Dang in MI she would be suspended and not able to ever drive again. I don't know how people do it. Public transpiration in the US is terrible. I'm in a city of 60K and we have no taxies, no Uber, and very poor bus service.
After I lost my daughter I relapsed and got my first dui, Then another a month later, after going through a class showing the outcome of ppl hit by drunk drivers I never did it again. The law should be harsher on first time DUI's I might have killed someone.
In New Jersey they have a statue named "John's law". From what I heard, it was a man named John that was arrested for drunk driving, they released him, left his vehicle where he was stopped, he came out, got back in the vehicle and killed someone. So they impound your vehicle when you are suspected of drunk driving.
My dad towed the same car 3 or 4 times in one night for duis. One guy got busted, family came and paid to get the car out and then they got busted, someone else paid and got it out and they got busted……..they all had the legal paperwork and rights to the car and at first it was a sob story about needing the car to get to work in the morning. After some many times they refused to let them have it until the next day.
I was in the DUI squad and have arrested numerous people several times. The ruled we have to go by are if you can release a DUI arrestee to a "responsible party" we have to. The RP has to sign notice that they are responsible for this person and to not let them drive. Sometimes the RP's don't do that.
If her BAC was that high she was probably addicted, so if they just let her out and she hasn’t had a drink in a few hours, she would be withdrawing. So actually taking a drink would be the right move. Now driving is inexcusable to be clear. The right answer would be to arrest her, take her to a detox clinic and enforce medical detox with her locked in her room.
I’ve heard stories from old construction workers who started in the building trades in the late 60’s or early 70’s and they told me the worst thing that would happen back then is the officer would either follow you home if you were close enough or they’d take you to the drunk tank for a while and then drive you back to your vehicle when you sobered up, no charges just a warning to not do it again
I remember working with n a crew in the seventies, 7AM half the crew was drinking, the other half was smoking weed. Then we climbed up 60 or more feet to work!!!!!!
Yup, friend of mine's dad told us that when he was a dumb young guy in the early 70s. He got pulled over for drunk driving. Dad was about a mile from his house. Cop told him to get out and told him to walk home. Didn't even get a ticket.
@twostate7822 Technically....probably true, but she did drink more after the first occasion. Simple metabolic function would have reduced the level by 0.192, so she wouldn't have been still at .25
We had somebody like that a couple years ago in central IL. She was arrested after she tried to drive across an overpass that was still under construction (she Dukes of Hazzard-ed onto the interstate, narrowly missing some cars). She was released on bail and was promptly caught driving drunk soon after. No bail that time.
In South Korea, it's fairly common for drunk drivers that get caught to only be fined. Officers take them home to sleep it off. Of course, the next day, they are chugging soju in their car on the way to the station to pay the fine.
@kfitch42 Yep. In fact, they often hand you their business cards while you're drinking in a restaurant or having beer outside the convenience store. I love Korea, hahs
Stationed in Korea 1984-85, came back to my Hooch after an Inspector General visit (brand new unit-broootal). Left the Village drinking establishment, fell down, bruised my knees. Rom was spinning when I collapsed in bed. Twelve hours or so later when I woke up, the room was still spinning.
My Brazilian friend was appalled that he could get in trouble for drinking and driving. According to him, cops will tell you be careful and send you on your way without even a fine. Whenever I think the states has a drinking and driving issue, other countries manage to put things into perspective. It’s scary out there.
This is why we need you to be a judge, Steve. I know you don't want to, but as a judge, you would be fair to both the guilty, and the innocent, and that's something that is desperately needed. You should take one for the team.
Brave wearing that, in Michigan. He's not going outside, with it on. Suicidal, would be wearing it, while driving a Japanese car, and pass the UAW local, in Detroit.
Had to tow a vehicle of a fella that had gotten out of jail about 6 hours earlier for a previous DUI offense. Went back to jail & was immediately sent to prison 1) for lying to the judge. 2) 2nd DUI Had to do a lein sale on his van. About 20 years ago. I think a deputy said the fella went to prison not they county jail to serve his time.
Steve, that is awesome that you partook in a "local" pub! Over the years I too have enjoyed a few of those "off the path" pubs in my travels. Everyone was a great experience!!
I worked at a state prison for 35 years. We had a guy doing time for his 10th DWI. He had been to prison four time for DWI's. I saw his file one time and read where he got two of those DWI's in one day! His wife bailed him out and he went right back to the bar. After he finished each sentence, he would get out and go right back to drinking and driving. And yes. his license was revoked permanently but that would not stop him!
