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The Onion Goes Statistical...err, Satirical on DUI

By Total DUI

Delivering their usual satirical take with all the news that's (un)fit to print, the latest issue of The Onion provided this little news item on DUI: According to a report released Monday by the National Institutes of Health, 93 percent of those who get behind the wheel while intoxicated arrive at their homes safe and sound, just like they told everybody they would. The article goes on to send up more reasoning by drunk drivers: "'Roughly 64 percent of drunk drivers have cousins who are cops anyway, so it's really no big deal.' The study concluded that a mere one in 15 drunk drivers end up dying in a cascading torrent of fire, so, you know, odds."

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).