the limit is 35, but as a police officer, if we turn up for duty and blow over 13 we are shown the door.
Drink Driving is wrong!
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I would be all for a law that says that you cannot go into a pub and drink, then drive home. My problem has always been that you cannot distinguish between somebody who had been drinking the night before and still had excess in their system. I have never believed that it had the same effect as the night before. I have got into taxi's in the past after a couple of pints and wondered how people can even contemplate driving when their vision is so 'fuzzy', let alone their lack of co-ordination.
I'm sorry if I offended anyone (I should have quoted that comment differently*) 
I will put my head on the block and admit to drink driving, and being cautioned by the Police for this offence about 6yrs ago (just below the limit) however, you will not get me doing it again, after a guy who I used to work with was involved in a crash with his friends due to drink/drugs (who knows exactly, only the Police) and ended up dead! :frown2:
I DO NOT ADVOCATE IN ANY WAY DRINK DRIVING:nono:
*"I'm sure some of us have been guilty of it in the past"*
I will put my head on the block and admit to drink driving, and being cautioned by the Police for this offence about 6yrs ago (just below the limit) however, you will not get me doing it again, after a guy who I used to work with was involved in a crash with his friends due to drink/drugs (who knows exactly, only the Police) and ended up dead! :frown2:
I DO NOT ADVOCATE IN ANY WAY DRINK DRIVING:nono:
*"I'm sure some of us have been guilty of it in the past"*
I don't think a true zero tolerance is practicable and I wouldn't support any such proposal, beacuse things like mouthwash etc contain alcohol, and also it stays in the system in trace quantities long after one stops drinking.
I do agree with Richb's sentiments though. I think it's a bit stupid drinking alcohol knowing you've got to drive home. By the same token I don't like people trying to coerce me (or my chauffeur) into having 'just one' at a meal out or whatever.
I enjoy the odd wee tipple of spirits (shush in advance, Whitelock!) but I don't need booze to enjoy myself. I don't really feel the need to escape real life that much that I have to have drink (and drugs don't appeal at all to a control freak).
I do agree with Richb's sentiments though. I think it's a bit stupid drinking alcohol knowing you've got to drive home. By the same token I don't like people trying to coerce me (or my chauffeur) into having 'just one' at a meal out or whatever.
I enjoy the odd wee tipple of spirits (shush in advance, Whitelock!) but I don't need booze to enjoy myself. I don't really feel the need to escape real life that much that I have to have drink (and drugs don't appeal at all to a control freak).
I fully agree with you Jamie, however, I know many of my colleagues that I work with get totally plastered most weekends and then call in sick the following couple of days!!
I'm sorry if I offended anyone (I should have quoted that comment differently*)
I DO NOT ADVOCATE IN ANY WAY DRINK DRIVING:nono:
*"I'm sure some of us have been guilty of it in the past"*
Thats the spirit Ginja, i thought you didn't mean it as it came out, & i can assure you a lot of us can agree with your last statement, all be it many moons ago when drink driving wasn't such a big thing. I do think with a bit of common sense that zero tolerence is the way forward, obviously there can be an allowance for stuff like toothpaste with alcohol in, but surely that will only show up as marginal. The big question is, how much can you drink to be under the limit, & nobody can answer that as everyones different, so if the limit is zero or say 2 to allow for the toothpaste, then at least everyone knows where they stand, now doesn't that make sense ?
I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said on the woes of drink driving.... suffice to say, anyone stupid enough to do it :
a) Is as much a danger to other road users IMO as unlicensed drivers/the no tax/insurance/MOT crew
b) Deserves everything they get if they get caught
Finally to anyone who believes they can be over the legal limit & still perfectly capable of driving well........this is a self con, whatever happens on the road, rightly or wrongly, if you are over the limit, you are at fault............simples!
a) Is as much a danger to other road users IMO as unlicensed drivers/the no tax/insurance/MOT crew
b) Deserves everything they get if they get caught
Finally to anyone who believes they can be over the legal limit & still perfectly capable of driving well........this is a self con, whatever happens on the road, rightly or wrongly, if you are over the limit, you are at fault............simples!
I can't stress enough please one pint is too much!. drink pop or alcolhol free when in the car the pain of losing a loved one is almost unbearable.
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got pulled last night dirty exsperience,been done once b4 not doin it again,hence i was ok last night
every time you got pulled by police - not the best experience, so i'd like to avoid them cause they always looking for nag. Dunno about UK ones but LT ones are dirty...
if you got pulled you got to pay...
got pulled last night dirty exsperience,been done once b4 not doin it again,hence i was ok last night
My interpretation of Scotts remark is that, being breathylised is a very shaming experience, and not a remark particularly aimed at the police.
I've gone through the same experience, as mentioned in my previous post, and i agree, it is a dirty experience, very demeaning and personally, i felt very ashamed and wanted to just dissapear into a very large hole.
I would imagine the Lithuanian Police force are a little less regulated & honest compared to thier British counterparts. I don't imagine for 1 minute any offence was meant Si!.
No no, I am sure it wasn't Mark.....
Can understand the sentiment totally, there are some a-hole police officers, and I can imagine the whole process of being stopped and breathalysed isn't great for people.....especially if they have had a drink!
Can understand the sentiment totally, there are some a-hole police officers, and I can imagine the whole process of being stopped and breathalysed isn't great for people.....especially if they have had a drink!
really no offense man!!!
i believe that UK ones are way much better and educated then LT ones.
i was just sharing my experience:frown2:
shywaz, i dont think you are on your own with bad experiences of police officers. Some of us are doing our best to repair that reputation.
No offence taken matey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No offence taken matey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bring your knowledge to LT!
there is another mentality, bribes, chicanery, harassment... ...many other things are usual in police daily work:mad2::mad2::mad2:
i believe that you're the good one (most of west europe are good) also we got few clean cops, but they're minority - 1:10000 scale