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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DUIs today are a witch-hunt.  .08 is NOT DRUNK, you did nothing wrong, but unfortunately you have to pay the price of an overreaction.    seriously don't feel bad in the least.  get a good lawyer and fight it and most likely it will get dismissed.[/quote]

Okay, I hope this doesn't come out wrong, because I know the OP feels bad.  By no means am I trying to condemn her or anyone else in this situation, but I MUST address the poster I quoted above.

However, .08 is legally drunk and that's all that matters.  My brother had two beers after work three years ago.  On his way home, a really man stepped off the curb in front of him.  He hit the man and he, unfortunately died.  My brothers BAC was .09.  He did not feel drunk.  It has nearly ruined his life.  He plead guilty and was sentanced to 5 years.  He is up for parole next week after serving 20 months.  My brother did not have any priors.  We grew up middle class, going to private schools and had all of the benefits of a good family and involved parents, etc.

It was a horrible accident that took one man's life, and has hurt two families in ways you cannot imagine.  Not everyone gets second chances.

OP, you will be fine.  You will likely pay a fine and maybe serve some community service.

But .08 is drunk, and can most definitely take and change lives, it is not an overreaction.  [/quote]

Well, I hate to break this to you since you sound like a nice person, but your brother was LYING about having two beers before killing a man. If your brother just weighed 160 pounds, and he drank two beers in less than an hour, his level would be .034.

http://bloodalcoholcalculator.org/#LinkURL

I live in the city and would never drive anywhere if I had even one drink - that's why we have taxis. But really, let's stick with some facts here. Your post makes NO sense.

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I don't understand how a computer program could really be very effective at prediciting your BAC.  How would the program know how fast your liver processes alcohol, something that is quite individual and not only based on weight, but how well your particular liver functions which can vary due to a variety of factors.  Nevermind the factors of how fast you drank, when and what you ate, how tired you were, whether you exercised that day, how much and when, etc...

I also think that the measurement of #of drinks is NOT the way to measure your consumption as the amount of wine in a glass, the size of the glass, etc. vary too widely to say what 2 glasses of wine means.   And you can't judge your impairment based on how you feel just because you don't 'feel' impaired.  So its very hard to say what each person's "safe" amount to drink on any given occasion.  I believe I am impaired at a much lower than .08 level, personally.  So even if you fall "under the limit", you can still be impaired and thus responsible for any harm that results, whether or not there are legal ramifications.

I believe we should have a 0.0 policy for this reason.  It's just too hard to figure out when a person is actually impaired.  But at 0.0, if you are impaired, at least its not from alcohol!
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Oh, I agree in general about drinking and driving. I do not do it. I am an adult and I have kids and I would just never do it.

I just don't believe for a moment that OP only had two glasses of wine over a period of time, plus a light dinner and then blew a .08. I'm not saying she should have been driving either - quite the opposite.

BUT I think that the posts on this thread seem to indicate that every drunk person claims to only have had "two drinks," when they're caught. Two drinks is socially acceptable, three makes you sound like a big old drunk. Three examples off the top of my head right here: the OP, the woman whose brother killed a pedestrian, the businessman who drinks at dinner with colleagues and has a DUI.

Again, I don't drink and drive. And I think that most of these DUI people are liars.

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