Blowing the Whistle on a drink driver?

CaSCaDe711 · 17-02-2014 12:11PM

Appleguy wrote: »

Your going down a different road going to stations reporting someone or going out of your way to do it on the phone.

Are you f***ing serious? Get a grip and report this dumb ass. A phone call will take a few mins, are you that busy you cannot spare a few mins? :rolleyes:

Newaglish · 17-02-2014 02:14PM

Sorry if it has already been clarified, but how the hell is he having several drinks and still making it out of the bar at school lunch time (around 1pm).

He what, comes in at 11am, necks four pints and a couple of whiskeys and is in his car and at the school at 1pm? Regularly, on weekdays?

Appleguy · 17-02-2014 03:06PM

Newaglish wrote: »

Sorry if it has already been clarified, but how the hell is he having several drinks and still making it out of the bar at school lunch time (around 1pm).

He what, comes in at 11am, necks four pints and a couple of whiskeys and is in his car and at the school at 1pm? Regularly, on weekdays?

A lot of pubs will open their doors earlier than the official opening time. If your in the know a knock on the door will allow you a few early pints while the pub will look closed to the naked eye.

castletownman · 17-02-2014 03:20PM

I encountered a morale quandary at the weekend myself. I was hanging around town at the end of the night for a taxi I had ordered and some drunk fella approached me and the girl I was with asking if there was any chippers still open. I told him that the one across the road was and he proceeded to tell me that he drove to his local pub in the middle of nowhere, that the electricity was gone as a result of the stormy weather and so decided to drive into town for a few pints. Was looking for a chipper for a bit of soakage before driving home again.

Was explaining all this to me in a kind of bragging way, and I was very conscious of the road that he would be taking home being narrow, windy and more than likely damaged from the weather. I wasn't exactly the picture of sobriety myself so felt I didn't really have the anecdotal evidence, or the clear-thinking mind to report it to the gardai. But was at the same time dreading waking up the following morning getting wind of a fatal car crash.

Feisar · 17-02-2014 04:03PM

tightropetom wrote: »

It is an offence under the 2003 Act to supply alcohol to a drunken person and to admit a drunken person to a bar. (A 'drunken person' is someone intoxicated to such a degree that they may endanger themselves or other people). Any licence holder that allows this to occur on their premises is liable on summary conviction to a class B fine for a first offence and a class A fine for any subsequent offence.

So if you provide drink to someone and they crash, surely that would make you also liable, no?

If I have six pints and go home and start using a chainsaw is the barman liable for me cutting the b0ll0cks off of myself?

flowers345 · 21-02-2014 12:20PM

Have you ever been arrested for walking around drunk, not driving?
Would you be tested at the garda station for alcohol?

Hedge11 · 21-02-2014 01:47PM

Oul' fuckers like mentioned in the OP here, the only way you'll stop them driving is to lock them up or put them in the ground.

kylith · 21-02-2014 02:27PM

Appleguy wrote: »

Do i turn a blind eye, even though its going on every day?
Do i report him even though its not my responsibility.

What would you do?

The real question is how will you feel on the day you've watched him drive away drunk and he kills someone.

I'd report him. Report him every single time he does it. If I owned the pub I wouldn't let the bastard in the door.

flowers345 · 21-02-2014 05:39PM

Yes but if you are walking around drunk, and they take you in, do they test you same as they test drivers?

crazygeryy · 21-02-2014 05:48PM

kylith wrote: »

The real question is how will you feel on the day you've watched him drive away drunk and he kills someone.

I'd report him. Report him every single time he does it. If I owned the pub I wouldn't let the bastard in the door.

If you owned the pub i bet you would.

Yes report him definitely.

StinkyMunkey · 21-02-2014 06:01PM

Its a barmans job to serve alcohol, not police the roads. Once someone is off your premises, your not in any way liable for what they do, unless ofc you have just served them 3 pints of Vodka.

I work in the bar trade, if i had this old fuker in my bar, id prolly ring the guards just out of badness.

Whatever people may think, a barmans job it soley to serve alcohol and clean up the pub (outside if applicable). The simple fact is, its the person who is drink driving that is soley to blame. Whatever you believe, its not a barmans job to police the roads and streets. That being said, if possible i never serve anyone alcohol who is **** faced, its alot more hassle than its worth.

Ray Palmer · 21-02-2014 06:21PM

Of course you report them. The other point is if it can be proved you knew the person did this regularly you never stopped serving them or informed the police you can be held responsible in a civil case.

You certainly would be morally responsible by turning a blind eye

Blowing the Whistle on a drink driver?

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