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re: You Texas boys be careful tonight, new(er) law in effect...
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:05 am to idlewatcher
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:05 am to idlewatcher
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BAN ALCOHOL amirite!!!?
If advancements in technology make it possible to get to a point where driver alcohol detection is a minor incovenience like a seatbelt, would you be for it?
This post was edited on 12/31/24 at 10:07 am
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Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:07 am to SpotCheckBilly
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This is a sound bite law. Not sure it will work well in practice.
You're right. Better to do nothing at all.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:09 am to SoFla Tideroller
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You're right. Better to do nothing at all.
Well, vehicular homicide is already a crime, so we have been “doing something” about it forever.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:09 am to Peter Venkman
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I love the idea, but I am confused about the consequences though. How are these offenders going to generate income from prison? They need to be in prison, first and foremost.
Good point. Society would be better off if drunk drivers who end up killing someone were simply put up against a wall and shot.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:10 am to Loconuts
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Well, vehicular homicide is already a crime, so we have been “doing something” about it forever.
I’d be fine with life in prison for drunk driving. There’s absolutely no excuse in 2024/2025
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:11 am to Darth_Vader
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Good point. Society would be better off if drunk drivers who end up killing someone were simply put up against a wall and shot.
Actually the better option would be to not put them and jail and force them to pay financial restitution in some form or fashion to the agreived party. If they can’t afford to pay then indentured servitude will also be acceptable.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:11 am to Dragula
How will they pay child support while spending a couple decades in the pen?
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:14 am to Dtbtiger
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I like this law.
Yet I'd bet at least 90% of the OT has driven drunk at least 1x in their life, and I'd venture to say 35%+ have a DUI or DWI on their record
This post was edited on 12/31/24 at 10:14 am
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:21 am to F1y0n7h3W4LL
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Perhaps they could just impose the death penalty,
Why shouldn’t we impose the death penalty on someone who drinks and drives and kills another human?
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:22 am to Loconuts
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Actually the better option would be to not put them and jail and force them to pay financial restitution
So no criminal penalties whatsoever, you’re aware the civil system exists right?
Let’s just let them kill at will. fricking idiots on this board
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:30 am to Saunson69
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Yet I'd bet at least 90% of the OT has driven drunk at least 1x in their life, and I'd venture to say 35%+ have a DUI or DWI on their record
Now post something more relative like how many here have killed a child's parent while drinking and driving.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:32 am to OKBoomerSooner
And you completely missed that most people never pay court ordered restitution. Court ordered child support ring a bell? Deadbeats always gonna deadbeat . Lock them up.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:34 am to 777Tiger
Only about $900. Who can live off that?
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:34 am to Dragula
I'm willing to bet that the same demographic already has issues paying their own personal child support and finances.
Might become a real headache when you have the occasional 18-21 y/o now on the hook for a paying 16 years of child support for a 2 y/o.
And what about all the parents that are murdered in home invasion, robbings, car jacking.
Not sure if this is relevant to the topic or not but it seems like similar laws will only hurt the middle class even more. Poor will stay poor, rich will stay rich. Middles class will be stuck with the most headaches.
Might become a real headache when you have the occasional 18-21 y/o now on the hook for a paying 16 years of child support for a 2 y/o.
And what about all the parents that are murdered in home invasion, robbings, car jacking.
Not sure if this is relevant to the topic or not but it seems like similar laws will only hurt the middle class even more. Poor will stay poor, rich will stay rich. Middles class will be stuck with the most headaches.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:35 am to dalefla
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Court ordered child support ring a bell? Deadbeats always gonna deadbeat .
that's a whole 'nuther can of worms, and usually the deadbeats are the moms collecting the child support and spend exactly zero of it on what it's intended for, the children
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:36 am to dalefla
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Only about $900. Who can live off that?
a minor child living at home with the other parent?
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:36 am to Proximo
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So no criminal penalties whatsoever, you’re aware the civil system exists right?
I actually think my system of indentured servitude or slavery is harsher than getting 3 hots and a cot for drinking and driving. Nearly everyone on this board has drank and drove at some point in their lives. I’d conservatively estimate less than %5 of this board is completely innocent of ever committing this crime. Maybe some of the younger crown who’s had access to Uber or Lyft for most their adult life but anyone over 35 has most likely committed this crime.
If we’re gonna kill people or imprison them for life for DWI then we should do the same for cell phone use and driving. It’s just as dangerous as DWI. In fact, every time there is a car crash I think the police should automatically confiscate the driver’s phone to seen when it was last being used. I’m sure there are ways to differentiate between the phone being in hands free mode and being physically manipulated.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:39 am to BR92
You don't get the point do you lol. Those who drove drunk, which I'd bet at least 90% here have done at bare minimum 1x in their life, just got lucky. The people who did kill a parent were just the unlucky ones.
There is a degree of hypocrisy seeing that 98 to 1 upvote to downvote ratio, when I know damn well of those 98 upvotes, probably 85 to 90 have driven drunk at least once in their life, and I'd be willing to be 25 of them have gotten a DUI. They were just lucky in not killing anyone.
There is a degree of hypocrisy seeing that 98 to 1 upvote to downvote ratio, when I know damn well of those 98 upvotes, probably 85 to 90 have driven drunk at least once in their life, and I'd be willing to be 25 of them have gotten a DUI. They were just lucky in not killing anyone.
This post was edited on 12/31/24 at 10:41 am
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:39 am to Proximo
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Why shouldn’t we impose the death penalty on someone who drinks and drives and kills another human?
Why wait till they kill someone. We should have squads of vigilantes waiting outside bars just popping everyone that tries to get in a car in my opinion.
Posted on 12/31/24 at 10:45 am to Saunson69
You're just spouting anecdotal statistics and unfounded predictions that amount to nonsense. This law only applies to those who kill a child's parent while driving under influence. No one got lucky, they just never murdered anyone with vehicle, which is what this is all about.
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