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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
A few weeks ago, I was at a friend's wedding. I had a few drinks, but I wasn't getting a hotel room and didn't want to crash at anyone's house.
I got in the passenger seat of my car, put my keys in my glovebox, and slept in the parking lot for a few hours. As stupid as it is to give people DUIs for being stationary, it's not that difficult to pull over and cover your own ass.
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Good on you for doing that. But technically you can still get a DUI since you were in control of the vehicle. I remember specifically asking this very question during Drivers Ed and remember being told that even if you curl up in the back seat, keys in the trunk, are in the parking lot and passed out, you can still get a DUI since you are technically 'in control'.
If fact according to the instructor, if I am drunk in the passenger seat and the sober DD runs inside a store and leaves the car running with me in it, I can still be charged with a DUI since I'm in control.
Not likely a cop would press charges against someone in that last scenario, and maybe the rules are different now (or the teacher was full of ####). But there's all sorts of scenarios where someone just sleeping in their car drunk can get a DUI.