No fence for me...

Look, I am no holy roller and I dig a few American Honey and LandSharks as much as the next guy.. And, I certainly have had my share of other forms of entertainment, but if a glass/bottle touches my lips I had better have another way to get home, assuming I have to travel.

I wonder... how does everyone feel about handing a gun to someone who has been drinking? Or a chainsaw? Let them drive a train? Or the bus your child is traveling to and from school on? Just when should it be okay to drive impaired?

 

Holy cow OP did you open up some opinions.

I have had family and friends injured or killed by drunk drivers.

That said, when we were (not wealthy) country kids a major form of entertainment was called "road drinking". Of course, this was out in the country, but still, due to speed and alcohal some of those young friends are not alive. They never got past 16.

I came from a family who liked the booze. I remember coming home on leave from the Marines at 18, in my 67 Supersport. My dad, knowing I would be short on funds, would hand me a jug of his special home made stuff for the road, knowing damn well I was running all over the country side with friends all night. No big deal back then.

Many times from 18-21 getting up in the morning after closing the bar, my motorcyle helmet next to me. One morning waking up very sore and bloody with road rash in fact.

While I never got a DUI, I knocked that stuff off over 30 years ago and I sure would not drink and drive now. It is dangerous to everyone. But I was young and immortal (and lucky), far from alone in that in the environment I came from.

Beside OP, don't you know that in America now, the fashionable thing to do is drive around zombied out on perscription drugs? And no, I do not want, have, or take any drugs stronger than an aspirin, btw. I just find it ironic.

Interesting that so many people on here were raised in perfect society and led such perfect law abiding lives since they were born. Now all you perfect people who never did dangerous things can flame on.

A caveat; if I was a cop/firefighter/paramedic and had to repeatedly see the dead and mangled bodies and broken lives caused by DUI, I might be pretty harsh.

Good luck OP. As inconvenient as the DUI might be, just look at it as a life lesson, it could have been worse.

 

Lol!!!!!!!

 

Move to Wisconsin. They don't care unless it's your 4th or 5th offense.

 

Well I can tell you 100% it is scotch locks in my car right now. I also heard from someone the device buggard their ignition and required towing at their expense. I couldn't let them mess with my new truck so I bought a crappy car for them to mess around with. There are additional expenses if your vehicle requires an ignition bypass module all of which you must pay for.

 

Well at least you admit you are a light weight,,,,,,, that is unless you are a girl then you'd better think about not eating so much cheesecake...


You get on the internet and whine that your dui is costing you, what do you expect? You failed to take responsibility for your actions, bet you'd be an Obama voter if you lived in the US.


Wisconsin has enough losers, they dont need another one...


*not saying you are one Glock

 

I hear you friend; loud and clear.

There, but for the Grace of God, went I.

 

I don't think people are saying they lived perfect lives since birth and never crossed that invisible line.. It least that isn't what i got from the posts here..

The message is more.. you f'd up and drove with a buzz on. Don't complain that you got caught and got inconvenienced by it. Drinking and driving is deadly. To do it communicates that you don't care about yourself or anyone else on the road.

 

I hear you Mike. The DUI hassle to change behavior is a good thing.

But the environment of peers and family a person lives in does have an effect on what behavior and risks they think is "normal". The tolerance and rules change (real enforcment against drunk driving), and some people don't want to. Then they run into the rest of the worlds rules (DUI) and are like WTF?. My older brother is still like that.

As for me, aside from the danger and money and hassle, the thought of paying some yahoo in a garage to hook up some gadget to MY JK so I can blow in it to drive is......

deterrent enough.

 

I hear you on the different up-bringing and all.. But even for the folks who are raised with the idea that driving and getting tanked is okay, the danger of someone getting killed is exactly the same. As the earlier post confirms.

I can't allow myself to think that the different environment while growing up fostered the idea that it is okay if you kill someone or that the idea of it was ignored or dismissed. And that's the part that pisses me off about those that drink and drive. This is going to sound harsh when written.. If the driver wants to put his/her own life in jeopardy go for it. But involving the innocent people around you is completely unfair.

I have friend who loves to speed on the highway and dodge back and forth using the other cars as pseudo-pylons for a high speed slalom course. If wants to speed, do it on an open, deserted road so if you wipe out you kill only yourself.. Don't involve the innocent bystanders for you joy or stupidity.