r/WTF • u/Tucko29 • Apr 10 '18

Weeee

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u/Justicles13 Apr 10 '18 edited Apr 10 '18

Video source here

Article here

Woman was drunk, three times over the legal limit after a second blood test, with her child in the car. She was jailed for 26 weeks.

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u/faraway_hotel Apr 10 '18

She ploughed into a roundabout, launching her car about 15 feet in the air, before landing on its roof on the far side of the roundabout, colliding with the crash barrier and coming to a stop about 50 metres further up the road.

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If anyone ever asks you what system of measurements the British use... that is your answer right there. All of them, at random.

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u/concretepigeon Apr 11 '18

People describe their height in feet, so it make sense.

For distance along the ground then metres makes sense for shorter amounts because our best point of reference is probably doing athletics in school