Dwai

the law fucking sucks. fucking christ. I think i'm going to go back to public transportation and ride the bus high everyday.

 

you'll get an RWI

 

Radar Warning Installation?

 

Riding while impaired

 

Hell, that applies to 2/3 of the people I see on the bus, and they don't even need the help of drugs to be RWI.

 

I got one of those when I was 16; it's my only drug related, DUI-similar crime I've been caught with. And I've done a LOT of drugs in my life. Honestly you'd have to either be emotionally charged and therefore reckless, or stupid to get caught with / buying drugs. DWI and DUI can happen to anyone, and I'd bet more than are willing to admit it here have done it and gotten away with it, probably a number of times. I've only driven drunk 3 times and that was years ago, way before I quit drinking. I've driven stoned on drugs hundreds of times, just been very lucky; the only times I've been pulled over while high was always on opiates, and although they knew because of my pupils, they never got me with anything other than speeding and expired tags, and once I made a right on red (I was allowed to) and pulled out in front of a speeding cop. That was my closest call ever, because I had a pocket full of a weeks worth of morphine, but my buddy was playing Final Fantasy 5 on gameboy and the cop saw that, and we ended up talking about Final Fantasy and the cops actually liked us, lol, so he let us go. Could not believe it because I definitely looked high and had no where nor time to hide all those pills. Got very, very lucky that day.

 

I meant riding the bus while high lol, i was a joke in reference to kokjins comment

 

lol thank God I hope it's a joke. Toooo many fawking ways to get fucked by the law.

 

I'm not saying that he'll get off by getting the lawyer, magic_rocks.

But I am saying that fighting it as hard as he can is the most moral path to take, because if everyone did that, the system would have to be reformed. And you can't talk about what others do, if you're doing the same wrong thing simply because others do it. Lead by example.

I personally took a plea on something that I wish I could have fought..... But I was looking at years in prison, that I would probably not survive (being diabetic, and a little white boy (and unwilling to be nice to white supremacists) in a texas prison), for an offence that, while shitty of me, hurt nobody, at all. I wish I could have fought it, and I thought I was going to anyways, until some aspects of my life changed and made my incarceration and/or death less acceptable. I do understand the malicious prosecution and over-charging that happens in the US, and I do understand the totally crazy sentences that small crimes (that should hardly even be criminal, or not be criminal at all) carry.

And because of this, I think that if someone has an offence that they can fight WITHOUT a plea deal, they should do it. Because prosecutors love plea deals that work like convictions to them, while the (essentially convicted) offenders think they get off easy with a deffered sentence and probation. Technically it's not a conviction... but really, it's a conviction, your record says it and nobody cares that it says "deferred-dismissed" after it, they know it means you plead.

Most people on probation (a lot of people in the US) should not have been charged with ANYTHING, and so the DA offered them the gamble of a life-ruining/ending disproportionate and unfair incarceration, OR a shitty probation deal.

Check what all the "worst case" ends are, of course. But if they're not too crazy, it's generally the right thing to fight, I think. If he was like a habitual drunk driver, and looking at ten years or something, I would say plea... but it sounds like he's looking at, probably, not much worse from going to court than from pleading, because it's a joke charge of the sort that they book you and kick you out the door for.

 

Thanks for adding some perspective, he is just anti-American to the extreme, no matter what (funny and hypocritical as he chastised another "extreme"), and often, quite wrong and ignorant about it at that.

 

+1

 

that's quite a bit. I'm not so sure that a lawyer charging you much less won't get the same results

 

That's what I was thinking. Representation good enough to talk to the prosecutor and get it dismissed or lowered down here would be less than 2k. Maybe that is NY pricing, I don't know.

 

Agreed.

 

He is not anti-American...he's just pissed at a lot of Americans for being dumb-shits.
I don't blame him.

 

He constantly makes cultural generalizations that aren't even valid, or have a shred of validity at best.

And my guess is he hasn't even spent any time over here.

But you strike me as an American who is conflicted about your cultural identity. So I'm not surprised you don't blame him.

 

See, this to me is just fucking ridiculous. Driving under the influence of alcohol is so much more dangerous.

 

Says the guy who's been here for about a year to the guys who have dealt with bird_migration for many years...

 

Cultural Identity? I AM CULTURE! :beatnik:

 

Though they were talking about Pressed Rat...