|
15-02-2010, 02:34 PM | #1 | ||
Petro-sexual
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 4,527
|
Picked up twice in the same night for drink driving, and excessive speeding on the second.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/dr...0214-nyzl.html |
||
15-02-2010, 02:38 PM | #2 | ||
White Car Driver
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 1,174
|
In a Hold Commodore. lol
But seriously, he's just asking for it...
__________________
OzECruisers - The Ford EA-EL, NA-NL, DA-DL & XG-XH Owners Club |
||
15-02-2010, 02:44 PM | #3 | ||
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 9,292
|
What have you got to lose?
Your license is already gone and your still drunk...... Think about it for a second. If you dont care enough to start with and are willing to hope in and drive a car whilst drunk, do you really believe that a loss of license is going to stop someone from continuing to drive? The chances of being caught twice is remote too, that would have been part of his decision to drive again. Not trying to defend his actions but if you want to understand the psychology of a drink driver, then thats about it. |
||
15-02-2010, 02:56 PM | #4 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 18,985
|
Drag them out the car.. Then burn it on the spot.. That'll learn 'em..
|
||
15-02-2010, 03:12 PM | #5 | |||
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 9,292
|
Quote:
what if the car isnt theirs? what if they didnt know they were over the limit? Do you know exactly how much you can drink before you are .05? Having your car burnt for something like that is just stupid. |
|||
15-02-2010, 03:16 PM | #6 | |||
Cane Farmer
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Tom Price, WA
Posts: 4,056
|
Unlucky!!
Alcohol has a good way of clouding ones decision making process'....
__________________
1994 ED XR6T - Cobalt Blue. 2009 FG XR6 - Black. Quote:
|
|||
15-02-2010, 03:18 PM | #7 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 18,985
|
Quote:
|
|||
15-02-2010, 03:21 PM | #8 | |||
Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Loving the Endorphine Machine
Posts: 7,453
|
Quote:
Someone with a alcohol level of 0.178 knows they are intoxicated, lets not make excuses for the pratt. Don't burn his car, it may be someone elses, just lock him up for the night until he is below 0.05 and then send him on his way with no license and impound the car until a responsible adult can pick it up.
__________________
Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional! |
|||
15-02-2010, 03:45 PM | #9 | |||
Long live the Falcon GT
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Victoria
Posts: 1,630
|
Quote:
Certainly when you're .178 you do know you're over .05 - so there'd be a good chance the driver KNEW he was breaking the law the second he turned the key... Impounding the car should certainly be mandatory for any drink driver, .051 and above... I can't see how a hoon and a drunk driver are any less dangerous... get them both off the road once they're caught... Certainly getting caught a second time is ridiculous and proves that the guy was blatanly ignoring the law, and police previous requests... etc... Impounding the vehicle would not have stopped him being caught the second time anyways... Think about this though... he was picked up at 0.178 and nearly 4 hours later he blew over .05 at the breatho... (reduction of .12 over nearly 4 hours)... does that mean that he'd been drinking AGAIN in that time?? I'm not sure of the rate that your BAC% reduces...
__________________
|
|||
15-02-2010, 03:51 PM | #10 | ||
Banned
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: launceston TAS
Posts: 1,847
|
ANYONE who drinks and drives is a COMPLETE @#$%HEAD.
No excuses. |
||
15-02-2010, 03:56 PM | #11 | ||
Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Loving the Endorphine Machine
Posts: 7,453
|
Someone that blows 0.178 will definitely blow over 0.05 4 hrs later, the body can not metabolise and eliminate that much alcohol that quickly. Impounding the car would not have stopped the second offence, that is true, but locking him up would have.
Sorry, but I have no sympathy nor caring for these fools, lock em up for the good of the rest of society. The good part is he will probably get jail time now with two DUI offences and dangerous driving in one night, judge is going to dance on his head.
__________________
Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional! |
||
15-02-2010, 03:57 PM | #12 | |||
[FORCED]
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Perth
Posts: 1,562
|
Quote:
__________________
500 rwhp BF XR6 Turbo and 115 rwhp XF
|
|||
15-02-2010, 04:00 PM | #13 | |||
Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Loving the Endorphine Machine
Posts: 7,453
|
Quote:
That is what ambulances are for, call 000. At worst they can talk you through the delivery on the phone while paramedics arrive, it's not hard and it is not life threatening.
__________________
Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional! |
|||
15-02-2010, 04:01 PM | #14 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 18,985
|
I still don't understand how i can be totally sober but for a minor indescretion lose my car on the back of a truck. Where as some DH can be totally parro get caught DUI get processed then head straight back behind the wheel of his death machine.
|
||
15-02-2010, 04:09 PM | #15 | ||
cortyboy
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mosman Park W.A.
Posts: 264
|
I think its .01 for every hour ya dont drink. This is what they tell ya at mine inductions.
