Why you shouldnt drink and drive!

[magnum]

My soon to be brother in law did this as a result of a few beers and showing off . He came across the median at 70+ and hit a truck head on. He learned a hard lesson and I'm glad nobody was hurt. Just makes you realize how fast your life can change.   

[Sublime/Sixpack]

What a waste. Happy to hear that no one got hurt!

[moparstuart]

My soon to be brother in law did this as a result of a few beers and showing off . He came across the median at 70+ and hit a truck head on. He learned a hard lesson and I'm glad nobody was hurt. Just makes you realize how fast your life can change.   

is it for sale

[hemi-hampton]

Looks like a 80 corvette, those don't get much nowadays even if not wrecked, wouldn't be worth much like that. Luckily nobody got hurt. LEON.

[tan top]

yikes big wreck ! motor came out the car  good that no one got hurt 

[TheGhost]

Hopefully, they throw the book at him.  Idiot.

[magnum]

It was a 79 4speed car with the tinted t-tops. It was a nice car .

[Jon Smith]

A workmate of mine crossed the line and hit a truck head on just before christmas..he wasn't so lucky 

the inquest said he was 5 times the drink drive limit...

[bull]

No offense but if it's your sister who's about to marry him I'd be trying to talk her out of it.

[PocketThunder]

No offense but it's your sister who's about to marry him I'd be trying to talk her out of it.

Thats what i was thinking.   Your sister could be in the car next time.   

[magnum]

No offense but it's your sister who's about to marry him I'd be trying to talk her out of it.

None taken . I'm actually about to marry his sister and she feels the same way I do. I'm just glad no one was hurt . I hope he learns from it as well!

[C_stripes]

Off topic, but I have always loved those wheels. They just look aggressive.

Glad no one was hurt. To bud he was such a dumb ass though.

A friend of several of my friends got hit on his Harley and left for dead by a drunk driver in a bronco. If the guy would have just called the police, Dusty probably would still be alive, but the dip shit just drove home and they followed the antifreeze trail to his house.

Drinking and driving should have a much stiffer sentence. 

[TUFCAT]

When I was in high school, a kid down the street (a few years older but a dork) did that same thing to a 6-7 year old, but extremely mint 1978 Silver Anniversary 4-speed L82 Vette. He bought this car with his paper route money - -  I think he got the paper route when he was 12. 

It was a very nice car, and the damage looked about the same....with lots of little peices of shit all over the road. 

Like I said, he was a dork....but a helluva car cleaner/restorer back in the day.  Even though the car was used, soon it was looking brand new and perfect.

I also don't think he was drinking, ..... if he was, this accident may have been the result of his very first beer??   

[SeattleCharger]

lucky those vettes have all engine in the long hood way in front,  amazing no one was hurt though going 70 and head on, at least he was a responsible enough drunk to put on his seat belt, 

     


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[SeattleCharger]

He MIght have learned his lesson if he got charged with dwi and sentenced to two AA meetings a week for two years and outpatient treatment for two years,   mandatory sentence in washington state for first time

[Jon Smith]

A workmate of mine crossed the line and hit a truck head on just before christmas..he wasn't so lucky 

the inquest said he was 5 times the drink drive limit...

should mention that this was the day after a heavy drinking session...dont think you can just sleep it off then drive the next day

[Mike DC]

 
We don't need stiffer punishments across the board.  We need to correlate the punishment with HOW DRUNK the driver is. 

The lethal people are usually repeat-offenders who are absolutely loaded to the gills every time.  But you can't throw the book at them when the mandatory sentencing guidelines also have to cater to decent people getting stopped for having 2 beers in an hour. 

[72chargerSE]

When I was in high school, a kid down the street (a few years older but a dork) did that same thing to a 6-7 year old, but extremely mint 1978 Silver Anniversary 4-speed L82 Vette. He bought this car with his paper route money - -  I think he got the paper route when he was 12. 

It was a very nice car, and the damage looked about the same....with lots of little peices of shit all over the road. 

Like I said, he was a dork....but a helluva car cleaner/restorer back in the day.  Even though the car was used, soon it was looking brand new and perfect.

I also don't think he was drinking, ..... if he was, this accident may have been the result of his very first beer??   

Since I am TUFCAT's brother, I too remember this!!! I remember going to the intersection it happened, scooping up pieces of his Vette, putting them on his front porch, ringing the bell and running like hell, laughing like a hyena.

It was 1983, I was 17, and also a dork.

[67_Dodge_Charger]

It only takes one time to kill a person while driving drunk.  Some dd are lucky for a while until they finally do kill someone.  A long time friend of mine would drink after work everyday and then drive home.  She wrecked her car and six others one time and the city judge let her off; this was 20 years ago. 

Fast forward 20 years, drinking everyday and driving home she did kill someone.  She was driving home after the bar had closed, she did not even know that she had hit a person walking along the road.  It was a rural road with no shoulder and of course it was dark out.  She woke up the next morning to look for her husband that had not come home after the bars were closed.  She came upon the scene where sheriffs and highway patrol cars taking in evidence.  She had damage to her car and the sheriff started to interview her; she found her husband dead along the road. 

