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Originally Posted by The_Dude
To me it all depends on the type of cop you run into to. I know guys who have had up to 6 run ins with a cop. My friend only had a couple beers. Nothing to ruin his judgment whatsoever. Like water to him. Cop lets him go.
I have another friend. Straight A student. Never had a run in with the law, etc. He got caught driving home in the morning after he slept. He wasn't swirving or anything. We always take cabs if we think we had even a tiny amount over legal limit.
Well, my buddy can say bye bye to law school. He now has a criminal record. He's getting married this summer. bye bye $10 000 honey moon. He can't travel to the US. Bye bye stag.
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1. I know a guy who recently got a DUI, told me he had four beers and nothing to eat (he is an honest guy but I think he might have actually had five or six beers)...the lawyer was amazed how much he remembered and mentioned how most of his clients don't remember a damn thing.
2. a friend told me he once puked right as he got to his parked car, and then proceeded to drive home (terrible)
3. a guy on my hockey team had one of those breath-starters installed on his car...now he has no car. He claims he was at a party, went out to start the car, and then forgot (you have to blow every 15 or so minutes if you have one of these)
4. a guy I knew in highschool...his parents knew he would drink and drive and they installed a breath-starter in his car. He bitched and they took it out (spoiled kid of an orthodantist)
5. I've known a couple people who've gotten one day suspensions...one case from a probably too nice cop who pulled the one guy over, and just slapped him with the one-day when he probably could've gotten more
6. a brother of a friend got a 30 day suspension...I'm not sure exactly how this works, but from what I heard the cop who pulled him over didn't have the breathalyzer, and it was a long time until they could get to one...he blew under (0.08) by the time analysis was done, but he got the 30 day suspension because they knew and they gave him the biggest penalty they could
7. a guy I work with claims he once got pulled over, had his buddy fake an asthma attack and actually get the police to "forget" the whole thing and escort him to the hospital while he was impaired (I doubt this is completely true)
...ever hear older guys talk about their experiences? Basically the laws used to be way more lax...so many stories I've heard where the cops actually left guys in their vehicles and told them to "just go (drive) home right now" because they were too drunk to be out. Maybe some of the older guys can describe what it was like a few years back.