VeeshanVault

An interesting question since Drunk Drivers are such a menace...

I'm guilty of doing it once. But if pulled over I probably wouldn't be over the limit. Not to mention I felt fine and my reaction time was normal. I had a friend drive behind me to watch out for me since I was only driving about a mile. Thats the only time I'll drive with any booze in my system.

The standard for drunk driving is rediculous in today's society. .08 is the equivalent of like 2 drinks in an hour. I don't even bother drinking outside of home anymore unless I am eating dinner somewhere. The problem lies in those stupid freaks who have 5 DUIs and have yet to get into any kind of trouble. One time should not be a life changing event. And no I have never had a DUI.

It's been proven that when driving drunk you think you are driving normal or better than usual.

I drove one time when I know I was over the limit. The bar was about 2 miles from my home and I knew I should not have driven. Shortly after leaving the bar a cop pulled behind me. He followed me the whole way home...I have never been so scared. I swore I would never do that again.

I've done it in the past. I regret it. I don't do it anymore.

I should be dead. There is a reason Insurance goes down for men after 25. If we make it that long we just may die of natural causes.

Back in 1981, the drinking age was 18.

I was driving a '71 Chevy Impala SS. Went to a bar about 5 miles from my parents house and got polluted. Had to close one eye to avoid double vision.

About a mile from home I see flashy lights in my rear view when I stopped for a stop sign. I roll down the window thinking I'm FUCKED. Lo and behold it's my cousin, a detective at the time who was pulling some OT and was out on patrol in uniform. He says to me, "Cuz, what the fuck?"

I say, "Rick, I'm fucked up." I was fully sober at this time; adrenaline flushes out alcohol like you wouldn't believe.

He snorts and says, "Get your ass home and for fuck's sake don't hit anything," and walks back to his cruiser. He ended up following me home and waved as I parked.

I never ever drove drunk again after that incident.

I live 200 yards from my favorite pub, so I hoof it. If I want to go downtown, I cab it. I made a mistake got busted, and paid for it for it several years ago... a stupid thing really, but that is what gets most people at one time or another.

A little tip for those of you that had only a few drinks and feel perfectly fine... well, you most likely are, but breath tests, etc are what they go by--a couple drinks is quite enough for most people to show as having a .08 + BAC....and don't run out of gas 1/4 mile from home in the middle of the night!

Did it once or twice before I was legal drinking age. I never drove when noticably intoxicated (gg Wisconsin higher tolerace!), but I am certain I would have been over the limit of breathalized. Since I have turned 21, I never once drove under the influence (though I have had drinks out to eat) and actively prevented anyone I knew from doing so.

My personal stance on the DUI laws is pretty much the same as Dewards.

Silly way to phrase the question. A person drives while legally drunk or not. Whether they feel "were far too drunk" is irrelvent.

That being said, most people probably have.

I did it once, last Christmas Eve after a bad work day (blew a tire on my work truck and had to sit in the cold pouring rain in lower Manhattan). Went to a relative's party (was held in a Knights of Columbus hall, College Point, Queens) with an OPEN BAR! To drown my misery I had three 12oz cups of Bacardi 151 w/ Coke and three Coronas. Was pretty lit and all happy, then my uncle asked me to drive his friend, his wife, son and infant daughter in his massive Dodge pickup all the way to Staten Island.

In short, I pulled it off without swerving or getting pulled over but I refuse to do it again. Seven years ago my cousin had a bad accident while DWI but walked away; he left a strip joint wasted, was driving a small blue Chevy pickup, lost control and it got wrapped around a telephone pole, passenger side first. Had someone been riding with him that night, that person would've been killed instantly...

Sirensa wrote:Silly way to phrase the question. A person drives while legally drunk or not. Whether they feel "were far too drunk" is irrelvent.

That being said, most people probably have.

I'm talking about bombed drunk.

I drove a couple times really really drunk, like 16 beers and 6 or 7 shots of vodka during a 4 hour period and then driving home. I have extremely high tolerance, I typically do 4 beers in about 2 minutes, and then maybe 2 or 3 more and I start feeling buzzed. But anyway I managed to pull through a drive through buy a Wendys and drive another mile home. I woke up the next morning pissed at myself and checked my car, no scratches. And then for some reason it was the same day NJ started putting its "You Drink, You Drive, You Lose" line of commercials, and it really scared me cause I never came home that drunk before heh. So I haven't done it since.

I think people under drinking age are much more likely to drink and drive because they don't want to call a cab (in some places they can't), and sometimes they can't stay over wherever they are, and if its a house party OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of people don't assign a DD.

on one trip home from the nudy bar i knew i was a mess...

i "stopped" drinking bout 2 hours before leaving...then in came the free drinks...on our way out the bar tender said "here is one for the road", so i nailed my shot of 43 and went out into the pouring rain to drive home while retarded; while my two friends got into a different car and drove home just as bad

good thing i have auto pilot of the brain cause i made it home somehow...haven't driven that fucked up since

driving drunk is bad kthnx!

an extended family member (my fathers sister) was killed by a drunk driver less then 2 miles from her house.
now a family of 4 is reduced to 3


it only takes once.

