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Originally Posted by pitbulllady
Laws for drivers' licenses vary from state to state. In South Carolina, as long as you can either read the road signs in that little view-finder thingie, or have something signed by an eye doctor, a one-eyed person can get a license, and indeed, I've known a few folks who were blind in one eye and drove just fine. One of the teachers at the high school is a Vietnam vet who lost an eye AND his left arm, so he's more like Wilt indeed, yet he drives. He has a special car in which the turn signal arm has been moved to the right side of the steering column, so he can operate it. I don't know what the requirements are in Washington state, though, but yeah, you are correct in that Wilt is blind in his left eye, whether or not it's an artificial eye. In "Blooooooo!", while he, Coco, and Ed were hiding from the "Cannonball Ghost" in the dark closet, you can see BOTH of Coco's and Eduardo's eyes in the dark, but only one of Wilt's, so even if it is still his real eye, the pupil does not function to allow in any light at all.
pitbulllady
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There was little doubt in my mind that drivers' license laws varied by the state. (Off-topic example: In Alaska, if you kill any big game, i.e. moose, with your car, it belongs to the state. I doubt that y'all have that problem in South Carolina?) I'm pretty sure that being blind in one eye actually means that 20% (one-fifth) of your visual capacity takes a hit-- not quite enough to totally disqualify you from driving I'm sure.
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Originally Posted by Mac-a-lacka
Wilt is seen driving a both car and semi-truck real easily on "Where there's a Wilt there's a way".  |
Maybe I was thinking of older cars with a stick shift and a clutch and all those other things that are about as foreign to me as fluent Klingon. (Again with the Star Trek references in a Foster's discussion...
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