sigh... :(

[Izzy]

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I bet the US would pass more harsh laws if our jails weren't already over flowing with people who still don't care that our old laws exist.

[Cmh1010]

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A little girl in grade 5 in the middle school I went to back in junior high died in a drunk driving accident. She and her grandma were driving home one day and a drunk trucker hit them. She was just a little girl and everyone in the school was really emotional because it was the really small school in a small town kind of school where everyone knew each other.

The "two drinks" limit is completely different for everyone, like since I'm short and small, if I drank two drinks I'd probably over the limit while a tall guy could drink three drinks and not be over. The government should come up with more accurate ways of measuring if you're good to drive, or make it so you can't even sniff the bottle cap if you're gonna be driving.
They should also encourage people to ask other people to make sure that they don't drive while their drunk because A LOT of people say that they would never drive after they had been drinking, but then when they get drunk, they get stupid and do things they wouldn't normally do; like drinking and driving.

[poochieCREAM]

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i was in southbank parklands with my friend, bree
we got out of the cinemas at around 11 and we were on our way to the bus stop,
and about 3 drunk guys (the area we were in is surrounded by restaurants, bars etc)
kept following us, and screaming for like 10 minutes, then we saw cops and they handled the drunk guys xD
thats happened a lot to me. who knows what wouldve happened :/

[Dimitri13]

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What does that have to do with drunk driving?

[poochieCREAM]

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the drunk bit minus the driving o-O
could be just as serious.

[Cmh1010]

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I work in a town with lots of drunks and after work sometimes, random drunk guys follow me and talk to me and stuff. Sometimes they come in the store and cause trouble too.

[LilyPichu]

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Drunk driving is despicable. You're risking people's lives once you're on that road..
That's an incredibly sad story. That, and all the other tales of misfortunes caused by drunk driving.
God knows how many there are by now. xx;

[Commandersa1]

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Jesus who cares? It didn't affect your life in any way so ****ing get over it.

Oh, you are looking for the forum 18 forums down.

[ledwix]

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This is why I think drinking is overrated. To assume that a population can, as a whole, be responsible with its drinking patterns and make sure not to have an intoxicated system while driving a vehicle is obviously a mistake.

What I'm asking is if so much hype about beer and getting wasted is really worth the guaranteed 10,000+ drunk driving deaths each year (in USA)? (historically it has usually been 15 to 25 thousand) I feel like we are basically sacrificing innocent and non-innocent lives on a large scale as a consequence of having a little extra fun. Or is there some great justification I am unaware of?

[Prime8]

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This is why I think drinking is overrated. To assume that a population can, as a whole, be responsible with its drinking patterns and make sure not to have an intoxicated system while driving a vehicle is obviously a mistake.

What I'm asking is if so much hype about beer and getting wasted is really worth the guaranteed 10,000+ drunk driving deaths each year (in USA)? (historically it has usually been 15 to 25 thousand) I feel like we are basically sacrificing innocent and non-innocent lives on a large scale as a consequence of having a little extra fun. Or is there some great justification I am unaware of?

+1 support

[Dimitri13]

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This is why I think drinking is overrated. To assume that a population can, as a whole, be responsible with its drinking patterns and make sure not to have an intoxicated system while driving a vehicle is obviously a mistake.

What I'm asking is if so much hype about beer and getting wasted is really worth the guaranteed 10,000+ drunk driving deaths each year (in USA)? (historically it has usually been 15 to 25 thousand) I feel like we are basically sacrificing innocent and non-innocent lives on a large scale as a consequence of having a little extra fun. Or is there some great justification I am unaware of?

You get extra points for women and children.