Allen Johnson DQ'd?

[Chad Rhodes]

First off, i don't condone anyone drinking and driving, whether it be on the street or the track. I do think they may have sugar coated things a bit in the PR statement, however I'd also say that a lot of sportsman racers should be glad they don't walk through the lanes with a breathalyzer before first round sunday.

[Myron Piatek]

There is a little more insight on breathalizer readings posted by Jared Jordan on a moparts.com thread.

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/...gonew=1#UNREAD

[RPM5595]

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

First off, i don't condone anyone drinking and driving, whether it be on the street or the track. I do think they may have sugar coated things a bit in the PR statement, however I'd also say that a lot of sportsman racers should be glad they don't walk through the lanes with a breathalyzer before first round sunday.

My thoughts exactly! That would be one way for NHRA to eliminate 1/4 of the pesky Sportsman cars though after taking our money!

Jay

[Greg Reimer 7376]

I got selected at Winternationals in '94. I haven't had a can of beer since I was 18, so it became a big joke around the guys who knew me there, so we went to the trailer, breathed in the machine and gave a pee sample, which was put into two sample vials and sent to two labs. The whole thing took less than 20 minutes, I never heard a word of follow up later, and the whole thing is just part of racing. It didn't offend me, insult me, nor did I take it personally.I had 24 hours to respond, but we went right after the second of our two time trials that day. I sure enough let everybody know that they were out there and randomly selecting racers, and to be careful of that. Years earlier, while bracket racing at OCIR, someone I knew had a habit of smoking a joint in his car in the lanes to calm down and focus on the tree. I don't remember him red lighting too often,either.

[Andys dad]

I assume this post won't last long but ... I just can not hold back

Bruce you are way out of line as the Moderator - you are suppose to censor posts like yours

Egregious, stupid, irresponsible, uncalled for slander and liable

Free speech does not give you the right (especially as the moderator of this forum) to say what ever you want - when ever you want - where ever you want

If the administrator of this forum does not take swift action and reprimand you I hope the Johnson's get word of your remarks and pursue public and legal action against you and this forum

Clean up this act

I am positive you have no first hand knowledge about what you said - I don't believe you are on a first name basis with Allen

I doubt you even know him but if you do go apologize for what you said

OK - I am going to post this - even though I think it will not be met with fair even handed reasonable rational action

[Billy Nees]

Hey Andys Dad, I don't really see anything wrong with what Bruce said in his post and if you knew Bruce and I you would know that we don't agree on many things. If he blew an .024 AND you drop .02 for every hour that you don't have a drink AND he waited 11 hours then he must have been pretty well slammed. At least slammed beyond "social drinking".
I don't know the man so I don't know if he has a problem or not but I wouldn't want to race him first round.

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Andys dad

I assume this post won't last long but ... I just can not hold back

Bruce you are way out of line as the Moderator - you are suppose to censor posts like yours

Egregious, stupid, irresponsible, uncalled for slander and liable

Free speech does not give you the right (especially as the moderator of this forum) to say what ever you want - when ever you want - where ever you want

If the administrator of this forum does not take swift action and reprimand you I hope the Johnson's get word of your remarks and pursue public and legal action against you and this forum

Clean up this act

I am positive you have no first hand knowledge about what you said - I don't believe you are on a first name basis with Allen

I doubt you even know him but if you do go apologize for what you said

OK - I am going to post this - even though I think it will not be met with fair even handed reasonable rational action

Man, you are way, way over the top here. Nobody is going to remove this post. I hope it stays on forever. I am a moderator here. That does not mean that I don't or can't have my own opinion. Think of me as the gardner who pulls the weeds. There is no freedom of speech on any of these sites. We post according to the rules. And it's not slander to point out that a person is having problems with booze. Feel free to PM me anytime. Or just blast away and I'll kindly respond.

[Bernie Cunningham]

Bruce,
I don't care either way, but, are we to assume that you never part take of a cold beer every now and then ? I didn't like ya comment either.

Most sane people I know do that to relax after a big day, yea, he made a bad decision to go test early, probably the major downfall. I, and all of us have made some of those bad decisions in our lives. Was the testing flawed? We'll never know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FORGET ABOUT IT.

PARTY ON !!!!!!!

[Bruce Noland]

Bernie,

No, I don't drink.

Yes, most of us have made at least one dumb mistake.

[Andys dad]

You said - "most folks agree that he was using poor judgment."

That is your arrogance

Where do you get your information?


Oh I forgot you do have the very socially significant and important position of moderator of this forum.

I can say you do not have enough gumption to even bend a little and say “maybe you spoke without thinking or that maybe you could have been just a little "over the top" as you put it.

I really appreciate your ability to "man up" and admit when you are wrong - rather than just continuing to make others wrong

BTW

You have a right to your opinion when you keep it to yourself but you do not have a right to publicly denigrate anyone in the name of free speech when you do not know the facts about what you are saying