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Shane Ross considering letting drink drivers drive to work..

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    #92
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Discodog wrote: »
    The UK found that a hard core of drivers ignore the law & take a chance. People do make mistakes & it is possible to be over the limit when you had no intention of being so.

    Law needs to be proportionate otherwise people ignore it.

    Oh if only there was some easy way to check so mistakes don't lead to accidents and/or prosecutions.

    oh wait... https://www.gogroopie.ie/all/xctw7s5ml/_gggoogle_79OC_?gclid=Cj0KCQiAk-7jBRD9ARIsAEy8mh57Sfw0tmluNqVM_kgFjnP6UVfN6FI1n_WOU1pcOlxG9bbNGAXR3W8aAnCDEALw_wcB


    For a few years I drove a motorbike - at the time a person could have one pint and be under the limit. I drank non alcoholic beer if I had the bike as I reckoned without the security of a car to give me some protection should an accident happen I was safer having my wits completely around me.
    Still met my mates in the pub.
    Still had a laugh.
    Still had a beer.
    Just didn't have alcohol.

    It's not like the repercussions of drink driving haven't been advertised enough.
    If a person is old enough to drive they are old enough to accept the repercussions for breaking the law.

    But people act like drinking alcohol is a right and not being allowed to drive afterwards is some over the top nanny state interference in their civil liberties.


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    #93
    gctest50
    Registered Users Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭gctest50


    brightspark wrote: »
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    I would think that you would probably have had to been drinking either excessively late or to excess to still be over the limit the next morning...................


    A few of those that get caught the morning after might be after having a quick "cure" before they headed out


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    #94
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    A person might have had half a pint.. That pushes you over the limit but that isn't going to translate into an automatic driving ban, at least in the first incidence.

    What was all that kerfuffle about Ross' new law then?


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    #95
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    doolox wrote: »
    I am currently undergoing a drink cessation exercise under doctors supervision because I am finding it difficult to keep my drinking levels below the WHO standards of 21 units per week. I am fearful of liver damage in the future.

    :pac::pac::pac:


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