Drinking and driving is bad, okay?

"JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!" (jqj213)
09/08/2015 at 17:45 • Filed to: rant, i hate everyone, stupid teenagers

Especially when you are a junior in high school. If you are 17 and driving drunk, you deserve to lose your license and your car. I sincerely wish you would wrap your car around a tree and let natural selection do it’s work. When I’m sitting in class and hear you talking about the big party on Saturday and how you were so lucky making it home without being pulled over, you deserve to be dead. When you are proudly proclaiming that you got stopped for speeding but the cops didn’t find your bottle of open vodka in the back seat, you are just a piece of shit.

What you do in your own home is one thing. When you start publicly doing very illegal things and threaten the lives of innocent bystanders, you really tick me off to no end. I know people who have lost their lives by drunk drivers. It isn’t cool. It isn’t funny. When you sit and complain about your dad taking your car away because you got caught driving drunk, you seriously are fucked up in the head.

/rant

DISCUSSION (34)

wiffleballtony > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 17:52

Personal opinion that drunk driving charges should be the same as reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.

TheHondaBro > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 17:53

#Florida

Rainbow > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 17:53

One time my coworkers invited me to go bowling. When I found out they were all going to be drinking in the parking lot (and then driving themselves home), I told them that I would call 911 the second I see one of them open a bottle. I haven’t been invited out with them since, but I don’t want anything to do with them anymore, anyway.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 17:53

I like a good drink but I hang up the keys for the night when I do. Crashing on a friend’s couch > crashing into a lamppost.

LongbowMkII > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 17:54

or you know... a dumb 17 year old guy. I hope he learns with an overnight in jail rather than anything more tragic. :/

PS9 > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 17:55

I’d make my kid voulenteer at a physical therapy center for a month if he/she got caught DUIing.

Also he/she’d be done driving for that year that the very least. Second offense = no driving until you move out.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
09/08/2015 at 17:57

And thats my main point. I know of a lot of kids who drink or smoke. But they do it at home behind closed doors not affecting anyone but themselves.

When you start going public....

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 17:57

I’ve stopped talking to a lot of people when they decide to pull stunts like that. Good for you though.

It isn’t fair to anyone else on the road

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > wiffleballtony
09/08/2015 at 18:00

It’s especially messed up that the punishment for minors is so lax compared to that of an adult. Basically a call home gets the car released back to the parents.

Rainbow > wiffleballtony
09/08/2015 at 18:00

I’d go one further and make it one count of attempted murder for every .01% over the limit.

Plus a mandatory retake of both the written and actual driver’s test every six months for life, after a minimum of 5 years with no license. (after release from prison, if that’s even applicable)

Also, the passengers of drunk drivers should be charged as accomplices. You’re a moron if you let someone drive drunk and you deserve a harsh punishment as well.

Nauraushaun > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 18:02

Good job. It’s a tough decision to make, people will think you’re an asshole. But it’s the right one.

Unfortunately they won’t realize that unless one of them dies, which won’t happen as long as you’re doing what you’re doing! It’s a thankless task.

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 18:02

And also don’t drive hungover. Trust me, you don’t want to.

Nauraushaun > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 18:04

Agree. God, it should not be something to brag about. It should be a point of shame.

Rainbow > Nauraushaun
09/08/2015 at 18:06

For sure. Of course, it’s honestly not that hard for me... I don’t have many friends, and in almost every other case I’m a little too forgiving, but I’m the kind of person who will grab your phone and throw it into the back seat if you try texting while driving. That and DUI are just the most unforgivable things if you ask me. (Obviously excluding major stuff like rape and murder, but it goes without saying that most people would leave their friends after something like that)

wiffleballtony > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 18:13

I agree. I’d basically make it as harsh as you would for any misuse of a weapon in public.

Funktheduck > JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!
09/08/2015 at 18:41

I was hit by a drunk driver.

Roughly 9 AM on a Thursday

He was driving too fast for a right turn and understeered. Clipped the rear of the Corolla and drove off. Missed the next turn and drove into a house and ran away on foot... Back past me. Cops closed in on him from all directions.

He was 19 and blew a .21.

While I didn’t get severely injured, I have back issues that pop up from time to time years later.

Bytemite > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 18:56

Well it is no wonder you don’t have many or ANY friends.

Throwing someone else’s phone and threatening to call the police during a night out will usually result in loss of friends. That is probably the most antisocial way of going about expressing your discomfort with certain activities. Just leave the situation like a normal person would and let people do what they want and suffer the consequences for it. Are you the type of person who also goes 65 mph in the passing lane because it’s legal and no one should ever disobey the law as long as you and your vigilante justice is present?

