Would you report a potential drunk driver?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Sarky wrote:

What the hell? You recommend refraining from reporting crimes or committing them because it would be inconvenient to be caught?

You are an odd, odd person.

well. I took acid last week, and I didn't call the police.

few others took it as well with me and I didn't call the police on them either.


it would have been damned inconvenient to be caught.

qwytre

Mordeth wrote:

well. I took acid last week, and I didn't call the police.

few others took it as well with me and I didn't call the police on them either.


it would have been damned inconvenient to be caught.

Dont be a moron, this is totally different to driving a car while drunk. Seems the acid has screwed your brain up.

Sarky

Dammit Mordeth, you're not helping!

Hobbes

Anyone who drinks and drives is a fuking idiot and deserves to get removed from the road.

Generally you can do the decent thing (make sure they don't get into the car) but if I saw someone pissed drunk getting into a car and driving off yes I would report it.

I think reporting a person is a cowardly thing to do and I would ask the question, How would you like if it was done to yourself?

I never drink and drive. I would think if I ever got into a position where I was operating something without my full faculties that someone would stop me. Especially something that has the potencial to kill a lot of people.

I know a fella who is off for the next 6yrs and I can tell you that poor chap has suffered enough.

Ahhhhhhhhh.... Hang on while I get the violin out. How long do you think some people would suffer if he had killed or maimed someone while driving?

cop the fuk on.

Karoma

"Damn! I seem to have crushed your child with my car *hic*. How inconvenient this must be for you... At least I saved on the taxi fair home and can enjoy my freedom as a moany tight-arsed bog trotting excuse for a human."


"A car is my only means of freedom in rural Ireland."
I've heard this excuse before from people in the shticks (i.e. Everywhere outside Dublin,right?); nonsense, there are taxi services, and there are non-alcoholic drinks....so, um, bullshit!

Huggles

Karoma wrote:

"Damn! I seem to have crushed your child with my car *hic*. How inconvenient this must be for you... At least I saved on the taxi fair home and can enjoy my freedom as a moany tight-arsed bog trotting excuse for a human."


"A car is my only means of freedom in rural Ireland."
I've heard this excuse before from people in the shticks (i.e. Everywhere outside Dublin,right?); nonsense, there are taxi services, and there are non-alcoholic drinks....so, um, bullshit!

Great Post!!!!!

Lump

When I worked in Statoil, there was an alcoholic that lived up the road, he used to drive down to the garage to get wine, I rang the cops a few times.... They never got to the station in time to see him driving, since he only lived up the road, and wouldn't do anything even though I saw him driving!

humbert

There's a bad attitude in Ireland toward drink driving, particularly in more rural areas, "ah he was just a bit tipsy, no harm done" or you shouldn't "rat someone out", it has to change, people are being killed needlessly, I know that sounds melodramatic by it's true.

Karoma

Aye. There is the "no harm. no foul" theory, as well as the "anything's better than being a rat" theory, and the fact that the Gardaí,in most cases, would be incapable of catching the person intoxicated behind the wheel of the car in most cases. However, WHAT IF ... The driver is injured, property damaged, and of more concern: injury to another. It's not just their lives that their risking. I would feel it is my duty to stop them. I feel that I would be able to stop them, but on the off chance that I could not, silly backward attitudes be damned, I would call the Gardaí.
I'd rather regret my action than inaction.

Ruu_Old

netwhizkid wrote:

I think reporting a person is a cowardly thing to do and I would ask the question, How would you like if it was done to yourself?

Cowardly..wow..just wow. It would be a different story if someone you know was involved in something related to being drunk at the wheel, not wishing it on anyone. Call us when you come back to planet Earth. Its time to read your own post again and realise what a load of drivel it is.

ThrownAway

This thread title is stupid.


Would you report a potential speeder?


Everyone falls under that catagory

humbert

ThrownAway wrote:

This thread title is stupid.


Would you report a potential speeder?


Everyone falls under that catagory

meh not worth arguing with:rolleyes:

ThrownAway

humbert wrote:

meh not worth arguing with:rolleyes:

Just because of an ''a'' :rolleyes:

tj-music.com

qwytre wrote:

Myself and my girlfriend were getting into our car after a night out and saw a guy stagger up to his car and sit in to the drivers seat, this was at about 10pm. He was clearly drunk, he spoke to us as he walked passed, slurring his speech etc.

I considered calling the gardai but my girlfriend was of the other opinion, to just leave it. Sure if he lost his licence for 2 years he may loose his job etc but he could also kill someone on the road too.

What do you think? Would you have reported him or just left it?

I would not have been sympathetic towards him and call the police. What if it was your best mate he´d kill in the road??

Terry

Mordeth wrote:

well. I took acid last week, and I didn't call the police.

few others took it as well with me and I didn't call the police on them either.


it would have been damned inconvenient to be caught.

wow. you're a total inspiration to me. you rule.
you took acid and drove a car. i mean, wow. that's just sooooo cooool.
we should meet up. i want lsd to be legalised and i am willing to bet that you do too. it opens your mind and lets you see all planes of reality.
gad damn those cops for keeping us back. they think they are doing the right thing by keeping drunk and high drivers off the road. they just don't understand drugs. they need to realise that alcohol is much worse than lsd. only 37 people have died from lsd, but one hundred billion have died from alcohol. i'm with you all the waY. LEGALISE EVEREYTHING.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

are you tripping? when did I say I'd been driving?

