like in the Priu, shakes and shudders-wise and 3) what the MPG meter must look like when you're doing 100 mph.

It says a lot about you, Jane, that you see anything funny about this incident.

I'd like to remind you that both the president and the vice president have been arrested in the past for driving while intoxicated.

Yep. I agree. Not funny. It was vaguely discernable as amusing if you REALLY REALLY wanted to find the topic amusing to begin with, but you completely lost me with the line that the kid nearly died when he was six and required extensive surgery. Hilarious.

More smart-talk, less sickly unfunny humor.

Later, squishyterian.

Um, for the above humor-impaired, I think that Jane found funny the article...which worked into the news report that a guy was speeding and had illicit drugs that:
1) He is driving a Prius
2) His dad is "a leading advocate to fight global warming"
3) His dad is an organizer of the Live Earth concert on July 7th. Said concert is a fundraiser for global warming.

So Reuters took the opportunity of his sons arrest for reckless driving and drug possession to pump up his Dad's global warming credentials...and ended with an ADVERTISEMENT for a fund raiser. Yup, that's funny.

I think most of our dui laws are stupidly draconian (entirely too much emphasis placed on catching and punishing someone who is caught for the first time while very mildly under the influence, and entirely too lax on the person caught, even on multiple occasions, while balsted out of his gourd), and there is no formal charge yet that Gore was impaired, people who drive 100 m.p.h. are behaving like utter and complete assholes, and should be treated the same as someone who walks down the sidewalk whole randomly squeezing off rounds from a firearm. No, I don't really care what physical/psychological problems they may have.

Only someone who doesn't have a car would consider 100MPH in a modern vehicle "lunatic."

It really isn't that fast.

And for those concerned with the script bottles.... ever put pills in one of those day-planner boxes, so you remember what to take when? My wife has one of those in her car all the time.

No one seems to have considered that this is young Albert's effort to raise environmental awareness by 1) showing that Priuses [Prii?] can go 100 mph, helping bring Prius Awareness to a new demographic, and 2) providing news outlet's the opportunity to talk about Global Warming and the important Live Earth Awareness expanding event this weekend, thereby further increasing Awareness. The Gores just give and give.

I noticed Klug's surprise that a Prius could do 100. I wonder if the car was direct off the lot, or had been modified.

30 years ago I was in the Navy. One of the men I worked with claimed that while living in California he had 'bored out' the engine on a VW beetle, so that it was severely over-powered. The patrolman that pulled him over told him he would not write the ticket, that 'we both know that car won't go that fast'.

What is surprising about the Al Gore III story, is the lack of mention of Paris Hilton. Here we have a copycat crime, a repeat of a high profile caper. AGIII appears to be trying to capture the parental and media attention that Paris won with her Southern California jail career. If the media keeps covering the shenanigans of rich kids, I expect to see more public nuisance arrests.

Flynn, the vast majority of people have about as much chance of operating a car safely at 100 m.p.h., if ANYTHING unexpected happens, as they have of shooting a 65 at Pebble Beach under U.S. Open conditions. Hell, most of 'em can't operate a car and a cell phone simulteaneously in a safe manner at 50 m.p.h..

Flynn,

I tend to agree with you that 100 mph isn't that fast. (the Autobahn, etc, etc) If this were Hwy 20 in Oregon between Brothers and Burns, I might even say it was necessary.

Nevertheless, in Orange County there seems to be a lot of people who feel entitled to drive >95 mph while everyone else is satisfied with 80-85. While I understand the impulse, I think that it's more than a little unsafe.

This happened not 10 miles from my home, so my eyewitness account would end with:

"Deputies did not specify whether Mr. Gore was speeding in the carpool lane."

Unsafe

This http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/21753/ is driving like a lunatic.

I carry *use as needed* medication in a small brass pillbox. It is small enough to fit in my suit pocket without a bulge. It isn't that unusual.

Somehow, I don't think that's what young Mr. Gore was doing.

That part by the reporter is poorly written: "The search turned up a small amount of marijuana, along with prescription drugs including Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Adderall and Soma. There were no prescriptions found, he said." Does he mean they weren't in prescription bottles or that Gore doesn't have prescriptions for them? Surely he wasn't carrying them around in a ziplock bag.

In any event, it is...um, odd, that he has both Xanax and Valium. Those are both benzodiazepines and I seriously doubt one doctor would prescribe both of them to a single patient. And if he has 2 doctors prescribing them independently then he's likely committed a felony.

