Women Busted for DUI For Pushing Car 1854Yeah, but not necessarily a "motor vehicle" as Motorhead Lawyer says needs to be driven while intoxicated for it to be DUI. But not necessarily a "motor vehicle" for the purposes of DUI as...
Well, since this thread, yeah, I've read it.
But the point is, the average citizen shouldn't have to read it. I don't think one person out of a hundred reads any of the laws other than the synopses that are printed in the newpaper when they are pbutted.
You ought to be able to obey a law by reading its breastle and watching current events.
So, that brings us back to the two women with a dead engine. That "vehicle" wasn not self-propelled, was it? So was it a vehicle? And what state are we talking about, anyway?
OK.
Fine - I'm not in a mood to quibble about it since you can now get devices to measure yourself, unlike days of old where you had to guess.
Yep. But by your definition of "vehicle" above, they were not DUI since the vehicle was not self-propelled.
No, "they" weren't. 1 woman was. The other was a pbuttenger.
How about they didn't think they were going to drink enough to go over 0.08? How about they knew they were going to get drunk, but planned to just sleep in the car that night and drive away in the morning after they were OK?
Designated drivers mean you have to find one, and calling a cab is hideously expensive any more. Its $45 to get me out here in the country from anyplace in Fredericksburg, and if I need a cab to go back and get my car where I left it, that's another $45. But that's just me, and I drink maybe 2 beers 2 times a year, so it doesn't really make much difference to me. I just hate people who are (morally) doing the right thing getting reamed by the law's techincalities that make innocuous actions, such as sleeping, a punishable offense.
From what we've learned here, you don't have to drive - you can just try to sleep.
Those 2 times a year I do drink are either in the motel where I'm going to sleep anyway, or within walking distance of it, or someone else is driving, so none of this hubub applies to me, other than it gets me severely worked up to see idiotic law interpretations being used to punish people who are doing the right thing.
Dave Head
