How many people here has ever being a car with a drink driver?

will.i.am

Well I a college student and before started college in 2011, I thought drink driving didn't happen that often and it was rarely young people that did it. However I experienced the opposite. I know about 20 people who have done it and 10 people who do it regularly.
I know when I was a passenger in a car with a drink driver it was simple because I didn't want to walk home alone or feel left out for not getting in the car.
So, How many people here has being a passenger in a car with a drink driver and why?

Dont call me Shirley

I remember the good ol days when it was rarer to find a sober driver than a drunk one at times.

Now there's no pub life to speak of out in the country.

Mint Sauce

will.i.am wrote: »

Well I a college student and before started college in 2011, I thought drink driving didn't happen that often and it was rarely young people that did it. However I experienced the opposite. I know about 20 people who have done it and 10 people who do it regularly.
I know when I was a passenger in a car with a drink driver it was simple because I didn't want to walk home alone or feel left out for not getting in the car.
So, How many people here has being a passenger in a car with a drink driver and why?

I'm sure alot of posters in the 30's+ have been, when they were kids with their parents. Probably quite common in the 80's and earlier, with completely different drink laws compared to now.

MJ23

What are you studying in college ?

admiralofthefleet

many years ago from blackrock into town. felt like i was on the big dipper in blackpool pleasure beach

shedweller

All the time. Parents, workmates... Its a miracle i'm here at all.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

I was in Where To's car before. He seemed drunk...

im invisible

i was, but i wouldnt of knowing he would of being drunk at the time

staker

Used happen all the time-either that or walk home.

bodhrandude

How many people here has ever being a car with a drink driver?
I was a car in my second life, but then I ended up wrapped around a lamppost in Salthill, Galway.

niallo27

Every weekend when i was young fella, which is a bout 20 years ago, the father was over the senior hurling team so he was in the pub all day after a game and then drive us home off his tits. We never crashed though or came close to it. It definetly slowed him down on the road.

MagicMarker

Hmmm, the 80's and 90's with my dad.

You haven't lived until you've been a passenger in a car with a flat tire and a slaughtered drunk driver.

MadYaker

Yes.

tayto lover

MJ23 wrote: »

What are you studying in college ?

English i'd say.

Stained Class

OP, your're young.

Back in the '80s & 90s, I often did.

In fact, back in those days, I was often the one behind the wheel.

That's the way things were back then....

Seanieke

Sure have, purely down to times years ago being to drink to walk. (Surely this post should have a pole?)

Dont call me Shirley

MagicMarker wrote: »

Hmmm, the 80's and 90's with my dad.

You haven't lived until you've been a passenger in a car with a flat tire and a slaughtered drunk driver.

Maybe you could've just told him you disapprove of his behaviour? Bit severe imho.

Amprodude

Happened me once in college but didn't know that the driver who was female had drink taken until half way down the road. Then the other passengers in car who were drinking told me. The girl driving took out a big bottle of whiskey and floored a 1/4 of the bottle. I got scared then and i had been drinking as well before i sat into car but hadnt the guts to tell the girl who really liked me to stop and let me out. I was only 18 at the time. Really silly I was to let her continue driving. After that, i would never allow that to happen again, don't care who it was. I would speak my mind now before anything else. If she killed someone that night I would never forgive myself.

charlietheminxx

Nope, never to my knowledge. I never knowingly would either.

Though I think my taxi driver might have been locked one night... His driving was so bad that it scared me ****less and I walked the rest of the way home.

Pottler

I distinctly remember being run over in a pub car park in the 80's cos the driver was too locked to realise the passenger door was open and I was in the process of getting in.

It was all my fault though as i was making a dogs dinner of the "getting in" bit as the world wouldn't stay still for some reason. Different times I hear the shout, but I still know loads of people who drink drive, regularily. Personally, I don't, never did either really, I've seen it end very very badly. But it happens, no doubt at all about it. It's a bad idea, whatever way you look at it.

will.i.am

MJ23 wrote: »

What are you studying in college ?

Cork Institute of Technology.

purplegeko

Did it once one of my stupidest decisions ever

somefeen

will.i.am wrote: »

Cork Institute of Technology.

Your studying a college in college? ****ing hell that must be tough

Mint Sauce

Dont call me Shirley wrote: »

Maybe you could've just told him you disapprove of his behaviour? Bit severe imho.

I was only 10 in the late 80's my self, and maybe like the poster and many other kids my age, we didn;t tell our old man he couldn't drive, as drink driving wasn't frowned apon any where near the way it is now.

I have taken the keys off my dad in my teens, but never did before that.

Dont call me Shirley

irish-stew wrote: »

I was only 10 in the late 80's my self, and maybe like the poster and many other kids my age, we didn;t tell our old man he couldn't drive, as drink driving wasn't frowned apon any where near the way it is now.

I have taken the keys off my dad in my teens, but never did before that.

Killing the guy though?????

Patsy fyre

Plenty, it's great craic driving between all the country pubs having a few pints.



I don't condone this action btw.

Stained Class

I lived thru all that era of drink driving.

It's funny how things change.

As a people, we've become 'risk adversive'.

Danger is not an option anymore.

