Drinking and Driving
 

Personally I have no time for anyone who thinks it is acceptable to drink and drive.

'Oh you can have a few, I tend to drive better when I have had a few beers' A guy I knew many years ago told me.

Utter crap, and its even been said that if there is no public transport, then there is no alternative but to drink and drive.

I have heard that it goes on alot in Australia. Have any of you guys felt pressurised into drinking and driving since you moved to Australia, as in would have felt left out/silly for not going with the flow?

Would you get into the car of someone who was over the limit and/or would you grass someone up who was?

Just interested really. It is a subject close to my own heart as my brothers pal was killed by a drunken driver who got off with a suspended sentence when it should have been at least manslaughter.

Funny how its the pissed up driver rarely gets hurt when he causes an accident - its always the innocent who suffer.

Im only thinking about it after watching a programme last night on TV about careless driving. Its like speed limits, some people think they can control speed when driving through a built up area. But can they?

Makes me wonder.

Anyway, what are your opinions on this?

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A big no-no! Couldn't agree more! :)

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I am amazed at how people justify it. I refused to get in car with someone last year as he had loads to drink and the others got cross with me.

I would rather take my chances and walk home than do that. Then the driver usually moans when its points on his license if he gets pulled over or if hes in an accident.

If you can afford to drink and you can afford to drive then either bloody stay at home and drink or hire a mini bus/cab.

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Totally agree, I have been guilty of it, and been caught doing it and it wasn't until I learned more about it that I realised even a quick pint put me near the limit.


It is the main reason I like to drink in the pub that I do, its close enough for me to leave the truck and walk back across the fields.

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Really is no excuse for it - end of

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Fully agree.

People who drink and drive and who get stopped by the police should not be banned for a couple of months or years but they should be banned for life. :curse:

What is so hard in leaving your car keys at home?????


Cheers, Cranky.

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Me too - I refused to get in a car last year with someone who'd had three pints (it was a dark and windy lane home) and I was made to feel like a total bitch but to be honest I'd rather be a bitch who's still alive and has legs that work and a face that isn't smashed all over the windscreen!
I don't care about the imbeciles that want to endanger their own lives, but there are other people on and around the roads and gambling with their lives for the sake of a pint is unforgivable, in my opinion.

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My impression is that it happens a lot here, particularly outside the cities.

Personally I don't give a shit about what people think if I go to a pub and don't drink, or only drink a couple of light beers, so I've never felt pressure in that sense. Plus I suppose I mix with decent people who wouldn't think of pressuring someone to be so stupid too.

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It does. Go on, that is. Went to a P&C 'do' the other night, one bloke had 16 bottles of Crown and drove home. Bragged about it to me two days later. I had 12 bottles myself. But I walked home. They are clamping down on it though, round these-here rural parts. Apparently the police now note down the numbers of cars parked outside pubs, do a check on the car owner's address, and sit there waiting for them to return from an evening on the booze. Several blokes have been done that way here in the last couple of weeks.

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you must be a lot older than me mate. before i was old enough to drive i knew it was wrong!;)

im not sure about the rest of aus, but as i have posted before. the gold coast is not a safe place to drive at night!

this week alone, i picked up three people who had been caught and they thought it was unfair:confused:
as usual, they blame the police for being in the right place at the right time;)

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you just made me laugh mate. i picked up a guy last week who couldnt work out how he was caught in his drive way:lol:

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PERFECT!;)

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It's the same here in rural Qld, we have the drivers who come down to the club where I work & have a few light beers then a meal and are safe to drive, then we have the idiots who have several Wild Turkey's and still want to drive home.:curse:
Police do spin around the car park every night without fail they note the cars and if there's someone they want they lay in wait. I get RBT'd almost weekly & never register, the local plod thinks I'm a teetotal:eek: I must be good for his stats.
It's a tough call here as there's no public transport at all, we have no courtesy bus to run people home. As a result some people do risk having a couple too many.

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No excuse for it at all, :thumbdown:

I work in A&E and it is always the drunk driver who seems to escape virtually unhurt, whilst the passengers/pedestrians are killed or seriously injured.

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Just for the record, I had a four bottles of San Miguel one night, went to sleep at about 10 and got a phone call at 3 am from some friends stuck in our local city for a lift home.....at the time I saw nothing wrong with getting up and getting in the car and picking them up.

At the time I didn't understand about how the limit is subjective or how long it takes alcohol to work its way through the body.............

Now, 8 years on I do understand and I do know, and I totally support a total ban on drinking, no top limits, not second chances, no nothing. I spent a year without a license, it buggered up my life and I totally deserved it.

No real reason to judge though eh?