New Years Eve Poll: Drinking and Driving?

[ilovetheusers]

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.

You need to calm down. Remember that this only became a crime about 15 years ago.

[Ferrit]

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 life

[3fingersalute]

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!!!

[Ya_know]

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.

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.

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.

[shamus]

Ya_know I agree with you completely.
Yikes...must be a new year!