I made this poll anonymous. Let's try and be honest.
Do you Drink and Drive?
I used to drive bombed but I stopped a few years ago.
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I made this poll anonymous. Let's try and be honest.
Do you Drink and Drive?
I used to drive bombed but I stopped a few years ago.
In my younger days I definately drove knowing I was over the limit a few times. Now never, but will sometimes have a single beer and drive knowing I'm definately under the limit and safe to drive.
If I lost my licence I would lose my income so not worth the risk, plus if I ever hurt someone while drunk at the wheel I would not be able to forgive myself.
No Contest...........Don't drink and drive if it doesn't eventually kill you it'll kill someone else.
EDIT Same goes for drugs too!
I'll admit, I do it way too much. ANd every morning after I sit there and have to go through my own disgust with myslef for doing it. I have lost way too many people to similar ****, yet I keep doing it.
Nothing ever scared me more then back when I was a stoner and would drive then.
Funny how attempted murder isn't really taken seriously. Needs to be a mandatory one-year license revocation and ninety days in jail the first time you are caught. Second time, two-year revocation and six months in jail. Third, five years in jail.
Sad thing is that more people, at least that I know, get off of the ticket if they have half a brain in their heads. Spend a night in jail yes, pay a lawyer a lot of money yes, but never even get conviceted.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaeger
No excuses no butt's and no ands
Yer caught you should fry
For 1st offence
Heavy fine
Impounded car
1 yr no license
Second offence
Heavy Fine
Jailtime
Loss of license for 5 yrs
I lost too many friends to drinking drivers
I would happily turn anyone I saw drinking and driving in
Hi Freddy. For a schoolteacher you have funny ways of using a comma in can't :thumbs2: Too easy!Quote:
Originally Posted by glass cleaner
EDIT: and Somerset has 1 m not 2.
Legal limit is 3 for average weight person = 0.08% Im big so 3 is less than the limit.
persons that drive over the limmit should be shot on the side of the road when its their second offence.
first offence penaltys should be the same as current second offence, or cost/time equvelent to damages. vehicular homicide then becomes life, paralysing someone means you pay their cost of living rather than tax payer etc.
not as strict a singapore where they shoot you for the first offence.
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Originally Posted by RejectionMan
the "legal" linit should be NO alcohol in your breath or blood
I got a DUI when I was younger. Don't need another. Learned my lesson (although I've made a few mistakes since then -- but been lucky). I'm crashing out at the friends house tonight (I'm older and wiser now -- I think). Also, it's too dangerous being drunk on the road with other drunks on the road. Scary stuff. :eek:
Just remember friends: It only takes ONCE for something bad to happen. :)
Please be safe tonight.
At least no one has yet claimed, "I drive better after I have a few"
Some people try and say that about the pot. Scary.Quote:
Originally Posted by techs
Funny how no one ever claims they write software code better when their high.
People who code for a living usually are high. High on caffeine that is. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by techs
Btw,.. if anyone see's any unsafe driving,.. you can now report these unsafe drivers to http://www.unsafedriver.com
Microsoft does.Quote:
Originally Posted by techs
bwaaaahhahahahahaha
OK; I feel better now.
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I;ve had my DUI when I was young and foolish and don't want to repeat it. Though I think the calls for shot on site offenses are wrong. You are consuming a perfectly legal product that impairs your judgement, then you make a judgement mistake thinking you are OK to drive. The punishment is fine where it is. If that doesn;t deter repeat offenders then something needs to be done about them.
We gots us a designated driver lined up tonite
Hi, my name is inept, and i'm a recovering DUI driver...
sadly enough, i have done it too often myself, got pulled over more than my share too, but always schmoozed my way out of it...for some unknown reason, my friends always thought i was less drunk than they were :( we all have our "st00pid" years, i'm more than lucky nothing ever happened, it's like playing russian roulette, one day you aren't lucky...period.
If you make a decision, you are responsible for the results of that decision. If you know your judgement will be impaired, it is your responsibility to prepare for that or not to impair your judgement.Quote:
Originally Posted by craigmodius
I am sooooo lucky myself.
I used to work at Round Table Pizza a long time ago. 4 of us were working that night, locked the door, got drunk and cleaned up the place. We each poured a 32 ounce cup of beer and left to go play pool. I was driving. All of us were holding our 32 ounce beers. Late at night, dark, open road, a cop pulls us over. I pass my cup behind me to one of the guys in the back seat. Cop walks up, has me get out of the car and begins to give me sobriety test. Gets another call and has to go. I lucked out.
Another time I was following some friends. I was drunk, the friend in the passenger seat was sipping on a bottle of JD. Cop pulls up behind us and sirens us to pull over. Friend tosses his bottle out the window. Cop luckily didn't see that (not sure how). Again,.. yadda yadda, gets another call,.. lucked out again.
I was at this party, drinking, drunk, done -- time to go home. Get in car, start to drive, make a left turn onto this road and all of a sudden a cop is behind me. WTF? I drive extra careful, get home, pull up alongside curb. As soon as I get out of the car, cop gets out and gives me the yadda yadda. I lucked out. He let me go since I was home. Very embarrassing,.. neighbors came out to see what the fuss was about.
Unrelated, but still drinking story: Me and a friend had bought brand new BB guns. Out in the back of RTP where I worked shooting cans. Our guns are drawn, right in the middle of aiming, cop car comes rolling up from out of nowhere. With lighting speed they get out of their car and draw their guns on us. We drop our guns and put our hands in the air. Yadda yadda,... not sure how, but we ended up laughing and joking around with the cops and they let us go. Even let us keep the guns. Strange.
