If you are unable to drink yet still write “NO” on the monthly form or you can’t look your PO in the eye and say “No” when they ask you if you’ve been drinking, then you are not cut out to be an alcoholic.
Quit while you’re young.
You’re just mad (like a little boy who got into trouble and can’t play video games for a week) because you were caught.
As others have said…I too hear no sign of remorse for doing something potentially hazardous (FOR OTHER PEOPLE!!!).
Throw your unremorseful self a pity party and not one of us will be there.
Oh yeah, and there is more to life than drinking…and better ways to have fun too.
Need some Examples?
OK, OK all you judgemental fucks, who among you has NEVER driven drunk?
One…two…three…etc. Hmmm…Looks like we have at least a few liars here!
Before you answer, remember that 3 or 4 drinks in a couple hours will do it — I saw this first hand, at a weight of ~200 lbs. Anyone want to put their hand down now?
Big f’n deal, u can’t drink. Deal with it. You made a bad decision and now you have to pay the consequences. I’ve also been through the legal system myself for reasons more serious than your own and I got what I deserved. You live and you learn. So seriously stop your whining, and deal with your punishment you deserve it.
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
OK, OK all you judgemental fucks, who among you has NEVER driven drunk?
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I have never driven drunk. In fact, I have never driven within 24 hours of having had a drink.
And I don’t drink.
Man up and admit you messed up.
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
OK, OK all you judgemental fucks, who among you has NEVER driven drunk?
One…two…three…etc. Hmmm…Looks like we have at least a few liars here!
Before you answer, remember that 3 or 4 drinks in a couple hours will do it — I saw this first hand, at a weight of ~200 lbs. Anyone want to put their hand down now?
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The problem isn’t that he did it. The problem that he believes his punishment isn’t approriate, which obviously means he doesn’t understand the seriousness of his actions.
Actually, I’ve never even had a drink…never even tasted one- ever
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
OK, OK all you judgemental fucks, who among you has NEVER driven drunk?
One…two…three…etc. Hmmm…Looks like we have at least a few liars here!
Before you answer, remember that 3 or 4 drinks in a couple hours will do it — I saw this first hand, at a weight of ~200 lbs. Anyone want to put their hand down now?
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[quote]mastermoore wrote:
I just need to get this off of my mind, as hard as that might be.
I fucked up and got my first dwi a year and a half ago. There was no way to plead it down. It is on my record as of today–I admitted I was guilty to judge. I didn’t want to go to a trial and sit in front of a jury–that would be too emotionally and mentally draining for me.
The incident happened while I was in college. The last year and a half has matured me, as if that means anything to them.
I’m on probation for a year. There are close to 6k worth of fees over the course of the next three years involved with that. That is alright, I can always make more money, even though it it rather scarce now.
What really gets me is this fact. I am not allowed to drink period. I am not allowed to go into bars, at all. This means that I cannot have a beer in my own house or at a friend’s for one year. That is fundamentally wrong. They are asking a lot taking this right. At the age of 24, that is all my friends do. Work, pump iron, and then hit the bar, rinse, repeat.
This is calling for a huge change in my lifestyle. If I do drink and get caught, that is 180 days in jail. I’m torn apart right now and not sure how to deal with it.[/quote]
You should be in jail and should never be allowed to drive again. Period. Grow up and be glad you didn’t kill anyone and that you aren’t someone’s bitch in county.
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
OK, OK all you judgemental fucks, who among you has NEVER driven drunk?
One…two…three…etc. Hmmm…Looks like we have at least a few liars here!
Before you answer, remember that 3 or 4 drinks in a couple hours will do it — I saw this first hand, at a weight of ~200 lbs. Anyone want to put their hand down now?
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You have to be kidding! You must have been drunk when you wrote this.
[quote]drugzkill wrote:
simon-hecubus wrote:
OK, OK all you judgemental fucks, who among you has NEVER driven drunk?
One…two…three…etc. Hmmm…Looks like we have at least a few liars here!
