{"id":1223,"date":"2011-12-31T08:39:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T12:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2014-12-30T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T03:21:10","slug":"aaa-free-tipsy-tow-service-not-a-nationwide-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/aaa-free-tipsy-tow-service-not-a-nationwide-program\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA Free Tipsy Tow Service NOT A Nationwide Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>2014 Update for New Jersey drivers<\/em>: Sober Sam is available but <\/p>\n<p>News about AAA offering free towing service nationwide to get inebriated drivers home safely on New Year&#8217;s Eve is circulating virally on Facebook but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/inboxer\/nothing\/tipsytow.asp\">according to Snopes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.aaa.com\/2011\/12\/tipsy-tow-programs-offered-by-limited-number-of-aaa-clubs\/ \">less than a dozen states offer this program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When you see this posted on Facebook, tell people not to rely on the service. There&#8217;s only a limited chance it will be in effect where they live:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No Excuses!!! Don\u2019t drink and drive \u2014 and don\u2019t ride with anybody who does. Tipsy Tow offered by AAA: You don\u2019t have to be a AAA member, from 6pm-6am on New Year\u2019s Eve\/Day they will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE. Save this number &#8230; 1-800-222-4357.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Actual Drunk Driver Rescue Services Available in New Jersey for New Year&#8217;s Eve are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sobersam.com\/\">Sober Sam<\/a> provides drivers to take you home safely if you&#8217;re too alcohol impaired to do this yourself. Call their emergency hotline at 856-520-5679 or make a reservation in advance. This service is only available in the South Jersey\/Philly area though, so check your options first. And, although it&#8217;s pretty low cost, it&#8217;s not free.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>In New Jersey, free AAA tow service <del datetime=\"2014-12-31T03:12:58+00:00\">is available only in Morris, Essex and Union counties, provided by the New Jersey Automobile Club<\/del> (doesn&#8217;t seem to be provided any longer). AAA Clubs in other areas aren&#8217;t offering this program.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>AAA maintains a <a href=\"http:\/\/duijusticelink.aaa.com\/for-the-public\/aaas-role\/public-education\/sober-ride\">list of other drunk driver rescue programs<\/a> on its website. Check it out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 Update for New Jersey drivers: Sober Sam is available but News about AAA offering free towing service nationwide to get inebriated drivers home safely on New Year&#8217;s Eve is circulating virally on Facebook but according to Snopes, less than a dozen states offer this program. When you see this posted on Facebook, tell people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/aaa-free-tipsy-tow-service-not-a-nationwide-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AAA Free Tipsy Tow Service NOT A Nationwide Program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,31,28,282],"tags":[497,498],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-best-stuff","category-free-or-almost","category-help","tag-free-tow","tag-new-years-eve"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5963,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/5963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}