Don't Drink And Drive This Holiday!
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doublesharp
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[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CULSzUAcJI[/ame]
Faulkner
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How about don't drink and drive . . . ever. I personally think a conviction of DWI 1 should be a capital offense punishable by public hanging on the courthouse lawn. DWI is absolutely preventable. But, that's just my opinion.
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oneounceload
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Don't drink and drive - you might hit a bump and spill your drink.........
oneounceload
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JJEH
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DWI/DUI = the most avoidable crime, period.
People take it so lightly, just don't care and take a calculated risk. Even though local PD and HWY Patrol announce upcoming checkpoints.
You drink and drive, we ain't gonna be friends.
That's just a traffic ticket here. The fine is up to $100 I believe. Should be more in my opinion.
But again, people don't care and just take the risk. Until someone gets hurt, then they cry.
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wingriderz
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Be Smart Be Safe .And Please watch out for all my Brothers & Sisters on Motorcycles
Serious subject...the jokes suck!
This is a pretty serious subject to be making jokes about...not funny to anyone that has lost a loved one to a drunk or impaired driver...
This is a pretty serious subject to be making jokes about...not funny to anyone that has lost a loved one to a drunk or impaired driver...
Eight years I worked DWI (DUI for some of you) enforcement. Eight years of every excuse in the book and many, many tragedies that could have been avoided. I finally switched to CSI work because dead people don't make excuses for their behavior.
I agree that drinking and driving is stupid. I will admit to it in my youth when it was incorrectly far more acceptable. I also believe the punishments should be more sever. A month in jail and a year without driving would make most far less likely to take the risk.
But, I can still see the humor in the OPs joke.
But, I can still see the humor in the OPs joke.
DUI is not a joking matter. Too many people hurt or killed needlessly.
jag312
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Douglas County, where I live in Nevada, takes a very dim view of drunk driving. I was reading in the local newspaper about someone who had just been sentenced for drunk driving. To the best of my recollection, he had been convicted of drunk driving in 2013, arrested again for drunk driving in 2016, and convicted in August 2017. The sentence was 5 years in State Prison with the eligibility for parole after 3 years. And that makes him a convicted felon, and he loses his gun rights.
usmc2427765
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I saw enough burned and mangled bodies on the highways during my time as an LEO and the vast majority were the result of drunk drivers. For some reason, the drunk manages to survive and stand trial with a good lawyer, very light sentence or probation. I can testify that the traffic on the freeways of Houston, Tx on any given night after 0200 are piloted by drunks. I am retired and away for the carnage, now I fear for the safety of my granddaughters when they began driving.
I agree. I'm sooo glad I'm not out there stopping drunks on night shift. I'll let the young bucks with badges have all the fun.
HOUSTON RICK
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These days, I am tucked in home or hotel when the amateurs are on the road, but the morning news is full of roadway drunken mayhem in the morning.
Neither my wife nor I drink, other than the very rare glass of wine on holidays...and usually not even then. Our children were not raised around drinking. Even so, our middle son developed a taste for beer after high school, and ended up being arrested several times for public intoxication. He was actually driving each time, but ran off the road and got out of the car...when the police got there, he was outside the car, so they couldn't charge him with DWI. Then one night he passed out in the drive through at Taco Bell.
He was arrested and jailed on a charge of DWI. I let him stay in jail for a while before I bailed him out. He lost his job, and subsequently lost his car because he couldn't make the payments. He was sentenced to time served and put on probation for a year, during which time his license was suspended. Not having a car, and not being able to drive, limited his employment prospects. He walked to work and back for a year. He had to pay his probation officer, which I'm not sure is standard elsewhere. Since he couldn't drive, and his probation officer was located in downtown Dallas, I did drive him to those appointments...there wasn't connecting bus service that would have got him there. Besides, I wanted him to complete his probation so I could get my bail money back!
I'm proud to say that he has largely stopped drinking, and never does when he might be driving. This was over 10 years ago, and he worked and saved until he was able to get a used car. He has a better job now, and seems to be straightened out. He said he was most impressed (scared out of his mind, was his exact words) by his time in the Dallas county jail, and never wanted to go back there again. Perhaps anyone with a drinking arrest should have to serve some mandatory jail time, and maybe that would make them quit.
He was arrested and jailed on a charge of DWI. I let him stay in jail for a while before I bailed him out. He lost his job, and subsequently lost his car because he couldn't make the payments. He was sentenced to time served and put on probation for a year, during which time his license was suspended. Not having a car, and not being able to drive, limited his employment prospects. He walked to work and back for a year. He had to pay his probation officer, which I'm not sure is standard elsewhere. Since he couldn't drive, and his probation officer was located in downtown Dallas, I did drive him to those appointments...there wasn't connecting bus service that would have got him there. Besides, I wanted him to complete his probation so I could get my bail money back!
I'm proud to say that he has largely stopped drinking, and never does when he might be driving. This was over 10 years ago, and he worked and saved until he was able to get a used car. He has a better job now, and seems to be straightened out. He said he was most impressed (scared out of his mind, was his exact words) by his time in the Dallas county jail, and never wanted to go back there again. Perhaps anyone with a drinking arrest should have to serve some mandatory jail time, and maybe that would make them quit.
