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Steve Nick
05/30/17 2:15:42 PM
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He was pulled over in a stationery vehicle and blew a 0.00 for alcohol.

Claims he had pulled over because some prescription medicine he was taking was making him feel bad.
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ASithLord7
05/30/17 2:16:45 PM
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DUI isnt just for alcohol
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iosifsvoboda
05/30/17 2:17:58 PM
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Nothing wrong except get High as fuck and drive
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lilORANG
05/30/17 2:18:20 PM
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TheVipaGTS
05/30/17 2:18:38 PM
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ASithLord7 posted...
DUI isnt just for alcohol

right but people were attacking him, claiming he was acting arrogant with cops and calling him an idiot for driving drunk....He just had a negative reaction to prescription drugs, one he probably didn't feel immediately, and once he realized something was wrong he pulled over.
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Steve Nick
05/30/17 2:20:13 PM
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Yeah, there's a big difference between driving drunk, and taking prescription medication.

Probably had no idea he was gonna feel like that with the medicine until later on, then pulled over when he started losing it.

He was being responsible. Deserves to be let off the hook.
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fire_bolt
05/30/17 2:23:32 PM
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lilORANG posted...
pulled over in a stationary vehicle?


Tiger had pulled his car over and stopped when the police found him parked.

Steve Nick posted...
Yeah, there's a big difference between driving drunk, and taking prescription medication.

Probably had no idea he was gonna feel like that with the medicine until later on, then pulled over when he started losing it.

He was being responsible. Deserves to be let off the hook.


Yeah, the whole thing seems kinda dumb. I doubt anything will come of it if he really blew 0.00
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iosifsvoboda
05/30/17 2:24:56 PM
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He was so fucked up he thought the officer asked him to say the national anthem backwards
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
05/30/17 2:26:17 PM
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Probably had no idea he was gonna feel like that with the medicine until later on

He's recovering from back surgery right? He's likely on opioids and/or benzos for muscle spasms. Both of which, of course, can knock you the hell out.

Not blaming him, but just saying that he must've had some idea that prescription meds can be sedating. It should say so right on the bottle.
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gatorsPENSbucs
05/30/17 2:28:24 PM
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Wasn't that the excuse when he drove his car into a tree?
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fire_bolt
05/30/17 2:29:46 PM
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
Probably had no idea he was gonna feel like that with the medicine until later on

He's recovering from back surgery right? He's likely on opioids and/or benzos for muscle spasms. Both of which, of course, can knock you the hell out.

Not blaming him, but just saying that he must've had some idea that prescription meds can be sedating. It should say so right on the bottle.


Agree, but if he was on the side of the road parked I'd prefer to give him the benefit of doubt. Different meds affect different people in different ways and he may have underestimated how fast they'd make him drowsy. Getting off the road and parking when he started to go down was the smart and right thing to do, and nobody should be given shit over that.
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Steve Nick
05/30/17 2:31:15 PM
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iosifsvoboda posted...
He was so fucked up he thought the officer asked him to say the national anthem backwards


that's why he pulled his car over...

If something negative had occurred due to this, I'd fully be on board with finding him at fault...

But he noticed he was getting fucked up and did the right thing. You don't punish people for doing the right thing.
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yemmy
05/30/17 2:34:19 PM
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tiger got too geeked up on dem bars
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ROD
05/30/17 2:34:48 PM
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say what you will, but if they had pulled over say, Ted Nugent he'd never even get booked to start with, it'd never make it to the news, and if it did then you'd see people supporting him instead of demonizing him like they did to tiger.

It's funny how when certain people do bad things (e.g. the "grab them by the p****" thing) they're celebrated for it for being "hot blooded real American men", ditto for the Montana body slam assault ("Montana Justice!") but when people of other demographic groups do it (e.g. tiger's womanzing, or hitting spencer) then it's regrettable and a display of poor character and people scream "lock him up!".
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iosifsvoboda
05/30/17 2:35:11 PM
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The dude already got in trouble for driving his car into a tree while on ambien and Im sure he has driven fucked up before since he's had a million surgeries.
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Virus731
05/30/17 2:35:40 PM
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fire_bolt posted...
Agree, but if he was on the side of the road parked I'd prefer to give him the benefit of doubt. Different meds affect different people in different ways and he may have underestimated how fast they'd make him drowsy. Getting off the road and parking when he started to go down was the smart and right thing to do, and nobody should be given shit over that.