Purple,

Uh, Jane is laughing at how Reuters managed to keep working the global warming angle into every aspect of the story, and that is absolutely hilarious. Only the humor impaired could fail to see that.

I used to have plastic bags of baking soda scattered throughout my car's cabin when traveling between cities. (Yes, really.) If I had gotten pulled over, that would have meant a LOT of unnecessary headache.

Yes, Purple and Alex, that's why I explicitly said that I wasn't laughing at Al Gore, or his son. If Al Gore III has a substance abuse problem, that isn't funny; and if he doesn't, and has just fallen afoul of our nation's ridiculous drug laws, that also isn't funny. Too, driving at excessive speeds isn't very amusing, particularly if you are the person getting hit by ol' Leadfoot.

I was laughing at Reuters for the bizarre insertion of completely irrelevant details about global warming into the story. In what way is the fact that Live Earth starts this weekend reasonably related to the arrest of Al Gore III? I can't believe that either of you a) thought I was laughing at Al Gore III because you b) failed completely to notice the ridiculous tone of the story.

I used to have plastic bags of baking soda scattered throughout my car's cabin when traveling between cities.

Why?

I think the article has to end with something about "a plea for attention from his environment-obsessed father."

Is a prius environmentally friendly at 100mph? I have a feeling it runs like any other passenger car--or worse--at that speed.

Is a prius environmentally friendly at 100mph?

Given that it's probably going downhill with a huge tailwind, I don't see why not.

Peter: I used to empty large containers of baking soda that my parents had, into smaller packages. Plastic bags were ideal for this. I was kind of messy, and this was around the time I was in college, so sometimes instead of them being neatly packed away, I'd just toss them in the car when packing up in a hurry, and then I'd never take them out. (I'm lazy like that.) End result? Intercity voyages typically had bags of white powder visible. Hey -- if enough people did it, "I saw bags of white powder in the suspects car" would no longer be probable cause! ;-)

Baking soda is great stuff, great stuff. Enhances toothpaste, cures upset stomach, absorbs freezer odors, eliminates countertop stains, enhances shampoo, neutralizes acids, and many other things I can't remember off the top of my head.

I'm amazed at the fact that the Prius can do 100.

Most cars these days can do at least 110-120 if they aren't fighting a strong headwind, and Car & Driver recently verified a too-good-to-be-true speed camera story by track-testing a Hyundai Sonata at something like 135. What's so amazing about a Toyota Prius with a 200HP drivetrain doing 100?

Shoot, I had a temp job in the Internet Sales division of a Toyota dealership right after the current-gen Prius was released, due to a previous employee in said division taking a store-owned Prius out for a joyride and then leading a police chase at speeds considerably faster than what AGIII is accused of.

"And for those concerned with the script bottles.... ever put pills in one of those day-planner boxes, so you remember what to take when? My wife has one of those in her car all the time." -Flynn

uh, well if any of the wife's pills are considered controlled or Scheduled drugs, like Adderall is [Schedule II], then she might want to keep some paperwork with her... because then you can resolve the issue at the stop, instead of being hauled in for nothing...
and yes, it does happen. even if the medication is innocuous like claratin as an OTC, it is better to have the bottle it came in. If you can show what everything is, the officer is much less likely to want independent confirmation... unless of course you have also been smoking something... then, you are still gonna tell the judge...

while the story is certainly quite amusing, it is not all that uncommon to be driving 100 on the freeways in OC between LA and San Diego.

I used to live in LA, and my wife's family was in SD and going between the 2 I would estimate that the average car goes like 85, and I would usually be around 90-95.

The roads are really straight, visibility is good, and driving at that speed isn't really dangerous.

I would venture to say that it is safer to drive at 85 than it is to drive at 55, and have lots of people trying to constantly drive around you.

The elder Gore is presently fighting an addiction problem of his own; he is a heavy user of electricity.

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Craziness. Al Gore III put other people's lives in danger. What's the chance that he'll actually be put in prison where he belongs? Or is that reserved for Paris Hilton?

Presuming Gore the Younger wasn't shit-faced =8^\ , there's nothing inherently wrong with him or anyone else driving around with drugs in their car. If the stuff he was carrying weren't illegal, would he have ever felt compelled to elude police at 100mph?

I'm sorry, the drug war is stupid. As is the system of prescribing drugs. So much cost, so little benefit.

yours/
peter.

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