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i throw drunk driving in one category. stupid. and if you do it, you're as stupid as they come.

murder is a bit different seeing as how there is one little word that will dictate whether someone gets thrown in the big house or not. it's called "intent." in my opinion, you shouldn't get the get off the hook just because you weren't boligerantly out of control while driving. you've intoxicated your body leaving yourself impared. and that my friends, happens to be against the law. therefore, you should be punished if found guilty of said crime.

and personally, if you have the reaction time of that of a drunk person or worse, no, i do not think you should be out driving the streets. that doesn't make much sense to put someone who obviously cannot react within reason, out on the streets, does it? that's why senial old bats aren't allowed to drive anymore. because they're too slow, and too out of it to be able to control a car properly and react that of a normal human being. and if you're drunk...you are not in a normal state.

but those are just my two little cents. take them for what you will. i'm not here to win an arguement.

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mary your avatar is madd jdm sicc, did johnny teach you how to take pics like that. :D


On topic, alcohol affects your judgment period. You don't have to be drunk or wasted for it to affect you. Bottom line, if you wanna feel a fucken mad crazy buzz instantly and not have the affects of alcohol, buy a slurpee and inhale that ----, your head will be soo buzzed you'll think it's frozen ^-^

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The legal limit is too ------- high over there anyway. So if you manage to get a DUI you're monumentally stupid.
Try that ---- here in Holland. We'll take your license away for a long ass ------- time.

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From law class, we found out that when you get into a car drunk and start the ignition, drive down the road and hit a woman crossing the street, instantly killing her. That's vehicular homicide.

But pretend you get into a car, and instead of starting the ignition and taking off you just pull the car out of gear and just coast down the road, and pick up enough speed to do some damage... that woman crosses the road and you hit and kill her. Legally, you did not commit murder because you didnt have the intent to kill her, because you didnt flip the ignition.

Yes, that's how stupid our legal system is. The difference between vehicular homicide and not is the flip of a switch. I personally think that you should be held responsible the second that car freakin moves. But whatever.

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sry, in ohio, when u get a dui u get bright yellow plates with red letters, letting EVERYBODY kno that u had a dui, and for some cases, they put a portable breathalizer in your vehicle, if you blow more than a .01 your car wont start

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You do know that you can get a DUI if your sitting in the car drunk with the keys in the car. So your logic doesn't work. And also I bet there's alot of hippocrits in this thread, everyone at some point in their lives probably drove their car over the legal limit. I mean 2 beers put you at the limit...

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When I was in law class Mark and I had to do a report on this, and the way the law read it essentially stated that intent did not begin until the keys were in the ignition and the car started. Maybe we were reading old laws, but thats the way it seemed.

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yes keys need to be in the ignition, and its not vehicular homocide unless you intended to kill that old woman, it would be vehicular manslaughter

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True.. I wasn't thinking, vehicular manslaughter is a sub-section of vehicular homicide..

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Holy ---- one little question starts a huge debate.

I didn't ask how to get out of a DUI, I asked if it's possible to keep a liscense. some people don't sit at home on the internet everyday and have jobs to get to.

As someone else stated it is sircumstantial and no one knows the story surrounding each personal experience. Yes it is stupid to ever get behind the wheel after drinking, but considering it is the most highly commited crime, there are either a select group on this board, or a lot of hipocrites.

And Mary, ---- off. You know nothing of me or what I deserve. from my original statement you don't even know If I got a DUI, or was debating with a friend that got one. I am far from a leech crying on the internet. I simply asked a question where it is easy to get a lot of different peoples opinion. I take offense to someone trying to belittle me when they know nothing of me.

For all others that gave some actual input, Thanks that answered my question.