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re: Why is drinking and driving so accepted?
Posted on 2/1/16 at 10:55 am to TheCaterpillar
Posted on 2/1/16 at 10:55 am to TheCaterpillar
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Was it his car that he consented to a drunk person driving?
hold on i need to get the story from them again. i've been super paranoid about this forever and it honestly comes as a shock to me anyone can have an open container. i could have sworn the cop pulled them over, found an open container in the vehicle & charged everyone.
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Posted on 2/1/16 at 10:57 am to CAD703X
quote:It wouldn't shock me if a cop did that, but he wasn't following the law if he did.
i could have sworn the cop pulled them over, found an open container in the vehicle & charged everyone.
This post was edited on 2/1/16 at 10:58 am
Posted on 2/1/16 at 10:57 am to NYNolaguy1
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I am guessing you want to lower the tolerance too right?
The only people that would win under your proposal is the prosecutor, defense attorneys, and the arresting officer.
The actual winners are those who aren't killed or injured by drunk drivers.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 10:57 am to fr33manator
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Can you Imagine how boring that would be?
Went to a dry wedding reception a few years ago. There was no mingling amongst non-friends. Hardly anyone was up and moving around. Very awkward indeed.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 10:58 am to CAD703X
Well I'm not sure what happens if the driver is drunk.
If the driver isn't drinking and is sober, it should have been fine.
If the driver isn't drinking and is sober, it should have been fine.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:01 am to TheCaterpillar
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Reading the McNair thing, I think it was because he consented to someone drunk driving his car while he was in it. He wouldn't be charged with anything in someone else's car.
Yes. Tennessee allows for DWi if you allow a drunk person to drive your car. I know a couple that got hit with this.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:01 am to Bmath
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Went to a dry wedding reception a few years ago. There was no mingling amongst non-friends. Hardly anyone was up and moving around. Very awkward indeed.
Several years back I went to a wedding.
The wedding was Catholic.
The reception was baptist.
It was awful. Why don't baptists just kick everyone in the balls instead of making them go through a reception entirely devoid of fun?
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:02 am to TheCaterpillar
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FRANKLIN, TN (WSMV) -
After a Franklin police officer was allegedly found drunk and unconscious behind the wheel, the chief of police says he has concerns about how the case was handled.
Officer Brent Rose was off-duty at the time, but his boss says the behavior still won't be tolerated.
And it turns out the Franklin policeman has been disciplined for drinking and then driving while off duty before. This time, however, he was never arrested or charged with DUI, and Police Chief David Rahinsky says that will not happen again.
According to documents from an internal investigation conducted by the Franklin Police Department, Rose went out drinking Nov. 2 at Loser's Bar off Carothers Parkway, then drove to Tin Roof Two and had more drinks. Before he left the parking lot, a fellow officer found him passed out behind the wheel.
He never even made it onto the street.
The issue now is that Rose was never arrested or charged with DUI. Instead, his fellow officer asked him to call a friend to take him home.
thin blue line
This post was edited on 2/1/16 at 11:03 am
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:05 am to fr33manator
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quote: Went to a dry wedding reception a few years ago. There was no mingling amongst non-friends. Hardly anyone was up and moving around. Very awkward indeed. Several years back I went to a wedding. The wedding was Catholic. The reception was baptist. It was awful. Why don't baptists just kick everyone in the balls instead of making them go through a reception entirely devoid of fun?
They shouldve done it the other way
Baptist weddings>>>catholic weddings
Literally anything >>>>baptist reception
Get a baptist wedding (which last like 20 minutes) and then have an extended catholic reception. That's how it's done
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:06 am to wildtigercat93
That's what I said.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:07 am to kywildcatfanone
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The actual winners are those who aren't killed or injured by drunk drivers.
I would throw statistics at you showing lowered BAC didn't save more lives, raised arrests, increased revenue for everyone else (DA, Defense atty, LEO, MADD...).
But I doubt you will be receptive to them.
Enjoy the MADD mother meetings.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:15 am to BabyTac
What?
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:16 am to NYNolaguy1
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I would throw statistics at you showing lowered BAC didn't save more lives, raised arrests, increased revenue for everyone else
Would love to see how any BAC is better than no alcohol at all when driving. I don't want drinking idiots on the road. Drink all you want at home, a bar, a restaurant, just don't drive.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:21 am to kywildcatfanone
Let's start with this one. Let's see how far we get before you realize your ideas don't match reality.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:34 am to BabyTac
Driving is boring and drinking is fun 
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:36 am to NYNolaguy1
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Enjoy the MADD mother meetings.
That's a bit redundant, eh?
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:43 am to BabyTac
Because a lot of people people do it and they don't think they're bad people, so there's no public outcry for stronger laws
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:45 am to BabyTac
Drunk driving is bad but having one beer on your post work commute isn't going to frick the average person up
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:45 am to BabyTac
I wonder this also. the liquor store near my house that I shop at has a whole huge display case full of airline mini-bottles which are obviously for drinking and driving. Im talking hundreds of minis.
Posted on 2/1/16 at 11:46 am to fr33manator
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That's a bit redundant, eh?
It's not though. People ordered to go to MADD meetings are no MADD mothers.
Instead MADD is on the public dole because the court orders DWI arrestees to these panels, along with fees. For every arrest MADD grows a little bigger. So what happens is when they lower the BAC standard, more money comes in from new arrestees. As MADD gets bigger they start running short of cash. MADD then says they want to lower the bar again to "increase safety".
. Brilliant business model.
Eventually though you'll get to a no tolerance level, and MADD will need a new host to leach from. Enter underage drinking.
This post was edited on 2/1/16 at 11:49 am
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