Props to the Timberwolves for having some guts.

The United States put more of their population in prison than any other developed nation.

Just sayin.

 

theyre trying to build a prison, for you and me

 

Yeah, and all I'm saying is that all it takes is using a designated driver to avoid becoming another prison statistic.

 

How trite.

 

Your link actually admits that it is police propaganda. I'm surprised at its honesty. Anyway, .08 is really about 2 beers, not 5.

 

To be fair, many countries just shoot 'em, rather than feed, clothe and detain.

But IMO drunk drivers should be treated just like someone firing a gun into a crowd. Once you have people you know killed by them you realize there's little difference in the killer's behavior. No sympathy for them here.

 

What do you weigh, 75 lbs? Or are you taking a shot of whiskey after each beer?

Here's another blood alcohol calculator that isn't from a police agency. http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/blood-alcohol-bac-calculator

 

I always stick with what's trite and true.

 

Methinks we've hit a nerve with some personal experience - not a good user of a designated driver, eh?

I'm perfectly happy with every effort to keep people with poor judgment off the road, thank you very much.

 

2 ales, 200lbs, 1 hour ... .05

 

Here's a typical drunk driver:

http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120306/NEWS0107/203060396/1115/rss

A Bend woman was arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence of intoxicants after crashing her car into the front of a northeast Bend home Monday evening, the Bend Police Department said.

Tamira Julian, 44, drove her Acura through the living room of a house on Northeast Moonlight Drive at around 10 p.m.

The resident of the house, Sarah Clark, 38, was on the living room couch at the time of the crash and sustained minor injuries. Her two young children were asleep in their rooms, and one of them also sustained minor injuries during the crash.

Police responded to the scene and found that the collision caused a natural gas leak inside the home. Julian was trapped inside the vehicle and had to be removed by Bend Fire Department personnel. She was taken to St. Charles-Bend and treated for minor injuries. Julian was found to have been driving while under the influence of a controlled substance and was arrested on suspicion of DUII, reckless driving, assault, criminal mischief, and recklessly endangering.

Police later found that Julian had also been arrested on Saturday evening for DUII.

http://www.ktvz.com/image/30619103/detail.html

This is why we have jails, to protect us from dangerous people.

 

• One person is killed every half-hour due to drunk driving
• Each year approximately 16,000 are killed in alcohol related crashes
• Alcohol is a factor in almost half of all traffic fatalities
• Every other minute a person is seriously injured in an alcohol related crash

 

The Drunken Adelmans - IMDB

Soon-to-be-released Documentary on basketball's most inebriated coaching family.

http://deadspin.com/5362826/the-bac-of-the-entire-adelman-family-is-about-74

The BAC Of The Entire Adelman Family Is About 7.4
This is...impressive. Daughter of Rockets' head coach Rick Adelman, Kathryn Naro, a high school women's head basketball coach was pinched for her second DUI earlier this week, bringing the total number of Adelman children busted for DUIs to three.

Seriously: Adelman's son David was arrested for his second DUI back in February. Adelman's other son, RJ, was arrested for a DUI back in 2007.

Naro resigned from her position after last week's arrest because it was her second offense within the year, and one that violated the conditions of her diversion program she entered last year — a legal deal hashed out by the judge in lieu of heftier charges. Of course, the most important condition of that deal was that Naro, you know, not get busted for another DUI.

Proud papa Rick hasn't made any comment on his daughter's arrest nor on the troubling frequency of his brood's enjoyment of boozin' and cruisin'. But outside of "I guess we shouldn't have nursed them with Wild Turkey" he probably couldn't offer much insight into the situation.

 

In 2008, there were 37,261 fatalities on our Nation’s roadways. Of these; 11,674 (31 percent) were speeding-related!

So label the person with multiple DUI's the same as you would someone with multiple speeding tickets.

 

Last year the U.S. had the fewest vehicle deaths since 1949. In the 1970s there were 50,000 deaths per year. This shows that the laws passed since 1949 have made this a more dangerous country. The penalties for drinking while driving, the illegality of LSD, and racial integration should be reversed to bring down the number of fatalities.

 

1.4 million DUI arrests per year divided by 10,000 deaths per year equals 140 American lives ruined for each death, 139 of whom would have proceeded to drive home safely. The ratio of 139 to 1 is much too high.

If you don't believe in freedom, and believe that government should protect us from all risks no matter what the cost, fill in the blank.

The chance of ___ is less than 1%, but government should destroy as many millions of Americans for the rest of their lives as it possibly can to prevent it (actually, to fail to prevent it).

Feel free to insert drug illegality (1 million arrests per year, multiply by your life expectancy and divide by 300 million to find the probability of them getting you), or whatever your dictatorial little mind wants. Don't forget to kill millions in wars to force all this "freedom" on unwilling countries who see right through this.

10,000 per year
http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html

1.4 million per year
http://www.numberof.net/number-of-duis-per-year/

 

Or maybe improved safety features (seat belts, air bags, cars designed with "crumble zones", etc.) have played a part in reducing the number of traffic fatalities.

BNM

 

I am by no means advocating relaxing drinking and driving laws. I am just against condemning someone for life after they have served whatever the legal system recommends. Glad that some lean to the extreme though.