I got a DUI last night...

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OCGuy

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Jul 12, 2000
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Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: schizoid77
So can you get a DUI for walking drunk and falling down near a street?

Nope but you can get sighted for public intoxication.

unless you have keys to a car in your pocket.

What? Having keys to a car in your pocket wont get you a DUI walking around lol. wtf?

OH yes it will...if your car is anywhere near you even if you have no intention on driving.

If you are sleeping in your car while drunk, even in the backseat: dui

If you go out to your car while drunk: dui

If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui

all the above have happened in DUI law.

You simply do not understand the law. Much like the stupid Patriot Act that got passed to save us from terrorism.

That doesn't make any sense. How do a couple hundred thousand people tailgate every weekend and not get dui's?


It doesnt make sense because he is picking it out of his ass. You have to either be an idiot and plead guilty, or have the worst lawyer of all time in order to be convicted for DUI for any of those.

I was sitting in a car with my buddy, and we were drunk. A cop came up behind us, my buddy tossed the keys in the backseat. He got arrested for DUI. Case was dropped at the initial hearing.

What a dumbass cop will arrest you for, and what you can be convicted of are two different things.
 

OCGuy

Lifer
Jul 12, 2000
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: schizoid77
So can you get a DUI for walking drunk and falling down near a street?

Nope but you can get sighted for public intoxication.

unless you have keys to a car in your pocket.

What? Having keys to a car in your pocket wont get you a DUI walking around lol. wtf?

OH yes it will...if your car is anywhere near you even if you have no intention on driving.

If you are sleeping in your car while drunk, even in the backseat: dui

If you go out to your car while drunk: dui

If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui

all the above have happened in DUI law.

You simply do not understand the law. Much like the stupid Patriot Act that got passed to save us from terrorism.


Bahahahha. Wait........ Bahahahhahahahaha
 

JohnCU

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Dec 9, 2000
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Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: schizoid77
So can you get a DUI for walking drunk and falling down near a street?

Nope but you can get sighted for public intoxication.

unless you have keys to a car in your pocket.

What? Having keys to a car in your pocket wont get you a DUI walking around lol. wtf?

OH yes it will...if your car is anywhere near you even if you have no intention on driving.

If you are sleeping in your car while drunk, even in the backseat: dui

If you go out to your car while drunk: dui

If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui

all the above have happened in DUI law.

You simply do not understand the law. Much like the stupid Patriot Act that got passed to save us from terrorism.


Bahahahha. Wait........ Bahahahhahahahaha

hahahhahahahahhahahhahaha
 

IEC

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Jun 10, 2004
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: schizoid77
So can you get a DUI for walking drunk and falling down near a street?

Nope but you can get sighted for public intoxication.

unless you have keys to a car in your pocket.

What? Having keys to a car in your pocket wont get you a DUI walking around lol. wtf?

OH yes it will...if your car is anywhere near you even if you have no intention on driving.

If you are sleeping in your car while drunk, even in the backseat: dui

If you go out to your car while drunk: dui

If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui

all the above have happened in DUI law.

You simply do not understand the law. Much like the stupid Patriot Act that got passed to save us from terrorism.

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.
 

TridenT

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Sep 4, 2006
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Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: schizoid77
So can you get a DUI for walking drunk and falling down near a street?

Nope but you can get sighted for public intoxication.

unless you have keys to a car in your pocket.

What? Having keys to a car in your pocket wont get you a DUI walking around lol. wtf?

OH yes it will...if your car is anywhere near you even if you have no intention on driving.

If you are sleeping in your car while drunk, even in the backseat: dui

If you go out to your car while drunk: dui

If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui

all the above have happened in DUI law.

You simply do not understand the law. Much like the stupid Patriot Act that got passed to save us from terrorism.

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.

He can't, they don't exist.
 

FallenHero

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Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
Originally posted by: Spartan Niner
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: schizoid77
So can you get a DUI for walking drunk and falling down near a street?

Nope but you can get sighted for public intoxication.

unless you have keys to a car in your pocket.

What? Having keys to a car in your pocket wont get you a DUI walking around lol. wtf?

OH yes it will...if your car is anywhere near you even if you have no intention on driving.

If you are sleeping in your car while drunk, even in the backseat: dui

If you go out to your car while drunk: dui

If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui

all the above have happened in DUI law.

You simply do not understand the law. Much like the stupid Patriot Act that got passed to save us from terrorism.

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.

He can't, they don't exist.

His first two are true, but rare. The others are stretching it way beyond the intention of any law, and I would LOVE to see those examples.
 

GenHoth

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: schizoid77
So can you get a DUI for walking drunk and falling down near a street?

Nope but you can get sighted for public intoxication.

unless you have keys to a car in your pocket.

What? Having keys to a car in your pocket wont get you a DUI walking around lol. wtf?

OH yes it will...if your car is anywhere near you even if you have no intention on driving.

If you are sleeping in your car while drunk, even in the backseat: dui

If you go out to your car while drunk: dui

If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui

all the above have happened in DUI law.

You simply do not understand the law. Much like the stupid Patriot Act that got passed to save us from terrorism.

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.

 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: Zaitsev
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: nsafreak
Originally posted by: schizoid77
So can you get a DUI for walking drunk and falling down near a street?

Nope but you can get sighted for public intoxication.

unless you have keys to a car in your pocket.

What? Having keys to a car in your pocket wont get you a DUI walking around lol. wtf?

OH yes it will...if your car is anywhere near you even if you have no intention on driving.

If you are sleeping in your car while drunk, even in the backseat: dui

If you go out to your car while drunk: dui

If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui

all the above have happened in DUI law.

