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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember reading a Wapo article/series about 15 years ago about what happens when you get a DUI.  It featured a few seemingly reasonable people who had recently been charged with their first-time DUI and it wen through how their case was resolved. [b] It struck me at the time bc one was the people was similar to me: a petite woman who claimed to just drink wine with dinner. She blew just over the limit on her way home to Arlington and didnt realize she was over the recently lowered standard.
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Dont remember exact details of the whole series but my take-aways were: getting a DUI for the first time is the equivalent of spending $10,000 for taxi ride (pre-Uber days) and the people who got a lawyer faced fewer consequences.

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No sympathy.    If you drink (at all--even "just wine") don't drive.   If you go out to dinner and know you will be driving home--don't drink AT ALL.    It's that simple.[/quote]

I agree.  In one of my first jobs a man in my office and his family went to Pennsylvania for family Thanksgiving and on the way back a drink driver crossed lanes and hit his car broad side.  His wife and three children were killed instantlyand he had permanent brain damage.  This was before drunk drivers were charged and he wasn't even scratched.  Drunk drivers should be put in jail and the key thrown away and lawyers who represent them are the scum of the legal profession.[/quote]

Better yet, someone who’s killed people like that while driving drunk should probably just be hanged by the neck until they are dead. Much cheaper and more effective deterrent than life in prison. Why should they get to live for another 40-60 years after killing a family? Rope is cheap and reusable. [/quote]

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