I got a DUI last night...

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Eeezee

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Originally posted by: FirewolfX
I 'm sure somebody has said this before, how about instead of asking for advice on a forum, you get a freakin' lawyer.

I'm sure he's doing that as well, but any true ATOTer would post the story here first.

BTW welcome to the forums
 

fstime

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Only in the United States, only here.

And maybe in the UK too, thats about it........

 

Eeezee

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Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Hope you go to jail, bye! :)

All of the responses like this obviously read the title but not the post. He was on a damn bicycle!
 

TridenT

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Originally posted by: Eeezee
Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Hope you go to jail, bye! :)

All of the responses like this obviously read the title but not the post. He was on a damn bicycle!

No, I read the whole thread. I just want him to go to jail for being a dumbass.
 

yhelothar

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Originally posted by: Eli
DUI on a bicycle is absolutely fucking ridiculous. Period. It is not the same thing in any way, shape or form.

The reason DUI in a car is so dangerous is because a car is a 3,000lb missile capable of traveling at 80-100 miles per hour or more..

If you're drunk and get your ass run over on a bicycle, it's your own damn fault. It's not dangerous to another car driver at all. The car is obviously going to win.

Unless said driver is the type of person that will swerve off a cliff to avoid hitting an animal. :roll:

Bingo.
This is exactly why this isn't a driving under the influence.
 

minendo

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Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Originally posted by: minendo
Originally posted by: schizoid77
Originally posted by: minendo
Get a lawyer. Refusal of a breathalyzer generally results in automatic suspension of your license. In my state, refusal to submit to a breathalyzer or blood test is automatic 1 year suspension.

They're gonna suspend his bicycle license?

No, they will suspend his driving privileges regardless of the vehicle he was operating during the arrest/citation.

What if you don't have a license? It doesn't require one to ride a bike...

I would assume that trying to get a license would be pretty difficult after a DUI and when you finally do get a license it would show on your record. Additionally, the issues with license suspension are only half of the case. The other side being legal which can/will involve fines, jail time, community service, court ordered classes, evaluations, etc.
 

Eli

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I honestly don't understand how these types of laws can be put on the books.

Public intoxication is designed to keep people that are belligerent off the streets. It's not the same thing. You would never get arrested for PI unless you were starting fights, breaking things, pissing on things, etc. Nobody gets PI because they're walking home from the bar minding their own business, doing everybody a favor by not being on the road.

Which is it? Either you can be [outside of a building] after having a few beers, or you can't. According to this law, and if you take the public intoxication law literally, it may as well be against the law to drink alcohol anywhere except inside of your own home, or a hotel. :confused:
 

minendo

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Originally posted by: astroidea
Originally posted by: Eli
DUI on a bicycle is absolutely fucking ridiculous. Period. It is not the same thing in any way, shape or form.

The reason DUI in a car is so dangerous is because a car is a 3,000lb missile capable of traveling at 80-100 miles per hour or more..

If you're drunk and get your ass run over on a bicycle, it's your own damn fault. It's not dangerous to another car driver at all. The car is obviously going to win.

Unless said driver is the type of person that will swerve off a cliff to avoid hitting an animal. :roll:

Bingo.
This is exactly why this isn't a driving under the influence.

It depends on how the state laws are written and how bicycles are categorized. From the sounds of it, bicycles are considered vehicles in Maryland state law and DUI pertains to all vehicles within Maryland state law.
 

DomS

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Originally posted by: tyler811
Originally posted by: Steve
Originally posted by: tyler811
I do not think it is funny, I think your an idiot. You could have wandered into a car path and been killed. Worst yet the occupants of the car could have been killed hitting a tree after swerving to miss your dumbass. Suck it up and dont be a little bitch about it. Take you punishment like an adult though it seems you cannot make decisions like an adult.


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Acemac

A sober cyclist could have easily done the same thing, I see/have enough near misses going to and from work every day. And what does Acemcmac have to do with any of this?

Drunk driver killed Acemac. This wingnut could have killed someone by wandering into the path of a car. Dont tell me it happens all the time. I ride a bike 6 miles a day. I am careful and respect of cars. Being drunk dulls your senses and impairs your judgement. There is reason what so ever to drink and drive any thing.



I think there should be a different classification if you're on a bicycle...only because you're not piloting a ton or so of steel while drunk. But it's still serious, as you made the point you're more likely to swerve into traffic and cause someone ELSE to careen into a tree/others.
 

Eli

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Hmm..

Thinking about it.. If you're drunk enough to be swerving into traffic and such on a bicycle, you should be charged with something. I take it back, that is going to be dangerous to other drivers.

