Hey, like you and your posts. But not this one. Please
Driving While Intoxicated
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In NZ we say someone is “half cut” when they are drunk but still functional. We also have ride on lawn mower races. I’m not sure what the point of my post was.
If a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing well.
18 beers seems like commendable dedication! ?
Your neighbor may have gotten the urge from George Jones who, after his then wife Tammy Lynette threw all his whiskey down the sink and took his car keys, was pulled over trying to get to a liquor store on his riding mower.
I'm dumb, but not that stupid.
I could tell this didn’t happen in Florida because no mention of flying an oversized American flag on the back … we would have done it better here!
I did it, living in South Louisiana it was the norm, now, not so, would it be ok if your blade wasn’t engaged?
Understand that. I've got a good friend in Lafayette, LA who has not one, not two, but three drive-thru daiquiri stands within a mile of his house. It's like Disneyland for grown ups down there.
They're everything you expect them to be: look like a little burger stand with menu and sqwak box, you order your frozen Long Islands or Margaritas or what have you, pay the lady at the window, and they hand you a 32 oz styrofoam cup, filled with ice and good cheer. The catch: the straw is in the cup, but still has the paper on the top inch, so it's legally a "closed container."
They're better than Ohio's drive-thru liquor stores.
I did ride my bicycle once dead drunk, turned the handle all the way around, breaks got locked up and I still somehow rode it for a few meters before falling over and seriously hurting my elbow. Never in a car though.
This thread makes me uncomfortable, and appropriately so, as I got a DUI seven years ago. On this occasion I wasn't drunk, but under the influence.
A very humiliating and expensive experience.
I feel obliged to "fess up" every chance I get. Shame is a useful thing!
A very humiliating and expensive experience.
I feel obliged to "fess up" every chance I get. Shame is a useful thing!
This guy must have set a record with a .469 BAC. That could only be described as Nic-Cage-level-Leaving-Las-Vegas-shit-facedness.
arizonadailyindependent.com
Man With .469 BAC Headed To Prison After 3rd DUI
A Sierra Vista man found “in and out of consciousness” while parked on a state highway with a blood alcohol concentration of .469 – nearly six times the legal limit of .08 – will spend four months in state prison followed by several years of intensive probation, a Cochise County judge has...
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In the UK I used to work on the theory that 1 beer without food or 2 with a meal would be OK in terms of being within the limits (probably a bit conservative really) but after I moved to Australia which in many (all?) states has random breath testing I decided 0 beers was the safest option. Aussie limits are (I think) lower than the UK and penalties are more severe.
Record for random breath checks was 3 on one Saturday morning! To be explain, these were ones where the police cone off one lane to allow them to pull in up to 10 cars at random and then do a breathalyser check. Police cars will also pull over motorists at random.
In the UK they can't (or couldn't) do random checks but as when I worked shifts I often used to cycle to my girlfriends at the end of a Friday evening shift over Blackfriars bridge in London. This has a high enough centre span that motorists cannot see across it; on several occasions the police were conducting a 'traffic census' on the far side which required all motorists to stop and answer were they were coming from and going to... ...and of course, any smell of alcohol on the breath was a good reason to conduct a breath test. They usually had a bus parked there too to collect the drivers who failed the test.
Personally I don't condone drink driving; I was nearly killed whilst I was cycling by a very drunk driver who tried to deliberately run me over. Fortunately I had the last laugh because I managed to pedal away from him and go between two lines of traffic; the guy was so drunk he tried to follow me and ended up ramming both the vehicles I'd passed between. One was a London bus; the other... ...a police car!
Record for random breath checks was 3 on one Saturday morning! To be explain, these were ones where the police cone off one lane to allow them to pull in up to 10 cars at random and then do a breathalyser check. Police cars will also pull over motorists at random.
In the UK they can't (or couldn't) do random checks but as when I worked shifts I often used to cycle to my girlfriends at the end of a Friday evening shift over Blackfriars bridge in London. This has a high enough centre span that motorists cannot see across it; on several occasions the police were conducting a 'traffic census' on the far side which required all motorists to stop and answer were they were coming from and going to... ...and of course, any smell of alcohol on the breath was a good reason to conduct a breath test. They usually had a bus parked there too to collect the drivers who failed the test.
Personally I don't condone drink driving; I was nearly killed whilst I was cycling by a very drunk driver who tried to deliberately run me over. Fortunately I had the last laugh because I managed to pedal away from him and go between two lines of traffic; the guy was so drunk he tried to follow me and ended up ramming both the vehicles I'd passed between. One was a London bus; the other... ...a police car!
Drunk drivers are a pernicious grudge of mine. They kill people.
certainly nothing funny about it as far as I can see (along with "high capacity" humor at the present time).
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