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Originally Posted by Ice
I totally agree. If you know you're going to be out drinking is it that difficult to find someone who isn't to make sure people who shouldn't be driving don't drive? The designated driver thing is really so easy and does save lives.
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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The last time I read anything on the subject, the average cost, of a lifetime, for the first DUI is somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000.