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Originally Posted by Diabel1969
I'm glad you wrote this.. I'm not sure of the average age of folks on here, but i'm 41, and can clearly remember when I was 15 to 21, before all the DWI (new york), and DUI laws were so strict. Drinking and driving was just part of going out. If you woke up in your own bed, and your car was decently parked with no damage, then you did a good job. If you woke up someplace strange, then you had some figuring out to do! If you woke up in jail, then you really messed up! Our idea of a designated driver was the one who drank beer the whole night instead of us who did the shots. Two towns away from where I grew up, was a really insane bar that was a good time everytime. The local police in that town would pull us over if we were weaving, and as soon as they discovered we were from a different town, they'd give us back our id's and tell us to have a safe trip home.. My how things have changed.. I don't condone it, but man you've gotta have a brass set of balls to sit here and knock folks for something that you yourself most likely did at some point in your life. Just remember, ANYBODY can get 1 DWI, or DUI, only takes a few drinks with dinner, or a couple of casual one's after work on a friday. It's a mistake and humans make mistakes, part of which makes us humans. When a person gets more than 1.. well, then there's a problem. Some of you folks need to lighten up..
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I'm not saying go out, get wasted and drive, but the above reply raises some good points. The legal limit used to be a lot higher. So, back when it was 0.15, you could drive around at 0.14 and be "sober." Here in OH, it is now 0.08, so now if you drive at 0.14 you're "drunk." And the whole "buzzed driving is drunk driving" is just a load of crap. It's not drunk driving by the legal definition unless you're over the legal limit. Can you be buzzed and still be under the legal limit? I think so.
Again, I'm not advocating drunk driving, but I find it hard to believe everyone always has a DD or calls a cab. These clowns driving around on their cell phones 24/7 are just as bad