Average rate of elimination Elimination occurs at a constant rate for a given individual.The median rate of decrease in BAC is considered to be 15 milligrams per cent (mg%) per hour. The range of decrease in BAC is 10-20 mg% per hour. This range represents the extreme ends of the rate encountered in a normal population. Most people eliminate at a rate of between 13 and 18 mg% per hour. Of these, the majority eliminates at the higher end. Very few people eliminate at as low a rate as 10 mg% per hour. I never heard of anyone losing there lic on spot for drink driving. Most would have to wait for a court to decide. The second time it may have been him picking up the car he got caught the first time and trying to get it home. Im pretty sure a lot of people that pick there car up the next day will still blow over but they think that seeing as they have been home had a sleep get up early the next day they are not drunk anymore. I know that when Im at work. Can have 6 stubbies between 6 and 8 will be 0.000% by 5:30 in morning to start work. If I have eaten maybe 1 or 2 more drinks. |
||
15-02-2010, 04:14 PM | #16 | |||
cortyboy
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mosman Park W.A.
Posts: 264
|
Quote:
Lost mine for a months for being on street out front of my house. Both my self and car unlic but it didnt matter that I was driving from a trailer to driveway. Judge said I should have been on the street. There was no speeding or drinking involed in either of my mishaps. |
|||
15-02-2010, 04:14 PM | #17 | |||
FORMER T3 OWNER
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 1,241
|
Quote:
__________________
Mischief.TV you can sleep in your car, but you cant drift your house... |
|||
15-02-2010, 04:26 PM | #18 | ||
cortyboy
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mosman Park W.A.
Posts: 264
|
The towing guys are making mint with out towing the ******** head driver cars.
It will most likely stop a lot of the richer people DUI ing. They dont care how much it costs and then they get a high payed lawer to have DUI squashed in court they walk out side and drive away. They couldnt do the last part when their car in impounded. |
||
15-02-2010, 04:32 PM | #19 | |||
Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Loving the Endorphine Machine
Posts: 7,453
|
Quote:
__________________
Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional! |
|||
15-02-2010, 04:34 PM | #20 | ||
avenge me
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South West Rocks NSW
Posts: 1,810
|
i know someone who got caught high range drink driving twice in one night (5th & 6th offence) and didnt serve time, i was shocked
by the way he was in an AU XR8
__________________
FULL OF Autotech GOODNESS! |
||
15-02-2010, 04:40 PM | #21 | ||||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 601
|
Quote:
Quote:
If you have an expected birth, a child who may have special needs, live remotely, or any other factor that may require you to drive unexpectedly, you can follow the above formula. If you get drunk and then drive for whatever reason, you deserve whatever you get. I could go on, my family has been affected by a drink driving tragedy. I have no sympathy for drink drivers regardless of the excuse. There isn't one that could ever justify these actions. |
||||
15-02-2010, 04:57 PM | #22 | |||
Long live the Falcon GT
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Victoria
Posts: 1,630
|
Quote:
__________________
Last edited by RedHotGT; 15-02-2010 at 05:04 PM. Reason: quoted wrong person |
|||
15-02-2010, 05:02 PM | #23 | |||
cortyboy
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mosman Park W.A.
Posts: 264
|
Quote:
|
|||
15-02-2010, 05:08 PM | #24 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 601
|
Maybe I don't get it. Do people NEED to get drunk? Can people not go without a drink for a couple of weeks. Well, you can have a drink, just know when to stop. It isn't hard FFS.
|
||
15-02-2010, 05:11 PM | #25 | |||
avenge me
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South West Rocks NSW
Posts: 1,810
|
Quote:
__________________
FULL OF Autotech GOODNESS! |
|||
15-02-2010, 05:14 PM | #26 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 3,246
|
Quote:
__________________
BA2 XR8 Rapid M6 Ute - Lid - Tint -18s 226.8rwkW@178kmh/537Nm@140kmh 1/9/2013 14.2@163kmh 23/10/2013 Boss349 built. Not yet run. Waiting on a shell. Retrotech thread http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthr...1363569&page=6 |
|||
15-02-2010, 05:20 PM | #27 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 601
|
Quote:
|
|||
15-02-2010, 05:21 PM | #28 | ||||
Lady Leadfoot
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 234
|
And this too: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vic...-1225830318991
Dragging @ 160kmh 500 metres from scene of recent fatality that claimed 5 lives in Mill Park (Melb). "Funny" thing is this car wash is all of 200 metres from the cop shop. Obviously these two aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.... Quote:
__________________
For Sale: my 2002 BA XT in Mercury Silver
CLICK HERE Quote:
|
||||
15-02-2010, 05:26 PM | #29 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Top End
Posts: 456
|
If it happened in the NT there wouldn't have been a second offence because you get locked up until you are sober
|
||
15-02-2010, 06:17 PM | #30 | |||||
Ich bin ein auslander
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Loving the Endorphine Machine
Posts: 7,453
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
No intoxicated person should be released from police custody unless they are released into the care and responsibility of a competent adult. If that competent adult allows that person to drive again and they are caught, there should be a charge for that person also. Either that or stay in the watch house until they are sober.
__________________
Growing old is compulsory, growing up is optional! |
|||||