Drink Drive Limit Differences
03-12-2014, 17:11
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Re: Drink Drive Limit Differences
Take a ferry from Scandinavia to Denmark, and try to count how many drunks there are aboard. You may run out of numbers. 
And that's before they get to land!
What the State says and what state some of the population get into, seem totally polarized.
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03-12-2014, 17:18
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Re: Drink Drive Limit Differences
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Take a ferry from Scandinavia to Denmark, and try to count how many drunks there are aboard. You may run out of numbers.
And that's before they get to land!
What the State says and what state some of the population get into, seem totally polarized. |
As I said, they have a very peculiar relationship with alcohol. The more they abuse it, the more convinced lawmakers become of the rightness of restricting access to it. But the more they make it a forbidden fruit, the more they enhance the desire for it. That's human nature for you.
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03-12-2014, 21:10
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Re: Drink Drive Limit Differences
A zero limit is dangerous
Heres why, you go out for a meal and don't drink but some deserts contain alcohol which could get you banned, plus the human body naturally produces alcohol so even then a teetotaller could fail a driving test.
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03-12-2014, 21:49
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Re: Drink Drive Limit Differences
If you fail a roadside breathtest, you get a blood test back at the station. That could decide if it was mouthwash, a tipsy dessert or natural causes.
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03-12-2014, 22:40
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Re: Drink Drive Limit Differences
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If you fail a roadside breathtest, you get a blood test back at the station. That could decide if it was mouthwash, a tipsy dessert or natural causes.
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Exactly but you still wouldn't get a zero limit.
You would need a 40 20 mg or whatever the measurement is to be safe.
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03-12-2014, 22:52
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Re: Drink Drive Limit Differences
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Exactly but you still wouldn't get a zero limit.
You would need a 40 20 mg or whatever the measurement is to be safe.
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Plus you would also have suffered the ignominy of being cuffed and stuffed in a paddy wagon and driven down to the station for further tests. Sorry, but that to me is draconian and excessive in comparison to the public good. There are other things that are as distracting - or more distracting - than very low levels of alcohol, and we don't treat them in anything like the same way.
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04-12-2014, 10:11
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Re: Drink Drive Limit Differences
Reducing the limit would make no difference to the morons who get bladdered and drive anyway. They're the real menace IMO, not the person who has a glass of wine with their meal.
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04-12-2014, 10:15
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Re: Drink Drive Limit Differences
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Reducing the limit would make no difference to the morons who get bladdered and drive anyway. They're the real menace IMO, not the person who has a glass of wine with their meal.
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Agree and I can't see the police having the times and resources necessary to take everyone breath tested and found to have a miniscule amount of alcohol in their system, back to HQ for a blood test or whatever. That can't be a sensible use of their resources.
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