Friend got a DUI....

[Yarg!]

well i believe the symptoms of "drunk" is

slurred speech, unable to walk in straight line, blurred vision, unable to form coherent sentences, etc. if you meet anyone of those, you're drunk.

 

[wootoom]

bah if you drive drunk, you deserve to be castrated then stoned to death.

good point close thread

 

[Spartacus]

well i believe the symptoms of "drunk" is

slurred speech, unable to walk in straight line, blurred vision, unable to form coherent sentences, etc. if you meet anyone of those, you're drunk.

unable to walk a straight line while holding one leg up behind you
and then requested to walk that straight line on one leg,while calculating the weight distribution necessary to accomplish such task

can your mother do that?

 

[Spartacus]

my other "one" was to extend my arms out,look up
and then extend one foot "EXACTLY" 9 inches above the ground
and then count from a 1000

when I asked if I should descend my counting or increase
I got berated
I had to explain whether I was to go from 1000,999,998 or 1000,1001,1002
when I asked this question I was informed my elevated foot wasn't at 9 inches
they were loud too

 

[Yarg!]

^dude you just got owned by an asshole cop.

 

[Lestat]

the huge problem with drink driving (imo) is the huge variability in test results that you get between people, and the varying impact the same dose of alcohol will have on a person - this is what has led to the creation of the .08 or .05 limit imposed by police - to limit everyone to the BAC of the person most affected at the minimum dose, taking into account also tiredness etc

im all for a legal BAC, but i dont think a blanket level for all people is ever going to work

personally im one of htose people who can drink quite a lot and not register anywhere near the BAC other people would. if i have 3 double drinks in the space of an hour, im still legal to drive (under .05) while some of my mates are over .1 ...which i suppose is always nice

Yes, unfortunately in this case we have to cater to the lowest common denominator.

at .08 I'm still a better driver then most, but its not ME I'm worried about, its the other fucktards on the road... they are already dangerous, get a little booze in them and its me and my family who are at risk.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

it's those meninges I mentioned earlier
basically someone who has some drinking history
their brain isn't receiving the alcohol as quickly as the novice
eventually yes the alcohol will eventually be metabolized and/or excreted
but there will be more circulating alcohol in the "experienced" drinker that is not bombarding the brain as that of the acolyte

they potentially have something to do with it

the body is full of negative feedback loops that limit the response, over time, to the same dose of a drug.

i probably have the best of both worlds in the case of alcohol, because i feel quite intoxicated after 3 double drinks, register a low BAC, but am still very good on the road ("driving miss daisy" describes my driving style...im not in a rush to get anywhere so i drive defensively ) meaning i get max effect for minimum calories, minimum dollars, minimum hangover, and without the DUI risk others have

i get fairly annoyed with the government over drink driving legislation, because they try to 'educate' the population via a "two drinks in the first hour, one drink for every hour after that" guideline, but you dont hvae to be a clinician to realise that there is a hell of a difference between a 100lb girl and a 240lb male drinking the same number of drinks over time, and see that the advice given to us is severely flawed

furthermore, when i first got a breathalyser for my car, i went up to a police car after a big night out and said to them that my breathalyser showed me to be legal to drive, but i still felt my toes tingling, and could i please use their breathalyser to double check before i risk getting behind the wheel - now being a well dressed polite kind of guy, i xpected them to have no problem with it, but the bastards turned around and said "no, we cant do that" because apparently if their breathalyser is wring, they could potentially "get in the shit" i was fuming - so you dont trust your breathalyser to help out a forward thinking, responsible driver, but youll happily use that same measurement to book me, send me to court, and take my license? pricks.

the system we have at the moment is bullshit, but id rather pay $20 for a cab in an environment of nazi cops, than as Lestat said, have a bunch of useless uncoordinated bastards behind the wheel being a danger to me and mine

 

[Gambino]

In my state dui laws are no longer about saving lifes, it's all about making $$$ for the state...their is even talk of lowering the bac to .05

 

[PICK3]

His BAC measured in at 0.01%.

0.01 ain't shit.

I drank a beer and had a bitch blow me and she registered a 0.01

 

[Sub-Zero]

Damn decimal points, I dont see how that is even remotely possible for him to get a dui with .01%

cause he was under 21.