10 things you used to do -- but now can't

[Old School]

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Budweiser in the lap<figure><figcaption><!-- slide body text --> Kids, our dads always stopped for "road pop" on the drive out of town. No waiting to crack open a cold one on a hot day. Trips were measured in six-packs.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving had yet to be formed (it arrived in 1980), insurance rates didn't skyrocket after a DUI conviction (insurance hikes are largely responsible now for the $10,000 cost of a first-time DUI), and drunken driving fatalities were twice as high.

In 1982, only 26 states had banned drinking behind the wheel. Then the feds stepped in, passing a 1998 law that yanked 3 percent of a state's transportation funds if it didn't ban open containers anywhere within reach of drivers and passengers.

"Money talks," one Houstonian said when Texas finally buckled in 2001, with $80 million at stake. Now all but 11 states comply, and only Mississippi allows people to nurse a drink behind the wheel.:scared

In 1982, when the government began tracking, 21,113 people died in alcohol-related traffic accidents. Today, that figure has fallen more than 50 percent.

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[Scrapman]

in 1982, when the government began tracking, 21,113 people died in alcohol-related traffic accidents. Today, that figure has fallen more than 50 percent.

nuff said :0008