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an experience about drinking and driving
I would like to share an experience with you about drinking and driving. As you well know, some of us have been known to have had brushes with the authorities on our way home from the odd social sessions over the years. A couple of nights ago, I was out for a few drinks with some friends at the Marriott Hotel and had a few too many beers and some rather nice red wine. Knowing full well I may have been slightly over the limit, I did something I've never done before: I took a bus home. Sure enough I passed a police road block but as it was a bus, they waved it past. I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise; as I have never driven a bus before and am not sure where I got it. Happy Friday. Aug 24 12 07:11 am Link Womans intuition. Aug 24 12 07:21 am Link There must be 50 ways to leave your lover. Aug 24 12 07:26 am Link That's great! Aug 24 12 07:26 am Link Bwahahahaha.... I posted that on my FB page back around Christmas. Aug 24 12 07:33 am Link I laughed. And then I laughed some more. Love it. Aug 24 12 07:35 am Link hahaha XD Aug 24 12 07:36 am Link Aug 24 12 07:52 am Link T wrote: Hi T very funny. How have you been? Aug 24 12 07:54 am Link Borgia wrote: I'm great!Thx Aug 24 12 08:03 am Link T wrote: Whoa Aug 25 12 11:22 am Link Around here, we have what is called the designated drunk guy for those times when the cops are waiting outside the bar's parking lot. One guy comes out acting absolutely shitfaced drunk, stumbling and fumbling his keys and acting like hes barely above passing out. While this charade is going on, his friends come out one by one, get in their cars and drive away. After the last one is gone, the designated drunk (who is, in reality, as sober as a judge) gets in his car and drives away. If he gets pulled over, he blows clean. Aug 25 12 11:34 am Link Aug 25 12 11:39 am Link I think every person who drinks at all has (technically, by law definition) driven drunk at some point, but most people just won't admit it. I bet if you put 300 people in a room together, 275 of those people have driven drunk at least a few times in the past few years. 250 of them drive drunk, or right at the limit a few times per month. 25 of them never have, because they're smart like that, and 12 of those 25 non-drunk-driving people don't drink alcohol at all, so they don't really count. Maybe my ideas about it are skewed by my own experiences, but that's just a guess... I work in bars, have been working in bars for the past three years. I will tell you that cops drive drunk. Firefighters drive drunk. People in the military drive drunk. People whose jobs are to depend the population --- they drive drunk. All the time. One of my favorite regulars at a place I worked in 2010 was a firefighter with something like 20 years on the job. He'd saved so many lives at work, he had lost count. Pulled puppies out of buildings, and little kids too. He was a really good-natured man, but he tottered out the door of the bar, to drive home shitfaced, at least 4 nights a week. People always act like "oh it's not me. I don't do that" .... but they mostly do, and just lie about it. Aug 25 12 11:57 am Link Ive drove tipsy before but I dont think Ive ever drove a random bus home. Aug 25 12 12:02 pm Link Mmmkay. Aug 25 12 12:30 pm Link I'm NOT implying you lie about it, OP. Not at all. Your anecdote was a good motivator/reminder to people who do go out drinking and overdo it - which was likely your original objective. Just saying that I think driving drunk is a much larger problem than anyone wants to admit, so commonly accepted preventive measures do not really seem to discourage it much, if at all. Aug 25 12 12:45 pm Link ShivaKitty wrote: Aug 25 12 01:12 pm Link T wrote: ....you know, I read your whole post through when I first read it, so I have no idea why the punchline flew right over my head. Aug 25 12 01:17 pm Link ShivaKitty wrote: It's all good Aug 25 12 01:20 pm Link T wrote: That is excessive! Aug 25 12 01:25 pm Link T wrote: Jerry Nemeth wrote: holy shit. Aug 25 12 01:32 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: Not to someone that has lost multiple family members as the result of people driving under the influence. Aug 25 12 01:41 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: D.C. is looking to crack down even more on drunk drivers, implementing new, stricter penalties. Aug 25 12 01:43 pm Link Blue Cube Imaging wrote: There should be punishment but for a first offense where the person is found to be over the limit and nothing else. That is excessive. Aug 25 12 01:44 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: DC is a nightmare to drive in stone-cold sober, in broad daylight, in light traffic. Possibly THE worst place I have ever driven- and after the first time I refused to ever do it again. I drove to a place where I could catch the public transit and walked from there. Aug 25 12 01:46 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: Yep, 6 months sounds like a good start. Aug 25 12 01:58 pm Link Blue Cube Imaging wrote: I said over the limit and "nothing else"! Aug 25 12 02:00 pm Link The Original Sin wrote: i know right! Aug 25 12 02:04 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: Um... no it's not. Over the limit means over the limit... drunk... impaired to drive... it doens't matter if they were 'something else' as well, they are already over the limit and shouldn't be driving! I know of several people who have been killed by drunk drivers. Drivers that thought they weren't that drunk. Turns out they were wrong. Aug 25 12 02:07 pm Link LOL, T! Aug 25 12 02:08 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: He was only 0.09 (limit in Oregon is 0.08), he still killed two people and impacted a dozen other lives forever. Aug 25 12 02:09 pm Link Blue Cube Imaging wrote: Wouldn't be great, if you killed someone due to impaired driving, you got a lifesentence no questions asked... Cause really, you made the decision to get in your car and recklessly endanger everyone on the road. You chose to take the risk of killing someone, and it happened. Life in jail. Sigh, if only the justice system actually did justice... Aug 25 12 02:10 pm Link csjacksonphotography wrote: hey sweetie Aug 25 12 02:13 pm Link *sigh* Aug 25 12 02:13 pm Link Rachael Bueckert wrote: I just had jury duty a few weeks ago, it was a DUII case... Think they let me on that jury? Aug 25 12 02:18 pm Link Blue Cube Imaging wrote: No, because you are vindictive. Aug 25 12 02:28 pm Link I love the joke! Drunk driving is serious though. There is a 24 year old woman who is facing 15 to life for her third DUI which ended the life of an innocent man who died in the crash. http://www.ksbw.com/Reckless-Monterey-D … index.html What a waste! Aug 25 12 02:55 pm Link Jerry Nemeth wrote: And you would let the guy go with a slap on the wrist... just so he can do it again and perhaps kill someone... good for you, I'd rather be vindictive and save a life. Aug 25 12 02:58 pm Link Rachael Bueckert wrote: I didn't say what the punishment should be but for that infraction 6 months in jail would be excessive. Aug 25 12 03:08 pm Link |