Impaired Driving

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A friend of mine was recently busted for driving over the .08 limit. It wasn’t his first arrest for impaired driving and he’s going through hell to keep his job, etc. Does anyone have any experience with drunk driving charges or know anybody who has gone through it and come out any the wiser? I’ve known guys who’ve lost their driving rights 4 or 5 times (or more). Just wondered why the same people keep getting busted, and other drivers come away unscathed.

Happy Holidays, and stay away from road-blocks. I, for one, am keeping really close to home.

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Before this thread gets moved due to a lack of the “F” word-

The obvious joke- the same drivers keep getting caught because they keep driving while impaired!

Seriously, this violation used to be minor, now it’s hell on wheels (so to speak). Your friend had better get himself an attorney, and then think about why it is that he seems to insist on drinking & driving. It’s lame.

And don’t tell me that he doesn’t drive drunk, because it would be rather far-fetched to think that he got caught the only two times he did it.

Good idea to stay close to home (although that’s where about 90% of DUI arrests happen!), because the holidays are not only filled with career drunk drivers, but also lots of amatuers who don’t know how.

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Thanks EJs Girl - You’re right.
Now this violation is “hell on wheels”. Apparently it’s the only charge where you can be stripped of all civil rights…including the right to earn a living.
I wasn’t trying to be sarcastic when I posed this question. Since I’ve been driving for 30 or more years, and many of those times have been spent drinking and driving. Never have I been busted for DUI. Maybe I don’t fit the profile or whatever. Just a little old lady in a little old lady vehicle. Never been pulled over for a breathalyzer test.
My buddy, however, has been tearing around in a 4X4 truck looking like a good ol’ boy and gets pulled over all the time. I’m not proud about this, but I just keep motoring through the madness - impaired or not.
Just wondering why it happens to some people and not others.

Love your term “career drunk drivers” vs. amateurs that don’t know how.

Thanks again.

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um…hmmm…

:rolleyes:? Nah, too simple.

You freely admit that you drive a good deal of the time under the influence and the only problem is that the police haven’t caught you yet? Maybe it’s time to start policing yourself.

God, I can’t even get angry over this, I’m so tired. I’m going out for coffee.

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Stay away from roadblocks? How about stay away from alcohol and driving so you don’t fucking kill somebody?

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Um, MaryJane-driving isn’t a civil right. It’s a priviledge.

Here’s a stepladder. Use it to get over yourself.

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MaryJane

Have you ever driven past a scene of road carnage and thought to yourself, there but for the grace of god go I.

You drive on a few miles a little more carefully and then resume your bad habits.

I can ride my bike as carefully as I like and still be taken out by some idiot who does something stupid.

The law balances your right to do what you want against the rights of others to simply live and breathe, once you cross that line then your livlihood and that of your drunken idiot friend is of no concern to me.

I had good friends who have been killed by drunks, being a cyclist it is an all too common occurrance and guess what ? It’s all so stupid and unnecessary, families deprived of kin just so that you in you high handed and godlike way decide that you, unlike the rest of the human race, are fit to take to the wheel when you had a few drinks.

What a trivial and pointless reason to risk the life of another for, how completely selfish.

Maybe I’m selfish when I hope that you and others like you are removed from the roads and placed into my tender mercies in my prison.

Your livlihood means jack shit when compared to the right to life of my friends, civil rights, hah! So the removal of the civil right for your victims to breathe merits no mention whatsoever in your OP

Are you aware that most people who turn up for work drunk in jobs that require alertness will likely lose that job ?Furthermore if I, as an electrician, kill someone through neglect of my duty to them esecially when I am drunk then I would earn myself a jail term.

Do you think that is an infringement of my civil liberties because the argument over loss of livlihood through drink driving seems to be a pretty clear parallel to me.

It is not really that hard to work it out is it ?

I don’t know you and you may be a perfectly nice, pleasant person but I find it hard to relate well to someone who has such a disregard for my life and those whom I love.

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This has got to be a joke. No one is this clueless. No one is this callous or stupid about uh…what do you call it? “impaired driving”? What about “driving stinking drunk and risking everyone else’s lives”?

Mary Jane - is this some kind of put-on? You aren’t really this clueless. Are you?

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Are there no buses where you live? No trains? No taxis? No carpooling? Do you have no freinds who could assist you in transportation. You have no right to drive, and you can still earn a living. Your statement is whiny and clearly unsupportable.

Spooje used to drive drunk in his wilder days. I was never involved in traffic accident while drunk or arrested for DUI. This is purely a matter of luck. Sooner or later, luck runs out. I’ve know a lot of people who weren’t as lucky as me. Several of them died as a result.

2 weeks ago, Spooje and several close relatives were nearly hit by a drunk driver. Said driver was doing 50 on a poorly lit, curvy residential street with many stop signs, which this idiot ran through. He was stopped and arrested about 3 miles down the road.

The thing about drinking and driving is that people don’t drive well drunk. I maintained fair motor skills while drinking. Most people would never have guessed that I was drunk. But even after 1 beer, my judgement suffered. I would drive faster and take chances that I would never take while sober(because they were stupid chances to take). It’s a miracle I didn’t kill anyone out there.