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Originally Posted by Ice
That said, my brother got a DUI, he was on his way home from my other brother's wedding. He refused the breathalizer because he doesn't trust them. In California, that means your license is automatically suspended for one year. He was arrested, booked, released. It cost him about 5000.00 for his attorney, plus all his fines, bail and court costs and he couldn't drive for a year. In California, not being able to drive is very, very inconvenient. After his year was up, he went to the DMV to get his license reinstated and found out they never actually suspended it. Somehow it slipped through the cracks and then too much time had passed to suspend it. He could've been driving the whole time. (I found it funnier than he did) Now his car insurance is way more expensive than a teenagers.
He learned his lesson. He will never drive after drinking again. He and his friends take turns being the designated non-drinker so none of them go through what my brother did...and considering what can happen to people who drink and drive, my brother, and other innocent people on the road, got off lucky.
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I used to know a guy, something like that happened to him. He got a DUI but for whatever reason it fell thru the cracks and he knew it so he kept driving. But then he was a witness to something at a bar and when they pulled his records they realized the mistake and soon after he lost his license for a year. lesson learned, never help anybody.
I've been stopped at the checkstop a few times, they ask and I'm honest, ya I had a couple at the bar and they wave me thru. One time tho when I had almost nothing to drink (had 2 and the last one was over 4 hours ago) they decided to breathalize me. I thought it was funny so I walk to the bus and its a black bus in the night so I couldnt find the handle to the door so i'm fumbling around like a drunk. Cop is probably warming up the cuffs thinking he got one. Anyway I blow, cant remember if it was 0.01 or just a 0 but the cop looks embarased in front of his other buddies and tells me I can go.
I want to get a breathalizer for fun now. Think of the drinking games that could ensue. Who can get to .1 the fastest, who can get closest to 0.05 without going over, and so on.