DWI: How it has changed my life.

[gprsh924]

My friends and I went out in Cincinnati a few weeks back and they had a checkpoint set up essentially blocking one of the main entrances to the highway to get out of town. I saw it coming and turned around and found an alternative route. I was the DD and had only had 2 beers at dinner, finishing them by 10pm (driving home at 3am) so I was stone sober and would have 100% been under the limit, but in no way did I want to go through the hassle of sobriety tests at 3am when the other 7 people in my friend's suburban that I was driving were all hammered.

The road they were blocking was the route from a strip of bars to the highway.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE

DWI: How it has changed my life.

Just one thing to add. Christmas day, 2009, was the 1 year anniversary of the death of my neighbors daughter and son-in-law. They were killed by a repeat drunk driver who had her first DWI at 17.

Don't drink and drive. You do not want to live with the consequences and the guilt.

[svandamme]

i used to drive from disco to disco, liquored up and then some.
Never been stopped, never any accidents, cliche as it may sound , i actually drove pretty decent those days... probably obeyed the traffic laws more then when i was sober...
Never been stopped even once in those days, never worried about it either.

These days i just have to much to lose, so i drink coca-cola's till i'm wired from sugar and caffeine, and then i go home.
At most i'll drink one glass of champagne if there's a celebration perhaps and only if it's prior to a big dinner or something...
I don't even go out anymore, because i just don't want to get caught up in things and end up driving home when i shouldn't be driving...

[Rikao4]

when I see folks doing the limit..
I assume 2 things..
no insurance..
been drinking..
given the DWI & No Ins. stats for Texas..
I'm right..

Rika

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by DARISC

After the 15 min. or so one asked me in an irritated voice why I was staggering. I told them that I was the designated drunk. .

No, you were the designated decoy

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

No, you were the designated decoy

Actually, that's what I meant to type.

[red-beard]

So, which Pelican was it again that was DWI, crashed his Porsche in a tunnel, then ran off leaving it blocking the road, and then claimed to the police that the car was stolen?

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by DARISC

Actually, that's what I meant to type.

Designated drunks always forget the official term for what they're doing...it's sad, in a designated kinda way.

[widebody911]

Originally Posted by red-beard

So, which Pelican was it again that was DWI, crashed his Porsche in a tunnel, then ran off leaving it blocking the road, and then claimed to the police that the car was stolen?

Actually, there was a Pelican who was racing and crashed into a Ferrari (IIRC), killing the other driver.

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[Oh Haha]

Same here, Tom.

I made mistakes over the years but, strangely enough, non of my driving offenses involved drinking/driving. I farked up stone sober!!!!

Nowdays, I enjoy a beer now and again but not if I am driving. Silly? Sure, but I have to be careful as I have a commercial driver's license and they will come down hard if you get a DWI.

When folks ask why I don't party anymore I tell them" I played in a band in the 80's, I did enough back then for a lifetime."

[Rick Lee]

Pretty sure doing a U-turn to avoid a sobriety checkpoint is another crime in itself. I did it once, but not because I was trying to avoid it. I just thought it was a big traffic jam and wanted to take an alternate route home. Where I turned around was too far away for the cops to notice.

[gprsh924]

I was pretty far away from the checkpoint, too far for the cops to notice. And and I didn't just whip a u-turn, I pulled into a parking lot, waited for a minute or two, and then drove away. Had a cop pulled me over at that point, he could have never proved that I was turning simply to avoid the checkpoint. I actually had never driven in that part of town before, so being unsure of where I was going would have been a perfectly legitimate excuse.