This- I have one myself, plus I hang around with tons of sober drunks and DUIs seem to be one of the “tools of the trade” as it were.
Got my DUI in 1990, got sober in 1991 and I’ve been there ever since.
I know of at least 7 off the top of my head, and a few of those have multiple DUIs.
I guess some of my friends are still in the that stage where you think that you’re invincible to everything…
zero for me.
That’d get you arrested in Japan.
Too many - 7 or 8 that are former friends or co-workers, or exs of the same.
I also know the drunk driver who killed my cousin.
People are really, really dumb.
Two friends, two coworkers. And you know what? All four of them are just plain lousy drivers, drunk or sober.
(Well, I’ve only ridden with one of them when she was drinking. But the others are bad drivers when they’re sober.)
Only one.
The son of a guy I know. Just for those of you who might think that a DUI is no big deal, I’d like to point out that it royally screwed up his life. After spending 6 months in jail, and finally graduating college, he found out that it’s really hard to a) get a job and b) rent an apartment with that kind of record. Here was a guy who was pretty bright, and had a BSEE, and just had a hell of a time getting back into society. He eventually found an employer who would look past his youthful mistakes, but it took a long, long time.
Don’t drink and drive.
Professionally easily a thousand. Personally -3 immediate family members, several friends, couple dozen coworkers and other similar relationships (people tend to tell me about them, knowing I work w/offenders).
I have no friends, so just one.
Only one. I was in the car with her about an hour before she was stopped; at that time she appeared to be in control of her faculties and had no trouble negotiating the route back to where I was staying (not in an area with which she was hugely familiar). If I’d noticed trouble with her driving I would’ve made her stop. (I don’t have a death wish.) I can only presume that after she dropped me off, she stopped at a bar before heading home. Sad.
None, TTBOMK.
Or sent to prison.
I don’t know anyone myself.
Several customers at work, but no one personally.
One acquaintance has a conviction.
One acquaintance was killed by a drunk driver. One friend was injured and his car was totaled when he was hit by a drunk driver.
I think it should be a felony that carries mandatory prison time. I’m not saying lock them up for life, but five hundred bucks in fines and a 90-day suspension is not sufficient punishment for such a dangerous, stupid thing.
I agree, actually, even though in 1990 all I got was one night in county, a 30 day suspension (if that- I can’t recall), 90 days of “red license” which meant I could only drive to and from work, and about $1000 in fines and court costs. But then again, I was not involved in an accident nor did I inure or kill anyone.
I have a friend who killed her own child in a drunk driving accident. In addition to the mental anguish that she will feel for the rest of her life (plus the ongoing hatred from family members who now refer to her as “murderer” to her face), she did some hard time- a couple of years, I think. She was lucky to “only” get a few years.
Two.
One is a friend. He deserved to get caught as he had a habit of driving home from the bar after having way too much to drink. Thank God he didn’t hurt anyone. It’s a positive that he’s sworn off alcohol completely for about six months now. I hope he keeps it up.
The other is a cousin. Has something insane like 8 DUIs. He probably needs to be locked up. I haven’t seen him in a few years.
I know of a sister-in-law who got a DUI conviction. Not that she didn’t deserve it, but the county attorney prosecuting her really played up some minor drunk-and-disorderly misdemeanor from 20 years prior, claiming it showed a history of alcohol issues.
Then a few years later, that very attorney, not long after speaking to a Mothers Against Drunk Driving group, got wasted at a business lunch with colleagues and died in the resulting crash, plus seriously injured the driver of the car she hit.
One former co-worker who had enough DUIs to have his licence suspended, plus he had a long list of small scale convictions like noise violations, drunk and disorderly conduct, vandalism etc. He was an idiot.