Grr.. ever been grown up and known a dumbass drunk driver?

[Inchworm]

I can't freaking get through his farkin skull!

I told myself that I wasn't going to worry tonight .. you know.. since the election thing is enough.. but damn.

Hope noone is hurt for it to reach him. WTF is it with court to allow so many continuances? Two DUIs in one month. I think it was like last December or some shit. He hasn't changed as they keep continuing. He just hasn't been caught.

Just venting...

Carry on.

:rant:

x(

[crim son]

1. Two DUIs in one month?

Your friend is not just a drunk driver, he's a drunk. Post separation I drank and finally got my first (and last) DUI when I was pulled over for an expired registration. I have never, EVER gotten behind the wheel after a drink, and I never will. I imagine a person has to have some real problems to take the risk. Sorry for you and for your friend.

[Inchworm]

2. Indeed

I am the same way as far as never. I sometimes go into work late outta fear! lol

My "friend" has more troubles than I can figure, but still.. I make sense when I tell him he's a dumbass. I can't stop him really with out going to jail myself.

It just sucks.

:grr:

[crim son]

3. It's true there is little you can do

besides take the keys when he's unwilling to put up a fight. I've only seen one friend of mine - I've known her since high school - devolve into serious alcoholism and it's quite horrifying to watch. She was so young, pretty, perky... not too clever but really sweet. Now she roams from friends' house to friends' house and is missing teeth. She'd get arrested for merely approaching a car. Alcoholism is a terrible disease.

[Lil Missy]

4. "missing teeth" sounds like meth. Just sayin'

[crim son]

5. It could be that she has other interests.

I will always remember her at twenty, asking me to sew a button on a blouse for her, because she didn't know how to use a needle. Poor thing.

[Inchworm]

6. *hug*

He's made it to the house...

Unless there is blood on the truck, I guess I'll have to just feel this way next time.

:+

[Chan790]

9. Call MADD.

I had a similar situation with a former coworker so I called them for advice. They sent a lawyer to the DUI hearing to argue that they had taken a "special interest" in her case for being a repeat offender who seemed to always get the lightest penalty and another chance.

They threw the book at her and took away her license for 2 years, made her attend AA and she had to do community service. I wish I could say it worked but she got caught driving drunk on a suspended license about 2 weeks later and went to prison. The woman from MADD told me later that she wasn't surprised...the recidivism rate for multiple-conviction drunk drivers is over 75%.

It scares 1 in 4 enough that they never do it again though.

[grannylib]

7. Yeah, the one who killed my daughter...and I heard recently that

a year in jail and tens of thousands of dollars in fines have not made much of a difference; he still gets hammered and drives.
He left her kids motherless, and now he has a child of his own. WTF???
I don't get it, never will get it, and have no tolerance for it.

[Inchworm]

8. grr $300 and after her mushed 4 cars in a parking .lot

he is free.

killin my buzz. I'm like never nice to teh fuzz.

grr

:grr:

[BarenakedLady]

10. OH NO!

x(

I'm sorry.

:hug:

[hobbit709]

11. I knew one who got TWO DWI's in one day.

When his wife filed for divorce, she wanted him to pass a breathalizer before he picked up the kids. The Arbitration counselor poohpooed that, saying that he had never been arrested for drunk. Her response was "That's because for 20 years, I was the designated driver". That hearing was on a Thursday. On Monday he was busted for DWI at 7 AM, got out of jail at noon and was stopped AGAIN at 5 PM. Three years later he died of liver failure because he couldn't stop drinking even after the diagnosis of cirrhosis.