Why the fark wouldn't a drunk driving charge end with an arrest? Why the fark would they let him get back in his vehicle? And what the fark is a ute?

Ute=Utility vehicle. Like a pickup but you can't pick it up

Pocket Ninja: And what the fark is a ute?

SmackLT:

Nice.

SmackLT

I don't know if that qualifies as obscure, but either way...well played.

It's in Australia, don't they have like 200 miles between everything? How the fark else was he supposed to get home? Maybe they should have towed his car and given him a ride.

oh, and troppo gonzo, I lol'd

Pocket Ninja: Why the fark wouldn't a drunk driving charge end with an arrest? Why the fark would they let him get back in his vehicle? And what the fark is a ute?

I agree, wtf.

My sister in law once got pulled over. She had an open beer bottle, was drunk, had no insurance, her license plates were from another car and expired, and one of her break lights were out.
And she got a $300 ticket.
Thats all.

Jae0o0: and one of her break lights were out.

Were her break lights supposed to be working?

SmackLT



You were so quick on that it blew my mind.

Maybe they do things a little differently down under, there should have been someone they could have called for a ride.

Girl_Friday_19: It's in Australia, don't they have like 200 miles between everything? How the fark else was he supposed to get home? Maybe they should have towed his car and given him a ride.

I wouldn't even want to think about the tow bill for that one.


Actual Quote from a driver pulled over by a cop I know for speeding.

"It's like you were just sitting there waiting for me to drive by! Just so you could give me a ticket for speeding." Said with a slight lisp.

Officers Response - "Yes, Yes I was, That's my job sir."

But if they watch him drive away, and go ticket him again ...
Isn't that poaching?

Pocket Ninja: Why the fark wouldn't a drunk driving charge end with an arrest?

And you wonder why your prisons are full?

Do they routinely let people with high BCAs just drive themselves home down in Australia?

MyNameIsMofuga: Jae0o0: and one of her break lights were out.

Were her break lights supposed to be working?

Whatever it is that comes on when you hit your breaks. I thought they were called break lights.
But i'm a woman, I dont know about cars. I only know about cooking and babies.

In New Jersey, we've got John's Law (new window).

Your vehicle is impounded when you are arrested for DWI.

Jae0o0: Whatever it is that comes on when you hit your breaks. I thought they were called break lights.

Maybe your break lights were broke. Maybe someone should give you a brake about your break lights being broke.

syrynxx: Jae0o0: Whatever it is that comes on when you hit your breaks. I thought they were called break lights.

Maybe your break lights were broke. Maybe someone should give you a brake about your break lights being broke.

Maybe someone should give me booze.

AppleDane: And you wonder why your prisons are full?

No, we don't wonder, we know it's because we fill them with criminals.

For those not familiar with that thar matryk sistum, 109km/h is 68mph which is really farking slow for a street race, and the 60km/h limit is 38 mph which probably means it was a huge urban dual carriageway (boulevard with a median to y'all).

Australia is the only place in the world which has even more asinine speed limits than the USA, and like the USA, they mistakenly believe that oppressively enforcing those has more safety benefits than catching drunk drivers or getting people to put down their farking phones and pay attention to the road.

Here in Austin, on any weekend night you can see 200-300 drunks piling back into their pickups in the state-owned parking structure on 3rd street and driving off. I've yet to see a random drink drive stop outside it.

On the plus side, if you enjoy visceral excitement, Mopac Expressway becomes a live demolition derby game by 2am .....

/love to drive
/love to drink
/can't understand people who feel the need to combine them

syrynxx: Maybe your break lights were broke. Maybe someone should give you a brake about your break lights being broke.

Give me a brake give me a brake brake me off a piece of that... Chrysler car...football cream...

AppleDane: And you wonder why your prisons are full?

Our prisons are full because we regularly incarcerate people for victimless crimes as well as crimes for which protection of society is not a concern. Drunk driving is not a victimless crime, and we do need to protect society from drunk drivers.

Sounds like a stunt the cops would pull on the Mass Pike.

Spawn killers!

The legal BAC limit in Australia is
/I would not be able to drive after having one beer.

Those whacky Austrians! Whaddya gonna do?

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I just learned two things. This, and making the less than sign and numbers get eaten after the preview.

Jae0o0: Pocket Ninja: Why the fark wouldn't a drunk driving charge end with an arrest? Why the fark would they let him get back in his vehicle? And what the fark is a ute?

I agree, wtf.

My sister in law once got pulled over. She had an open beer bottle, was drunk, had no insurance, her license plates were from another car and expired, and one of her break lights were out.
And she got a $300 ticket.
Thats all.

Now that's a winner right there.

Scott77: In New Jersey, we've got John's Law (new window).

Your vehicle is impounded when you are arrested for DWI.

I love this John's Law, all places should have such a thing. In Alberta(and prolly the rest of Canada)(I'm a westerner), if you get caught drunk driving, you lose your car to the impound lot where it sits until you pick it up. The impound lot charges by the day. You also get a fine, and then get sent to jail. I don't know about the releasing of the drunk tho.
Drunk driving is LAME

How is this his problem? The cops let him go the first t ime. WTF did they expect him to do? Walk home?

DulceEtDecorumEst: AppleDane: Pocket Ninja: Why the fark wouldn't a drunk driving charge end with an arrest?

And you wonder why your prisons are full?

FAIL. Our prisons are full for two reasons - 1) excessive drug laws that punish consumers as well as dealers 2) underprivileged minorities in urban areas who are poor and face institutionalized discrimination, broken families, and bad education, which predictably makes them into violent felons.

Arresting drunk drivers is a great policy, and one which no one opposes. Driving drunk is completely unfair, because you put other people and not just yourself at risk. Personally I think drunk driving should be punished even more severely then it already is in the US, with mandatory prison terms starting at one year for the first offense.

My sister is a public defender, and thinks the three strikes laws are bs. She says most of the anti-drug laws are also complete bs, and the judges and prosecutors think so too. