drunk driving is not a crime
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Crimes have victims. If I go have some drinks somewhere and drive home with a .15 blood alcohol level and get home just fine with no issues, who is the victim? Where is the crime?
Now if I was so impaired that I could not control my vehicle and crashed it, that should be a crime.
Crashing while drunk should carry some charge, but if the crash was not your fault it should not. If I am sitting at a red light waiting for it to turn green with a .15 BAC and someone comes along and slams into me as I am waiting on the light, the alcohol in my system did not contribute to that crash in any way and I should not be punished.'
But taking someone to jail and fining them thousands of dollars simply because they drove without incident with some alcohol on their breath. That's ridiculous.
It is a crime to drive impaired, whether you agree with the law or not. Having alcohol on your breath is not the same as being buzzed.
If only there was some way to protect innocent drunk drivers from all these criminal houses that keep playing chicken with them...if only....then Ellen DeGeneres might of gotten to muff munch just one more time! Oh the inhumanity!
I mean it's a pretty shitty thing to do tho... and yeah that won't stop the courts assfucking if you get caught
to have a crime you need a victim
If you are operating a vehicle with a driver's license, you signed a contract to obey the rules of the state. Is it wrong to drive drunk? I'd argue at most irresponsible. But if you sign a contract agreeing to follow certain rules, then you gave the court every right to bend you over and fuck you dry if you break your contract. Simple as.
it's possible to be a victim of your own bad choices.
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