WHINER ALERT!

I used to belong to a group called DAMM (Drunks Against MADD Mothers), but I gave up the hooch a long time ago, as a result, I was asked to resign my commission from DAMM.

Back in the day I was court ordered to go to one of those impact panels. I should have taken the 24 hours in jail. That turkey was the biggest waste of time I have ever experienced, seriously. I got more out of “Diversity Training” than I did that total waste of time and taxpayer money. I’m being very sincere, if you get pinched, and that is part of the sentence, request the extra day in jail. Aside from it being a taxpayer subsidized program, you also have to pay them to attend, what a scam! Crappy, hard wooden chairs too, very uncomfortable, and they do that for a reason, to make it harder to doze off. That thing was torture, man, I’m tellin’ you. If the threat of having to attend another one of those isn’t incentive enough to stay sober, I don’t know what is!

I do not support, nor am I sympathetic to what MADD has morphed in to. A whiney group of activists that do nothing but look for things to be “offended” about with regards to anything alcohol related. Their original purpose was lost a long, long time ago.

So, what’s the latest this infantile group of whiney malcontents are “offended” about? A beer brand.

Cherry Hill-based Flying Fish Brewing Co. (motto: “Proudly Brewed in New Jersey: You Got a Problem with That?”) has undertaken an ambitious project of releasing a special beer in honor of turnpike exits, one at a time.

The beers are being made in limited runs and sold in 750 milliliter wine-size bottles.

The first, a Belgian-style ale, came out earlier this year in honor of Exit 4, the exit nearest the suburban Philadelphia industrial park that Flying Fish calls home.

The next beer, Exit 11 Hoppy American Wheat Ale, is scheduled to start hitting bars and stores in the region on July 15. The intersection of styles is a tribute to Woodbridge’s exit, where the Turnpike meets the Garden State Parkway.

Oh yes, you just knew it!

Mindy Lazar, executive director of New Jersey’s chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. “The combination of a roadway and advertising for any kind of a beer doesn’t make any kind of sense,” she said. “This is almost a mockery.”

First off, MADD has no business making a statement about the operations and decisions of a business. It doesn’t concern them, they need to mind their own business, and not worry about what company XYZ does.

Secondly, does anybody really believe that Flying Fish Brewing Co. is promoting drinking and driving? Thirdly, what kind of an idiot would crack a beer on the turnpike believing it was okay to drink and drive because he or she was drinking an Exit 11? Hey! You Nanny State loving politically correct people, “We aren’t that dumb!”

Get over it, and mind your own damn business.