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alcohol limits were introduced in the 60s so that story sounds plausible

by wolfi1 7y ago

bhaak 7y ago
Wow. I didn't know about the alcohol limits. But what is even more amazing, safety belts were not standard back then and mandatory wearing of seat belts was only introduced in the 1970s. So OP's narrator probably survived that accident with out any seat belts on.
- Scoundreller 7y ago
  It wasn’t long ago in Croatia where the driver yelled at me NOT to put my seatbelt. It was only required for driver and forward passenger.
acqq 7y ago
> sounds plausible Additionally, as far as I understand, the U.S. military personnel has a special legal status almost anywhere outside of the U.S.
- wolfi1 7y ago
  In Germany at the time for sure as legally Germany was an occupied territory but if the policemen would have thought it was illegal they would have handed them over to the MPs
  - acqq 7y ago
    Italy in 1998 wasn’t officially occupied AFAIK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1998) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_...
    - wolfi1 7y ago
      there may be some NATO statute or a treaty between US and Italy EDIT: it's a NATO statute
      - acqq 7y ago
        > it's a NATO statute And Germany is also in the NATO, so the same rules are still there too.