She will be in prison for 20 years with no chance of parole. 

I posted a story on here earlier this year about a highway patrol person that was killed by a drunk driver driving on the wrong side of the road; the driver was going over 100 mph.  It seems with the poor economy I am seeing more and more stories of drunk drivers dieing in wrecks or killing someone.  We had a story here in Montana with a person committing their seventh dui. 

Your brother in-law is very lucky, hopefully he will change his ways.

[TUFCAT]

Since I am TUFCAT's brother, I too remember this!!! I remember going to the intersection it happened, scooping up pieces of his Vette, putting them on his front porch, ringing the bell and running like hell, laughing like a hyena.

It was 1983, I was 17, and also a dork.

Funny how times change, the kid remembered as a "Dork" drove a Corvette.  In retrospect, I'd love to be a Corvette driving dork - then or now!! 

[gasoline_24]

Stiffer sanctions do not save lives.  The punishment for killing someone while driving drunk is already pretty high.  The solution is driver interlock devices that prevent people from driving if they are drunk.  I think we can all look back on our lives and see a time we drove drunk and should not have.  People that are drunk do not think correctly and then make stupid decisions to drive.  Often this is with no negative consequense.  However, too often there are serious injuries and death.  In Kansas every year the legislature passes tougher DUI laws and every year in Kansas people get killed or injured by drunk drivers.  Require long term driver interlock devises for these individuals or on all cars and this problem is solved.

[72chargerSE]

Since I am TUFCAT's brother, I too remember this!!! I remember going to the intersection it happened, scooping up pieces of his Vette, putting them on his front porch, ringing the bell and running like hell, laughing like a hyena.

It was 1983, I was 17, and also a dork.

Funny how times change, the kid remembered as a "Dork" drove a Corvette.  In retrospect, I'd love to be a Corvette driving dork - then or now!! 

You got the dork thing right

[Mike DC]

 
A big part of the problem is the lack of other options besides drunk driving, though. 


Realistically, it's human nature to get loaded with a bunch of friends at the local watering hole or friend's house before staggering off to bed.  People have been doing it for thousands of years.  Say what you want about it, but trying to outlaw it would work about as well as abstinence-only sex ed is working. 

Only now we've got a problem, because "staggering off to bed" involves a potentially lethal mechanical device.




A designated driver is a big improvement over nothing at all, but it's not realistic to expect that kind of coordiation with others every time. 

A cab just costs too much.  Take a bunch of guys who picked that bar because the drinks were $1 cheaper than the bar next door . . . and then we expect them to each drop $25 bucks on getting home afterwards?  And then probably have to get a ride back there the next day from someone else just to retrieve their car? 

[Ryan]

 
A big part of the problem is the lack of other options besides drunk driving, though. 


Realistically, it's human nature to get loaded with a bunch of friends at the local watering hole or friend's house before staggering off to bed.  People have been doing it for thousands of years.  Say what you want about it, but trying to outlaw it would work about as well as abstinence-only sex ed is working. 

Only now we've got a problem, because "staggering off to bed" involves a potentially lethal mechanical device.




A designated driver is a big improvement over nothing at all, but it's not realistic to expect that kind of coordiation with others every time. 

A cab just costs too much.  Take a bunch of guys who picked that bar because the drinks were $1 cheaper than the bar next door . . . and then we expect them to each drop $25 bucks on getting home afterwards?  And then probably have to get a ride back there the next day from someone else just to retrieve their car? 

Agreed,

   I think that maybe the bars should be required to have a shuttle service for a small fee. Or make it free, bars make enough money. Pay some dude $50 a night to drive people home in a shuttle, plus dude will get tips and lives will be saved.

[tan top]

A workmate of mine crossed the line and hit a truck head on just before christmas..he wasn't so lucky 

the inquest said he was 5 times the drink drive limit...

should mention that this was the day after a heavy drinking session...dont think you can just sleep it off then drive the next day

yeah thats true Jon ..... no way can you get  hammered the night before & be ok the next morning . ..... ie sleeping it off for 5 /6  hours 

[Rolling_Thunder]

well I have to admit I have drank then drove (havent we all?) ---   but I know where my limit is (no BS)       luckily it takes a great amount to get me drunk - but I never push my limits....   two or three beers in the corse of 3 hours is more than safe for me (and legal).     There have been nights were it is 5 or 6 hours at a bar throwing back about 20 shots and about a dozen pints...       chilled out for about 3 hours and I was OK to drive. Legally I probably was not but I felt 100% sober....    no  clue...      I have not done that any more as it is just not worth the risk...         

The only think I ever regret doing while I was drunk was making out with my best friend (a girl) - she was hammered as well but it put a great strain on the relationship...    overall though- nothing bad has ever happened

[SeattleCharger]

20 shots and a dozen pints?  ya, you have a high tolerance,  I can relate.  I could drink a lot and seem fine to drive, Seem fine to drive, but probably would have blown a high b.a.c. %      I haven't drank in five years and nine months, turns out I am an alcoholic, who'd a thunk it   

[Ghoste]

I don't even know if free rides home would work.  Our community has a volunteer program during Christmas that gives you a ride and brings your car home as well for free and people still drive drunk.
It goes back to that part about not being able to make a rational decision.

