How many of you have drove while drunk?

LaVail

Just curious about this. Everybody hates people who drink drive but at the same time many of the people who hate it do it themselves.

I drove while over the limit 4 times in my life and that was years ago...I still regret doing it to this day, not because I could have harmed myself but because I could have injured or killed innocent people travelling towards me.

I assume there will be a bit of a difference between rural and urban answers but I'm curious none the less.

So have you done it? Does it bother you that you did it or do you not care or think about it?

racso1975

Did it once 18 years ago. Swore I'd never do it again and have not. Hate that i did it but cant change that.

LaVail

racso1975 wrote: »

Did it once 18 years ago. Swore I'd never do it again and have not. Hate that i did it but cant change that.

At least you nipped it in the bud so credit where credit is due for that. I live in a rural area and its very quiet but I still don't drive while drunk.

I know at least 5 men who drive while flaming every night of the week. It's wreckless to say the least and gaurds around here know who's doing it but still don't arrest them?

If they did it in a city I'm sure they'd have been put off the road long ago.

Dangerous Man

Just don't bloody do it. There's too much at stake.

LaVail

Dangerous Man wrote: »

Just don't bloody do it. There's too much at stake.

I agree 100% and as I've said in the post above I have not done it for years and still regret doing it. Friends of mine have been killed by drink drivers so I have no sympathy for anyone who does it and gets caught.

As far as I can see though it still goes on even after all the clampdowns to try and stop it.

Cookie_Monster

I think I may have still been a bit drunk this afternoon when driving

racso1975

Yeah I'm rural too. we have no local station anymore. So very unlikely people will get done. Like you same tossbags week in and week out do it. Even saw one fella at weekend lashing gargle into and hopin into the car. This after serving a 2 year ban for dui.

Dangerous Man

LaVail wrote: »

I agree 100% and as I've said in the post above I have not done it for years and still regret doing it. Friends of mine have been killed by drink drivers so I have no sympathy for anyone who does it and gets caught.

As far as I can see though it still goes on even after all the clampdowns to try and stop it.

No one is perfect and I respect you for coming on here and admitting your past mistakes.

mikemac1

Yep, out rural in the early nineties a good few times

Was a different time and different attitudes back then

Do you not remember the slogan going around "if you do, no more then two"
Now even two is unacceptable but it wasn't back then

wlzkelly

Nope, but I do see and know people who do it every single day. It is a shame. There's even a dedicated zone in the car park of our local shopping centre some small distance away from the pub which they use to try and avoid detection. The question is, would you report it if you were 100% sure that it was happening?

racso1975

Have done and would do again. you ask the question as though it is something to be ashamed of?

I'd sleep a lot better ringing the guards then hearing about an innocent life lost or even the drivers life

[-0-]

Oranges.

On a more serious note, wrote off a car while drunk (driving away in a rage of fury from an ex), nobody else involved.

Stupid, stupid, cringe every time I think of it. People have ended their lives, or the lives of others doing similar ****. Terrible to think of it.

Also crashed a car while getting a blowjob but I wasn't drinking then.

SusieBlue

I've never done it, but I know someone that does it regularly. Its sickening.

Everyone makes mistakes, and so long as someone who has done it can accept it was wrong, and not do it again, it isn't too bad. People who do it regularly and show off about it turn my stomach.

stek

good question. A poll might be in order?
Like some, did it a few times when younger. Hit a curb and blew out my tire last time, thankfully that was the only damage and enough of a warning, have never done it since..
I've knowingly taken a lift with people who were drinking on nights out also. Felt just as guilty the next day...

Gloomtastic!

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Also crashed a car while getting a blowjob but I wasn't drinking then.[/Quote]

Christ! That could have very serious!!!! :-)

Back on topic. Drove after three pInts a few years ago. I would have been under the limit but still nervous as hell.

The morning after is probably more dangerous if you were stopped and breathalised, I've been in a pretty poor state a few times.

Lima Golf

I went 6 years on the road having never drove whilst drunk and was totally against it. Then I did it 6 or 7 times in the space of a year.

I woke up 1 morning hungover as hell. Spotted my car in the drive and realised I had driven it home (5 miles) and I couldn't remember doing it. That scared me enough to never do it again. Totally irresponsible and something I'm not proud of but I've moved on from that and thankfully didnt hurt myself or anyone else.

That was 5 years ago. It was the wake up call i needed. I will never drink drive again.