Not trying to be offensive or rude, but just try to see what your behavior looks like in a 3rd person point of view. If you are creating conflict or tension, making situations uncomfortable, and ruining other people’s fun, and you are doing all this without ever feeling any sense of awkwardness or guilt, you might have sociopathy.

Rainbow > Bytemite
09/08/2015 at 18:59

Umm, it’s not about legality. It’s about the fact that they’re going to kill somebody.

Bytemite > wiffleballtony
09/08/2015 at 18:59

Oh it’s the “cars are 2-ton deadly weapons!” crowd.

Bytemite > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 19:01

That is not an inevitability. I don’t ever drive drunk, but I don’t go around throwing other people’s keys away. There is a difference between doing what is right and prudent, and what is antisocial behavior and over-the-top.

S2Konstantin > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 19:09

You sound like fun.

Unless you are talking about them all drinking whole bottle of liquor or something, you are like the passenger in a car saying you’ll pull the handbrake if you see them go a hair over 65.

There is nothing wrong with having a beer in the parking lot before bowling, then going inside and bowling for a while, and then driving home.

And you are threatening to call the police on suspicion of a bad crime when nothing has actually happened, there just exists the potential to after other bad decisions are thrown into the mix.

And don’t start yelling at me saying I’m some sort of drunk driving supporter, I’ve almost died due to one already and want it stopped as much as the next guy, I just know that you have to fight it the right way, and not some sensationalist way otherwise in the long run, it backfires.

S2Konstantin > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 19:13

We should also execute all bartenders and liquor store owners since they too are accomplices.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > TheHondaBro
09/08/2015 at 19:14

Siding with Florida for once, that is pretty much anywhere that 17 year olds can get hold of alcohol.

S2Konstantin > FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem
09/08/2015 at 19:17

I heard of a guy who drove hungover in the morning, still had some booze in his blood, got pulled over for something random (like a light out or something)

And bam, DUI.

wiffleballtony > Bytemite
09/08/2015 at 19:48

If the misuse of the machine results in the death of an innocent person, I hardly see any difference.

Rainbow > S2Konstantin
09/08/2015 at 20:02

Now, you definitely know that there’s a major difference there. Read the rules of Oppo before picking fights.

Rainbow > Bytemite
09/08/2015 at 20:03

Honestly, if you would rather be friends with a drunk driver than potentially save a life, you have your priorities backwards.

S2Konstantin > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 20:04

Take some of your own medicine before shilling it please.

EDIT: Actually I’m really sorry for this horrid crime against the rules of oppo. I will now commit sepuku to set everything right with the world. Thank you for your social justice! You have just made the world a better place.

Rainbow > S2Konstantin
09/08/2015 at 20:05

Having a beer would be fine. Sharing a bottle of vodka just before leaving is not cool. That’s what they were trying to do.

Rainbow > S2Konstantin
09/08/2015 at 20:06

I’m honestly not sure what you’re referring to here. I’m not picking a fight with anyone.

S2Konstantin > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 20:12

Fair enough, that is probably too much booze for all but the most seasoned of alcoholics.

S2Konstantin > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 20:12

You picked a fight with me.

Telling someone to stop picking fights when they aren’t

is passive-aggressively picking a fight.

(if you couldn’t tell, my comment was sarcastic)

Big Bubba Ray > S2Konstantin
09/08/2015 at 20:24

Yep, seen that happen a number of times. Specifically in at Mizzou during homecoming. Cops will pull people over left and right on the weekend mornings and do sobriety tests if the driver is acting funky. I’ve seen more field sobriety tests at 10 am than I’ve seen at 10 pm all because of driving super “hungover.”

Bytemite > Rainbow
09/08/2015 at 21:06

Big difference between discontinuing to be friends with drunk drivers and threatening to call 911 and making an ass of myself. And if you think you are potentially saving lives by acting that way, then that just reflects the seriously distorted way you view reality. You are potentially saving many more lives and your own by sitting still on a couch all day and not even driving at all, sober or not. So should I be an asshole and stop other people from doing any potentially harmful thing at all? Because really, you driving sober has a chance of killing those poor innocent people. Maybe I should throw your keys away too and convince myself that I am potentially saving lives.

People are doing things that put lives at risk every day, including you driving under the speed limit in the left lane. Eating greasy fast food is putting your own life at risk. Choosing to buy cheap clothing made in sweatshops is putting those child laborers’ lives at risk. Jaywalking is putting your life at risk and possibly the life of a driver who swerves to dodge you.

If you view the world this way, honestly you should consider being an insurance underwriter. You’d be pretty good at it. One thing you’re not good at, is being a car enthusiast.