Shot across the bows....A Warning to heed

jasy said:

mildmanneredjanitor said:

So what about someone who has a pint of John Smiths with his steak and mushroom pie at lunchtime and drives home at 5:30?

Should he still be prosecuted the same as someone who has had 5 pints and driven home from the pub?

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If you know you are going to drive why drink in the first place?? Why risk the one just don't bother. Is it that difficult for people to understand

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Jasy,
you obviously feel very passionate about this topic.

I'm interested though, hypothetically, if you were in the postition of Judge, Jury and executioner - how would you treat the two people in the above scenario? Would you treat them differently?

Further more, I think we have had it drilled into us as a nation that having A DRINK is ok, for example one recent safety campaign shows a group of lads in a pub having a laugh and a drink and as soon as a second drink is ordered, they are flung across the room injuring a woman. To me this subconciously says having a drink is ok. An earlier campaign showed how many units present in measures of beer and spirits indicating what a typical adult allowance (if memory serves me correctly?)

I would say a pint with a lunch time meal and driving home 4 hours later was responsible, but maybe I have just been conditioned this way?

To be honest, I'm arguing from the wrong side of the fence, but when would I be able to drive safely (in your opinion) after having a pint at 1:30pm Friday afternoon? Educate me, cos I don't understand

pipme said:

Eddie M said:

felix said:

See above

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........ consider it an effective zero. I'm lucky, when the wife and I go out, we share the driving. I drive there, she drives back !!!! She doesn't drink

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Ooooer and that's lucky is it ?

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I don't drink very much in such situations, t'would be unfair.

keyplayer said:

Eddie M said:

I'm lucky, when the wife and I go out, we share the driving. I drive there, she drives back !!!! She doesn't drink

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And while you're lying in a pool of your own vomit, she's shagging the hitchhiker.

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No, as above don't drink very much. Happy to have a couple of pints, but don't risk it. Am getting on a little bit.

Oh, sorry, see what you are alluding to, she dosen't like booze.

I agree with jasy on this, alchohol will be detriment to your responses whilst driving and whilst one might get away with it most of the time what would you feel like if your reflexes wern't fast enough to stop yourself running over and killing a child that may have run in front of you?