Mr. CooL ICE

Never have. Closest I have come was having a pint at lunchtime with a colleague who was leaving and driving home at 6 that day.

thehomeofDob

I've never come out of a pub after a few drinks and gotten in the car. However I'm quite sure that there have been a few occasions after a night out that I've been over the limit while driving into work. I've since kept a very close eye on my alcohol intake and used the rough "1 hour per unit" guide (leaving a few hours extra) if I have to drive the next morning.

Has anyone purchased a breathalyzer for those morning after drives?

LordChessington wrote: »

Never have. Closest I have come was having a pint at lunchtime with a colleague who was leaving and driving home at 6 that day.

You would have been well clear by that stage. 2 units takes roughly 2 hours to process through your system, if you had 3-4 hours after your pint you'd be under the limit if not totally in the clear.

Optimalprimerib

Drove plenty of times the next morning after drink. If the cops were out I am 100% sure I would be over the limit.

I do know people who do it constantly. Whenever I go out with them from their house, I make sure I order a taxi. If they bring the car, they will risk a drive home

REXER

I never had access to enough cattle to be a drunk drover but I am guilty of drunken cow tipping a few times.:eek:

Cattle that are drunk droven on public roads are a menace and the practice needs to be stamped out!:mad:

Horse1920

In Ireland prob was over the limit in the am a good few times - but when I lived in the US it was almost commonplace to have a few or more than a few for some people and drive home - some states more stringent than others

Sunnyisland

REXER wrote: »

I never had access to enough cattle to be a drunk drover but I am guilty of drunken cow tipping a few times.:eek:

Cattle that are drunk drove on public roads are a menace and the practice needs to be stamped out!:mad:

I am a bit lossed here what you on about man.

Benny_Cake

racso1975 wrote: »

Did it once 18 years ago. Swore I'd never do it again and have not. Hate that i did it but cant change that.

Everyone makes mistakes in life, at least you've learned from it. All to many people don't learn, and there seem to be a tendency for Gardai in rural areas to ignore the problem, particularly in regards to older drivers, though that may be changing.

I've never done it, to be honest the thought never occurred to me. In my earlier years of drinking I lived close to a Dart station and several bus routes so it wasn't an issue anyway.

Sunnyisland

Times have indeed changed for the better re drink driving,I remember all to well the cabaret pubs car parks being packed out with cars every weekend,In many cases then the driver would be bought a few extra shorts because he was driving and giving people lifts home,Crazy **** delighted the way most of the drivers of the today have more responsibility in there thinking.

ElectroJazz

REXER wrote: »

I never had access to enough cattle to be a drunk drover but I am guilty of drunken cow tipping a few times.:eek:

Cattle that are drunk droven on public roads are a menace and the practice needs to be stamped out!:mad:

Are you drunk now?

REXER

realies wrote: »

I am a bit lossed here what you on about man.

ElectroJazz wrote: »

Are you drunk now?

I know that this is after hours, but such bad use of language hurts my eyes and is as bad as drink driving.:( Posting at 05:45, was the OP drunk, just back in the door when posting with such bad use of language?

I am a driver.
I drive my car.
I drove my car.
I have driven my car.
I am driving my car.

I am a drover.
I drove the cattle to market.

Totally sober but my eyes are still sore after reading the orriginal post.:D

Stavro Mueller

I think I might have done the afternoon after attending a wedding that had finished up in the residents bar at 5am. It was only a mile I drove - ironically to fetch my car that I'd left at the hotel so I'd not be drink driving - but it scared the living daylights out of me. I don't know if it was the drink that may have been still in my system or sheer exhaustion but I should not have gotten behind the wheel. now I'm much more conscious of how many units of alcohol I'm drinking and how long it takes them to leave my system.

Never. I drove twice one day while extremely tired - fcuking scary. I don't know how something didn't happen, but not a chance I'd do it again or while drunk

senorwipesalot

I only do it when im too drunk to walk home.

oldmangrub

I haven't. I live beside my local.

Am I imagining it or is driving while stoned becoming a habit? I'm basing this purely from the whiff I sometimes encounter upon entering cars.

Rasheed

I used to. All the time, it was out in the country, no-one ever got bagged. Then something horrific happened, (I wasn't driving) and I can't stress enough how life changing one silly mistake can be.

