Drunk Driving

I don't like people who don't know their own bodies and minds, and do things they can't handle.

I've done some drunk driving. And I don't think that I ever, for a moment, endangered myself or others. I have also elected to leave my car and walk, when I didn't feel comfortable driving.

The problem is people who can't tell the difference between tipsy and wasted, the "I'M NOT DRUNK *pukes on your shoes*" type....

In general, I'm against drunk, or at least wasted (as your friend did) driving. I do like the idea of the "legal limit", they have it for a reason: you CAN drive after drinking a bit, just not while smashed. But I think that it should be strictly enforced, and your friend SHOULD get in some decent trouble....


Although I wish I had a private road with no little kids or cars and shit.... Drunk drifting sounds REALLY fun

If I had a place to do it, I'd even pull a fresh dacre, and drive on acid for sport....

But not on public roads.

 

^^^ Statistically speaking, more people die from walking home drunk than driving drunk. but still, it's a bad idea. I agree with roorshack, it's more about knowing your own limits.

 

Of course, the problem is very few people DO know their own limits with alcohol.... Especially those who feel most at home driving drunk, like alcoholics.... if they knew their limits, they wouldn't be alcys would they?

I wouldn't doubt it about walking home drunk being more dangerous, I've just done it when I was more worried for other people, like I knew my reaction time and depth perception wouldn't cut it if I needed to avoid a crash or pedestrian.

 

i should turn pro - i can collide with other cars, knock down bins and squash my neighbours pets all whilst parked

god bless alcohol.

 

The bars are full everywhere every night. You never know when some dick-head is going to ram you and disable or kill you or your kids. Happens every day and night. I've read before where some guy is on his 6th or 7th DUI and is still out of jail.

 

This post is 100% british.

The thing that, IMO, causes a lot of drunk driving is that you can get a citation and/or arrest for public intoxication when you're not causing a disruption. This is a problem.

You go to a bar, friends house, etc. You drink, enough that you probably shouldn't drive and you know it, but it's also a party night in a college town and you know if you walk home, you may well be harassed, when you have a good chance of driving home without incident. Many choose to drive.

I don't think that public intoxication arrests should exist. If you're beligerant, they should cite you for disorderly conduct, or whatever. But simply having alcohol in your blood when outside should not constitute a crime, that's silly and causes people to make bad decisions to avoid arrest for just making the right choice, and leaving it parked.

 

I have zero tolerance for people that drink and drive...and it sickens me to hear about those accidents..where people are killed because of it. I once worked as a manager at a hotel..one night..me and a co-worker were sitting talking and we both heard an awful crash..on the highway in front of the hotel...was a truck and a van..the truck had 3 drunk occupants...the van had 2 adult women and 3 children...2 children were killed in that van..and it changed my life. It's not just that people drink and drive...it's people that don't understand how dangerous vehicles are...the guy was going 50-60mph in a 40mph zone ...ran a red light...2 things sober people do daily..speed..and run red lights/stop signs. People need to realize that driving is a very important priviledge and to respect the rules of the road...everytime you get behind the wheel. Your life and others depend on it. In my life..i have been hit by a car...hit a deer...slammed by a guy who ran a red light...and then that one night...had nothing to do with me...but i'll never forget it. I'll never forget seeing one of the women get out of the van..and she went straight to her knees. Nothing anything any one of us could do. Even sadder...later that night..police had part of the road blocked with a police car..lights on...to do re-enactments..trying to decide how fast the guy was going..etc..another drunk driver ...hit the parked squad car..and was charged dui as well. Pathetic!

 

Lost, the part about hitting the squad car made me lul.

But again, that's morons who drink and drive, not someone who's had a drink and goes home.

A mandatory high school level physics course should be part of getting a license. Most people don't understand the exponential nature of the increase of damage relative to speed. IE. if you crash going 60, you'll walk away, if you crash going 70, you're a goner. And of course, the people who you hit are doubly screwed, being hit in a way the car isn't as designed for and doesn't have the crumple zones to protect you from, or on foot or a bike....