🦋 I think it may be a good idea to have a breathalyzer in the pubs, maybe even charge a little per use to offset the cost. You could plaster stickers with cab phone numbers on them even. This way, if you are ever not sure you're safe to drive, you could find out for way less money than you would spend on a drunk driving case. 🦋
That's been done. Unfortunately, people started to look at it as a challenge, so people were seeing who could one up another in blowing a higher BAC. People in a group aren't that smart. People in a group drinking lead to some truly epically bad decisions. Ask me how i know!
@@jeromethiel4323yep, my buddy bought a breathalyzer off the internet so we would know if we were safe to drive before we would head out. Things eventually devolved into seeing who could get the highest score
I think they have them in Australia but have a disclaimer to the effect that evidence from this machine can't be used in a court of law.Presumably because the haven't been calibrated.
30 YEARS ago i was stopped drunk driving in Brockton Ma. in the morning around 9am the cop was Kool and let me off telling him it was a long night and i was going home. later that afternoon around lunch, i got a dui ticket in Watertown picking up drugs. 18 yrs sober now. don't drink one drop its not good for you. plus you save a lot of money
Great job brother, it will be 25 years before you know it. I had 2 DUI's in a year, both .08 and both I had a headlight out ! That's why I was stopped. I got the message tho, I quit after the last DUI . I just hit that( 25 yrs) 3 months ago. I don't (haven't) miss it the least. And actually, when I'm around people drinking I end up leaving bc lol ugh , once they move beyond buzz to blasted , it's not fun lol
Congratulations on your sobriety and glad to hear that no one was injured. No amount of time or money can fix that. Good on you for learning from your mistakes. ❤
@jasonbourne1596 Oh yeah, this was back in late 90s lol. The driver side headlight on my then 97 z28 constantly died for some odd reason. The first time I knew it was out but still drove , the second time it went out while I was driving and .... I took it as a sign and got rid of the car and quit drinking hahahaha
@@jasonbourne1596 It's surprising how dangerous it is to drive with just one headlight out. It makes it so much more difficult for other people to judge how far you are away from them at night. A particular problem for motorcycles.
I was wondering if she was drunk twice in twelve hours or was it one long bender? Speaking of BENder looks like hiding at the HILTon south of Virginia.
You should check out Texas law with drunk driving. They're strict. The fines are super expensive, just for the first time. And worse is that your license cannot be reinstated until you pay a whole bunch of additional fees on top of the fines.
I had a patient who was determined to have a BAC of .38. The hospital determined that…even had we called the police for this, the man could not have followed any instructions. He was unconscious. He also lost his cushy township job, but I wouldn’t have been amused to see him hopping off the garbage truck or worse, attempting to drive it. I’m not sure how he got to work, even if his workday began around 04:00. Did he arrive at work with a .5 blood/alcohol amount and by the time it was 09:30 got down to mere .38? Or did he sneak in a six pack or a bottle of rotgut and consume it while collecting trash? I’m very sure I never wanted to know. But he was truly, in every sense, shi- hammered!
Hey Steve...I was at one time, heavily connected to members of our local constabulary due to my job. One of my guys told me before he retired that he knew most of the local people that drove over the limit. 'While they were sober'. Yeah. Alcoholics. Two of my family fit that description. Even after a full day of no drinks, they still oozed the odor in their sweat. No licenses or cars. Nothing we or the courts could dissuade them. Both are gone now due to their addictions.
0.27! How on earth was she conscious much less "driving!" Im shocked that she didnt die. They should not have let her leave in the first place. BAC drops at 0.015 per hour. It looks like in this jurisdiction the legal driving limit is somewhere around 0.06 or 0.05 BAC. It would take 14 - 15 HOURS for her BAC to get back to the legal limit. It would take exactly 18 hours to get back to 0.00. She was still drunk 11 hours later from when she was picked up the first time. She should have only had a BAC of about 0.105 ish so she obviously had more to drink after she was released. But 0.1 BAC is still illegal to drive pretty much everywhere.
My former neighbor told me she learned the hard way about DUIs. She got one. No prison time, since she was a first-time offender, but it cost her a ton of money. She still drinks, but she always goes to the bar via taxi or Uber, and thus has no opportunity to slip up and drive home. (I say "former" because I've since moved.)
I was stationed with a guy in the UK who was arrested Friday night for drink driving. He was released into the custody of our 1st Sergeant and restricted to his home. Later that same night, he was arrested for drink driving again! This time, the 1st Sergeant waited several days to retrieve him. He was confined to my barracks, where we had to provide him with several rooms because he was a senior NCO and entitled to quite a few square feet in the barracks. After a couple of years living in the barracks, he was finally deported.
Not in Australia they don’t. After your pulled over and breathalysed, you go to the police station for another test. If you are over, low range, they cancel your licence for 6 months this, 800+ fine license and then let you go get an Uber or get a family member to pick you up. There is no court unless its mid-high range. We have a very different system in Australia.
