People who are ALWAYS the victim
Chip McFlennigan
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piss me off.
Have an acquaintance who got a DUI last night. Now, it's the cops' fault and they're a bunch of jerks. Uh, try again, idiot, you blew a .19 and everyone told you not to drive.
I'm tired of people passing the buck.
Have an acquaintance who got a DUI last night. Now, it's the cops' fault and they're a bunch of jerks. Uh, try again, idiot, you blew a .19 and everyone told you not to drive.
I'm tired of people passing the buck.
I knew it all along, see?
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She knows the law and she blew over twice the legal limit...and the cops should have chilled out and escorted her home? BS.
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I dunno where you got your info from, but, you're way off. .08 is not "one drink." For a 200-pound male (which is the person we're talking about), 5 beers in a span of 2 hours will get your BAC to .08. Since this particular gentleman was drinking with us for between 3 and 4 hours, he had to have had an excessive number of drinks.
He was fairly wasted when he left but, in my crippled state, I was unable to physically restrain him and, none of the girls there could've stopped him.
Whatever, I'm just glad he didn't kill anyone. But also, no, it's not a good idea for the cops to let people like that just go. I've been on scenes where drunk drivers have caused bad accidents. Christmas Eve 2008 I pulled a little girl out of a car right over her dead parents' bodies. The person that hit their car was driving drunk. Anyone driving home at a .19 should be punched in the teeth, which I may have done had I been able to walk last night.
I agree though...some people are just always the "victim". :roll:
Like when a guy date rapes a girl because "she didn't say stop." How was he supposed to know? Right? Poor rapist.
Society is taking a plunge.
Now those are real hero's, i watched a firefighter stand on a 5 story roof once with half of it gone and flames coming out the other half for 20 minutes with a hose, just him and his partner until they put the sucker out, craziest shit i've ever scene. balls straight up balls.
Psh, sounds like a couple of losers to me.
Silly
what do you call drinking and driving????
take a good look
this could be the day
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lie beside me
i just need to say
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I call it a crime and a really shitty choice.
see heres my issue... i know i can see a band and over the course of 3 hours have a couple of drinks and know that when on the very rare occasion that i drive that not only am i legally able to drive but am in total control of my faculties. so once again i ask.. what do you call drinking and driving??.. cause according to you i will have committed a crime in doing so.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
well true enough. one shouldnt drive drunk. thats why its a crime.
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
We were in a rental car with Texas plates, not that of our home state. It was a Sunday evening about 10pm
We had been out trying to find dinner, stopping at 2 places to find out food was done for the night. Had a wine at each then found a wonderful pizzeria, for appetizer, a bottle of wine and pizza.
Husband was over the legal limit, which is quite low but he was not inebriated. The legal limit being about the same as the distraction of a cell phone I hear. We made our way back to the hotel via scenic route not the freeway. We got pulled over, not sure why because he was going the speed limit and not swaying.
They did the whole check, found out we were locals back home visiting his elderly mother, husband passed the field sobriety test and they wanted me to drive the car to the hotel only about 2 miles. This funny cause I drink more than he does and of course I too was over.
The officers, one took our car and parked it so we could retrieve in the morning the other took us to the hotel. I tried to give him my delicious smelling pizza leftovers but he would not take them, just our numerous thank you's.
Husband would have been in so much trouble with his ma if things had gone different, something perhaps they could relate to. Moral is, there are some very nice policemen still who will give you a break if they can, its just not often in their power to.
The body processes approximately 1 drink per hour. she was hammered.
I was arrested 12 years ago with a .176. And I'm an alcoholic. At 5' 11: 195 lbs , I was hammered.
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I once blew a .085 and got let go. I was EXTREMELY lucky. I passed all of the physical tests and was extremely cooperative with the police. From then on, if I think I have more than 3 or 4 beers still in my system, I don't drive anymore.
Your acquaintance should be in jail.
.19 is EXTREMELY drunk. I blew a .085 after 7 beers over a 3 hour drinking span. .19 would be like if I had 14+ beers in that same span.
I hate to say but you're gonna get a dwi one day..... Your logic is flat out you playing mind games with yourself
leave the car at home
Blew a .092 last year and got nailed. Passed all the tests and was cooperative with the police and spent the night in jail.
Since then I don't even put myself in a position to be in a place where I'm drinking and might have to drive. I just can't afford to get another one.
But to address the issue the OP brought up, when I got my DUI, I felt like the police could have let me go or escorted me home or whatever, and for the first few days there was a feeling like I got railroaded (there was some shady stuff that happened when I was pulled over, IE- the police were staked out in a church parking lot at 2 a.m. in a 25 mph zone that is known as a speed trap, but strangely enough they weren't prepared to make a DD stop. So after they pulled me over, I had to wait almost an hour for them to get a breathalizer machine out to where we were. My feeling was that had they gave me the test when I had been pulled over, as per the law in Michigan, I wouldn't have blown as high. But who knows. There were also some weird things on the police report, like the police said I failed all of the sobriety tests, yet the in-car video clearly shows me passing them. The officer also said I was slurring my speech in the police report, yet in all the audio you can hear, I'm speaking clearly) Despite all that, after the first few days I realized that had I just called a cab or a friend, I never would have put myself in the position to get in trouble. Had I made a better decision, I could have saved myself a lot of time, money and aggravation.
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In Michigan that is true, but it's not the same charge as a DUI. And, according to my attorney, it is very rare that a judge will uphold an alcohol related driving offense when the person is below the legal limit. That doesn't mean the person won't be charged with reckless driving or something similar, but alcohol related driving charges have so much baggage that come along with them...
But I wholeheartedly agree with you. As someone who has been through it, it's not worth it. Make other plans or ride a bike or walk. Don't drive.