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Originally Posted by CTinline-six
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Drunk drivers are the scum of the earth. I've seen so many accidents caused by them where they could care less about what happened and are self centered idiots. A girl I was previously friends with was out drinking at a casino with her friends. She decided to drive home (the casino is an hour away) and hit a motorcyclist at an intersection. She still to this day thinks alcohol had nothing to do with the accident, and that she was perfectly fine to drive even though she tested way over the legal limit and could barely stand up at the scene. All of her friends drove home that night also.
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15 years ago, my friends and I went to my parents cabin for a weekend. This is Finland, so the cabin is really in the woods.
One of us was going through a bad breakup and he hit the bottle hard. By our rules, all vehicle keys were hidden before the first beer was opened (when we were 15, a drunk driver almost killed our friend so we didn't even trust ourselves to have keys and alcohol) but this time, the idiot decided we weren't nice, the world hated him, all was wrong.
My parents cabin is on a private road and there is this barrier you need keys for in the front you leave open when you go in. The guys acted fast, one of them ran to close the gate, two guys held our old and dear friend down, i stole his car battery. Because of our rule of collecting the keys and for him to premeditate enough to bring an extra set with him, we called the cops so they'd fetch him.
The next day we took him his car to the police station, made our statements and about five years later our old friend came to us all separately and apologized. It was pretty cool of him and we all love him but after that none of us could really trust him ever again.
I have driven after a half a pint over a dinner about three times in my life and i felt awful each time even though i was perfectly sober legally.
You can put pretty much anything under the "yeah, but i was really, really drunk" defence except driving. I still have nightmares about what could've happened that night and i hate myself because i still don't give a fuck about what could've happened to my friend. I think of his mom, and the victims he could've had.
Anyway. Rather overreact and make sure a drunk doesn't drive than let them try.