I am a retired cop. I once arrested a guy for DUI twice in a single eight hour and forty five minute shift. Somebody bailed him out and drove him back to his car after the first arrest.
My dad was a serious alcoholic. Back in the late '50s he would get stopped for drunk driving and as long as he wasn't in any kind of accident and he was coherent, they would usually give him a "don't do that" or "be careful" and let him go. Things change.
0.05 is the BAC limit in Australia. Generally there is also a mandatory sentences, so it might be a one year suspension for a first offence. Someone I know got caught for excessive speeding, equivalent to forty mph over, and the magistrate said how she thought he might be suitable for a shorter disqualification but one year was the rule.
Here in California a couple of years ago I saw a news interview of a local DA who stated if your stopped and arrested with any alcohol in your system, even below the legal limit they will prosecute you
The Tasmanian police can issue a 3 month suspension for readings below 0.10, but charges higher readings needs to be handled by the courts. They can and would suspend until the court date, but as the report says she was suspended for two years, that indicates the court would have issued it. It does seem strange that this was all handled within 12 hours.
I know someone in the Washington DC area who had something similar happen. To be fair, this was a long time ago when they were more lenient about drinking and driving. He got a DUI, went to jail, was able to bail out pretty quickly, he was told to call a taxi to take him home but instead he got his car out of the impound lot and got another one on the way home
The first thing that goes out the window when you've been drinking is your sense of judgment. Your sense of how bad your mistakes are, keeps making them seem less severe. The good ol, "I drive better when I'm drunk." statement.
The legal BAC limit here in Australia is .05 nationwide (it's a federal law), so it wouldn't matter what state or City/Shire (equivalent to County) this woman was in, at least in regards to the charges. Unfortunately, the drunk driving penalties are _still_ too lax, since we still see a lot of repeat offenders. Including _serial_ offenders.
I can beat that. About 40 years ago I was partying with my cousin and a friend of his. His friend went to make a beer run and got pulled over as he pulled out of the beer dock. He called my cousin and they released him to my cousin. He got pulled over again went he picked up his car. For some reason they released him to my cousin again. A few hours later they picked him up doing donuts in a parking lot. 3 DUI's in about 8 hours. It still blows me away.
Exactly why for many years I would buy my beer and bottles on the way home from work. Would stay home and drink until I passed out on occasions. Still DUI free until this day.
Ha we beat that... in Sudbury Ontario Canada... a week ago or so... driver busted 2 times in 8 hours....search... Sudbury 38 year old man arrested for impaired operation twice in less then eight hours..
I was in court with a guy that got 2 DWI's in one night. I don't know his BAC, but I do remember that he got two in one night. I remember the judge asking him, "Really? One wasn't enough?"
In North Carolina, drunk driving feels like a sport. I’ve talked to people who admit to driving drunk dozens of times, and how they still drive even though they lost their license. Never heard twice in 12 hours though.
Many years ago I arrested a man for DUI. He pulled out of a side street in front of the police car which had flashing red and blue lights, forcing me to take severe evasive action. When I asked him why he was driving drunk, he said he needed to get the car home from the bar somehow. It seemed to totally escape him that if he didn't drive to the bar, then he would not have to figure out how to get the car home later.
Not sure why but I was expecting that picture in the pub to be way darker, like I was expecting the room to be lit by firelight, the way you were describing the route there lol.
Way back when, I was pulled over for DUI and blew 0.009 the legal limit and when my dad came to the jail to pick me up, he told the cop "He doesn't look drunk" and the police said he's not, but he blew the limit. That was after two draft beers in two hours in Okio.
I was married to a woman addicted to alcohol. She would never admit to being addicted. After frightening her granddaughters, she was been completely cut off from the family.
Speaking of pubs. My parents went to Ireland in the 1980s. While there, they stopped at a local pub for lunch. It being a bit crowded, my mother commented to one of the locals about finding a table... he responded with "you have to excuse us. We all just came from a funeral. "
A friend of mine and I deliberately got lost somewhere north of London / south of Cambridge - WAY off the beaten path. No Americans - locals only - nice people - great food. We were told we had to give up our table as "the ladies were coming" and that was their "regular table" on that night. Great place. No recollection of "where' alas.
I am not sure the exact level it takes before you realize you are drunk. However, I know by experience, at 0.16 I knew I was drunk and I would have a hard time driving in that condition without even getting into a vehicle.
Back when I was younger and going out every weekend, and drinking(1996), I was pulled over for making an illegal left turn. I was processed and the police took me home all within a couple hours, in Seattle. I had to go to 2 years of alcohol treatment, which I got for free and I had to pay a $365 fine. Not had any issues since I had kids and quiet drinking.
