Need some advice v. drink driving

Fighting Irish

Drinking tomorrow night, going to get langered and probably stop drinking around 2-3am.
If i sleep from 4am til 1pm should i be alright to drive(legally) at 2pm

I'm asking because i do this quite a lot and my friend seems to think i could get done

Fighting Irish

Before a mod has a fanny fit, i'm not gonna get done then say boards.ie told me it would be alright

L1011

How langered is 'langered'? How large is your body frame? Too many variables....

Random

If I'm out on a "mad one" then personally I wouldn't drive til the next evening and even then I may not.

There's too many factors to take into account and there's no way to say for sure unless you have a Garda breathaliser?

If in doubt don't drive.

Alternatively, if I had no choice but to drive I'd drink slowly, stop about 11pm and then drive about 2 or 3pm the next day.

Fighting Irish

MYOB wrote: »

How langered is 'langered'? How large is your body frame? Too many variables....

16.5 stone

Maybe 10-15 pints at most

Starting at maybe 8pm

Vanbis

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Drinking tomorrow night, going to get langered and probably stop drinking around 2-3am.
If i sleep from 4am til 1pm should i be alright to drive(legally) at 2pm

I'm asking because i do this quite a lot and my friend seems to think i could get done

The answer is NO you would still have alcohol in your system.

Mena

Vanbis wrote: »

The answer is NO you would still have alcohol in your system.

+1 on this. Don't do it.

SV

Not a hope will you be under the limit..

L1011

Fighting Irish wrote: »

16.5 stone

Maybe 10-15 pints at most

Starting at maybe 8pm

I think you'd still be over and I wouldn't risk it myself on that level.

Always taken the likely very wrong approach that it takes about an hour a pint to clear out fully, you're not leaving 10 hours let alone 15.

colly10

You may or may not be over the limit, depends on alot of factors, either you take the chance or ye don't, up to yourself

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Maybe 10-15 pints at most

Only 10-15 pints? Should be fresh as a daisy

Fey!

Have you a high or low metabolism?

IIRC, rule of thumb is an hour per pint from end of intake, which means if you have 15 pints and end at 3am, then you should be OK by about 6pm that day.

However, this is NOT gospel.

Random

Is it not 1 unit per hour? There being 2 units in a pint or something? So 30 hours later he should be able to drive?

After 15 pints driving the next day would be a definite no in my book

peasant

Fighting Irish wrote: »

Maybe 10-15 pints at most

I'd be more worried about the runs and the smelly farts :D:D

aoibhebree

Can you afford to lose your license? Would you have the same quality of life you have now? What about your job?

You could be five minutes down the road and meet a checkpoint and you could be really unlucky and be just that little bit over the limit! I'm not trying to preach, I honestly don't think it would affect your driving ability/reactions at that stage, but it'll do you no good to tell the judge that you really should have been fine by that time.

I've been tempted a few times too, but I can't afford to do without my car for the next couple of years, so personally I wouldn't risk it.

Gran Hermano

A pint is 2 units of alcohol. Body processes 1 unit per hour.

L1011

Gran Hermano wrote: »

A pint is 2 units of alcohol. Body processes 1 unit per hour.

Dependent on metabolism at that.... which could be very slow for some people.

waraf

Get yourself one of those breathalyser things on t'interweb. If you're still drinking/drunk at 3am I can guarantee you're over the limit until late afternoon. If you test yourself with a breathalyser you will be really surprised at how long it takes for the alcohol to leave your system.

Fighting Irish

aoibhebree wrote: »

Can you afford to lose your license? Would you have the same quality of life you have now? What about your job?

You could be five minutes down the road and meet a checkpoint and you could be really unlucky and be just that little bit over the limit! I'm not trying to preach, I honestly don't think it would affect your driving ability/reactions at that stage, but it'll do you no good to tell the judge that you really should have been fine by that time.

I've been tempted a few times too, but I can't afford to do without my car for the next couple of years, so personally I wouldn't risk it.

wtf lol

Rowley Birkin QC

I wouldn't be driving until at least 6-7pm the following day after a heavy night out.

Random

Fighting Irish wrote: »

wtf lol

It's a valid point (the bit you highlighted in bold). This is one of the major factors in me not "risking it" or "chancing it". It's fear a lot of the time of losing my license rather than knocking someone down at 6pm the next day.

Ciaran500

Fighting Irish wrote: »

wtf lol

Whats funny about that? Some people completely rely on their cars for day to day things and their job.

Fighting Irish

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Whats funny about that? Some people completely rely on their cars for day to day things and their job.

He's talking like i'm dumb as fook, its like a news headline off Fox News

Are you safe in your own home? Are your children talking to pedos on the net?
Find out after the break

peasant

Fighting Irish wrote: »

He's talking like i'm dumb as fook, its like a news headline off Fox News

Are you safe in your own home? Are your children talking to pedos on the net?
Find out after the break

as if that

What do you think
Go for it
Dodgy
Don't go for it

is the most mentally challenging poll ever?

Mr. Presentable

So you do 30 units and stop at 0300 Sunday. If we allow you to process twice the average, you'll still be over the limit at 1900 Sunday. To be sure, you shouldn't get behind the wheel until at least 0700 Monday

CharlieCroker

Your looking at it the wrong way.

Fair enough, you might still be over the limit the next day, you might meet a MAT checkpoint, you MIGHT be over the limit. Worst that will happen is you get arrested, go on the intoxilizer in the station and if your over, you lose your licence.

What people forget/don't realise is that the vast majority of accidents, both fatal and non fatal, that happen on a saturday or sunday morning, one of the drivers is over the legal limit.

I'm amazed the amount of people that come into the station for drink driving. Scary.

EPM

MYOB wrote: »

I think you'd still be over and I wouldn't risk it myself on that level.

Always taken the likely very wrong approach that it takes about an hour a pint to clear out fully, you're not leaving 10 hours let alone 15.

Couldn't agree more with you. Better safe than sorry, and in a lot of our cases who depend on being able to travel for our jobs its just not worth the risk

zAbbo

Gran Hermano wrote: »

A pint is 2 units of alcohol. Body processes 1 unit per hour.

Yup, thats the guideline and advice, more info here - http://www.drinkaware.ie/index.php?sid=7&pid=84

Zube

Fey! wrote: »

IIRC, rule of thumb is an hour per pint from end of intake.

Your liver isn't sitting on its hole doing the crossword waiting for you to stop drinking before it can start work! You start breaking down alcohol as soon as it hits your bloodstream. And it's two hours per pint, so he's knackered for the whole next day, well into the evening.