Zillah

Mordeth, I understand you weren't driving. But what exactly was the point of your lsd post? Its an entirely different situation, you're not knowingly and actively endangering the lives of other people.

And if theres some hidden irony or subtlety here, I'm not seeing it.

Netwhizkid, you've been flamed enough, so I'll keep this brief. What you have said is one of the most ignorant and irresponsible things I've ever read on boards. It shows childishness and a total disregard for other human beings.

Do you honestly believe that your right to go to the pub supercedes everyone else's right to not be directly threatened with death?

I would, without hesitation or doubt, report a drunk driver. I hope he gets caught, I hope he gets fined, and I hope he gets a hefty prison sentence too.

If he loses his job I couldn't give a flying toss. His career weighs a staggering nothing on the scale of importance when we're talking about drink driving. Absolutely no excuse.

Brian Capture

What if the drunk person drives their car home and doesn't have an accident?

Surely this must happen sometimes?

padi89

netwhizkid wrote:

These chavbos are killing the people, while the likes of myself who has a normal car (A BMW 316 1596cc) it is totally unmodified and very safe, to be penalised then with high insurance. It is one thing to drive at 80Mph on the dual carriageway or motorway but these muppets doing these speeds on roads designed for horse & cart in cars built no stronger than a coke can.

Unfortunatly mate in an 80mph crash there wont be much left of your "normal,very safe" BMW either,a cars badge wont save you at this speed.Its just far too easy IMO to pin the blame on all the boy racers,yes they get on my tits too but i dont think insurance prices are high just because of them.It is in general because of inexperienced young drivers taking unnessecary risks.
Im in my late twenties now and looking back on the way i drove when i was nineteen compared to the way i drive now i was completly oblivious to the risks i was taking on a daily basis.I was by no means a boy racer but i thought i was a good driver when in actual fact i only had been driving for a year with sweet feck all experience.The problem is over confidence,people get their full licences and think they are perfect drivers.
It was only until i was i started working in a job where i was on the road all the time covering up to 1000 miles per week that i copped on to the dangers of the road.Dont take this the wrong way but a 19 year old driving a 1.6l BMW,is it any wonder you are paying a premium price for your insurance?

Heyes

Mordeth wrote:

are you tripping? when did I say I'd been driving?

Im asuming it was sarcasm Mordeth :rolleyes:

Hobbes

ThrownAway wrote:

This thread title is stupid.


Would you report a potential speeder?


Everyone falls under that catagory

You Fail English? Thats unpossible.

Hobbes

Mordeth wrote:

are you tripping? when did I say I'd been driving?

how would you know?

padi89

netwhizkid wrote:

I have often been a passenger with a driver who was over the limit in this country and others and have never came a cropper. I find drunks to be usually driving slowly and trying their full best to concentrate.

This made me laugh,no offence to you whizzkid but look at what you are saying."Trying their full best to concentrate"........... OMG.

Terry

Mordeth wrote:

are you tripping? when did I say I'd been driving?

i'm sorry.
it's just that talking about taking acid in a thread about drunk drivers kind of made me think you had taken acid and then driven somewhere.
what exactly was the point of your post, if you were not driving?

kdouglas

ThrownAway wrote:

This thread title is stupid.


Would you report a potential speeder?


Everyone falls under that catagory

Yes, everyone is a potential speeder, but you have to be drunk in the first place to be a potential drunk driver.


I once stopped a ~50 year old woman who was driving home absolutely p!ssed off her face with a car full off (also drunk) passengers, she hadnt a clue what she was doing, I told her to get out and leave the car or else i was calling the gardai, a big argument then broke out between her and one of her passengers (possibly her husband) about how he told her she was too drunk to drive etc... If he knew she was too drunk he shouldnt have gotten in the car, some people are just thick.

In another incident i witnessed a man actually sitting in his car drinking, i rang the gardai but they didnt show up in time, he drove out of the car park he was in and wrapped his car around a pole at about 80km/h, he was extremely lucky to not be killed.

Rhyme

Report without question, id rather prevent an accident than to read about it in the news the next day.

Brian Capture

julep wrote:

i'm sorry.
it's just that talking about taking acid in a thread about drunk drivers kind of made me think you had taken acid and then driven somewhere.
what exactly was the point of your post, if you were not driving?

I'd say Mordeth was trying to look cool by saying he took acid.

Mmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

julep wrote:

i'm sorry.
it's just that talking about taking acid in a thread about drunk drivers kind of made me think you had taken acid and then driven somewhere.
what exactly was the point of your post, if you were not driving?

I was just trying to get sarky to notice me... I don't really give a **** about any of you peons

Rock on after hours, Rock on!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Sarky wrote:

What the hell? You recommend refraining from reporting crimes or committing them because it would be inconvenient to be caught?

You are an odd, odd person.

Mordeth wrote:

well. I took acid last week, and I didn't call the police.

few others took it as well with me and I didn't call the police on them either.


it would have been damned inconvenient to be caught.

reposting this because.. apparently you're all none too bright

oulu

If that was Finland even if that person was a relation they would calls police if he would not get out of car