A woman in Indianapolis caused two fatal accidents in three weeks in 2022, and at least five other accidents previously. She blamed epilepsy at the time, don’t know the latest.
About 15 years ago I had to go to court in Sydney. One of the cases in front was a drunk driver and I’m listening to his barrister try to argue his case and he got into a fight with his wife and went out drinking and got done, he went home had another argument with his wife and left driving again and got caught for drunk driving so twice in the same night and couldn’t understand what he was hoping to to get by even trying to fight the case or HOW get got to the situation where he was driving the second time
In the town Steve grew up in, years ago if they pulled you over for drunk driving they would park your car in a lot for you and drive you home. Hilariously, it was a dry town! (then...)
My Brother in Law is from Toledo, OH. His whole family are huge Ohio fans. Except him. He is a dyed dark blue Michigan fan. Fun times in that household during those games.
I'm neither, just a recovering alcoholic. About 15 years ago In the medium sized town I lived in. One night I passed out in front of my house. The police woke me up a let me go inside. Less than a week later I passed out in a Taco Bell parking lot. The police woke me, and told me go home and said if you in a accident your under arrest.
"In all fairness your honor she never sobered up from the first time so this is double jeopardy."
me as a lawyer
I mean, depending on how much alcohol poisoning she had, this could be an actual defense 😂
Not a thing here in Australia, but yeah... she probably kept right on drinking through the day.
In the UK they won’t let you out of Custody until you’re sober, because you can’t be interviewed about your offence until you’re sober.
It's just Jepordy, not "double jepordy " me as a judge.
BAHAHAHA
Blood in her ALCOHOL system
My ex totaled 2 cars and 3 DWI in 8 days. I received full custody of our daughter and never had to go to court.
Glad to hear that there was ONE positive outcome.
Is that because they were afraid your ex would drive to court?
Dang in MI she would be suspended and not able to ever drive again. I don't know how people do it. Public transpiration in the US is terrible. I'm in a city of 60K and we have no taxies, no Uber, and very poor bus service.
After I lost my daughter I relapsed and got my first dui, Then another a month later, after going through a class showing the outcome of ppl hit by drunk drivers I never did it again. The law should be harsher on first time DUI's I might have killed someone.
I really am sorry.
Alcohol is truly bad business
She was celebrating from getting out from the first one.
lol
Most people are aware of the hair of the dog theory..
Now you can get a DUI never having any alcohol in your system.
Isn't that in Tennessee?
Driving Under the Influence doesn't just pertain to alcohol
@tmanepic
She didn't have anything in her system including drugs.
In New Jersey they have a statue named "John's law". From what I heard, it was a man named John that was arrested for drunk driving, they released him, left his vehicle where he was stopped, he came out, got back in the vehicle and killed someone. So they impound your vehicle when you are suspected of drunk driving.
My dad towed the same car 3 or 4 times in one night for duis. One guy got busted, family came and paid to get the car out and then they got busted, someone else paid and got it out and they got busted……..they all had the legal paperwork and rights to the car and at first it was a sob story about needing the car to get to work in the morning. After some many times they refused to let them have it until the next day.
In the Northeast, most states impound vehicles for 24 hours upon a DUI arrest
This was in the 80s in Texas
I'm going to go out on a limit and suggest this woman might have a drinking problem.
She evidently has no problem drinking.
*addiction
Not to be *that guy*, but the phrase is "out on a limb". If it's just a typo, my apologies.
@@timschommer8548 -- Just a typo. I hate it when I do that.
Some people have to learn the hard way. Some people never learn.
There are two types of people in jail - those who go once and never come back, and those who spend the rest of their lives coming back.
@@ianbattles7290 Life on the installment plan
I was in the DUI squad and have arrested numerous people several times. The ruled we have to go by are if you can release a DUI arrestee to a "responsible party" we have to. The RP has to sign notice that they are responsible for this person and to not let them drive. Sometimes the RP's don't do that.
They should have taken her to a hospital for medical assistance to get her blood results cleared Before letting her out on bail.
Luckily, Tasmania is not yet a nanny state!
No, they should have left her in jail for 24 hours until sober. No bail for 24 hours simple and effective as well as cost efficient.
@theoldman8877 .27 is almost alcohol poisoning is my concern and 12 hours later . 25 that's 72 hours to get to lethal limits
If her BAC was that high she was probably addicted, so if they just let her out and she hasn’t had a drink in a few hours, she would be withdrawing. So actually taking a drink would be the right move. Now driving is inexcusable to be clear. The right answer would be to arrest her, take her to a detox clinic and enforce medical detox with her locked in her room.