I got lots more, but now my fingers are tired of typing. :D
just wondering...we have a special organization set up here in quebec where for the holiday season (about 3 weeks i believe) you can have a designated drivers bring you, your friends, and your vehicle back home free of charge. you can be drinking at home, get drunk, call 'em up to go to a bar, then call them back to go to another bar, etc., and still have them bring you back home at the end of the night. is this sort of free service offered anywhere else?
Yap. There's lots of stuff liek that. But I can't think of the names of any at the moment, but I always hear them being advertised.
We have nothing like that around here. On St. Patrick;s they do have a bus that will take you from bar to bar thru town, so you;re not driving around bar-hopping. And people I know think I;m BS-ing them when I tell them that. That's how bad it is when it comes to preventing this stuff; no one believes you because it is the exception; not the rule.Quote:
Originally Posted by i n e p t
And jaeger I completely agree with you; but should that momentary lapse in judgement result in your execution? How about speeders or other aggressive drivers etc?
in my town, there is also the same kind of service as i mentioned before, but this time it's fees are covered by bar owners who subscribe to the program. so if you get wasted in their bar, they call you up a ride that gets you home safe, and your car also...quite a few owners have taken up membership in the last year...it also works for individuals, you can also subscribe, so no matter which bar you're in (whether they are members or not) you are covered by the same plan...i find it to be quite a responsible act from bar owners to cough up the dough to keep their clients (and the rest of the population) safe.
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Originally Posted by techs
UK - Never
BTW Happy New Year
They check U on the routes into town in the MORNING
Here if you are working am you watch your consumption the night before
The Consequences here are draconian.
QED
The scenery at a crash scene would change your mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by craigmodius
Been there when they shovel the bits in the bag.
Once it was a family inculding the 6 yr old daughter.
OK Folks take it on board
Do not justify what you do
Just do it
Saves people like me the nightmares.
I have not done that type of work for15-20 yrs but still think about it.
Does not help
New year I count them all - I recall about 20
Does not help you sleep guys - worse than vietnam?
NO REPEATS
Momentary? Are you kidding me or yourself? Momentary lapses result in serious holy-**** panics after the fact and never ever doing it again. What do we have? We have amusing little war stories. Dress up attempted murder just right and its cute and funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by craigmodius
I have stated the punishments I believe necessary. Second degree murder for drunk drivers involved in lethal accidents.
Got a brother who lost his license for 2.5 years. I swear if he ever does it again I'll run over him myself and save him the trouble.
Cleetus, have you ever thought of maybe taking a cab TO the bar, or what ever establishment you drink at? That way you will have to get a ride back home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cleetus
Just a thought. Dont mean to be lecturing here. :thumbs:
I dont drink that much, and when I do it is usually at home. Growing up, my brother, sister, and I had a standing offer (and still do) from my father. No matter what time of night/day it is. No matter where we were. If we were to drunk to drive and needed a ride home he would come and get us. It was something he repeated often and came through on the few occasions we asked.
Police officers should either pop one in your head at the side of the road if you have been drinking, or break both yer legs and leave you there. I'm not going to sugar coat it, if you drink and drive you are a piece of garbage who thinks of noone but him/herself. If you know you are going to be drinking, PLAN AHEAD. I do, I will not drive if I have had a single drink that day, being overly cautious? Yes I am, but I know what happens to families when they lose someone because some phuckwit decided it might be ok to have a few and then drive.
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Originally Posted by Radical Dreamer
You need to calm down. Remember that this only became a crime about 15 years ago.
Thats the most idiotic statement I ever heard in my lifeQuote:
Originally Posted by ilovetheusers
I missed the poll, it must've been a short one....oh well!
Anyhow, I was busted for DUI in 1997, and it caused me a world of problems. For the first offense, I spent 48 hours in jail, lost my license for a year, nobody would insure me without a license, bank was going to repo my SUV cause it didn't have full coverage, so I had to sell it at a loss. Also got slapped with about $1600 in fines, put on probation for a year and have a misdemeanor on my criminal record now.
Once I got my license back, I had to pay ridiculous prices for insurance on a hacker of a car, but the fun didn't stop there. I was trying to find a new job, and any job that required driving was out of the question (I have CDL's, and could not get a job driving truck anywhere), not to mention I could not get a job anywhere that ran a criminal background check.
So, all of this, along with the even more important obvious fact that I could injure or even kill myself and/or others while driving intoxicated has served as a very big reminder to me to never get behind the wheel after drinking again!!!
Fact is, driving a car at all is a dangerous thing. Any impairment to your reaction, vision, or observation including eating or cell phones can cause accidents, but people don’t go to jail for playing with their CD changer remote.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaeger
Being DRUNK should be stopped at all costs I agree. But anyone with a BAL of .10 (or .08) or below involved in a wreck should not be found in violation of DUI if the accident wasn’t their fault. Example, you had a beer or two on the way home from work, sitting at a light you are rear-ended. Now, with a BAL of anything you are found at fault, and DUI. Didn’t do anything wrong, didn’t cause the accident, and could pass every sobriety test on the planet, but never the less f-ed. Is that far? NO!
Stiffer penalties for wrecks caused by severe inebriation should be applied. Any injury or death resulting from the direct fault of the inebriated driver should be treated as 2nd degree murder, again, if they are directly at fault in the wreck.
The rest of you are taking out your aggression on innocent people, and it’s not justified, and it’s not fair.
Ya_know I agree with you completely.
Yikes...must be a new year!https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif