I had this happen to me when I was your age OP with a GDL. I was coming back from a sports bar in Calgary and cut off a policeman. He then proceeded to do a 180 and hit his lights. He walked up and asked me if I had anything to drink. Knowing I did, and being as naive as I was, I told him, YES(2 Beers over a three hour game). He then informed me that with my GDL license I could have NO alcohol at all in my system. He also noted that my breath smelt like I had more.
He then proceeded to tell me that I would lose my license for 30 days and my veichle would be inpounded. As I sat in the back of his police cruiser I was getting really nervous waiting for the breathalyzer. When they brought it out, I blew 0, but it was weird. I think I actually may have blown over but the one senior police officer cut me a break. He then abruptly told me to go back to my car.
When I got back to my car, he read me the riot act like most of CP is reading to you right now, except with a few more cuss words. Needless to say I learned my lesson and got off extremely lucky.
I feel disgusting saying this, and don't condone driving after drinking.
One way to get out of this if your being dumb in the future, is to NEVER admit to drinking ANYTHING. As soon as you admit to having something to drink, the cop WILL undoubtedly HAVE to test you.
Whenever threads like this come up, I always think about how SCREWED someone like me would be if I got a DUI. It's not worth it.
In all seriousness, driving while extremely tired should be an equally scathed offense, IMO.
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