Originally posted by: nick1985
Im sorry, but thats hilarious.
It does happen though...someone in Port St. Lucie, Florida was given a DUI on his bike last year.
It's easy revenue. About $4-10k easy money and free publicity that the program is saving lives. The real benefit is pushing an action into law/policy by lumping them onto MADD/SADD issues.
I got a DUI because an ex-girlfriend of mine had my arrested in my parking space by a buddy cop. I ended up blowing a .168, I barely drank that night as I was at a club with very expensive drinks but a really awesome concert. My tab was in my pocket, I averaged not even a beer an hour.
I weighed about 180 (I am 5'11") at the time...it was equivalent to be pounding down a 6 pack.
Turns out the reason I failed was due to a open gash inside my lower lip where I ran into a shelf that day and bashed my teeth through it.
To defend myself would have been roughly 10-15k easy and I would still be subject to losing the case just based on the breath test anyway.
I paid it and it hasn't affected me since. My insurance, credit, etc have not been raised contrary to what MADD/SADD wants you to believe. My top rated insurance company's agent told me flat out they don't even consider a first time DUI in my area as there are so many of them and almost 100% have not resulted in any insurance claim.