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Offline ABX

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Giving Drunks a Ride Home On New Year’s Could Be a $500 Fine in the “Live Free Or Die” State
« on: December 31, 2015, 07:43:55 pm »
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If you’re giving a drunk person a ride home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire this New Year’s Eve you could face a stiff fine. To be sure, you better not accept any gas money or a tip for your time. It’s part of the city’s crackdown aimed at the ride share service Uber. For one local man, the regulation spurred the idea to launch a free ride service for the holiday in protest.

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Re: Giving Drunks a Ride Home On New Year’s Could Be a $500 Fine in the “Live Free Or Die” State
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2015, 07:57:14 pm »
Is there any activity left unregulated in the US?
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Re: Giving Drunks a Ride Home On New Year’s Could Be a $500 Fine in the “Live Free Or Die” State
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2015, 08:00:57 pm »
"Live Free.." until the government-union complex picks winners and losers.

Plain and simple: Rideshare as an option may deter people from drunk driving, when the ordinary cabs would not.

Uber is less costly than ordinary cab. Driver unlikely to be from Somalia, or Iraq.

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Re: Giving Drunks a Ride Home On New Year’s Could Be a $500 Fine in the “Live Free Or Die” State
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2015, 08:50:43 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on December 31, 2015, 07:57:14 pm
Is there any activity left unregulated in the US?
not many.....none by 2017 is my guess.
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