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Originally Posted by kane
You are the one that said "citation" I assumed that meant a fine. If there is no fine then what good is the citation?
As for driving someone home. Here is how it could go down. The cop pulls you over, you are drunk. He says, "You are a bad boy, here is your little note to remind you not to do it again and now we will drive you home. You live 20 miles away. While they are driving you home another call comes in of an assault. Because you live in a little town like I do there is often only 1 or 2 cops on late at night. The cop is delayed responding to this other call the person gets hurt. They decide to sue the police department because they didn't respond fast enough. Don't think it will happen? The town I live in was sued because it took the cops more than 5 minutes to respond to an alarm at this guy's business and he fucking won!?
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OK now we're getting somewhere. So a cop pulls over someone based on a statute. Your example was what a broken head light? First of all what the fuck does it matter if a person has a broken headlight? Really how petty do we need to get? The cop should spend his time in fighting actual crimes. As in your example of a B&E. But in reality they are of no use there because all they do is show up after such things have occured and write a report. But because they are spending so much time jumping out of bushes catching people with broken headlights to generate revenue they don;t have time for those things.
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Originally Posted by kane
Yes, 3 times in a lifetime. I think it is not too much to ask that people be responsible for their own actions. I have gone through 39 years of my life without driving drunk, I don't think it is too much to ask someone to not do this 3 times in a lifetime, and as I said above if you follow the rules when you get caught, you avoid going to jail.
How do you propose we deter people from driving drunk if we are just going to take them home and tell them shame?
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Congrats, you must not be a drinker.. I know no person who has ever drank that has never drank and driven. Or are you one of those who thinks he knows how much equals being too drunk to drive? I'm sure a BAC would change your mind..
Again jailing and fining doesn't solve the problem. It ony makes the persons life worse and gerates revenue for the municipality.. Which BTW all revenues are hidden from the public via the CAFR AKA second set of books.
Hell let's take this into an even deeper mindfuck.. Did you know that "driving" in reality has a entirely different "legal" meaning that you might even think?