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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
I don't know where you live most municipalities need the income generated from DUI's.
I have never met anyone who was stopped by the police, while drunk or previously drinking, that wasn't arrested for a DUI.
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You must’ve missed my thread that almost got me neg repp’d into oblivion. I was probably around the legal limit, with heavy drinking earlier in the day combined with stopping for a couple of hours prior to driving – who knows where I was on the scale. Cop pulled me over across the street from my house (for a broken light, not crazy driving), but let me go after commenting that he smelled alcohol.
I don’t do it anymore, got sick of being in and/or risking legal trouble. But I do have issues with the dismissive “$20 cab ride is a lot less expensive than a DUI” argument:
1. Yeah, but driving home yourself is free. And $20 (or $30, or $40) every time you want to go out adds up pretty fast for those people that don’t make 6 figures.
2. Getting your car the next day is a pain, especially if you live alone.
3. In cities like KC, the cab ride is generally a lot more than $20. From my house in OP to a friend in Olathe was $40, and that’s one suburb to another, not even going all the way downtown.
4. If I’m sloshed, yeah I’ll call a cab. But its much more frequent to be questionable – had a few beers but spaced them out and is clueless where you are on the BAC meter. Likely what happened to Gary Pinkel.