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drink driving check
WishIhadaLandy:
--- Quote from: "discograham" ---I think anyone stopped for any reason should be breathalised.. and at random if you are getting into/onto your vehicle anywhere public.. or if you are on a pushbike... but then I have a serious issue with drink drivers. Any alcohol before driving/riding is unacceptable. If you have a heavy night then drive to work you deserve the book to be thrown at you... then to be beaten to a pulp with it... :shock:
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This man's got the right idea :D
I do think you have a fair point about testing just the commercial drivers as if anything i'd have thought they were less likey to drink because their lively hood relies on them driving, and if their boss and / or Mr. Plod caught them drunk they would be fired instantly.
But it's like using mobiles while driving, even tho it is illegal, the number of people who still do it is frightening :shock:
jjsaul:
--- Quote from: "WishIhadaLandy" ---
But it's like using mobiles while driving, even tho it is illegal, the number of people who still do it is frightening :shock:
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But is that as dangerous as drink driving?
Speeding is illegal but the number of people who do that far outweighs the drink drivers and phone users put together....
att:
I see this is the fascist thread then.
I do not condone or partake in drinking and driving and have had a friend killed by one many years ago, so I do feel strongly about this.
However, when are we going to realise that this is the thin end of the ever growing wedge?
To only stop commercial drivers is discriminatory and is no different to stopping drivers of a certain ethnic origin.
I also ride motorcycles and have only ever been stopped a couple of times in the last 25 years.
To do it after a game of football the night before is also wrong, why not do it every morning?
Just smacks of injustice to me.
We are no longer allowed to enjoy ourselves in this awful land of Fascist, corrupt and biggoted officials.
discograham:
--- Quote from: "att" ---I see this is the fascist thread then.
We are no longer allowed to enjoy ourselves in this awful land of Fascist, corrupt and biggoted officials.
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I wholeheartedly agree with you about no longer being able to enjoy oneself ... nanny state, big brother, rules and silly regs, officialdom gone stark staring mad.. yadda yadda yadda.... My view.. do what ever the hell you like as long as it is not going to affect anyone else... so drinking and driving is out. There comes a time when the safety of the innocent means your freedom to drink has to have the anchors put on. Football, wedding, whatever.. drink and dont drive !
NiceBlueWellies:
I know of someone that does drink and drive. They know it is wrong, but don't care. Luckily we don't have much at all to do with that particular person, their whole outlook on life is warped.
All checks on vehicles and people driving vehicles are worthwhile. It only takes 1 to cause many ruined lives. If out of 100 people checked, 1 was caught, it would be worth it.
To say it is not fair after the football - are you mad. It is the time when there WILL be drunk drivers on the road and they need stopping. Would you complain if they drove into you while you were walking along the day after getting bladdred, just because the football had been on? Would you say - Oh, that's ok, you were just enjoying yourself the night before, that is if you were still alive? Can't see it somehow.
I say, keep up the checks. Breathalisers and vehicle checks Do them more often. Take the people that don't deserve to be on the road, off it. I drive lots for my job and used to drive for a living. I was and am always more than happy to be checked. I don't want to be killed by an irresponsible person - find them and throw away the key.
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