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Luke Duke arrested

Started by bad1032, March 17, 2006, 07:19:20 PM

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MyMopar

Quote from: hemihead on March 20, 2006, 10:58:57 AM
Doesn't make him better than anyone else in my book.

I don't think anyone here was saying he was better than anyone else, and he proved the point by being stupid and DUI.
Now I'm not defending drinking and driving as I am probably against it as much as you are, I survived a 4 car accident caused by a DUI and it was his THIRD one!  Laws just aren't right sometimes.
However, just becuase he got a DUI doesn't make his work or himself any less of a role model does it?  If he gets fair treatment and just prosecution then he is just like you and me.  If he gets off w/o any penalties, then I do see a problem.

Mike DC

       
QuoteIf he gets off w/o any penalties, then I do see a problem.

Agreed.  He needs to be punished. 

And it didn't sound like he was just a little bit over the legal limit, either.  He was probably downright wasted and that's not excusable at all.

       

Chargen69


CaptMarvel

Sorry, I like Wopat as much as any other actor, but I say drunk drivers need to be hammered with the full extent of the law, no wavering. I believe in people being imperfect and all that & the need to forgive & be understanding, but when someone gets drunk, gets into a car & drives, he or she has just taken responsibility for everyone else on the road & should pay dearly for whatever havoc or trama they cause even though they are too stupid or prideful to not turn over their keys. I know I sound like someone who's life has been touched by a drunk driver, but I havent. I just feel its really irresponsible and selfish to drive drunk...

Mike DC

If you wanna get into the whole principle of drunk driving, I disagree on some things.  I think drunk driving is being handled all wrong by the culture.

It's one of those things where 10% of the worst offenders are causing 90% of the problem.  We're trying to treat all 100% of offenders the same and it's not working. 

There really is a HUGE difference between a guy driving on 2-3 beers versus a blacked-out guy who can't walk or talk.  If they'd stop punishing everyone who's had two beers, and just start going after the blatant repeat offenders who keep driving around with half a case in their system, the police could clear the roads real fast.   

I'm not saying driving on a slight beer buzz is a great idea or anything, but it's statistically no worse than driving while tired or talking on the phone.  If you applied the punishments according to a person's blood-alcohol level, you could isolate the problem-offenders real fast and stop locking up everyone who goes to a party.

         

Chargen69

Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on March 22, 2006, 08:17:22 AM
If you wanna get into the whole principle of drunk driving, I disagree on some things.  I think drunk driving is being handled all wrong by the culture.

It's one of those things where 10% of the worst offenders are causing 90% of the problem.  We're trying to treat all 100% of offenders the same and it's not working. 

There really is a HUGE difference between a guy driving on 2-3 beers versus a blacked-out guy who can't walk or talk.  If they'd stop punishing everyone who's had two beers, and just start going after the blatant repeat offenders who keep driving around with half a case in their system, the police could clear the roads real fast.   

I'm not saying driving on a slight beer buzz is a great idea or anything, but it's statistically no worse than driving while tired or talking on the phone.  If you applied the punishments according to a person's blood-alcohol level, you could isolate the problem-offenders real fast and stop locking up everyone who goes to a party.

         

"There really is a HUGE difference between a guy driving on 2-3 beers versus a blacked-out guy who can't walk or talk"

However, if you ever watched one of those MSNBC studies on this, it proved that there is driving impairment after 2 or 3 beers, even though the participants appeared to have control of themselves.

They also proved that driving while tired looks just like a drunk, so does driving on the phone.  http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6895319/

here's a quote from that article...
"If you put a 20-year-old driver behind the wheel with a cell phone, their reaction times are the same as a 70-year-old driver who is not using a cell phone,"

hemihead

I agree with the cell phone thing too.
Lots of people talkin' , few of them know
Soul of a woman was created below
  Led Zeppelin

my73charger


Mike DC

       
I'm not trying to say that driving on a few beers should be accepted or anything. 

But why don't we sentence every drunk driver to years in jail right now?  Because along with the worst offenders, our laws are also catching tons of normal people who make an occasional mistake.  No judge wants to send a father to jail & break up a family because he had a slight .011 beer buzz once on a first offense.  They don't want to be draconian with the punishments so the laws get watered down.

We could write some REAL mandatory punishements for the most dangerous drunk drivers if we weren't so worried about the lesser offenders it would affect too.