Thursday, January 5, 2012

Friends Don't Let Friends Walk Drunk

Here's a interesting fact: drinking and walking is more dangerous than drinking and driving. Not, of course, to others, but it is to yourself. If you are drunk and you live one mile from home, if you choose to walk rather than drive home, you are 8 times more likely to die than if you drove home. How's that for unconventional wisdom?

The moral of the story? If you must drink, don't drive, don't walk. Instead, get someone (who is sober) to drive you home. If you want to learn more, click on the following link of the Freakonomics podcast, "The Perils of Drunk Walking" (it's only 6 minutes long).

1 comment:

  1. Alcohol is now one of the leading death for most adults. I don't know why police left such teens!!! In last few months, there are couple of drinking cases have gone down. Most of the people thought that although things happened due to our cancerous Governments.
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