I was looking at a programme on History channel recently, about the Moon landings.

There was an awful lot of risk & danger involved in getting those men on the Moon.

At the end of the programme it was admitted that NASA would not do anything like that now.

Too much risk involved.

I don't aprove of drink driving, but, where is society going to go if it looks at danger around every corner?

My tuppence.

beefstew

My local taxi driver was an alcoholic, one time at a well known crossroads in the town i live he pulled up, got out of the car, walks around for a minute hops back in and has to ask me where we were. The man was notorious for it!

Dont call me Shirley

Stained Class wrote: »

I don't aprove of drink driving, but, where is society going to go if it looks at danger around every corner?

My tuppence.

It's the iron cage of rationality innit?

Madam_X

Driving with a small bit of drink on you is fine IMO. Driving when drunk is indefensible no matter what the "good old days" crowd say.

Dont call me Shirley

Madam_X wrote: »

Driving with a small bit of drink on you is fine IMO. Driving when drunk is indefensible no matter what the "good old days" crowd say.

It's the 'if a tree falls in a wood' situation if you ask me.

If you live in the arse end of nowhere, there won't be anyone on the roads late at night to be a danger to.

I don't think the city folk what make these rules realize just how isolated parts of this country are.

Rasheed

Yeah I have and more times then I care to remember. Or can actually remember.

It was a stupid and a poxy thing to do but sometimes it just happened.

HondaSami

Madam_X wrote: »

Driving with a small bit of drink on you is fine IMO. Driving when drunk is indefensible no matter what the "good old days" crowd say.

There was a time i would have agreed with this but not anymore tbh and im guilty of drink driving myself in the past and often travelled in cars where the driver was **** faced but there is lots more traffic on the road now.

I know you are probably thinking the farmer who has three/four pints and drives a few miles home, still accidents happen and more often than not it's near home they happen.

fullstop

will.i.am wrote: »

Cork Institute of Technology.

The whole institute? :eek:

newmug

Did it loads of times. Stupid. Wouldn't do it now.

hattoncracker

Was being driven around in a tractor with my little sister and the driver was ****-faced. He fell over getting out of the tractor. Was only about 9 at the time, would never Do it now as a driver!

Dont call me Shirley

Fast forward thirty years.

Remember when we were allowed get drunk. Ah the good ol days.......

imitation

Not that I know of, but I'm relatively lucky as I live within taxi range of a big city and I'm not a big drinker. I'd say living out in the sticks its far more likely that somebody half blotto is going to offer you a spin somewhere..

Jen Pigs Fly

Only once, crashed into a brick wall that landed me in hospital with a broken sternum, internal bruising, whiplash and dislocated hip.

Never again.

The_Gatsby

Dont call me Shirley wrote: »

It's the 'if a tree falls in a wood' situation if you ask me.

If you live in the arse end of nowhere, there won't be anyone on the roads late at night to be a danger to.

I don't think the city folk what make these rules realize just how isolated parts of this country are.

All it takes is one family coming home from a wedding down the country or something.

No excuse for drunk driving. It's indefensible and if somebody is willing to risk their own ,and somebody elses, life for a couple of drinks well then I'd say they have a dependancy problem. I think the alcohol limit should be zero. Nothing I hate more than drink drivers. It's just ignorance

Saganist

A well known ploy back in the day was for a married couple to have the wife in the back to make it look like you were a taxi.. Obviously helped if you were actually a taxi driver..

brenn7475

All the time....Mum...Dad...Trips away down the country with relatives back in the early to mid-90's.

It was the norm back then

SNORBEAST

Yep, just home now after a feed of pints with the auld lad, knocked down a dog on the way home too................

Where To

Johnny Electricity wrote: »

I was in Where To's car before. He seemed drunk...

:eek:

charlietheminxx wrote: »

Nope, never to my knowledge. I never knowingly would either.

Though I think my taxi driver might have been locked one night... His driving was so bad that it scared me ****less and I walked the rest of the way home.

:eek::eek:

beefstew wrote: »

My local taxi driver was an alcoholic, one time at a well known crossroads in the town i live he pulled up, got out of the car, walks around for a minute hops back in and has to ask me where we were. The man was notorious for it!

:eek::eek::eek:

Saganist wrote: »

A well known ploy back in the day was for a married couple to have the wife in the back to make it look like you were a taxi.. Obviously helped if you were actually a taxi driver..

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

Musefan

Was heading to my first concert, and a group of friends of friends were going and one of them was driving (I was 16 at the time). I didn't realize one of them would be driving, thought it was their parents. About 3/4 of the way there, the driver pulled into a shop to buy some cheap booze for after the concert. Made my move and phoned a family member while they were in the shop and got them to pick me up after the concert instead of going with the group.
I have a huge problem with drink drivers. Closely related to someone who paralyzed another girl when drink driving. I just would not chance it.

iguy

I have more than twice less than five times,
I am morethan freeman,
sincerely.
iguy....

raze_them_all_

5 of us on the session...words were uttered, I believe they were...most sober drives

DEFTLEFTHAND

My father used to drive with drink taken back in the day when you could get away with it. He told me he'd become even more aware behind the wheel, he stated he drove better.