None that I know of.
I have a cousin who was pulled over for it, but he was innocent. That same ride he also saved a couple underage drinking friends from being convicted (long story).
The guy working across the hall from me right now has one. He was driving the wrong way on a divided highway and he killed someone in a head-on crash.
I know of 7 other people who have DUIs, and I’m sure I know several more people who have them but I never learned of it.
Several hundred.
Once in my twenties I went to a work meeting. Didn’t have many drinks. When I got pulled over, I knew I wouldn’t blow over the limit. One problem though, I hadn’t eaten dinner. Didn’t realize what a difference that makes. So I got a DUI. Ashamed about it still, these 20 years later. Learned a valuable lesson though.
Know a few other people that had them.
2 that I know of.
One wasn’t really his fault. One of our friends said she could drive us home in his car so we could drink as much as we wanted. Unbeknownst to us, she got herself wasted, which we didn’t find out about until we got pulled over in a DUI checkpoint 100 yards from the club. So he got charged too because it was his car or something. Ironically, we didn’t end up drinking that much and he is a pretty big guy so if he was actually driving, everything would have been fine.
Then there’s our other buddy who got like 2 DUIs in the same night through a miracle of incometance and beurocracy. He’s also banned from renting cars from certain companies for an unrelated incident.
For the most part though, given how much my friends and I drank in college and out 20s, surprisingly few had legal issues. Usually we were pretty good about not drinking and driving.
Only two now – a friend of my daughter’s has had three or four, and my best friend’s 18-year-old daughter got one within a year of getting her license. Her other daughter (age 22) racked up five speeding tickets in a year and lost her license.
Two that I know of.
Three that I can think of. I’m guessing that there are others that haven’t advertised it. I’ll bet I probably will come up with more if I think about it.
My first husband and a friend who got one at the age of 20. I told the latter that if I ever heard of him driving drunk again I would pound him into the ground.
My older brother has, I believe, three. He got them in the late 80’s. I almost surely got one around that same time. I was in college, driving home from a bar after having a decent amount of beers. I wasn’t falling down drunk, but I was definitely over the limit. A cop pulls me over and is just beginning to give me a field sobriety test when a call comes over his radio. He asks me where I live (closeby), jumps in his police car and yell’s “keep it in the road” before speeding off.
What idiots we were…
At least a dozen charged, but 95% plus have gotten the charges dismissed. It seemed like they were handing the things out like candy a couple years ago. New Mexico is really cracking down on drunk driving with ad campaigns, super blitzes, and tougher punishments. Unfortunately, the officers are so incompetent that their cases have so many holes they simply don’t hold water, and the judge has no choice other than to dismiss the cases.
I’ve never gotten one but I know quite a few who have. It’s surprising how many people have gotten one. I worked for a place that required a criminal background check on everyone who was seriously considered for a job. It seemed like half of them had a DUI in the past, mostly many years before. It didn’t prevent anyone from being hired.
I can only think of one at the moment. He wasn’t even my best friend or anything. More of a friendly acquaintance, but I was the one he called in the middle of the night from the police station. It’s weird when you get a call in the middle of the night and the recording says, “will you accept this call from [whatever] police department?” Wuh?? Huh?? I’m awake now!
One that I know of from doing background checks for a local volunteer group.
Another told me, in a discussion about why he no longer drinks.
There are probably more, but don’t talk about it.
I know one person that has gotten a DUI. I know several other people who, if you asked “Has so-and-so ever gotten a DUI?”, my response would be “I dunno, but I would bet they have.”
None that I know of. And none that I would suspect either.
The dumbass living in my basement (Basement Dan) has one right now. His dumbass friend who is over rode his bike here in the snow, so I think he has one too.
I think my dad has one but “we don’t talk about it.”
It would not surprise me if my oldest cousin has gotten one.
So…2-4 people.
None, as far as I know.
One Co-Worker in College (he hid in the freezer when they came to get him).*
One Ex x2.
–jack
*Well, technically, they never got him for DUI. They tried to pull him over for whatever when he was tanked, and he ran for it (in his car), parked, and ran for it (on foot) and got away. He maintained shots were fired, but was not a credible witness, so ymmv. He hoofed it home safely, but the police had his car. They called his house, and the dumb-ass answered (hey, you drive drunk, you deserve to go to jail, but, given that you are already hiding from the law in your own house while the authorities have a known way of locating said abode–WHY ANSWER THE PHONE?) So then he and his roomy got to hide out when the police came to call and pretend they weren’t there. Knock KNock KNOCk BAM BAM BAM! So next he gets roomy to drive him to work to open the restaurant I was working at for Sunday brunch. And tells us all the entire story (embellished or not, this is still another star in the stupid column). Then the police come to the restaurant. Obviously, the only logical thing to do at this point is to go hide in the walk-in freezer. Just as obviously, the thing for the manager-on-duty to do was to deny that he had seen the guy, as the manager-on-duty was much more concerned about having a salad-app line cook for Sunday brunch than in justice or social obligations. I need a paragraph here, don’t I?
Anyway, Mr. DUI emerged frosty but free, and spent half his shift on the phone to his girlfriend (poor her) trying to decide what to do. From what I heard, he favored going to Mexico with her. This was not to be. Despite my fascination with this train wreck, I couldn’t tell from shameless eavesdropping if the issue was that his (soon to be ex) girlfriend had a lick of sense, or if it was that the police had his car. Anyway, after much brunch and much drama and much advice from both me and said unfortunate GF, he determined the best course of action was a local lawyer and dealing with reality.
The next encounter was a couple of days later. He had gotten a lawyer, and surrendered, and was out on mumble mumble mumble (this was a long time ago). He was optimistic. The police had no BAC on him, no way to prove he was driving, and did not know about the Mr. Freeze thingy. He was going to skate! (pun intended) Life was good!
Then, I didn’t see him for a while. On the work schedule, insted of shifts, by his name was the notation “In Jail” (this by the same jerk who hid him in the freezer).
Eventually, DUI-man returned.
Obligatory Disclaimer: Except for what I personally saw and heard (stories from Mr. DUI, his nap time in Mr. Freezer, and cough listening in on his phone conversations) I have no evidence anything I was told was true.
Anyway, this was his story. He said that his lawyer said he had a decent position. The lawyer got some sort of plea bargain where he plead guilty to the original traffic offense, and for something like (it has been a long time) civil disobedience for running from a policeman that told him to stop. He got some sort of fine/community service for that. He thought everything was cool. Then, on the way out, they arrested him. Maruijuana residue in the ash tray in the impounded car.
Note to the fine legal minds on the board (including our fine PD working in Athens, where this took place in the early 80’s)–this is the story I got from a drunk and drug user. None of this may be true.
It was just amusing, in a shardenfreude kinda way.