[gasoline_24]

We have a program called safe ride that runs 365 days out of the year and is free.  However, I don't think it has had any effect on the number of DUIs given each year.  Drunk people make bad decisions.

[71ChallengeHer]

You don't even know how many of my customers I have given rides home over the years. DUI it's not worth it.   And how many of them that have thanked me the next day.     

[Ghoste]

Jackie I can't even imagine how many more you've seen leave and left you wondering.

[71ChallengeHer]

Jackie I can't even imagine how many more you've seen leave and left you wondering.

That's why I can take their keys and make them call for a ride. 

[472 R/T SE]

I've mentioned this before.  But by all rights bars shouldn't even exist.  Their only purpose is to get someone intoxicated.  You can't tell me that at closing time 70% of the patrons aren't legally intoxicated.

If they wanted to put a dent in dui's, closing bars entirely would help.  But then the local gubment would lose out on a cash cow.  Talk about hurting the economy.

I realize some of the places force food on ya'.  But not all places serve food.

[Mike DC]

                     
Taverns, saloons, bars . . . part of human culture.  I see no reason to do away with them. 


But we Americans have a particularly one-sided relationship with them.  We go to a certain list of places ONLY to get rowdy & sloshed, and then we generally go to totally different places with family and/or to actually get a decent meal.  This is not the case in a lot of other cultures.   

[SeattleCharger]

every bar and tavern has a parking lot,  people in u.s. drive cars everywhere,  so who is surprised there are drunk drivers?     

[Ghoste]

I'll bet there are just as many or more who are driving from their own or a buddy's place.  The bars look like main offenders because all of the drunks are leaving all of the bars in each area at the same time (the drunkest ones anyway).

[Rolling_Thunder]

most bartenders I know do cut people off after a certain point...     but then the guys just go to another bar....     

[Charger74]

most bartenders I know do cut people off after a certain point...     but then the guys just go to another bar....     

YOu nailed it Rolling.  Bars are legally suppose to cut someone off who obviously has had to much to drink.  But you can't someone from leaving the bar and going to the next one and drinking more.

[72chargerSE]

Had a run in with a drunk Friday evening....we were at a well known local restaurant with friends and our 10 year old daughter....I excused my self to use the restroom. While walking towards the rest room, I see a drunken idiot slug his wife...nice. I asked him what his problem is....I'm 5' 10" 215 lbs..... he instantly wants to kick my ass.....one of the cooks came out and literally threw his drunken ass out and called the police. Sad thing is....drunk got in his car aand sped off...no plate number seen.

[69bronzeT5]

When I was in high school, a kid down the street (a few years older but a dork) did that same thing to a 6-7 year old, but extremely mint 1978 Silver Anniversary 4-speed L82 Vette. He bought this car with his paper route money - -  I think he got the paper route when he was 12. 

It was a very nice car, and the damage looked about the same....with lots of little peices of shit all over the road. 

Like I said, he was a dork....but a helluva car cleaner/restorer back in the day.  Even though the car was used, soon it was looking brand new and perfect.

I also don't think he was drinking, ..... if he was, this accident may have been the result of his very first beer??   

Since I am TUFCAT's brother, I too remember this!!! I remember going to the intersection it happened, scooping up pieces of his Vette, putting them on his front porch, ringing the bell and running like hell, laughing like a hyena.

It was 1983, I was 17, and also a dork.

[TUFCAT]

Had a run in with a drunk Friday evening....we were at a well known local restaurant with friends and our 10 year old daughter....I excused my self to use the restroom. While walking towards the rest room, I see a drunken idiot slug his wife...nice. I asked him what his problem is....I'm 5' 10" 215 lbs..... he instantly wants to kick my ass.....one of the cooks came out and literally threw his drunken ass out and called the police. Sad thing is....drunk got in his car aand sped off...no plate number seen.

You should've let him take a swing, and proceeded to beat his ass....then he'd be unable to drive drunk!

[71ChallengeHer]

most bartenders I know do cut people off after a certain point...     but then the guys just go to another bar....     

YOu nailed it Rolling.  Bars are legally suppose to cut someone off who obviously has had to much to drink.  But you can't someone from leaving the bar and going to the next one and drinking more.

I'm T.I.P.S. and R.A.M.P. certified . I take classes and I'm trained for stuff like that.

[72chargerSE]

most bartenders I know do cut people off after a certain point...     but then the guys just go to another bar....     

YOu nailed it Rolling.  Bars are legally suppose to cut someone off who obviously has had to much to drink.  But you can't someone from leaving the bar and going to the next one and drinking more.

I'm T.I.P.S. and R.A.M.P. certified . I take classes and I'm trained for stuff like that.

My wife, a flight attendant, is T.I.P.S. certifiied also....drunks are UGLY at 35,000 ft.

[TUFCAT]

Drunks can be ugly at 0' ft.  I'm a happy drunk.  All guys should be like me!  - or not drink at all.