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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (53766)	9/28/2004 2:51:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<paracetamol and Codeine) are "Over the Counter" drugs in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. If you can afford the modest cost, you can get as high as you choose. Some find it helpful to take a handful before driving their car to the local boozer for an evening of fun. Usually, they've spent so much on pills and grog they can't afford automobile insurance. So you're especially lucky if they hit you, as they can't pay.> They get used to make methamphetamine these days and pharmacists do interrogation or something to determine proper use. I'm not sure what the rules are now but "P" has been heavily advertized for a couple of years by the "authorities" worried about an "epidemic". Their moaning and bossiness of course only encourages further use of the stuff. Drunk driving is way down in NZ these days. I don't do it much at all these days because the government agents are epidemic. One night I was breath-tested twice within 2 kilometres. Crazy! Speeding is down to almost nothing too because there are speed cameras everywhere collecting taxes for the avaricious government spendthrifts. They are having to lower speed limits to keep the revenue coming in. Now, inattention is the second most common cause of crashes and deaths as people are constantly watching their speedometers instead of the road and taking a longggggggggggggg time to overtake as they don't want to exceed the tax-collector designated speeds for even a moment. They are also bored so look out the window at the view, tune the radio, gab on the phone, read the newspaper or do something else to keep themselves from being bored to death while driving, ironically, thereby being killed! A truck driver I know said it's crazy watching people pass long trucks without speeding, using up a kilometre of road and running out of room, watching their speedo instead of the road. It's fun these days to drive at 1km/hour or 2km/hour under the speed limit when there are police or lots of cars stuck behind. Those voting for such a system, which is by definition the majority, don't seem to like being stuck. My best catch was two police cars stuck for about 3 km going through a 30km/hour area. Boy were they boiling when they could finally, illegally, zoom past at well over the speed limit. Mqurice