If you think a man who has had multiple back surgeries doesn't know the effects of opiates/benzos than you are being quite naive. I think Tiger is at fault for driving. You can't just take drugs, drive and cry prescription when you're booking people for getting stoned and driving yet it's way safer.
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Leanaunfurled
05/30/17 2:36:56 PM
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I love how people are ignoring that he pulled the fuck over.
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Sir Will
05/30/17 2:39:02 PM
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Steve Nick posted...
Yeah, there's a big difference between driving drunk, and taking prescription medication.

Not when it comes to your ability to drive. And not if you drive knowing the medication tells you not to.

gatorsPENSbucs posted...
Wasn't that the excuse when he drove his car into a tree?

Yes. So this is hardly the first time.

Leanaunfurled posted...
I love how people are ignoring that he pulled the fuck over.

He was behind the wheel and the car was still running.
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TheVipaGTS
05/30/17 2:39:29 PM
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Also, his statement said it wasn't a normal reaction....It said that what he took mixed and reacted differently, a way he's never felt before.
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Virus731
05/30/17 2:40:14 PM
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Leanaunfurled posted...
I love how people are ignoring that he pulled the fuck over.


Not ignoring it at all. Drugs are still drugs even if you are on a prescription. I can still drive on MDMA and acid but it doesn't mean I should because they are quite impairing and it takes much more effort to drive. Same goes for opiates and there is no where that Tiger needed to be that bad that he couldn't catch a cab.

No, he thought he'd be right and took a chance on driving which was stupid to do in the first place. Just because he pulled over doesn't mean he wasn't putting people's lives at risk before he did so.
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cjsdowg
05/30/17 2:41:04 PM
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I guess Tiger just got reminded that he is still black in America.
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yemmy
05/30/17 2:41:49 PM
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Leanaunfurled posted...
I love how people are ignoring that he pulled the fuck over.


yeah I know 2 people personally get duis for being pulled over and passed out in their cars

1 blew a 0.0 too.
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Virus731
05/30/17 2:42:59 PM
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yemmy posted...
1 blew a 0.0 too.


Well that's bullshit. I can sleep in my car if I want to. If I'm on the side of a road where I shouldn't sure you can book me for loitering or something, but not DD.
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
05/30/17 2:43:58 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
Also, his statement said it wasn't a normal reaction....It said that what he took mixed and reacted differently, a way he's never felt before.

He's not describing some index case of a new yet-to-be-discovered adverse drug reaction. He mentioned taking prescription medication and found himself in a ditch. He may not have felt it before, but I assure that he was warned about it if not personally, then on the warning auxiliary labels on his prescription bottles.

He took some (sedating) meds, got himself ****ed up, and crashed his car. Nothing new or unique about this.
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TheVipaGTS
05/30/17 2:46:03 PM
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Virus731 posted...
yemmy posted...
1 blew a 0.0 too.


Well that's bullshit. I can sleep in my car if I want to. If I'm on the side of a road where I shouldn't sure you can book me for loitering or something, but not DD.

It really is bull shit...the officer can simply say "they seemed to be under the influence of something" and arrest you for DUI...now you have to spend the night in jail and spend time and money fighting the case.
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Virus731
05/30/17 2:48:59 PM
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TheVipaGTS posted...
Virus731 posted...
yemmy posted...
1 blew a 0.0 too.


Well that's bullshit. I can sleep in my car if I want to. If I'm on the side of a road where I shouldn't sure you can book me for loitering or something, but not DD.

It really is bull shit...the officer can simply say "they seemed to be under the influence of something" and arrest you for DUI...now you have to spend the night in jail and spend time and money fighting the case.


Here in Australia you'd have to prove it either by breath/swab test.
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chrono625
05/30/17 2:49:07 PM
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so TC doesn't understand driving laws.
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Roxborough4Ever
05/30/17 2:52:20 PM
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if we don't tear down Tiger with this clickbait, then how else do u expect Matsuyama to reach world rank 1 and stay there?
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
05/30/17 2:52:57 PM
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To put it very simply, he probably shouldn't have been driving at all while on these medications and certainly not at 3AM or whatever ungodly hour that it was. I'm gonna change party and blame him for this.

Just because the drug here wasn't alcohol doesn't mean he gets a pass.
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chrono625
05/30/17 2:55:14 PM
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku posted...
To put it very simply, he probably shouldn't have been driving at all while on these medications and certainly not at 3AM or whatever ungodly hour that it was. I'm gonna change party and blame him for this.