I’ve heard stories from old construction workers who started in the building trades in the late 60’s or early 70’s and they told me the worst thing that would happen back then is the officer would either follow you home if you were close enough or they’d take you to the drunk tank for a while and then drive you back to your vehicle when you sobered up, no charges just a warning to not do it again
I remember working with n a crew in the seventies, 7AM half the crew was drinking, the other half was smoking weed. Then we climbed up 60 or more feet to work!!!!!!
@@gillgetter3004 i miss thse days...
Yup, friend of mine's dad told us that when he was a dumb young guy in the early 70s. He got pulled over for drunk driving. Dad was about a mile from his house. Cop told him to get out and told him to walk home. Didn't even get a ticket.
In defense of that "lady", she was only drunk once, for 12+ hours straight.
@twostate7822 Technically....probably true, but she did drink more after the first occasion. Simple metabolic function would have reduced the level by 0.192, so she wouldn't have been still at .25
We had somebody like that a couple years ago in central IL. She was arrested after she tried to drive across an overpass that was still under construction (she Dukes of Hazzard-ed onto the interstate, narrowly missing some cars). She was released on bail and was promptly caught driving drunk soon after. No bail that time.
She got her car back and did it again with the same car, or she acquired another?
Either way, that's impressive.
If your pub has been in the same place for 500 years, you don't need a sign. Generations of people just know.
you basically grow up knowing that everyone goes there
In South Korea, it's fairly common for drunk drivers that get caught to only be fined. Officers take them home to sleep it off. Of course, the next day, they are chugging soju in their car on the way to the station to pay the fine.
On the other hand, also in South Korea, there are services you can call to pay to have someone else (presumably sober) drive you home in your own car.
@kfitch42 Yep. In fact, they often hand you their business cards while you're drinking in a restaurant or having beer outside the convenience store. I love Korea, hahs
Stationed in Korea 1984-85, came back to my Hooch after an Inspector General visit (brand new unit-broootal). Left the Village drinking establishment, fell down, bruised my knees. Rom was spinning when I collapsed in bed. Twelve hours or so later when I woke up, the room was still spinning.
My Brazilian friend was appalled that he could get in trouble for drinking and driving. According to him, cops will tell you be careful and send you on your way without even a fine. Whenever I think the states has a drinking and driving issue, other countries manage to put things into perspective. It’s scary out there.
Many, many absolutely great musicians have stood where you stood on that stage.......awe and congratulations!
Best thing about London pubs is that most customers are within walking distance of the hotel or their homes.
..or staggering distance. lol
Best part about going to a small university is all the bars are within walking distance of the dorms/off campus housing.
This is why we need you to be a judge, Steve. I know you don't want to, but as a judge, you would be fair to both the guilty, and the innocent, and that's something that is desperately needed. You should take one for the team.
Errol Flynn was from Tasmania, his dad was a professor and taught there.
That's nice.
Ben is defending the Titanic with his sword.
How do see that are on pc
Damn, you’re good!!!
The advantage to having drunks post bail... is that they cannot use bail money to drink.
She’s an overachiever?!🎉🎉. I was born in Ohio! I approve of this shirt!!
Brave wearing that, in Michigan. He's not going outside, with it on. Suicidal, would be wearing it, while driving a Japanese car, and pass the UAW local, in Detroit.
What an amateur. My cousin got bagged twice in an an afternoon.
.27 and still standing/driving: full blown alcoholic
I watched a police video that as woman blew a
3.4 or 5 and was still alive and functional
Cirrhosis heaven...
Everyone knows you're supposed to wait 24 hours between drunk driving
lol
If your drunk driving does not go down for 12 consecutive hours, seek a medical professional
The pub doesn't need a sign Steve, if you live around there you know, if you don't live around there they don't want you to know🤭
Had to tow a vehicle of a fella that had gotten out of jail about 6 hours earlier for a previous DUI offense. Went back to jail & was immediately sent to prison 1) for lying to the judge.
2) 2nd DUI
Had to do a lein sale on his van.
About 20 years ago.
I think a deputy said the fella went to prison not they county jail to serve his time.
Steve, that is awesome that you partook in a "local" pub! Over the years I too have enjoyed a few of those "off the path" pubs in my travels. Everyone was a great experience!!
You did a Tasmanian story on the cops totalling a new type of highway patrol, less than a week after commissionin
Peter from Tasmania.
Gday Pete, ❤ from UK
I worked at a state prison for 35 years. We had a guy doing time for his 10th DWI. He had been to prison four time for DWI's. I saw his file one time and read where he got two of those DWI's in one day! His wife bailed him out and he went right back to the bar. After he finished each sentence, he would get out and go right back to drinking and driving. And yes. his license was revoked permanently but that would not stop him!
