Posted on 03/17/2008 2:34:15 PM PDT by buccaneer81
Why stop at .02? If you’re going to go all the way, then just make it .00, so people can get arrested when they have a teaspoon of NyQuil. Sheesh
The responsible social drinkers will OBEY this law and the drunks will ignore it and drive anyway.
No they won't. The trial lawyers like Fagan would go bankrupt.
F-in’ retards. The cops will be so overwhelmed busting people who’ve driven after one drink that they won’t catch the guy who’s at .25%.
I’ll bet this doesn’t apply to the Kennedy’s.
Just outlaw booze.
Oh yeah, we tried that once.
Getting close to the limit of accuracy of the devices.
This is dumb. But what do you expect from that communist paradise?
So to have a glass of wine with dinner one now has to hire a cab? Why can’t we just outlaw lawmakers??
If you cannot stop the drunk drivers at .08%, how the heck are you gonna stop the not quit drunk at .02%?
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Fagan, 60, who said he has represented “thousands” of accused drunken drivers at trial, is no teetotaller.
No conflict of interest here...
Make no mistake. Given some time, what Rep. Fagan is proposing will eventually be the Law of the Land everywhere. The Nanny State knows no bounds.
Enforcement by BAC is like enforcement by radar gun - it puts cops on the side of the road reading arbitrary numbers off gadgets they don’t understand.
Like running out of your lane or blowing a stop sign is any less dangerous when you’re sober!
Always refuse to blow for the BAC. Those things were rigged for years in Mass. when I was growing up there. A retired judge admitted as much years ago.
That guy is going to drive regardless of the laws.
I've seen this coming and as such I won't drive after consuming any alcohol. Even one beer. For me, a DUI would end my career. It is just too risky. If I go out and drink I will either walk or take a cab to my destination. This way I am forced to find a way home that doesn't preclude me driving.
The way I see it, if I get into an accident, I'd rather argue to the cop that I have had nothing to drink and not smell like alcohol than argue I've only had one or two beers with alcohol on my breath.
Just idiocy. The vast majority of drivers that cause accidents due to alcohol are way past the now current legal limits. They’ve been caught and arrested many times, and then they kill someone.
Most are driving without a license by this time, but we are supposed to think that lowering the limit to .02 will help.
The folks we’re talking about never make it down to .02. They wake up above that.
The Kennedys could replenish the family fortune.
I always found it interesting that Boston shuts down their busses and trains before last call at 2am.
I wonder why. /s
Drunk driving has confused me for some time.
Since the police decided to ticket you for driving too fast the automibile manufacturers installed speedometers so their customers have an idea of how fast they were going so they could avoid tickets.
Why arent all bars required do the same, have a breathalizer at the door so you can check yourself on the way out?
How does the drinker know if he is at 0.7 , or 0.9 without having a cop tell them as they click the handcuffs shut?
This is the reality in many places now, including where I live. Police look for any excuse to get people on the hook. If you blow any significant amount even though you are below the legal level they will try to find a way to get you.
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