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ash_274 t1_jbc87bo wrote

A radio DJ got rear-ended in Los Angeles several years ago and the driver that hit him stayed in his car, kept the doors locked and windows up, and was drinking straight from a bottle of liquor. When the police showed up, they couldn't prove he had been drinking before the crash, since all the witnesses saw him chugging the bottle after the crash. He claimed the crash rattled his nerves so much he had to drink from "the sealed bottle he was bringing home".

Big shock: he was a lawyer.

Plot twist: he was a prosecutor

The story

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hydrOHxide t1_jbc7vi3 wrote

Back in my first year at university (more like college for the anglo-american model), I had a chemistry prof who always liked to tease the local newspaper.

One day, he published a press release that he had found ethanol in the beer of local breweries.

The PR guy of one of said breweries had apparently flunked chemistry at school and immediately issued a denial.

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chasonreddit t1_jbc0my2 wrote

I agree 100% with your last paragraph.

> not wanting to continue riding a bus that is going nowhere good, and saying "either change course or I'm getting off

Everyone should choose, and I totally agree that the authoritarianism of the church is antiquated and needs reform. But I belong to many (way too many) organizations I would like to see move in another direction. You are always forced with the question of simply throwing up your hands and saying "well THAT's a lost cause" or staying and trying to effect change. It's a hard choice and in various contexts I have made both choices.

I don't think I have ever belonged to any organization whose cannon I agreed with 100% percent of the time. From Boys Scouts to PTA to city council. You can quit or you can accept the good it does and try to be an agent of change.

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