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11-24-2007, 02:31 PM
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Re: So I\'m going to Prison for 2 years
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i hope you get raped a lot [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] i think youre lucky as hell that you get to go to prison instead of being dead or killing someone else i hope prison sucks 4 you [/ QUOTE ] This attitude seems dumb to me. DUI seems to cover a whole lot of ground, in terms of actual capacity to drive. I've known people who have gotten DUIs that the cops acknowledged at the time were [censored]; one of my friends was even told "Hey, trust me, just go get a lawyer and you'll beat this no problem." I could be wrong, but I think this was after he blew something legal like a .05 and the cop decided to call him intoxicated anyway. Now, the OP does not sound like it was that kind of deal. And there certainly are some DUIs where the people are in no shape to be driving at all. But I think it's a broad enough legal classification that treating it as one of the few remaining True Evils is usually going a little overboard. 
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11-24-2007, 02:36 PM
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Re: So I\'m going to Prison for 2 years
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[ QUOTE ] i hope you get raped a lot [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] i think youre lucky as hell that you get to go to prison instead of being dead or killing someone else i hope prison sucks 4 you [/ QUOTE ] This attitude seems dumb to me. DUI seems to cover a whole lot of ground, in terms of actual capacity to drive. I've known people who have gotten DUIs that the cops acknowledged at the time were [censored]; one of my friends was even told "Hey, trust me, just go get a lawyer and you'll beat this no problem." I could be wrong, but I think this was after he blew something legal like a .05 and the cop decided to call him intoxicated anyway. Now, the OP does not sound like it was that kind of deal. And there certainly are some DUIs where the people are in no shape to be driving at all. But I think it's a broad enough legal classification that treating it as one of the few remaining True Evils is usually going a little overboard. [/ QUOTE ] someone makes a mistake, fine. 3 times, twice aggravated, you get what you deserve. its pretty goddamn easy not to get into a car while drinking
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11-24-2007, 02:42 PM
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Re: So I\'m going to Prison for 2 years
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someone makes a mistake, fine. 3 times, twice aggravated, you get what you deserve. its pretty goddamn easy not to get into a car while drinking [/ QUOTE ] According to OP, aggravated in this context means that it was done while he had a suspended license, not that he was necessarily super extra drunk.
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11-24-2007, 06:32 PM
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Re: So I\'m going to Prison for 2 years
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[ QUOTE ] i hope you get raped a lot [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] i think youre lucky as hell that you get to go to prison instead of being dead or killing someone else i hope prison sucks 4 you [/ QUOTE ] This attitude seems dumb to me. DUI seems to cover a whole lot of ground, in terms of actual capacity to drive. I've known people who have gotten DUIs that the cops acknowledged at the time were [censored]; one of my friends was even told "Hey, trust me, just go get a lawyer and you'll beat this no problem." I could be wrong, but I think this was after he blew something legal like a .05 and the cop decided to call him intoxicated anyway. Now, the OP does not sound like it was that kind of deal. And there certainly are some DUIs where the people are in no shape to be driving at all. But I think it's a broad enough legal classification that treating it as one of the few remaining True Evils is usually going a little overboard. [/ QUOTE ] Gumpzilla, I don't agree, but I certainly don't agree with the two quotes either. The guys is going to prison and he deserves it. We are alwasy reading about some random DUI guy who has X amount of charges and no licence and he kills a familiy while drunk driving. Then everyone says, why doesn't the law do something? I think this guy deserves his sentence, but I certainly don't hope he gets raped or assualted or anything like that in prison. I don't like the posts that are minimizing his offence, and I don't like the ones that wish the worst for him in prison.
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#10
11-25-2007, 06:14 PM
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Re: So I\'m going to Prison for 2 years
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This attitude seems dumb to me. DUI seems to cover a whole lot of ground, in terms of actual capacity to drive. [/ QUOTE ] That is true. I, for one think that the DUI laws are way to hard on people who are, at worst, slightly intoxicated. However, the fact that OP has gotten nailed three times indicates to me that he is either doing it a lot, or is really drunk enough that it's obvious from his driving, and therefore probably is really dangerous to others on the road. Also, to continue to drive after drinking on a suspended license after he got caught once is, ethical considerations aside, just plain dumb. As someone who does occasionally drive after having a few drinks, but never having gotten nailed for DUI, whether because I really am driving reasonably well or though plain dumb luck, I have some sympathy for OP, but not a whole lot.
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