(December 6, 2014 at 6:38 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(December 6, 2014 at 6:09 pm)lifesagift Wrote:
Yeah thanks again for stating the obvious.
Point I'm trying to make is the units used....
As a drinker, I know three things:
The number of pints I've had, the strength of that drink, and the resulting number of alcoholic units I've consumed.
Yet the police measure none of those, they measure the number of milligrams of alcohol in my blood.
So, I have no access to my blood, nor a device to check my breath or blood.
So I have no correlation between the amount I drink and the no. of milligrams of alcohol I put into my blood. Plus, it varies wildly depending on when I drank the drink, how big I am etc etc.
So changing it from 80 to 50 way well be a good thing overall, but it really is the wrong message because it still says "you can still drink a bit and drive, but not as much as before"!!
absolute nonsense in my book!
Why don't you just buy a breathalyzer?
Let me say firstly, I believe it should be zero tolerance.
But again you miss the point... I know not drive more that 30mph , but if the law said don't impart more than 70N of force in a forwards direction in a metal carriage.. I'd think the law was mad... but would still try to drive safely by my own standards
PS if you're about to post a reply and your response is going to be negative, improper, average, odd, obtuse, irrational, an argument, might change the focus, going off at a tangent or just mean ... go and find a maths forum to post on instead, they'll love you !!
