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Brickbat: Stick Shift

Charles Oliver | 1.19.2015 6:00 AM

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Russia has banned people with "mental disorders" from getting driver's licenses. Among those affected by the ban are transgender persons, fetishists, exhibitionists, voyeurs, "pathological" gamblers and kleptomaniacs.

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  1. Steve G   11 years ago

    Libertarians?

    1. AdamJ   11 years ago

      Raiders fans?

  2. Old Man With Candy   11 years ago

    Chinese?

  3. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    In another car incident, Gorbachev was late from getting to the Kremlin from his house. He told the chauffeur, "Look, we are running late so let me drive. I insist." So he told the chauffeur to get in the back and he drove.

    Meanwhile, the police were given strict orders to ticket anyone speeding, no matter how important.

    So they were speeding down to Moscow and two motorcycle cops pulled them over, but didn't ticket him after he saw who it was. He goes back to the station and talks about it and was asked, "Why didn't you ticket him?"

    "Too important."

    "Who was it?"

    "I didn't recognize him, but his driver was Gorbachev!"

  4. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

    Sigh.

    Even Russia is more progressive.

    And remedial progs look at the positive in this in 3...2...

    1. Zeb   11 years ago

      I'm not so sure. Many of those same progs probably already have a diagnosis that would keep them off the roads in Russia.

      1. R C Dean   11 years ago

        Our progs will naturally have a different list than the Russians.

  5. nailzer   11 years ago

    Why don't they just get the vodka drinkers off the roads? That would solve 99% of their car crash problems.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P7rZiznm0o

    1. Zeb   11 years ago

      The how would anyone get anywhere?

  6. Doctor Whom   11 years ago

    So radical feminists run Russia?

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  7. Paul.   11 years ago

    Don't be too hasty to condemn this. If we brought this here, politicians would more than likely be denied a driver's license.

    1. R C Dean   11 years ago

      More likely, they would be the only ones who could a driver's license.

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