That's pretty cheap, but does she do anything else besides sniffing your breath? And, what's your spouse say about it?
Oh, and where can I get her...uhm...one?
Posted on 03/12/2017 6:01:58 AM PDT by C19fan
Utah could soon have the strictest DUI threshold in the nation after state lawmakers on Wednesday night voted to lower the limit for a driver's blood-alcohol content to 0.05 percent, down from 0.08 percent. The measure heads to Utah's governor, who has said he supports the legislation.
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My son and I just returned from a ski trip to Utah, which we’ve done every year for six years. Even with the weak beer they sell there, it’s really easy to get to .05. I may have to start looking elsewhere for a place to ski. I
...wait until it happens to you, then get back to me...
Sorry for you loss. That’s an unimaginable tragedy. Your comment however serves to validate just how idiotic that new legislation is.
“my grandson who was DUI and driving on revocation was driving...”
Laws won’t prevent someone who has no regard for laws or penalties from doing the responsible thing. He was driving on a revoked license! You didn’t mention whether or not it was from a previous DUI but my point on this legislation was made from your statement.
“It’s all about the money...
The States and legal profession are making a fortune off the legal fees, fines & surcharges.”
And you can completely deprive them of it by not drinking and driving. What a concept!
“The push for ever lower blood alcohol levels for DUI does little or nothing to make roads safer. If the desire is truly to lower the rate of alcohol-related accidents, it would be much more effective to focus on repeat offenders and cases of extremely high blood alcohol content (e.g., > 0.15),which are the causes of the vast majority of alcohol-related fatalities.”
Amen.
People have been propagandized into believing drinking and driving is a far more serious safety issue than it is.
You will never see a thorough cost/benefit analysis of enforcing the law which includes the effects on otherwise law-abiding people who were no danger to anybody.
The overwhelming number of people killed by drunk driving are the drunk drivers themselves. The next category are the passengers (also drunk) who got into the car with the drunk driver. A tiny fraction are other people, and it is not unheard of that they are inebriated pedestrians.
Like the opioid “epidemic,” domestic violence, animal abuse, and smoking, driving while intoxicated seizes on relatively rare and dramatic individual cases to permit the criminalization of average, law-abiding citizens, causing far more practical devastation to individual lives than the problem warrants.
Next time someone breathlessly informs you about the victims of drunk drivers, ask what percentage of those victims was the drunk driver.
Try Montana. Discovery Basin. Quaint, old Montana.
People get killed on the road because they are roads, with moving cars, and even, moving trucks.
Driving, with a license anyway, is a privilege, not a right.
And this didn’t happen in Utah, it happened in Colorado...and he was driving on revocation because of a speeding ticket he hadn’t shown up in court for...
Doesn’t matter WHERE you drive, if you drink DON’T DRIVE...how hard is that concept to understand???
I bet this is a red herring. Sure the new law would lower the threshold to 0.05 (making any alcohol at all essentially illegal), but I bet the real purpose is to raise the fines and sanctions to squeeze more money out of ‘em. Nobody cares about drunk drivers anyway. (what’s the new limit for xanax?).
Have you ever witnessed the same thing done by a sober driver?
Solution: ban driving, period.
I also never understood why so many people are so eager to give up their freedoms in exchange for a little perceived safety. As Benjamin Franklin would say, those people deserve neither.
FWIW, I don’t get my yayas endangering myself or others when I’m behind the wheel. The 12 hour rule works for pilots. It does for me, too. Especially since folks on the roadway are far more likely to be involved in a crash.
Thanks for reminding me that I should add drugs to the list of things that slow a person's reaction time. (No Benadryl for YOU!)
Meanwhile, I'll continue to enjoy the freedom I've had for 52 years now (Drinking age was 18 when I got my Driver's License.) if it's okay with you; and even if it's not.
ML/NJ
That's pretty cheap, but does she do anything else besides sniffing your breath? And, what's your spouse say about it?
Oh, and where can I get her...uhm...one?
“This is solely to introduce more white lower- and middle-class (mostly men) into The Process.”
Exactly, this is payback and a long standing scheme by the left to criminalize as many Americans as possible.
The irony is that conservatives have been swayed by the dramatic commercials and splashy stories into believing it is all on the up and up.
I’ve had a family member killed from a DUI driver. Ejected in fact and dead at 16. Am I going to punish the entire drinking population for that persons mistake? No.
I guess I’m abnormal, I have made mistakes and will continue to do so.
To those who think this is not just a revenue generating tool for Utah, you’re naïve. Why not just vote for Prohibition again, that’ll fix everything, lol.
One last thing: I’m not a teetotaler. I use alcohol. I enjoy alcohol. Just not if I’m going to be driving.
“HAVE YOU, YOU PERSONALLY EVER LOST ANYONE TO A DRUNK DRIVER??? “
.05 isn’t drunk. I think they should test drivers for anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds. If it saves just one life, it will be worth it.
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