One drink and drive

deadwood

gilly2308 wrote: »

I think catching people the morning after is also a disgrace, fair enough if somebody drinks until 3am and then drives to work at 6 or 7am that morning, they deserve to get caught. However somebody who say goes on a major session (say a wedding), is in bed by 3am, gets up at 11 or 12 and has a big breakfast or lunch and is then done driving home from the wedding at 2pm, well sorry but that is very wrong.I definitely think that there is a case for bringing in a much more lenient sentence if that is the case, but then again how would you prove that you hadn't had a drink for 12 hours?

Well, if they're under the limit, they won't be "done". Simple really.

Hooch

gilly2308 wrote: »

I think catching people the morning after is also a disgrace, fair enough if somebody drinks until 3am and then drives to work at 6 or 7am that morning, they deserve to get caught. However somebody who say goes on a major session (say a wedding), is in bed by 3am, gets up at 11 or 12 and has a big breakfast or lunch and is then done driving home from the wedding at 2pm, well sorry but that is very wrong.I definitely think that there is a case for bringing in a much more lenient sentence if that is the case, but then again how would you prove that you hadn't had a drink for 12 hours?

You just blew your arguement out of the water in your paragraph. If your over the legal limit then your over the legal limit. Doesnt matter when you stopped drinking or how much you ate that morining. If your over your over end of story.

No need to come back with the arguement of it gone from your system or ''your not really drunk''. Over is over, simple medical fact. End of im afraid.

Ciaran500

Fluffybums wrote: »

Ethanol is alcohol, if it was the main ingredient it would have to be listed.

Just to close this

There is 0.077% ethanol in diet 7up. http://books.google.ie/books?id=0Bw2UJTC_uMC&pg=PA295&lpg=PA295&dq=ethanol+in+7up&source=bl&ots=W57nGykvTx&sig=QWQrQZiHNraAb5rnVkCMG7zhP-w&hl=en&ei=eDIwSoHVO6SQjAfizc2TCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

gilly0512

nice guy always wrote: »

You just blew your arguement out of the water in your paragraph. If your over the legal limit then your over the legal limit. Doesnt matter when you stopped drinking or how much you ate that morining. If your over your over end of story.

No need to come back with the arguement of it gone from your system or ''your not really drunk''. Over is over, simple medical fact. End of im afraid.

Not arguing for one minute about the fact that you may be still over the limit, I just think its unfair that people can be done for drunken driving the next morning. While there is plenty of evidence of drivers over the limit causing carnage on our roads at night, how much evidence is there of drivers over the limit causing any accidents the morning after?

Trojan911

gilly2308 wrote: »

Not arguing for one minute about the fact that you may be still over the limit, I just think its unfair that people can be done for drunken driving the next morning. While there is plenty of evidence of drivers over the limit causing carnage on our roads at night, how much evidence is there of drivers over the limit causing any accidents the morning after?

What a nonsense post.

If you're over then you're over. It is irrelevant what time of the day or night it is. Accidents/Collisions occur whenever, whether drink related or not.

Where is it unfair because it is in the morning?

donvito99

gilly2308 wrote: »

I think catching people the morning after is also a disgrace, fair enough if somebody drinks until 3am and then drives to work at 6 or 7am that morning, they deserve to get caught. However somebody who say goes on a major session (say a wedding), is in bed by 3am, gets up at 11 or 12 and has a big breakfast or lunch and is then done driving home from the wedding at 2pm, well sorry but that is very wrong.I definitely think that there is a case for bringing in a much more lenient sentence if that is the case, but then again how would you prove that you hadn't had a drink for 12 hours?

You can still kill someone the morning/afternoon after.

ART6

I too have mixed feelings about this business of morning after breath testing and punishment if over the limit. A responsible person should try to avoid breaking the law, and so by definition should not drink and drive. But how is that person to know the day after a few drinks that he is breaking the law? The only way, I suppose, is to impose the rules that airline pilots have to adhere to, which is not to take drink for at least a day before flying. Unfortunately, in the modern world, that would effectively mean that the only time one could have a drink would be Friday evening, and even that would not be available to many people.

eoin4789

I buried a good friend yesterday who was stabbed last week in galway, and as all irish funerals go it turned into a session. left the hotel in the early hours as my brother was driving whilst i was blathered. Driving to work this morning although me feeling fine was criminal. Should i have been bagged i would have blown the machine up. My friends often told me of the morning after driving and i could not understand how they would feel the effects after a good enough sleep. Its my first experience of ever doing it and I plan on making it my last. Scary to think how the demon drink can effect a man so long after his last drink.

big syke

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Just to close this

There is 0.077% ethanol in diet 7up. http://books.google.ie/books?id=0Bw2UJTC_uMC&pg=PA295&lpg=PA295&dq=ethanol+in+7up&source=bl&ots=W57nGykvTx&sig=QWQrQZiHNraAb5rnVkCMG7zhP-w&hl=en&ei=eDIwSoHVO6SQjAfizc2TCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

Thats an america book, american soft beverages have different legislation regarding the ingrediants in their doft drinks. 7-up Free in ireland has no ethanol or alcohol in it. Look at the back of the bottle. THey legally have to display EVERY tiny ingrediant.

goldie fish

big syke wrote: »

Thats an america book, american soft beverages have different legislation regarding the ingrediants in their doft drinks. 7-up Free in ireland has no ethanol or alcohol in it. Look at the back of the bottle. THey legally have to display EVERY tiny ingrediant.

Not true.