(September 29, 2015 at 7:45 pm)Cecelia Wrote: I've driven after a drink before. Just once. My Blood Alcohol Content was well within the legal limit (though not for my age at the time). I was scared to death about it, and vowed never to do it again. Not even after just one drink. Unless I absolutely have to. (Like I'm being chased by a serial killer or something)
These stories always remind me of Ethan Couch who killed four people, and then got ten years probation. Honestly if you're driving past the legal limit, you should never be allowed to drive again. And if you kill someone, you should serve several years of jail time.
As they keep reiterating: if you're going to drink, don't drive.
The problem is that each drink you have,
clouds your judgement just a little bit more,
about whether or not another drink seems reasonable.
They're going to have to make cars that can test not only the breath, but all the biorhythms, or whatever,
of the person whose hands are on the wheel, whose feet are on the pedals,
whose butt is in the driver's seat,
and whose eyes are looking through the windshield from the perspective of the driver's seat.
I'm not in favour of Big Brother being all up in our business,
but if people are going to drink and drive (and they always will)
then
we are going to have to shut drunk drivers down by FORCE,
in SELF-DEFENSE,
because people won't police themselves.
I've said it before:
Drinking and driving is like firing a gun, deliberately and randomly into a crowd.
And it should be punished, accordingly.
I mean, what's the point of having a legal drinking age,
or insisting that kids be a certain age before being allowed to drive,
...if adults are going to act like children, anyway?
How many times have I read stories about how some wasted parent got busted
because their 10 year old was driving them home????