You simply do not understand the law. Much like the stupid Patriot Act that got passed to save us from terrorism.

That doesn't make any sense. How do a couple hundred thousand people tailgate every weekend and not dui's?

because coming down on tailgaters would cost more.

just look it up people...the information is easy to find.

Search things like DUI and constitution law or due process.

House parties are really popular here with young kids. The main way cops nail them is when they come out to there car for a lighter, or more cigs. They have a lower BAL requirement. They get arrested and never were driving. I am not talking about the fodder that is put up about people asleep on the road/at redlights/etc...just off road in a parking lot, park, off road sleeping in their cars.

It's one of the most profitable tickets you can give, pretty much guaranteed money.

I used to be a big MADD/SADD supporter. I lost one friend Steve DeOliveira in 1988 when the guy he left a party with tried to out run cops drunk and put his car in a canal yet didn't want to say anyone else was with him. Also a chick I know got hit and put in a coma for a week by another guy.
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: GenHoth

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.

I can only state what I encountered. Who is documenting this?

If someone wanted to know what you did today where could they go for proof.

Just google it up, it's out there VERY easily.
 

FallenHero

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Jan 2, 2006
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: GenHoth

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.

I can only state what I encountered. Who is documenting this?

If someone wanted to know what you did today where could they go for proof.

Just google it up, it's out there VERY easily.

No no no...that's not how arguments work. You make a claim, now you actually need to back up those claims. I don't do research for you.
 

SirStev0

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Nov 13, 2003
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Originally posted by: FallenHero
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: GenHoth

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.

I can only state what I encountered. Who is documenting this?

If someone wanted to know what you did today where could they go for proof.

Just google it up, it's out there VERY easily.

No no no...that's not how arguments work. You make a claim, now you actually need to back up those claims. I don't do research for you.

Welcome to ATOT. This is how arguments roll in this town.
 

FallenHero

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Jan 2, 2006
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
I am not trying to PROVE anything...just stating my experience there copper.

And all we are asking for is a bit of proof to back up your experience in the matter. I'm not saying you are 100% incorrect, but I would like an example of what you are talking about. As are others in this thread...otherwise, they just dismiss your claims as BS.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: GenHoth

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.

I can only state what I encountered. Who is documenting this?

If someone wanted to know what you did today where could they go for proof.

Just google it up, it's out there VERY easily.

What I did today is not a matter of public record. DUI convictions are.

You only hurt your cause when you make stuff up to defend it.
 

Throwmeabone

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That law is bullshit. Someone riding a bike drunk does not have remotely the same destructive capability as someone driving drunk.
 

Praxis1452

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I was gonna be on the side of the guy on the bike but he knowingly refused the breathalyzer. That's just fucking retarded. Still, it's a bicycle... Not the same as a motor vehicle not matter how much people try to make them similar.
 

rise

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Dec 13, 2004
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Originally posted by: Praxis1452
I was gonna be on the side of the guy on the bike but he knowingly refused the breathalyzer. That's just fucking retarded. Still, it's a bicycle... Not the same as a motor vehicle not matter how much people try to make them similar.
why is it retarded?
 

Eeezee

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Originally posted by: alkemyst
I am not trying to PROVE anything...just stating my experience there copper.

Your experience is meaningless.

You made a claim that should be easily verifiable. It's your job to do that. Otherwise, you're just full of bullshit.

Edit: Namely, I'd like to see examples of
If you are around your car in your own driveway while drunk: dui

If you are drunk at a party and your car is outside: dui
 

rise

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Dec 13, 2004
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Originally posted by: Eeezee
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I am not trying to PROVE anything...just stating my experience there copper.

Your experience is meaningless.

You made a claim that should be easily verifiable. It's your job to do that. Otherwise, you're just full of bullshit.
especially after having claimed to have been administered a FST in the middle of the road with cars whizzing by :laugh:
 

alkemyst

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Originally posted by: rise
btw alkemst, i got pc'd leaving a bar, car keys and all. my car was actually right around the corner, though so was my house. it didn't matter. you have to be in the drivers seat with the car running.

stop the bs.

Just because one is not arrested doesn't make anything further true.

How many have been let off for speeding with just a warning?
 

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: rise
Originally posted by: Eeezee
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I am not trying to PROVE anything...just stating my experience there copper.

Your experience is meaningless.

You made a claim that should be easily verifiable. It's your job to do that. Otherwise, you're just full of bullshit.
especially after having claimed to have been administered a FST in the middle of the road with cars whizzing by :laugh:

OK how do I verify this? Please let me know.
 

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: GenHoth

Please cite the exact cases where these incidents have happened. Thank you.

I can only state what I encountered. Who is documenting this?

If someone wanted to know what you did today where could they go for proof.

Just google it up, it's out there VERY easily.

What I did today is not a matter of public record. DUI convictions are.

You only hurt your cause when you make stuff up to defend it.

I could post up my arrest...there is no video to be found.
 

rise

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Dec 13, 2004
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Originally posted by: alkemyst
Originally posted by: rise
Originally posted by: Eeezee
Originally posted by: alkemyst
I am not trying to PROVE anything...just stating my experience there copper.

Your experience is meaningless.

You made a claim that should be easily verifiable. It's your job to do that. Otherwise, you're just full of bullshit.
especially after having claimed to have been administered a FST in the middle of the road with cars whizzing by :laugh:

OK how do I verify this? Please let me know.

i know if a cop ever asked me to do that i'd refuse the test and also refuse the breathalyzer. if you're right in saying the video actually had you in the middle of the road and a cop saying "jeez, he almost got hit", the prosecutor would have had some questions for the PO, not you.