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

[TimeOut]

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.

Na mate they still bash their kids, you just can't discipline them!

[scumdog]

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

Steve

Yup, had it done to me (no, not every cop recognises me) and in turn I use that method when working.

[RantyDave]

i.e. 17 year old troublesome little cowl with breath level of 716mgm get 40 hours community work and 6 months disq.

Wow, what a pain in the arse. I had always taken it as read that should I be caught drink driving, particularly if it's ... fuck, is that really nearly ten times the limit? For over 20's. Sheeeett, that's heaps. HEAPS. I don't think I'd be able to get in the car with that much in me.

Shit! Crush the car.

Dave

[MIXONE]

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.

Where does the line start?

[idb]

Drinking helps me relax and the only thing I can actually remember my driving instructor telling me is to relax...therefore...

[98tls]

Drinking helps me relax and the only thing I can actually remember my driving instructor telling me is to relax...therefore...

Reminds me of a conversation i had with a 34 year old barmaid when i was 18.

[Mom]

Reminds me of a conversation i had with a 34 year old barmaid when i was 18.

Just hold this, nothing will happen, I promise?

[scumdog]

Wow, what a pain in the arse. I had always taken it as read that should I be caught drink driving, particularly if it's ... fuck, is that really nearly ten times the limit? For over 20's. Sheeeett, that's heaps. HEAPS. I don't think I'd be able to get in the car with that much in me.

Shit! Crush the car.

Dave

Limit for under 20 is 150, it's still way over though eh!

[Genestho]

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

Nah, drink driving is not illegal, but it is illegal over the current 0.08 Blood Alcohol Limit.
Nobody can work out what their limit is, at any given time..IMHO I can't understand the point of lowering the limit to 0.05, better than nothing - some would say

We are waiting for thing's down in Welly to come out of the woodwork, re Interlocking Devices and Rehabilitation, whether recidivism is being targeted along with lowering the limit....good thing's take time - apparently. unless it's really important.

However if the outcomes from welly are pisspour and merely tentative, there's something on the drawing board between a "few" of us drink drive "victims/survivors". B.A.D.D is not organising it, but we will help with networking.

Hope to see it in action by the end of the year
The public will have a chance to get in behind.

We'll get this out there as far and wide as we can, we'll make sure the wording is not ambiguous.

Scummy, are you saying, you think Sue could do with a good corrective tap on the bum?

I feel sorry for you dude's Scummy, I now know what you have to put up with when you scrape dead bodies and wreckage off the roads, or locate limbs for survivors, listening to children screaming, smelling the alcohol.

It must be frustrating for you to do your job and feel let down.

Big up's, and thanks for doing your best for the community.

[Marmoot]

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

the limit should be high enough to generate revenue but low enough that the drunk lawmakers shouldn't get caught in it.

[PrincessBandit]

It's bloody scary! The way I view it is 1 in every 63 cars I'm sharing the road with is over the limit.

I will try not to be freaked out by that equation when I'm next out and about on the roads of South Auckland!

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 ...

would love to have seen that!
I've never been through a breath check point on the bike before, now I know what to do hehehehehe.

[Edbear]

She drove me to drink....

In the Landau...?

[xwhatsit]

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.

Heheh. Or playing Playstation thinking you're doing the real thing


I got breathalysed a few nights in one week but that was months ago. Seems they left Mangere Bridge off the hook this time around. We must've redeemed ourselves

They had a checkpoint last year, it was set up in Onehunga onramp going south. The first night I got signalled to do the check... same deal as GiJoe1313, remove glubs, remove helmet, remove scarf, occifer looking impatient, state name and address, slowly put gear back on (it were cold!) and on my way. Next night (two nights in a row I think), same occifer, I get halfway through taking my helmet off and then he remembers and tells me to do it back up and get on my way

Next week they had another checkpoint, same occifer again, this time he just waved me straight through

[scumdog]

would love to have seen that!
I've never been through a breath check point on the bike before, now I know what to do hehehehehe.

The pissed off drivers waiting behind you won't see the funny side of that..

[RantyDave]

We are waiting for thing's down in Welly to come out of the woodwork, re Interlocking Devices

So, I spent a day with a mate of a mate in the states a few months back. He had an interlock in his car and had to breathe into it every ... half hour or so? Something like that. He had, IIRC, three DUI convictions and said the interlock, and I quote:

Cured me of DUI

So, yeah, bring that shit on - we'll have those.

Dave