Just because the drug here wasn't alcohol doesn't mean he gets a pass.


precisely. prescription or not you cannot operate a vehicle under the influence of a foreign substance.

And anyone who says "how could you tell???" well first look at his mugshot and second he was inebriated on the side of the road when the cops found him with the car running.
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ROD
05/30/17 2:55:26 PM
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cjsdowg posted...
I guess Tiger just got reminded that he is still black in America.


Sad but true.

Lindsay Lohan must have gotten away with this shit like, 90 times, and it took her like 3 or 4 DUIs to get in trouble, and even then she got off with a slap in the wrist and people were sympathetic to her, whereas they're basically calling tiger an uppity *******
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yemmy
05/30/17 2:56:58 PM
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Virus731 posted...
yemmy posted...
1 blew a 0.0 too.


Well that's bullshit. I can sleep in my car if I want to. If I'm on the side of a road where I shouldn't sure you can book me for loitering or something, but not DD.


she was fucked up was my point. there are a plethora of prescription drugs that inhibit motor function even more than alcohol. and there's opiates, that don't really inhibit function other than at high doses make people pass the fuck out.

the same girl i'm talking about is dead from driving fucked up, her body burnt up but I bet her blood had opiates and probably benzos in it and no alcohol. I mean she could have been drinking but not likely.

Also I would like to add that I have gone to doctors that have legally written me TONS of painkillers because of a slightly fucked up back. Tiger Woods is A)a billionaire and B) has been fighting back injuries for more than 5 years now (I actually watch golf on tv). So he can find a doc to write whatever he wants, 100% legal.

I'm not saying rich people should be able to get away with more than the average person, but there's no way a DUI is gonna stick unless they blood tested him for drugs he wasn't prescribed (which it is neither likely they blood tested him or that he was taking something not prescribed). So, in a way, if you're a rich fucker you can get away with more than just some average person.
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Sir Will
05/30/17 2:57:51 PM
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Oh don't act like he won't get off on this too. Not only are driving issues rarely treated as severely as they should, but he's rich.
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Roxborough4Ever
05/30/17 2:59:41 PM
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Sir Will posted...
Oh don't act like he won't get off on this too. Not only are driving issues rarely treated as severely as they should, but he's rich.


so i guess his planned comeback that won't be happening now is "getting off"
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Sir Will
05/30/17 3:01:51 PM
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ROD posted...
and people were sympathetic to her

Since when were people sympathetic to Lohan?
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Steve Nick
05/30/17 3:03:35 PM
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A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it. You have to take it.

You choose to drink. But you don't generally 'choose' to take medicine. People take it because they need it. There's a lot more moral leeway there.
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Virus731
05/30/17 3:03:52 PM
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ROD posted...
Lindsay Lohan must have gotten away with this shit like, 90 times, and it took her like 3 or 4 DUIs to get in trouble, and even then she got off with a slap in the wrist and people were sympathetic to her, whereas they're basically calling tiger an uppity *******


what an idiotic thing to post, literally no one was sympathetic to the slut bag
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Virus731
05/30/17 3:04:33 PM
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Steve Nick posted...
A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it. You have to take it.

You choose to drink. But you don't generally 'choose' to take medicine. People take it because they need it. There's a lot more moral leeway there.


he chose to drive....

as if he couldn't afford a fucking cab

he literally put people's lives at risk
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Super Saiyan 3 Goku
05/30/17 3:05:38 PM
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A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it.

Not implying that this is what Tiger Woods did, but you can't possibly be this naive.
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Roxborough4Ever
05/30/17 3:05:52 PM
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Virus731 posted...
Steve Nick posted...
A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it. You have to take it.

You choose to drink. But you don't generally 'choose' to take medicine. People take it because they need it. There's a lot more moral leeway there.


he chose to drive....

as if he couldn't afford a fucking cab

he literally put people's lives at risk


unless you are going to start going after everybody who needs to take clonazepam or lorazepam and needs to drive then shut the fuck up.....you are just a racist using this as en excuse to go after a black man.....if Tiger was white nobody would be saying a damn thing about it.
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Steve Nick
05/30/17 3:06:07 PM
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Virus731 posted...
Steve Nick posted...
A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it. You have to take it.

