The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #124640   Message #2755831
Posted By: SharonA
30-Oct-09 - 01:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: proposed alteration to drink driving level
Subject: RE: BS: proposed alteration to drink driving leve
"...at night time, and as I walk down to the pub,I am in more danger from speeding sober drivers, than drivers who are between 50 and 80 mg and [d]riving at 30 to 35 miles per hour."

Soldier, how do you know that the speeding drivers are sober? The answer, of course, is that you don't.


"I rarely drink six pints generally two or three ,I do not think it unreasonable to be able to drink two pints,[maximum] over two hours and be able to drive home, when there is no alternative public transport. That is not drunken driving."

Perhaps not, under the current legal definition of "drunken driving" where you live, but.... Here in the States there is a public-service message that's broadcast frequently on radio, the message of which is "Buzzed driving IS drunk driving." You may not feel as though you are impaired, but that doesn't mean that you are not impaired. The authorities may not have the authority to arrest you, but that doesn't mean that your reaction time isn't slowed down. I can't help but wonder why you've been breathalyzed three times. Could it be because you were obviously impaired in your speech, movements, and/or driving, even though your alcohol level was within the legal limit?

The safest course is to go out and socialize without drinking. If you must consume alcohol to make life "worth living", it's time to take a good, hard look at your life and make some changes for the sake of your own well-being and personal growth.

All this ranting about a "bad law" and all your descriptions of how little you drink and all those questionable statistics sound, to me, like excuses for continuing a course of behavior that you simply don't want to admit is self-destructive. Sorry but I've heard the same litany of cr*p from every drunk driver I've ever known.