Bruce Springsteen arrested for DUI after 1 shot of tequila(.02 BAC)

[Anonymous]

Just want to say that my inlaws are bus drivers in a low cost of living area. They make 50k, excellent health care and they have pensions! They live a great life off that. (Houses cost about 150k for a very nice one)

[Anonymous]

Also, you're crazy if you think DMV bus drivers are making 80K.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Metro-Bus-Driver-Salary-in-Washington,DC

[Anonymous]

How dumb it is to take a shot and then immediately drive off? I wouldn't do this in a car or on a motorcycle. Glad they stopped him - blatant disregard for basic rules of the road.

It's the same as not driving with an open container next to you - I don't think I would be drunk if I drank one beer while driving, but it is still illegal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does he have a prior violation that would prohibit him from driving with any alcohol in his system?

Alcohol isn’t the only drug that you can be driving under the influence of.

I think it’s hard to comment without ALL a the details, and I’m guessing those aren’t being reported.

+1000

[Anonymous]

What does "consuming alcohol in a closed area" mean?

[Anonymous]

hes an idiot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How dumb it is to take a shot and then immediately drive off? I wouldn't do this in a car or on a motorcycle. Glad they stopped him - blatant disregard for basic rules of the road.

It's the same as not driving with an open container next to you - I don't think I would be drunk if I drank one beer while driving, but it is still illegal.

Depends on the state! Some allow passengers to consume alcohol, which would be an open container.

I don't see how this is different than having one beer with a friend at a bar and then driving home. 0% of people would be drunk (I'm a petite woman even)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How dumb it is to take a shot and then immediately drive off? I wouldn't do this in a car or on a motorcycle. Glad they stopped him - blatant disregard for basic rules of the road.

It's the same as not driving with an open container next to you - I don't think I would be drunk if I drank one beer while driving, but it is still illegal.

Depends on the state! Some allow passengers to consume alcohol, which would be an open container.

I don't see how this is different than having one beer with a friend at a bar and then driving home. 0% of people would be drunk (I'm a petite woman even)

Depends on the beer. Have you had a Dogfish World Wide Stout or a Goose Island BCBS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, you're crazy if you think DMV bus drivers are making 80K.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Metro-Bus-Driver-Salary-in-Washington,DC

Damn. They are NOT getting paid nearly enough.
— long-time bus rider

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, his dad was a bus driver and his mom was a legal secretary. How can you argue that he doesn't have working class roots?

Is he not allowed to advocate for the working man just because he achieved success in his career path?

And somehow now he’s a cowboy from middle America ;0)

Bus driver = union job
Legal secretary = good salary

He was solidly middle class, likely UMC.

There’s no need for an affected accent. That’s an act.

And, perhaps most importantly: what exactly has he done for the working class aside from appropriate a persona to sell records to them?

Bus driver = UMC? WTH are u smoking?

bus driver sin this area make north of 80k a year

A NYC bus drive made at most $2/hr in 1955.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924054549476&view=1up&seq=171

$2 in 1955 is now worth $19.44.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1955?amount=1

So at most his dad was bringing home $80/wk, which is $777/wk, which is 40K a year.

And the pay for bus driver in NJ was likely lower than in Manhattan.

And he wasn't always a bus drive, he was also a factory worker and cab driver, where he probably made less.

You can thank me now for my research,

Those are all union jobs with union benefits.

My in laws bought their first home in NJ for $25k in the 1950s. School teachers.

The Boss wasn’t poor. Maybe white kid boardwalk class, but not poor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Also, his dad was a bus driver and his mom was a legal secretary. How can you argue that he doesn't have working class roots?

Is he not allowed to advocate for the working man just because he achieved success in his career path?

And somehow now he’s a cowboy from middle America ;0)

Bus driver = union job
Legal secretary = good salary

He was solidly middle class, likely UMC.

There’s no need for an affected accent. That’s an act.

And, perhaps most importantly: what exactly has he done for the working class aside from appropriate a persona to sell records to them?

Bus driver = UMC? WTH are u smoking?

bus driver sin this area make north of 80k a year

A NYC bus drive made at most $2/hr in 1955.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924054549476&view=1up&seq=171

$2 in 1955 is now worth $19.44.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1955?amount=1

So at most his dad was bringing home $80/wk, which is $777/wk, which is 40K a year.

And the pay for bus driver in NJ was likely lower than in Manhattan.

And he wasn't always a bus drive, he was also a factory worker and cab driver, where he probably made less.

You can thank me now for my research,

Those are all union jobs with union benefits.

My in laws bought their first home in NJ for $25k in the 1950s. School teachers.

The Boss wasn’t poor. Maybe white kid boardwalk class, but not poor.

In the 1950's, being working class didn't equate to being poor like it often does today.

[Anonymous]

And I said he was working class, not poor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does "consuming alcohol in a closed area" mean?

I think the park was closed at the time he was there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just want to say that my inlaws are bus drivers in a low cost of living area. They make 50k, excellent health care and they have pensions! They live a great life off that. (Houses cost about 150k for a very nice one)

New Jersey is not a low cost of living area. Despite being kind of crappy it is consistently top ten in the highest cost of living states. I grew up there and where he lived is also definitely not an UMC area and is really only a tier above living someplace like Newark.

[Anonymous]

NP. Cops overcharge individuals all of the time so I wouldn’t assume that they were privy to some sort of information as to what medications he was on...

If anything this is basically a tale of someone being used to certain amount of white privilege with the cops and behaving accordingly and then getting treated like the rest of us do.