So I'm going to Prison for 2 years

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Just for clarity,

If I blow .08, then 80% of my blood is alcohol, amirite?

[ikestoys]

tuq-
.08 is the point where skills are proven to deteriorate. study after study has shown this

[ikestoys]

tuq-

also, no matter how good you feel at .08, you are still just as impaired as a normal person at .08, you are just used to it.

[tdarko]

tuq,

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Wow that is some really terrible grunching right there.

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wtf?

[tuq]

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tuq,

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Wow that is some really terrible grunching right there.

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wtf?

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Nobody that I can recall defended the OP and the conversation moved well past that into a related matter. This thread isn't 150 replies of people debating whether the punishment was sufficient.

EDIT: just realized I may have misused "grunch".

[CallMeIshmael]

I'm always amazed when reading through a DUI thread.


Also, as a general thought wrt to level X (be it 0.08 or whatever) being too low: if a government is charged w/ a task of setting an arbitrary number, where the consequences of setting it too low are not allowing people to drink the maximum amount of alcohol they can and still be completely OK to drive / charging someone with an offense for it, and the consequence of setting it too high it possibly allowing people to legally drive in a state that puts others in danger, Im going to err on the side of too low a number.

[Leaky Eye]

err on the side of too low even when the consequence is taking the "offender" away from their family and caging them for years? That isn't really consistent with the principals of our justice system, or any just system.

[MuresanForMVP]

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.08 is the point where skills are proven to deteriorate. study after study has shown this

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haven't there been studies done that have shown that since the drop from .10 to .08 alcohol-related accidents and deaths have seen virtually no change but the number of arrests has nearly doubled?

[mrh86]

I'm off to go drink for 5+ hours and then inevitably drive somewhere to get food.

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.08 is the point where skills are proven to deteriorate. study after study has shown this

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haven't there been studies done that have shown that since the drop from .10 to .08 alcohol-related accidents and deaths have seen virtually no change but the number of arrests has nearly doubled?

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Yep. Don't expect MADD or law enforcement to report these statistics though. No idea why? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]