Think of the dedication it takes to be able to drive at 5 times the limit. And then do it twice in 12 hours!
That's a LOT of practice.
I never thought I'd see you wear that shirt. Probably the day you'd either get the least or most grief for it.
I wonder if he picked the shirt from his normal rotation and it just happened to be next in line, or if it was a deliberate selection?
@@DetroitStars 11:09
@@DetroitStarsCoincidence? I think not!
Ben is in the sword handle?
To our right and Steve's left.
🦋 I think it may be a good idea to have a breathalyzer in the pubs, maybe even charge a little per use to offset the cost. You could plaster stickers with cab phone numbers on them even. This way, if you are ever not sure you're safe to drive, you could find out for way less money than you would spend on a drunk driving case. 🦋
That's been done. Unfortunately, people started to look at it as a challenge, so people were seeing who could one up another in blowing a higher BAC. People in a group aren't that smart. People in a group drinking lead to some truly epically bad decisions. Ask me how i know!
@@jeromethiel4323yep, my buddy bought a breathalyzer off the internet so we would know if we were safe to drive before we would head out. Things eventually devolved into seeing who could get the highest score
I think they have them in Australia but have a disclaimer to the effect that evidence from this machine can't be used in a court of law.Presumably because the haven't been calibrated.
30 YEARS ago i was stopped drunk driving in Brockton Ma. in the morning around 9am the cop was Kool and let me off telling him it was a long night and i was going home. later that afternoon around lunch, i got a dui ticket in Watertown picking up drugs. 18 yrs sober now. don't drink one drop its not good for you. plus you save a lot of money
Great job brother, it will be 25 years before you know it.
I had 2 DUI's in a year, both .08 and both I had a headlight out ! That's why I was stopped. I got the message tho, I quit after the last DUI .
I just hit that( 25 yrs) 3 months ago. I don't (haven't) miss it the least. And actually, when I'm around people drinking I end up leaving bc lol ugh , once they move beyond buzz to blasted , it's not fun lol
Congratulations on your sobriety and glad to hear that no one was injured. No amount of time or money can fix that. Good on you for learning from your mistakes. ❤
@@dtcdtc8328 What about the headlight? Did you learn to fix that? Headlights out is probably more dangerous than driving a little tipsy
@jasonbourne1596
Oh yeah, this was back in late 90s lol. The driver side headlight on my then 97 z28 constantly died for some odd reason. The first time I knew it was out but still drove , the second time it went out while I was driving and .... I took it as a sign and got rid of the car and quit drinking hahahaha
@@jasonbourne1596 It's surprising how dangerous it is to drive with just one headlight out. It makes it so much more difficult for other people to judge how far you are away from them at night. A particular problem for motorcycles.
I was wondering if she was drunk twice in twelve hours or was it one long bender? Speaking of BENder looks like hiding at the HILTon south of Virginia.
You should check out Texas law with drunk driving. They're strict. The fines are super expensive, just for the first time. And worse is that your license cannot be reinstated until you pay a whole bunch of additional fees on top of the fines.
In Australia the legal blood alcohol limit is 0.05% where in most of the world the limit is higher at 0.08%.
If you drink don't drive, if you drive don't drink. Every liberty brief I ever got in service included that sentence.
Ben going hand in glove in the sword hilt; lower screen right, in front of the WABX sticker & Virginia ‘SLEHTO’ plate.
I had a patient who was determined to have a BAC of .38. The hospital determined that…even had we called the police for this, the man could not have followed any instructions. He was unconscious. He also lost his cushy township job, but I wouldn’t have been amused to see him hopping off the garbage truck or worse, attempting to drive it. I’m not sure how he got to work, even if his workday began around 04:00. Did he arrive at work with a .5 blood/alcohol amount and by the time it was 09:30 got down to mere .38? Or did he sneak in a six pack or a bottle of rotgut and consume it while collecting trash?
I’m very sure I never wanted to know. But he was truly, in every sense, shi- hammered!
Hey Steve...I was at one time, heavily connected to members of our local constabulary due to my job. One of my guys told me before he retired that he knew most of the local people that drove over the limit. 'While they were sober'. Yeah. Alcoholics. Two of my family fit that description. Even after a full day of no drinks, they still oozed the odor in their sweat. No licenses or cars. Nothing we or the courts could dissuade them. Both are gone now due to their addictions.
0.27! How on earth was she conscious much less "driving!" Im shocked that she didnt die.
They should not have let her leave in the first place. BAC drops at 0.015 per hour. It looks like in this jurisdiction the legal driving limit is somewhere around 0.06 or 0.05 BAC. It would take 14 - 15 HOURS for her BAC to get back to the legal limit. It would take exactly 18 hours to get back to 0.00.
