F'wit drunks on our roads. (Is there any other kind of drunk driver?)

**Marmoot** · 21st June 2009, 12:18

I wonder why Crusher Collins haven't picked this up yet. Maybe we need some drunk to start shooting at officers first?

(So, we only crush cars when someone tries to kill an officer, but not when someone tries to kill other drivers by driving drunk. Hmmm.....a can of worms...)

**Grahameeboy** · 21st June 2009, 12:31

Originally Posted by scumdog

"Twelve checkpoints were set up in Manukau and Papakura and a total of 13,593 vehicles were stopped over the two nights. Police found 216 drivers who were over the legal breath alcohol limit.

Counties Manukau road policing manager Inspector Heather Wells said it was an "unacceptable" number of drunk drivers to have on the roads.

One driver who was found to be over the limit had his vehicle taken off him but returned home and got his father's car and was stopped at another checkpoint and processed again.

He was again over the limit. He told police he was continuing to drive because he wanted to get to a kava party.

Three drivers got hold of spare keys or another car and drove after being processed. All these drivers ended up with two drink drive charges for the night, Ms Wells said.

One male passenger abused police and then tried unsuccessfully to take one of their patrol cars after his wife was taken into the "booze bus" for testing.

A 17-year-old youth was stopped for driving at 190 kmh on the southern motorway. He blew a reading of 589mcg of alcohol per litre of breath -- nearly four times the legal limit for someone under 20. He told police he was in a hurry to pick up his girlfriend."

Ah yes, brainless existence is alive and well on your roads Auckland.

Now if Sue 'I'm a bad as I look' Bradford had taken to this problem with the same zeal she has taken to the (non-existant?) smacking problem we might see some suitable punishments being handed to drunks on our road.

Rant over.

So why not do daytime checks...more cars on road....

**James Deuce** · 21st June 2009, 13:03

Originally Posted by scumdog

Jail and a fine of up to $4,500 could be dished out for 1st and 2nd offenders - when was the last time THAT ever happened??

You;d have to be a cop for that to happen to you.

**Laava** · 21st June 2009, 16:24

Originally Posted by James Deuce

You;d have to be a cop for that to happen to you.

We had one up here about6yrs ago in Dargaville court. 1st offence, and he got jailtime. Actually it was national news at the time.
Had a drunk driver come down my drive way[long R.O.W] on friday night and turn around crashing into my ute. Hit the corner of the flatdeck and ripped a big gash in her front guard and crumpled it to buggery. Drove halfway up the drive and turned across into the neighbours R.O.W. Did a hundred point turn scratching the hell out of both sides of her car[Straight as 96 Accord up till then!] and backing into a tree and forward into a fence until she got round and then proceeded to drive over their retaining wall so both her wheels were in mid air. In fact one of her wheels was crushing the tin roof of their dog kennel with dog still inside. She obviously tried to back off then as there was burnt rubber everywhere. So she hopped into the back seat and went to sleep. No idea when this happened but none of us[4 houses] heard anything! 6 o'clock in the morning she knocks on the neighbours door freezing cold and asks for a ride home which she got. When the neighbour dragged me over there at about 9 we could see the trail of carnage! This included her wheel tracks across my lawn where she obviously just missed my house!
Sure enough, next thing, as I'm back home and the neighbour has gone out, we hear revving and go look to see what I can only describe as a white trash retard and her similar male friend trying to drive off the retaining wall. Which they are impaled on and the wheels are in the air. So we have a good laugh before going over to bum them out totally. I decide not to call the cops at that stage as she starts saying she wasn't the driver, and it seems pointless.
I have removed the B from the plate to protect the innocent!

**scumdog** · 21st June 2009, 16:30

Originally Posted by Laava

Sure enough, next thing, as I'm back home and the neighbour has gone out, we hear revving and go look to see what I can only describe as a white trash retard and her similar male friend trying to drive off the retaining wall. Which they are impaled on and the wheels are in the air. So we have a good laugh before going over to bum them out totally. I decide not to call the cops at that stage as she starts saying she wasn't the driver, and it seems pointless.
I have removed the B from the plate to protect the innocent!

Meh, shoulda called the cops, it would just complete her misery

**c4.** · 21st June 2009, 16:35

My god will someone please think of the (dog) children.
Seriously, if it was my hound that she had nearly squashed, I would not be very samarterian on her ass.