Stavro Mueller

bluewolf wrote: »

Never. I drove twice one day while extremely tired - fcuking scary. I don't know how something didn't happen, but not a chance I'd do it again or while drunk

I think driving when you're exhausted can be worse than drunk driving. It is indeed a fooking terrifying experience. Someone I know got pulled in by the guards for driving erratically on the road - he was stone cold sober but was just extremely tired.

senorwipesalot

Rasheed wrote: »

I used to. All the time, it was out in the country, no-one ever got bagged. Then something horrific happened, (I wasn't driving) and I can't stress enough how life changing one silly mistake can be.

What happened?
The suspense is killing me.
Im guessing its guinness/pothole/dead farmer related.

MagicSean

senorwipesalot wrote: »

What happened?
The suspense is killing me.
Im guessing its guinness/pothole/dead farmer related.

Your attempts to be funny are pretty terrible to be honest.

Drake66

The vintners don't make it easy for the driver. €2.70 for a small bottle of coke I was charged last week. Bunch of price gougers.

Rasheed

senorwipesalot wrote: »

What happened?
The suspense is killing me.
Im guessing its guinness/pothole/dead farmer related.

Girl in her teens is paralysed.

Benny_Cake

cymbaline wrote: »

I think driving when you're exhausted can be worse than drunk driving. It is indeed a fooking terrifying experience. Someone I know got pulled in by the guards for driving erratically on the road - he was stone cold sober but was just extremely tired.

It can be terrifying alright, I found myself almost nodding off at the wheel once or twice, on the M7 which doesn't help as it's an exceptionally tedious drive. I always make sure to stop for 10 minutes and a coffee now when I start feeling tired, the alternative just isn't worth it.

Sam Kade

Dangerous Man wrote: »

No one is perfect and I respect you for coming on here and admitting your past mistakes.

Bless me father for I have sinned.

SeaFields

I've never gotten into a car after having a drink that evening but would have to say a few times had i been stopped the morning after I would have been over the limit.


While in the family car years ago we were hit by a drunk driver in Cork city. She came up the quays at over 60mph through a red light into us and the carnage was unbelievable. Being in a big saloon car saved us from more than minor injuries and a split second back the road she would have come through the passenger doors rather than hitting the rear of the car. She couldn't stand when she got out of her car she was so pissed. There was a Garda car traveling behind us coincidentally.

Michael Weston

Did it and was caught twelve years ago, I was a total gimp to do it in the first place.

In hindsight the fact that I actually did that embarrasses me greatly.

On a side note, you get some huge quotes for insurance when you have an endorsement for drink driving on your licence, proper order though.

Galwayguy35

I did it twice 17 years ago, the 2nd time I crashed and went straight through a wall. The Guards were on the scene a few minutes later and bagged me.

I woke up the next morning and it felt like a bad dream.
I went to court and served my ban, I was a stupid 23 year old and I've never done since and never will.

Grayson

I drove drunk once. In a housing estate. For some reason, the car had to be moved from A to B. There was a distance of 20 metres and my friend said he was too drunk to drive and kept at me to do it. I only did it because it was a short distance in a straight line, in the dead of night, in a residential neighbourhood. So I figured I could do 5 miles an hour and there was nothing/no-one to hit.

I ended up mangling his axle on the kerb.

Stavro Mueller

:eek:

DanTheMan91

Have never drove drunk, and I would like to think I never will. I won't even let my friends drive drunk, I have taken a friends keys home with me in the past because he was talking about drivng home that night.

Gloomtastic!

Wasn't expecting the answers to this tread at all. Aren't we all good little boys and girls - mostly!

Colmustard

I did on the night of the millennium, a family emergency, I never did before and I never will again.

hattoncracker

Never have, never will..

I know a girl who does though, she openly will admit to it and laugh at you if you try and chastise her...

The same girl got her provisional licence, had never driven in her life and put her 6 week old in the back seat so she's Not exactly the responsible type.

Im from a rural border area originally so drink driving is normal, esp with ppl coming over the border. When I was younger hthere was nothing to be done to penalise drivers who crossed the border so they didnt give a hoot!

Shenshen

Never have, never will.
I can honestly say I despise people who do it, I think you need to have something seriously wrong with your head to even consider it.

Fr Jessup

Drive home from the pub/niteclub drunk regularly, taxi's are too expensive.

MagicSean

I'm genuinely surprised at the amount of people who admit to it and blame it on being young. No wonder car insurance for young lads is so high.

LoYL

Never. Curious thread this: hardly a survey and it has the shtink of "ah shure didn't we all do it".