It shouldn't be a DUI though. It should be public intoxication, just like if you were walking. Riding a bicycle should be considered walking as far as DUI laws go. If someone was walking in traffic drunk, they would be charged with PI. Both walking and riding a bicycle are human powered. It's just not the same as a car..... How unfair.
 

TallBill

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The level of stupidity in this thread is at an all time ATOT high. Its a fucking bicycle.
 

Rebasxer

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To everyone that's telling me to get a lawyer, thanks for the advice but I've been on that since this morning. One of my buddies might know someone on the county bar and my friends with experience in the local courts are already helping me find someone that can try and get this reduced. Does anyone know what actually constitutes being arrested? I was cuffed and taken to the station but I was never read my rights...so did I actually get arrested?
 

tboo

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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: PingSpike
Originally posted by: schizoid77
He wasn't driving, people.

So it's an RUI then?

I guess...but they do ride on public roads and have to obey traffic laws. They can't just pick and choose which ones they want to follow. A drunk bike rider could get some people killed if they were swerving to avoid them. Not to mention their own safety.

Yeah, I'm sure that happens all the time...:roll:

And a plane could fall out of the sky and hit the drunken cyclist sending him through the window of an oncoming car, killing a mother of two. It could happen!

I know a guy from HS who was killed while riding his bike drunk. He was going down a road & decided to cross withoug looking both ways & was hit by an oncoming car. He was killed instantly & the driver of the car lost a couple of fingers.
 

SirStev0

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Originally posted by: tboo
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: PingSpike
Originally posted by: schizoid77
He wasn't driving, people.

So it's an RUI then?

I guess...but they do ride on public roads and have to obey traffic laws. They can't just pick and choose which ones they want to follow. A drunk bike rider could get some people killed if they were swerving to avoid them. Not to mention their own safety.

Yeah, I'm sure that happens all the time...:roll:

And a plane could fall out of the sky and hit the drunken cyclist sending him through the window of an oncoming car, killing a mother of two. It could happen!

I know a guy from HS who was killed while riding his bike drunk. He was going down a road & decided to cross withoug looking both ways & was hit by an oncoming car. He was killed instantly & the driver of the car lost a couple of fingers.

and how is this any different than if he was walking?
 

rise

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Originally posted by: Rebasxer
To everyone that's telling me to get a lawyer, thanks for the advice but I've been on that since this morning. One of my buddies might know someone on the county bar and my friends with experience in the local courts are already helping me find someone that can try and get this reduced. Does anyone know what actually constitutes being arrested? I was cuffed and taken to the station but I was never read my rights...so did I actually get arrested?
yes
 

imported_Imp

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lol

I was going to ravage you for DUI, but on a bicycle? You can get DUI for riding a lawn mower at 3 MPH or even a horse I think, so this isn't a surprise. You probably made the cop's night.

Honestly, good luck. There's a chance someone could have got hurt/killed trying to evade your drunkeness, so that's working against you.
 

alkemyst

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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.

 

FallenHero

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Originally posted by: rise
Originally posted by: Rebasxer
To everyone that's telling me to get a lawyer, thanks for the advice but I've been on that since this morning. One of my buddies might know someone on the county bar and my friends with experience in the local courts are already helping me find someone that can try and get this reduced. Does anyone know what actually constitutes being arrested? I was cuffed and taken to the station but I was never read my rights...so did I actually get arrested?
yes

Correct. We don't have to read you your rights unless we ask you questions pertaining to the reason you are arrested.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: nick1985
Originally posted by: Rebasxer
Yea apparently riding a bicycle while intoxicated is the same thing as operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in the state of Maryland...

what if it were a big wheel?


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You'd get a DUI here in Florida even on that.
 

RGN

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Originally posted by: tyler811
I do not think it is funny, I think your an idiot. You could have wandered into a car path and been killed. Worst yet the occupants of the car could have been killed hitting a tree after swerving to miss your dumbass. Suck it up and dont be a little bitch about it. Take you punishment like an adult though it seems you cannot make decisions like an adult.


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Acemac

Don't ya think he could do that walking too?
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: OdiN
You'll get no sympathy from me for drinking and driving.

Deserve what you get.

dude if it wasn't for alcohol, you'd never be born.
 

ChaoZ

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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: PingSpike
Originally posted by: schizoid77
He wasn't driving, people.

So it's an RUI then?

I guess...but they do ride on public roads and have to obey traffic laws. They can't just pick and choose which ones they want to follow. A drunk bike rider could get some people killed if they were swerving to avoid them. Not to mention their own safety.

Yeah, I'm sure that happens all the time...:roll:

And a plane could fall out of the sky and hit the drunken cyclist sending him through the window of an oncoming car, killing a mother of two. It could happen!

Wasn't there a story about a guy going to the mailbox and a plane crashed on him?