Before you answer, remember that 3 or 4 drinks in a couple hours will do it — I saw this first hand, at a weight of ~200 lbs. Anyone want to put their hand down now?
The problem isn’t that he did it. The problem that he believes his punishment isn’t approriate, which obviously means he doesn’t understand the seriousness of his actions. [/quote]
I think this is ridiculous! It’s none of the states fucking business how much legal alcohol you drink during your probation if you’re not allowed to drive. Who can you hurt besides yourself? If the charges were that serious you should be in jail. Otherwise how can they restrict your actions if they are not unlawful? How can they monitor this sort of crap anyway??
And I agree with Simon that most of the responders here sound a little sanctimonious. Most of the population drinks. Most of the population drives. Most of the population is perfectly capable of driving home after a couple drinks. Lighten up. (Of course, if you’ve had one too many… Calling yourself a cab is just plain common sense!)
[quote]MaloVerde wrote:
You should be in jail and should never be allowed to drive again. Period.
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Yeah yeah…that’s what we need — more people in jail!!..
Dude, are you fucking high? Have you been up for days with the meth guy?
If the kid doesn’t have remorse now, he sure as shit ain’t gonna get it by being shamed by you a-holes.
The only thing more stupid than a DWI is bringing it up on this forum.
Scott
While I agree that a DUI is a serious offense in most cases I can understand where the OP is coming from, especially in Texas. I lived there for a year and was pulled over and hassled multiple times just because I happened to:
a. be leaving a bar after last call.
b. be driving in general around last call
I was even pulled over one night because the highway patrol officer saw me leaving the parking lot of a plaza with a bar in it. I was actually just lost and had pulled over to check a map. The officer said he’d pulled me over because my license plate was “insufficiently illuminated.” I was then hassled about my out of state registration, taken out of my car, and issued a field sobriety test (which even though I hadn’t had a drink all day, was hard to pass when you’re being harrassed by a cop for no apparent reason). He then left me sitting on the hood of his patrol car while he searched the cab of my truck (no, there was no probable cause and no he didn’t ask). Finally, after all this (probably about a half an hour) he issued me a warning about the license plate light (which was perfectly fine) and told me to “get on home, I better not catch you out on the roads again tonight.”
This was in fact the moment I decided to leave Texas and move back home. But to get back to the point, I can assure you that if I had had even a single beer that night I would’ve been hauled off to jail and charged with a DUI. So before you start admonishing this kid for being mad about his punishment, perhaps you should ask to hear the whole story (guy who asked about the breathalyzer is excused, you acutally asked a question, good on ya).
OP, yeah it sucks, whether you deserve it or not, but make the best of it. Use this year to get stronger than your buddies (no hangovers makes getting to the gym a lot easier).
Master,
If you need advice, then go check out an AA meeting. That way, you’ll get the news from people who have really been there and done that. You’ll hear first hand how alcohol has destroyed people’s lives.
Asking alcohol advice from a group who never drinks, never breaks the speed limit, never lies, and never cheats on their taxes or at Scrabble is like going to an agoraphobic for travel ideas.
I empathize with you man. I think most of us have driven over the legal limit at some point in our lives. To those who don’t drink… I wish I never had and I admire you. But I’m sure you’ve made some kind of foolish decision in other areas of your life that may not be prosecutable. I look back on the times I drove drunk and am glad I never hurt someone, and was never caught. I learned my lesson from alchohol in other ways and don’t drink anymore. At some point in your life most people are forced to come to terms with alchol or be responsible. For some, it comes quicker and is more obvious like a DUI. I think the problem with this thread is not that you got the DUI, but the fact that you bitch about it. What you should be saying is that “Man, I wish I had used better judgement.” Or “I’m glad that’s all that happened.” or “Why did I get in the car.” Dude… own it. Take your licks and learn and grow. You can develop yourself a lot more as a person without alcohol. Alcohol is nothing more than a crutch to have a good time or compensate for something that you can’t do sober. I wouldn’t have had a lot of the fun I had without alcohol, but dude it wasn’t really the real me. I mean, would the “real” you drive while intoxicated and knowingly put others in danger. If so, then you should be in fucking jail. But do something positive with what you’ve got out of this situation, take responsibility for it, and learn something about yourself. It is nobody’s fault but yours, like any bad decision made in life, and this is an opportunity for personal growth. It doesn’t have to be this bad thing.