You choose to drink. But you don't generally 'choose' to take medicine. People take it because they need it. There's a lot more moral leeway there.


he chose to drive....

as if he couldn't afford a fucking cab

he literally put people's lives at risk



Well, we don't know for sure what his mental faculties were like when he got into the vehicle.
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fire_bolt
05/30/17 3:12:19 PM
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Roxborough4Ever posted...
Virus731 posted...
Steve Nick posted...
A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it. You have to take it.

You choose to drink. But you don't generally 'choose' to take medicine. People take it because they need it. There's a lot more moral leeway there.


he chose to drive....

as if he couldn't afford a fucking cab

he literally put people's lives at risk


unless you are going to start going after everybody who needs to take clonazepam or lorazepam and needs to drive then shut the fuck up.....you are just a racist using this as en excuse to go after a black man.....if Tiger was white nobody would be saying a damn thing about it.


Not usually one to cite racial issues, but yea. If he was white people would be applauding his foresight to pull over once he realized he was having trouble.
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yemmy
05/30/17 3:15:12 PM
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Steve Nick posted...
A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it. You have to take it.


debatable. you don't have to take shit that has warning labels and then drive. also plenty of people abuse their prescriptions. also he could be prescribed like 180mgs of oxy a day (or more, fuck, he's had multiple back surgeries), doesn't mean he needs to be popping that shit and driving though.

in the end, his lawyers stepped in for damage control before anything could likely be really actually known so it doesn't matter. they'll drop the dui. tiger woods is about done as a golfer anyway, not that i don't like him or wouldn't like seeing some epic comeback but I think he's mentally defeated and too old now.
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Virus731
05/30/17 3:15:33 PM
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Roxborough4Ever posted...
unless you are going to start going after everybody who needs to take clonazepam or lorazepam and needs to drive then shut the fuck up.....you are just a racist using this as en excuse to go after a black man.....if Tiger was white nobody would be saying a damn thing about it.


Lazy trolling. I don't think anyone should drive while under the influence of benzos.

Steve Nick posted...
Well, we don't know for sure what his mental faculties were like when he got into the vehicle.


He has been taking pain medication for yonks, he knows what it will do to him before he got into the car.

fire_bolt posted...
Not usually one to cite racial issues, but yea. If he was white people would be applauding his foresight to pull over once he realized he was having trouble.


no I'd be like dopehead is dopehead
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Virus731
05/30/17 3:16:36 PM
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also Tiger Woods is (was?) obscenely rich... he could afford an Uber, cab or hell a $10k limo ride.
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Sir Will
05/30/17 3:16:53 PM
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Steve Nick posted...
A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it. You have to take it.

You choose to drink. But you don't generally 'choose' to take medicine. People take it because they need it. There's a lot more moral leeway there.

Irrelevant to this situation. It doesn't matter why it was taken. If you have to take it then you have to deal with the side effects.

Virus731 posted...
he chose to drive....



Steve Nick posted...
Well, we don't know for sure what his mental faculties were like when he got into the vehicle.

That's not an excuse for drunks.

Roxborough4Ever posted...
unless you are going to start going after everybody who needs to take clonazepam or lorazepam and needs to drive then shut the fuck up.....

If taking a new medication or new combination of medication and they warn not to drive then you don't drive or risk the consequences.

fire_bolt posted...
Not usually one to cite racial issues, but yea. If he was white people would be applauding his foresight to pull over once he realized he was having trouble.

No.
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gatorsPENSbucs
05/30/17 3:17:59 PM
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The people who bring race into this are calling other people racist. Hilarious.

The dude fuckin drove into a tree while on medication. Wouldn't you learn from that? Pulling over or not, he's a dumbass who easily could have avoided this.
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Virus731
05/30/17 3:18:18 PM
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Asherlee10 posted...
"Tiger did nothing wrong."

I don't know how you can be so definitive. Do we know what prescription meds he was taking? Did he know? Did they have a warning label? Do we ignore his previous actions of driving while on Ambien?


the pharmacist warned me not to drive on over the counter night time cold medication ffs, no way anything Tiger was taking doesn't have a warning label
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Roxborough4Ever
05/30/17 3:28:56 PM
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yemmy posted...
Steve Nick posted...
A primary difference between alcohol and prescription medication is...you don't just take prescription medication for the hell of it. You have to take it.
but I think he's mentally defeated and too old now.


you don't know anything about Golf then, he was in the middle of getting ready to come back before this....and even if he got "too old" then he would still be tearing up the senior tour.....Tiger has not won his last title, I promise you that
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