Drinking & Driving - Is is [secretly] acceptable?
thebtman
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Drinking & Driving - Is is [secretly] acceptable?
I ask this because a number of rural pubs I have been to seem to have a very liberal view towards D&D.
What are your views?
Is it as dangerous rurally? Should rural pubs have an exclusion to the drink drive law?
What is your local rural landlord like? Would you report someone? Or are you spineless?
I ask this because a number of rural pubs I have been to seem to have a very liberal view towards D&D.
What are your views?
Is it as dangerous rurally? Should rural pubs have an exclusion to the drink drive law?
What is your local rural landlord like? Would you report someone? Or are you spineless?
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Obviously most will say no. But the reality at rural pubs isnt "no".
Mine WAS a real world opinion.
No, it is not acceptable.
Something like "why am I leaking claret from that crack in my skull while lying upside down in a flaming car in a farmers ditch talking like a washing machine"
I lived in a rural area for some years and worked in pubs...the answer is still NO.
But don't let that stop you from dismissing every NO reply you get until you get one YES answer, which you will then no doubt feel overwhelmingly confirms and validates your assertion.
About time the law was changed anyway, lower the limit.
I don't see your point about the rural aspect. If there are rural pubs then it stands to reason there are folk using these pubs so what's to say a drunk driver couldn't run over someone using the same pub. I drive through a village twice daily to get to and from work I wouldn't want to have a head on collision with some moron who thought it was ok to drive while pissed up on warm beer.
In some rural areas it's the done thing. I'm not saying people get plastered and attempt to drive a car, but they have 2 or 3 pints, this firmly pushes them over the limit and they drive anyway. That is seemingly acceptable in these places.
They might justify it to themselves by 'giving it half an hour', but ironically given the way alcohol absorption works this means they are even more likely to be drunk by the time they're on the road.
Pubs have car parks, sometimes quite big car parks. That tells you all you need to know really.
Even Alistair Stewart got done for it. Police Camera Action indeed.
It is dangerous but its all chance.
I think that's the point though. If it 'openly' goes on and nobody reports it then it becomes 'de-facto' acceptable within that community.
Yeah...I'd have said rural was probably a lot more dangerous.
And by "love", I mean "hate".
He is a notorious drink driver and everyone seems to just turn a blind eye :rolleyes:
Some people get away with it for years on end
The general attitude is "if they want to drive drunk its up to them".
I agree, as the law stands now you can still be prosecuted for drink driving even if you are under the limit after being involved in an accident, maybe if the same rules were applied prior to an accident there would be a lot less of them.