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0.10 isn’t really drunk. Studies have shown that your reaction time at that BAC is not affected or is slightly better up to about 0.12

I agree with that! These drunk driving standards are a FRIGGIN' JOKE! It's turned into a major money-making gig now for Big Brother!

A drunk-driving charge can WRECK your life now, when in reality, you shouldn't even have been charged with ANYTHING in MANY circumstances!

YOU get hit by someone running a red light, but it turns out that you are over the legal limit... YOU go to jail, even though YOU had nothing to with the accident! Somebody steps out in front of your car, and you hit them... Doesn't matter if they were jay-walking, didn't look where they were going, or darted out in front of you... YOU go to jail for hitting a pedestrian while driving drunk!

Not that it ever happened to me, but it's gotten out of control. It's still not probably a bright idea to be driving a motorcycle while being buzzed, because you don't have much room for error. I drove around on one for a few years, before deciding I didn't want to get slaughtered by an unattentive or crappy driver!

One of my biker friends was pulled over while driving his pick up truck and blew a little above the limit. No accident or anything; knowing him he was pulled over for speeding or something. The DWI changed his life, there was jail time, it affected his employment, he's on parole for it now, etc. He finds little sympathy among people who all say the same thing: He could have killed someone.

About the same time he got the DWI, one of his best friends was killed while riding his Harley when a woman made a left turn across his lane. She couldn't see because there was a truck facing her in the opposite turn lane, but went anyway. She got a failure to yield citation and nothing else. That was just an accident.

So my friend can't leave the state and gets visits from a parole officer from time to time because he could have killed someone, and that lady is free because she did kill someone. Go figure.