[quote]Kruiser wrote:
Most of the population drinks. Most of the population drives. Most of the population is perfectly capable of driving home after a couple drinks.[/quote]
We’re talking about a DWI here, as in driving with blood alcohol levels exceeding some state set limit, generally around 0.08. It has nothing to do with driving home after a couple of drinks, unless those drinks are two kegs or you weigh 67 pounds.
It’s not about giving him shame or remorse (though he’d come off as less of a jerk if he showed a bit of it), it’s about keeping people safe from him.
I’ve yet to hear about a prison inmate killing a pedestrian, cyclist or some other driver from his cell.
[quote]Kruiser wrote:
I think this is ridiculous! It’s none of the states fucking business how much legal alcohol you drink during your probation if you’re not allowed to drive. Who can you hurt besides yourself? If the charges were that serious you should be in jail. Otherwise how can they restrict your actions if they are not unlawful? How can they monitor this sort of crap anyway??[/quote]
It became the state’s business when he broke the law.
I don’t see how this stipulation is all that much different than other stipulations that judges levy every day where people that have broken a certain law are told not to engage in behaviors that had to do with the crime that they committed.
Whether it’s telling a stalker not to go near someone, or the pedophiles that are told not to go near schools, playgrounds, etc.
The bottom line is if you can’t do the time, then don’t do the crime.
And given how many repeat offenders we get in this country when it comes to DWIs, I think that they need to look into more stuff like this.
My favorite idea is the breathalyzer on the ignition of every single vehicle in the country!
[quote]Kruiser wrote:
And I agree with Simon that most of the responders here sound a little sanctimonious. Most of the population drinks. Most of the population drives. Most of the population is perfectly capable of driving home after a couple drinks. Lighten up. (Of course, if you’ve had one too many… Calling yourself a cab is just plain common sense!)[/quote]
Sorry, but I don’t look at this subject as something that anyone should lighten up about.
I have to deal with a family member that has had multiple DWIs and still scares the heck out of the family with the decisions that they make.
Personally, I got lucky as my wake up call to my destructive behavior was a cop that pulled me over, gave me a roadside breathalyzer and then let me off with a warning despite the fact that I had blown a .09 BAC.
I haven’t had a drink in about 8 years.
And I’m so much better for it.
Personally, my advice would be to find a different group of friends. I used to have friends that I worked with where I’d work, go out drinking with them and repeat.
And guess what, I broke away from that group and now I’m happily married, have two great kids, one on the way and I weight about 100 less than I did when I was a freaking lush.
At the time I thought the cop was an A-Hole for why he pulled me over. The supposedly erratic driving was the way I drove home every day. But now I look back at it as a great gift that he gave me that night.
[quote]Kruiser wrote:
I think this is ridiculous! It’s none of the states fucking business how much legal alcohol you drink during your probation if you’re not allowed to drive. Who can you hurt besides yourself? If the charges were that serious you should be in jail. Otherwise how can they restrict your actions if they are not unlawful? How can they monitor this sort of crap anyway??
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It is called a condition of release. Probation, parole, and house arrest are not just an unconditional release. There are conditions and requirements that are to be met. If you don’t meet them- Back to Jail!
How is it monitored? Probation and Parole officers. They usualy don’t, but if they get the inclination to believe that you are violating the conditions of your probation- They will stop by your house at 2:00 Friday night.
What some people don’t seem to understand is that when you commit a crime and are convicted, you surrender your rights as a first class citizen.
Think about that last one for a minute.