Never, not once, my brother died at the age of 15 due to riding with a drunk (I was 12), I have gotten into some nasty fights with good friends to get keys actually.

Gotta hate those nights where you wake up not knowing how, when, or by whom.

Pherr the Dorf wrote:Never, not once, my brother died at the age of 15 due to riding with a drunk (I was 12), I have gotten into some nasty fights with good friends to get keys actually.

If that's what it would take, I would happily punch a friend of mine in the face to stop him from killing someone.

I can't count the number of times I had customers yell and bitch at me back when I was bartending and I refused to let them drive.

Back in the day i drove home partially drunk just a few times...although while in other peoples cars there have been very, very stupid situations when we would take down a 12 pack on the road....although i wasnt driving so i didnt really care either way, now i try to be more cautious about sucht hings

Never have, never even driven with anyone drunk. Have also almost gotten into fights with people who wanted to drive that I (and others) stopped.

Seebs wrote:I should be dead. There is a reason Insurance goes down for men after 25. If we make it that long we just may die of natural causes.

Yeah that.. 100 yards either way.

Soreali wrote:I'm guilty of doing it once. But if pulled over I probably wouldn't be over the limit. Not to mention I felt fine and my reaction time was normal. I had a friend drive behind me to watch out for me since I was only driving about a mile. Thats the only time I'll drive with any booze in my system.

TIMMAH!

I'm in the category of done it once or twice. I have quite a few friends that don't drink at all (religious or other reasons), and they are always willing to drive.

There no excuse for drunk driving, if you know you will be drinking that night, DONT bring the car, or even the keys.

This can happen.

( Warning: Very strong images. )

http://www.alltomlandskrona.se/mail/rattfull.asp

- Same girl, two diffrent pictures -

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/s ... 97,00.html


And yes, the article is in swedish, but im sure you get the drift from the pictures.. and yes.. thats her.. before and after.

And as you might have noticed on Kelshara Drolgin and me.. the sentiment against drunk driving in Scandinavia is very very hard.. it just isnt done, although it does happen more then some would like to admit.

I drove once when I was sober..

thats....not funny

Drunk driving is one thing... women driving is completely different. Thank god its illegal now.

I don't really care if it's one drink or forty. I'm not going to bitch at people who have driven drunk or otherwise under the influence because it happens. If you didn't get into an accident, you were lucky, but don't count on it happening.

My father was killed 3 years ago this coming Tuesday by a man with 3 DWI arrests. The last two were over 0.25 BAC and that Friday morning at 6 a.m. when he caused the accident, he was at 0.26.

Sometimes you get lucky and nothing happens to you, you don't hurt anyone. But sometimes things don't go your way. Ain't gonna preach, but if you plan on drinking, hang up the keys.

Vaemas wrote:I don't really care if it's one drink or forty. I'm not going to bitch at people who have driven drunk or otherwise under the influence because it happens. If you didn't get into an accident, you were lucky, but don't count on it happening.

My father was killed 3 years ago this coming Tuesday by a man with 3 DWI arrests. The last two were over 0.25 BAC and that Friday morning at 6 a.m. when he caused the accident, he was at 0.26.

Sometimes you get lucky and nothing happens to you, you don't hurt anyone. But sometimes things don't go your way. Ain't gonna preach, but if you plan on drinking, hang up the keys.

This is a serious topic that hits home to a lot of people. I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your dad, Vaemas.

Never drove "bombed" before. Actually, I never drank to get bombed before. Once or twice after 3 or 4 glasses wine though. Fortunately, it was during a dinner so the food does a job soaking up. Normally, I never have more than 2 drinks in an evening whether I'm staying home or going out.

I've only driven once under the influence, however I only had one beer. Since I have a high tolerance (that I know of at my age) I didnt think anything of it.

1 beer is nothing. You need 4 to get to the legally drunk stage in most cases in under and hour.

Rivera Bladestrike wrote:1 beer is nothing. You need 4 to get to the legally drunk stage in most cases in under and hour.

Yeah, I call bullshit.

4 beers in one hour will put you well over the .08 standard.

http://www.ou.edu/oupd/bac.htm

If you're a woman its different but if you're like me, 180 pounds, according to this chart 4 beers in one hour puts me at 0.8, but with my extremely high tolerance I barely feel it. (I've done 4 beers in 90 seconds and carried on with my night no problem).

http://www.ou.edu/oupd/bac.htm

Most of the online estimators say 4 beers in 1 hour is about .06.

