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I don't know anyone who has been dumb enough to get a DUI... but usually you get a bigass fine and some sort of suspension on your license. But thats canada.
DUI thread
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Dead_Lioness
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^ agree on the "dumb enough" sadly two of those dumb asses are friends of mine... the girl who got a lawyer though, got a DUI because the cop was
following her in the bar... he;s kind of an ass hole, but friend or not friend:
she deserved it. she was drinking.
following her in the bar... he;s kind of an ass hole, but friend or not friend:
she deserved it. she was drinking.
NAD
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My friend got a DUI on my birthday party last weekend. The worst part is that me and my other buddy, who have both driven when NOT EVEN SORT OF SOBER, were right behind him. And he's the dude who ALWAYS crashes at someone's pad when he gets drunk. Sucks.
Best thing to do is get a lawyer. Either way a DUI equals lots of court time and some cash. Lesson? We all know that answer.
Best thing to do is get a lawyer. Either way a DUI equals lots of court time and some cash. Lesson? We all know that answer.
Reign in Acai
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Your insurance rate is going to fuck you in the ass. I myself won't drive shloshed, a couple times I seriously tried as I was wasted in places I no longer cared to be, but after starting up the engine, driving 10 feet incoherantly, I'd just pull over and sleep it off. The chance of making it home in one piece is not worth the risk of winding up dead, killing some innocent person on the way home, or the lesser consequences of getting a DUI, and fucking up my record (which a DUI would make look like absolute shit). You just closed a ton of employers doors on this one. You need to know your limits. 2-3 brews, sure feel free to drive (unless you're a sally who votes for Blood Red Throne and Melechesh over established titans), but anything that seriously inhibits your motor skills. Stay off the road por flavor.
Anyhow my condolences.
Anyhow my condolences.
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Oh yeah I forgot to mention that I now carry a blanket and pillow in my car. I'm able to somehow find my way to my own backseat, set my alarm, grab those two items into perfect harmony, and pass the fuck out within 12 seconds. 
Erik
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See, I think this is a big problem with countries that actually allow driving after, say, two beers. I do not dispute that many people can be ADEQUATE (not perfect) drivers after 2 beers, but once you've said that 2 beers is acceptable, people's train of thought will go "oh but 4 (6, 8, ...) beers isn't much more, I can drive just fine now"
People will argue that in Sweden, the threshold for drunk driving is ridiculously low, and maybe it is (drink one 3,5% beer and you're fucked) but at least that sort of zero tolerance policy is better at hammering this into even the drunkest of heads: YOU DO NOT FUCKING GET BEHIND THE WHEEL IF YOU'VE BEEN DRINKING. PERIOD. Completely eliminates the "oh but 4 beers is nothing" thinking.
Reign in Acai
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My buddy's mother purchased him a 20k + pickup truck for his birthday one fateful year. A couple weeks go by and he totals it by flying off the road into a ditch. Needless to say it has cost him multiple job opportunities, and he can't afford the insurance premium. It's a couple hundred bucks a month for liability alone.
And yes a zero tolerance approach would be quite nice. But what would happen if the U.S implemented such a thing? Drunken truck drivers would probably take to the streets and march against the law. Then everybody else would say "oh those poor truck drivers".
And yes a zero tolerance approach would be quite nice. But what would happen if the U.S implemented such a thing? Drunken truck drivers would probably take to the streets and march against the law. Then everybody else would say "oh those poor truck drivers".
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hahahaReign in Acai said:
Although yeah, I wouldn't mind a zero tolerance policy here. Might cause public transportation to actually be feasible, and I'm totally for that.
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NADatar said:
q4t. I hate how transit is useless around here. If I go to a bar, it's impossible for me to get home. Luckily there are usually 24 hour food joints (denny's) near bars so I go there and order a coffee and keep the free refills coming and have them bring me water as well.
drinking and what you can handle depends on so many things, body weight, height, how much food you had, ... for me, I can handle about 1 drink an hour and be perfectly Ok at the end of a 3-4 hour outing to drive ...
it is really sad, but but in the US a lot of people DUI all the time ...
it is really sad, but but in the US a lot of people DUI all the time ...
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Erik
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Drunk driving has gotten a huge social stigma attached to it in Sweden these days. If you admit to having driven drunk people shun you, openly insult you, etc.
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then you shouldn't need to DUI. 
Seriously... make the laws for DUI rape you in the ass. Should be two tiers: one around the same level as attempted manslaughter, the other (when you hit some fucker) at manslaughter.
Take the drunken fuckwads in 1+ton engines of metallic death off the streets.
edit: that rules Erik, yay for sweden.
Seriously... make the laws for DUI rape you in the ass. Should be two tiers: one around the same level as attempted manslaughter, the other (when you hit some fucker) at manslaughter.
Take the drunken fuckwads in 1+ton engines of metallic death off the streets.
edit: that rules Erik, yay for sweden.
Erik said:
No different in America really, in fact some places are planning on making you put a "Scarlet letter" on your license plate, so everyone knows your a jackass.
Erik
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Erik
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awesome.
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