**Max Preload** · 21st June 2009, 16:39

Originally Posted by scumdog

One driver who was found to be over the limit had his vehicle taken off him but returned home and got his father's car and was stopped at another checkpoint and processed again.

He was again over the limit. He told police he was continuing to drive because he wanted to get to a kava party.

More stereotypes reinforcing themselves?

**short-circuit** · 21st June 2009, 17:04

Originally Posted by RantyDave

Scummy, it's already illegal to drive drunk and we already pay people (you, actually) to enforce the law. Past this point there's not a lot a an MP can actually do. Perhaps the 300,000 angry petitioners would like to volunteer to work drink drive busts at 3am?

Dave

Precisely. What the fuck's New Zealand's drunk driving problems got to do with Sue Bradford?

**scumdog** · 21st June 2009, 17:26

Originally Posted by short-circuit

Precisely. What the fuck's New Zealand's drunk driving problems got to do with Sue Bradford?

She drove me to drink....

**Mom** · 21st June 2009, 17:37

I am going to take the Ixion stance on this. I get really pissed off when I see newspaper articles like the one quoted here. Several thousand cars stopped and only a very small percentage of drivers over limit. I think the message is pretty clear to most of us, dont bloody drink and drive. I have said it before, but will state it again here, I think we should have a zero limit for blood/breath alcohol. Seriously I do. No grey areas then, you drink, you dont drive.

I actually think that will take a few more drinking drivers off our roads, right now it is something of a lottery attempting to figure out if you might be a little over. Zero limit means there is nothing to be confused about at all.

The fact that a small minority continue to flaunt this basic common sense law around drink driving can not be legislated for, and can only be policed the way it is now. Tough, to the police that have that job, they chose their career path afterall. You can not legislate against dickheads.

I still think that a bit more of a positive spin on the numbers of drivers that are checked and found NOT to have been drinking would be a worthy message to send out too.

**gijoe1313** · 21st June 2009, 18:04

Well, last two nights I been out and abouts coming down Mahia rd in Te Manurewa, usual police check point. First night I rock up, nice young constable sees me on my iron and steed and waves me through without checking my breath - convenient for me and I had a quick convo with him about how completely and utterly insane it would be for a biker to drink and ride.

Second night, had a young lady constable who probably needed a lesson in public relations, when I rocked up on my two stroker smoker, she snarls "So how am I gonna do this then?"

I pause, umpteen cars backed up behind me ... so I slowly and methodically remove my glubs, take off helmet ... and she was about to pounce on me with her lekky alcamahol testerer ... and realised I had a balaclave on ... which I removed as well. Minutes ticked by, stated my given name and residential abode and all was tickety boo. Repeated steps to get all my gear on and away I pootled ...

Good to see the police doing as they should, I recall last time when they blitzed Souf'aucklund for two weeks like this, crime dropped appreciably. Keep it up the thin blue line!

**short-circuit** · 21st June 2009, 18:15

Originally Posted by scumdog

She drove me to drink....

She only said you can't bash your kids....you still get to Tazer brown people and elderly drivers.

In fact, if you can spot her at a future peaceful protest march you could probably crush her skull with your truncheon.

**idb** · 21st June 2009, 18:16

So...how was the NZ blood-alcohol limit determined?

**short-circuit** · 21st June 2009, 18:24

Originally Posted by idb

So...how was the NZ blood-alcohol limit determined?

It was decided over a few quiets

**CookMySock** · 21st June 2009, 18:36

Originally Posted by Ixion

You might be better off worrying about the estimated 10% of drivers under the influence of Certain Scheduled Substances. Who will not be picked up at all , ever.

Alcohol insulates you, and dulls your senses to the point where you are continuously phasing out and incapable of seeing anything at all, which is why it's so dangerous.

Drugs like weed actually achieve the opposite, or else they make it abundantly clear you should not be doing it, so they TEND to be self-regulating.

Of course, if you are fully fucked-up to the eyeballs, it doesn't matter what you are on, it's dangerous. It is more likely you will be sitting it out on the side of the road, or else travelling wide-eyed at 30km/hr, than doing 190.

Originally Posted by gijoe1313

"So how am I gonna do this then?"

Can't she just point the unit into your visor opening? Thats what was done for me.

Steve