Rivera Bladestrike wrote:1 beer is nothing. You need 4 to get to the legally drunk stage in most cases in under and hour.

i wasn't there when it happend but an old NCO of mine when i was in the army kept talking about this friend of his who drank 1 beer and got a DUI later that night. it may have just been a scare tactic or whatever...i dunno.

anyways, i drove home drunk once on christmas night. i was on post, only 1 road had a speed limit greater than 25 (35mph) and i didn't have to get on it. there was no traffic or people the entire trip (about 2 miles).

i have never driven drunk since.

Its just not possible to get a DUI from 1 beer, you would literally have to have no muscle (muscle absorbed better than fat), no weight at all, etc...

My brother got pulled over with a 0.09 and he got off with recklace driving because NJ hadn't switched over to .08 yet.

I drove kinda drunk a few times at our cabin when I was in the 18-21 range. Not actually on paved roads most of the time (there was one exception to that), but I drove WAY too fast...driving back out one morning I saw a muffler on the road...which turned out to be mine. Anywho...I smartened up.

There was once that was by accident though in recent years...

Myself and my wife (gf at the time) were at my folks house and she was going to drive home so I had a few beer (few = 5 or 6). When we left the house, out of habit she got in the passenger seat and I got in the drivers seat. We left (with me driving)...only made it about a kilometre before I pulled over and said "um...aren't you supposed to be driving?"

She drove the rest of the way home

Narmgarf

Spang wrote: i wasn't there when it happend but an old NCO of mine when i was in the army kept talking about this friend of his who drank 1 beer and got a DUI later that night. it may have just been a scare tactic or whatever...i dunno.

If you are street tested for a DUI and fail, ALWAYS ask for a blood test. Breathalizers are not accurate and your actual alcohol level is almost always less with a blood test. DUI is .08 and extreme DUI is .15 (.15 used to be the normal limit). If you blow a .10 or like a .16, there's a good chance your blood test may show a lower level to either get you out of the DUI or bring it down from an extreme DUI to a regular one.

Eating a cheese pizza or drinking a glass of orange juice will register .03 on a breathalizer. Anything that ferments will trigger it.

As for physical tests, some people can't pass those sober much less drunk so definately don't accept that proof if you're arrested.

Gurugurumaki told me this stuff.

Thats good to know if I ever get hassled driving late at night, since NJ cops seem to do that all the time looking for drunk drivers.

Eating pizza late at night and then driving home is fairly common heh, if I got even a .02 at my age I could get my liscense taken away.

As was previously mentioned about Scandinavian countries, we got way stricter laws for drunk driving than here in the US. Our limit in Norway is .03 and you get busted bigtime even the first time.

It does happen back home, but way way rarer than here. People are really good about having a designated driver and we of course also got way better mass transportation systems.. and I've walked home plenty of times even long distances heh.

Kelshara wrote:As was previously mentioned about Scandinavian countries, we got way stricter laws for drunk driving than here in the US. Our limit in Norway is .03 and you get busted bigtime even the first time.

It does happen back home, but way way rarer than here. People are really good about having a designated driver and we of course also got way better mass transportation systems.. and I've walked home plenty of times even long distances heh.

.03 is too low (if using breathalizer method) even for zero tolerance considering a glass of orange juice can produce that level. .05 Would be a better no tolerance standard to avoid petty court battles.

We used to have .05 but lowered it to .03. Really isn't a big problem at all, I've only heard of a couple of incidents where it was a false read. It is standard procedure to take a blood test when someone tests over the limit.

We have "random breath testing" here, no PC required, they just set up at the side of the road and stop as many cars as they can handle. You can elect to refuse, and get charged with that instead, but any positives are told to remove their valuables from the car and lock it up, then taken to the police station for a blood test, which is the reading that is used in court (unless you refuse that).

It's been pretty effective at reducing drink driving, and because of the way it's done there's no profiling involved. They can still pull over a weaving driver, but you have to be pretty smashed to be unable to drive to that extent, where as 0.05 you can drive ok.. you just can't react to emergencies.

I am kind of a mean drunk so I don't drink to excess anymore. I social drink with a few beers but never really more than 3-4 tops over a long period of time. I am too old to be playing drinking games and I really would rather not spend another night in jail.

Nope, never have and never will and I don't get why anyone ever would. As was mentioned above - it only takes once. Ironically, I've been involved in 2 accidents caused by drunk drivers.

The first was when 2 of my friends and I were walking home arm in arm (singing loudly) after celebrating our birthdays downtown. A drunk driver took one of my friends right off my left arm onto the hood of his car and kept going. When he clued in he had someone on the hood the driver slowed down till he fell to the ground and took off. Thanks to a cabby who saw the whole thing and followed the driver, the police caught him about 10mins later.

The second was when a friend of mine came to pick me up, but his buddy (who I didn't know) was driving. The driver was drinking (which I also didn't know) and he ran a red light do about 60, sideswiping a taxi with 4 people in it. Wrote off both cars.

Talelor wrote:Gotta hate those nights where you wake up not knowing how, when, or by whom.

hasn't happened a lot, but yeah.