She was still drunk 11 hours later from when she was picked up the first time. She should have only had a BAC of about 0.105 ish so she obviously had more to drink after she was released. But 0.1 BAC is still illegal to drive pretty much everywhere.
My former neighbor told me she learned the hard way about DUIs. She got one. No prison time, since she was a first-time offender, but it cost her a ton of money. She still drinks, but she always goes to the bar via taxi or Uber, and thus has no opportunity to slip up and drive home. (I say "former" because I've since moved.)
I wouldn't notice a sentence of one year house arrest.
You would if you had a wife.
@@noworriesmate5903 Lol!
Blessings to you and your family
Man, it cant be a record, but effort still counts
So much for the "I pick my T shirts randomly, whatever is next on the rack."😀 Congrats on the big win.
😂😂😂 I can’t believe the comments aren’t filled with TShirt talk… if we can’t be the champ, let’s be the spoiler! Go Blue!
I was stationed with a guy in the UK who was arrested Friday night for drink driving. He was released into the custody of our 1st Sergeant and restricted to his home. Later that same night, he was arrested for drink driving again! This time, the 1st Sergeant waited several days to retrieve him.
He was confined to my barracks, where we had to provide him with several rooms because he was a senior NCO and entitled to quite a few square feet in the barracks. After a couple of years living in the barracks, he was finally deported.
She should be held without bail and imprisoned for 10 years minimum.
Love how Steve poses for a photo. Hands down at his side. Smiling awkwardly.
I admire her persistence.
Ben in the sword hilt by the Titanic.
Not in Australia they don’t. After your pulled over and breathalysed, you go to the police station for another test. If you are over, low range, they cancel your licence for 6 months this, 800+ fine license and then let you go get an Uber or get a family member to pick you up. There is no court unless its mid-high range. We have a very different system in Australia.
I am a retired cop. I once arrested a guy for DUI twice in a single eight hour and forty five minute shift. Somebody bailed him out and drove him back to his car after the first arrest.
There's a cop in Lewiston Idaho who can make the same claim.
He got my uncle twice in 1 shift!
My dad was a serious alcoholic. Back in the late '50s he would get stopped for drunk driving and as long as he wasn't in any kind of accident and he was coherent, they would usually give him a "don't do that" or "be careful" and let him go. Things change.
0.05 is the BAC limit in Australia. Generally there is also a mandatory sentences, so it might be a one year suspension for a first offence. Someone I know got caught for excessive speeding, equivalent to forty mph over, and the magistrate said how she thought he might be suitable for a shorter disqualification but one year was the rule.
Here in California a couple of years ago I saw a news interview of a local DA who stated if your stopped and arrested with any alcohol in your system, even below the legal limit they will prosecute you
The Tasmanian police can issue a 3 month suspension for readings below 0.10, but charges higher readings needs to be handled by the courts. They can and would suspend until the court date, but as the report says she was suspended for two years, that indicates the court would have issued it. It does seem strange that this was all handled within 12 hours.
0.05% Blood Alcohol Content limit in all Australian states and territories.
Congratulate me Steve! I passed the BAR! But, I did not go in....(bada bing!)
I was half expecting Steve to say he wandered into James May's pub.
I know someone in the Washington DC area who had something similar happen. To be fair, this was a long time ago when they were more lenient about drinking and driving. He got a DUI, went to jail, was able to bail out pretty quickly, he was told to call a taxi to take him home but instead he got his car out of the impound lot and got another one on the way home
The first thing that goes out the window when you've been drinking is your sense of judgment. Your sense of how bad your mistakes are, keeps making them seem less severe. The good ol, "I drive better when I'm drunk." statement.
The legal BAC limit here in Australia is .05 nationwide (it's a federal law), so it wouldn't matter what state or City/Shire (equivalent to County) this woman was in, at least in regards to the charges.
Unfortunately, the drunk driving penalties are _still_ too lax, since we still see a lot of repeat offenders. Including _serial_ offenders.
I can beat that. About 40 years ago I was partying with my cousin and a friend of his. His friend went to make a beer run and got pulled over as he pulled out of the beer dock. He called my cousin and they released him to my cousin. He got pulled over again went he picked up his car. For some reason they released him to my cousin again. A few hours later they picked him up doing donuts in a parking lot. 3 DUI's in about 8 hours. It still blows me away.
3 beers!!! In one week??? You wild and crazy man.
Judgment is the first thing to go
How in hell did she Manages to get Out of Gail so fast
Exactly why for many years I would buy my beer and bottles on the way home from work. Would stay home and drink until I passed out on occasions. Still DUI free until this day.
