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My issue is not with it being a crime, my issue is with how retarded and ridiculous the sentencing has become, and how the legal limit has been switched from .10 to .08, and will keep going down because of those god damn MADD lobbyists. And how those numbers really don't even matter anywhere cause any f'ing cop can just say "well I thought he was intoxicated" regardless of a .05 reading on the breathalyser. THAT's the type of [censored] I have issues with, not the fact that it's a crime.

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Goddamned right. Perhaps all the people in this thread giving ultimate discretion to the police about a law that is unreasonable will one day feel the unsympathetic smite of something similar, at which point maybe they'll feel outrage greater than the pain of falling off their high horse.

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So, let's see - numbers like .08 are artificially created and there's no hard line of proof for when someone's drunk. However, you obviously can't trust the people charged with enforcing the law and protecting those that drunk drivers are threatening innocent people on the roads. Where's the acceptable place to give authority?

People CAN be impaired below .08, which is why police have ultimate discretion. No system will ever be perfect, but there has to be discretion SOMEWHERE.

OP is still an idiot, and the 2.5 years he has to think about it are a good thing. Hopefully this will reinforce the concept that he shouldn't be doing [censored] like that. He sounds like he's already gotten some help, and I can only hope that it works.