I think the ONLY capital punishment in society should be that drivers who hit cyclists should be shot :leaving:

 

hahah yeah man pull a fresh dacre for the record id rather be SNOWBOARDING on LSD and weed, not driving, and when i did go driving on acid, it was usually at night with like nobody else on the road practically besides me. Still no excuse but kind of

 

I think I went pro about two years ago.

 

Wow...some folks have a strange sense of humor. I didn't think any part of my reply was funny. Nothing funny about 2 innocent children dying in a drunk driving collision...and later that night ...same road...another drunk hitting a parked car....that could have just as easily killed someone. I see the irony...not humor.

And..i forgot to say..not sure where you get your statistics..Roor..but you can just as easliy die in a collison going 60 mph as you could 70. I don't get your logic on that one....sorry.

 

exactly. you drive like a reckless moron and bad things will probably happen. no, drunk driving is not safe, but it's really annoying when people blame intentional reckless driving on alcohol.

 

Someone I love got killed because of a drunk driver. It isn't okay, not even a little bit.

That's the point you're debating? What about the idiot who said it was safer than drunken walking.

Safer than drunken darts maybe. Fact, they're throwing sharp things while drunk.

 

Yeah, leave booze alone!

But if drinking by itself is harmless, it's just what people do with it... and guns are innocent, it's just what people do with them, than drunken shooting is harmless.

Statistical fact.

 

Just as easily?

I guess you should have to take that physics class too......

And you're lecturing ME on driving safety.

 

Even tipsy, buzzed driving is considered drunk driving. In California all the bullshit .08 legal limit crap is just as I said, bullshit. (its just the difference between a wet wreckless and a DUI). It doesnt even matter if you think you can drive after you have been drinking, you should not drink and get behind the wheel of a vehicle at all.

In 2009, my daughters boyfriends little cousin (9) was ran over by a DUI driver. He was killed right in front of his sister who held her dying brother in her arms as the DUI driver took enough time to roll down his window, say "oh shit" and drive off. This guy got 6 years and Brandon was robbed of his life.

Unfortunately, I have been on both side of drunk driving (vehicular manslaughter), I have seen what it does to the victims family, but I have also had a very good friend go to prison for nine years because he used poor judgment by drinking, driving and killing someone and critically injuring himself. Not only did he ruins the womans life, he ruined his own.

It doesnt pay to even take one sip of alcohol and get behind the wheel of a vehicle.

 

This has nothing to do with one sip.

I know all the super anti drunk driving people don't see a difference, but comparing the two is like comparing my nissan to a ferarri, because they're both cars.

You're talking about smashed, shitfaced drunk driving. There is NO reason for ANYONE to be that drunk, ever.

I'm talking from the perspective of someone who DOESN'T DRINK. But there is a massive difference between being stupid reckless blind drunk and running lights, scraping parked cars while continuing on, running over people and going "oh shit", and between having a drink and driving home. Neither is a great idea, but neither is on anywhere near the same level.

You can have zero tolerence all you want, but telling stories about horiffic things happening at the hands of people who would have been horrible people drunk or sober, as evidenced by their poor choice to drive in that state, and what they did while in that state, does NOT make everyone who's driven buzzed a horrible person.

"NO blood alcohol content is okay, once I knew someone who was run over ten consecutive times by someone who's alcohol content was just below the LD50" is NOT logic. Again, no tolerance is fine, but using examples of people who shouldn't have keys sober, and who were driving totally smashed, does NOT show why buzzed driving is not okay.

 

Don't drink and drive, smoke and fly, or learn to do both and hover.

 

I'm not even going to argue with you over this.

 

many moons ago, 2 friends and I were congratulated for this same scenario with a date in court diversion for being underage. Best $200 ever spent, btw :2thumbsup: