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Would you report a potential drunk driver?

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  • #62
    Siogfinsceal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭Siogfinsceal


    I would definately. but as one posted pointed out in some v country areas the police will tolerate a known drunk driver- sad but true


  • #63
    pclancy
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    I wouldnt just report them Id stop them and make them wait for the cops to come. Very easy pull keys out of ignitions and if there was hassle Id happily go before a judge to explain my actions. Drink drivers make me SICK. Its the older generation and country folks that have the impression "ah sure it'll be grand" but theres nothing like seeing the faces of people who have lost a loved one to somebody that thought they could control a lethal weapon after drinking. When I started gigging with bands I was shocked to see how many older musicians have 4 or 5 pints over the course of the night and then happily drive home afterwards. I dont know a single person under 25 that drink drives, I know at least 10 over 40 that do. Stupid and Irresponsible.

    Driving stoned is a serious problem as well. Just as bad as drinking.


  • #64
    Chinafoot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Chinafoot


    Lump wrote:
    When I worked in Statoil, there was an alcoholic that lived up the road, he used to drive down to the garage to get wine, I rang the cops a few times.... They never got to the station in time to see him driving, since he only lived up the road, and wouldn't do anything even though I saw him driving!


    Yea similar thing happened when I worked my part time job in Texaco. This builder came in to pay for the petrol he had just put into his massive jeep and he was completely off his face. The guy could barely walk and the smell of beer was unreal. I went into the office to call the gardai while the guy was in the shop. The garda station is literally a 3 minute drive to the petrol station so I figured that even if theyy didn't get there before he left, they'd be able to catch up with him fairly easily.

    This is the phone conversation we had:

    Me:     Hi, I'm working up in the Texaco station on the main street and a man just came in to pay for petrol. He was completely drunk and he's on his way back to his car. I think you shoudl send someone over here.

    Garda:     Unless a member of the gardai catches the driver behind the wheel of the car there is nothing we can do.

    Me:     Well, if you send someone now you'll catch him, he can barely walk out to his car. I can give you the make and the licence plate number..

    Garda    : No, no. You don't seem to understand. We can only do something about it if we see him ourselves....

    He actually said that to me. Unbelievable. The state that man was in and the size of the vehicle....there could have been some amount of damage caused.


  • #65
    Shabadu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,659 ✭✭✭Shabadu


    netwhizkid wrote:
    I personally would not report a person for drunken driving as where I live a car means freedom and you are very much f*cked without one. I would however try and intervene and if I knew the person give them a spin home or else volunteer to call a taxi, or try to get someone to drive him home.

    Being "Bagged" would ruin your entire setup for about 7yrs, I know a guy who works in the buildings and went for one pint after work in the heat of the summer a few yrs back, and he was bagged and put off the road for two years. It cost him over €30,000 between the cost of solicitors fees having to find alternative transport over those years and his insurance skyrocketed after eventually getting back on the road.

    I think reporting a person is a cowardly thing to do and I would ask the question, How would you like if it was done to yourself? Living in rural Ireland, which lacks in everything to be put off the road would be disastrous. I know a fella who is off for the next 6yrs and I can tell you that poor chap has suffered enough. I have often been a passenger with a driver who was over the limit in this country and others and have never came a cropper. I find drunks to be usually driving slowly and trying their full best to concentrate.

    It is the little W*nkers of my own age bracket (19 in my case) 18 - 25 to be killing the country driving around in "Sooped" up little Micras and Honda Civics doing about 90 miles an hour thinking that they are in a rally or in “The fast and the Furious movie”. These chavbos are killing the people, while the likes of myself who has a normal car (A BMW 316 1596cc) it is totally unmodified and very safe, to be penalised then with high insurance. It is one thing to drive at 80Mph on the dual carriageway or motorway but these muppets doing these speeds on roads designed for horse & cart in cars built no stronger than a coke can.
    You are a Darwin award waiting to happen.


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