Ha we beat that... in Sudbury Ontario Canada... a week ago or so... driver busted 2 times in 8 hours....search... Sudbury 38 year old man arrested for impaired operation twice in less then eight hours..
I was in court with a guy that got 2 DWI's in one night. I don't know his BAC, but I do remember that he got two in one night. I remember the judge asking him, "Really? One wasn't enough?"
As an Ohioan, I was hoping there wouldn't be a reference to the game 😭
You may have a drinking problem if….
She doesn't know she has a problem. She thinks everyone else has some kind of problem.
The only thing that will fix her is jail time.
Is this a dare for Florida now?
In North Carolina, drunk driving feels like a sport. I’ve talked to people who admit to driving drunk dozens of times, and how they still drive even though they lost their license. Never heard twice in 12 hours though.
It's almost like the DUI laws are designed more for revenue generation than road safety..? 🤫😉🙄
ALL legal alcohol sales are geared towards revenue generation. Cops, lawyers, and courts figured how to get their take of it too.
It's hard to be a Michigan fan when you grew up in the Tommy Amacker era.
Many years ago I arrested a man for DUI. He pulled out of a side street in front of the police car which had flashing red and blue lights, forcing me to take severe evasive action. When I asked him why he was driving drunk, he said he needed to get the car home from the bar somehow. It seemed to totally escape him that if he didn't drive to the bar, then he would not have to figure out how to get the car home later.
Not sure why but I was expecting that picture in the pub to be way darker, like I was expecting the room to be lit by firelight, the way you were describing the route there lol.
Way back when, I was pulled over for DUI and blew 0.009 the legal limit and when my dad came to the jail to pick me up, he told the cop "He doesn't look drunk" and the police said he's not, but he blew the limit. That was after two draft beers in two hours in Okio.
3 Beers!
The world's gone crazy!
Timothy Taylor is an excellent beer! Well found.
I was married to a woman addicted to alcohol. She would never admit to being addicted. After frightening her granddaughters, she was been completely cut off from the family.
Wahay from the UK ❤🇬🇧
I fear Steve may be going a bit looney tunes.
😂iykyk😂
The DUI's are a problem, but also a symptom of other issues that alcohol (or other substances ) cannot solve but can hide
Speaking of pubs. My parents went to Ireland in the 1980s. While there, they stopped at a local pub for lunch. It being a bit crowded, my mother commented to one of the locals about finding a table... he responded with "you have to excuse us. We all just came from a funeral. "
A friend of mine and I deliberately got lost somewhere north of London / south of Cambridge - WAY off the beaten path. No Americans - locals only - nice people - great food. We were told we had to give up our table as "the ladies were coming" and that was their "regular table" on that night. Great place. No recollection of "where' alas.
I am not sure the exact level it takes before you realize you are drunk. However, I know by experience, at 0.16 I knew I was drunk and I would have a hard time driving in that condition without even getting into a vehicle.
0.16
@@davidh9638 Thanks for the correction, had the decimal in the wrong spot.
Don't they impound the vehicle ?
Back when I was younger and going out every weekend, and drinking(1996), I was pulled over for making an illegal left turn. I was processed and the police took me home all within a couple hours, in Seattle. I had to go to 2 years of alcohol treatment, which I got for free and I had to pay a $365 fine. Not had any issues since I had kids and quiet drinking.
A woman in Indianapolis caused two fatal accidents in three weeks in 2022, and at least five other accidents previously. She blamed epilepsy at the time, don’t know the latest.
About 15 years ago I had to go to court in Sydney. One of the cases in front was a drunk driver and I’m listening to his barrister try to argue his case and he got into a fight with his wife and went out drinking and got done, he went home had another argument with his wife and left driving again and got caught for drunk driving so twice in the same night and couldn’t understand what he was hoping to to get by even trying to fight the case or HOW get got to the situation where he was driving the second time
I was told by the person we bought our house from that her parents were brought home by the cops on a regular basis from one of the local 11 bars.
In the town Steve grew up in, years ago if they pulled you over for drunk driving they would park your car in a lot for you and drive you home.
Hilariously, it was a dry town! (then...)
My Brother in Law is from Toledo, OH. His whole family are huge Ohio fans. Except him. He is a dyed dark blue Michigan fan. Fun times in that household during those games.
I was gonna say she must be a cop or politician if they let her go so she got caught again, then he said it was elsewhere.
I'm neither, just a recovering alcoholic. About 15 years ago In the medium sized town I lived in. One night I passed out in front of my house. The police woke me up a let me go inside. Less than a week later I passed out in a Taco Bell parking lot. The police woke me, and told me go home and said if you in a accident your under arrest.
Years ago, my ex boss got three DUIs in a 24 hour period. He didn't have a driver's license to begin with.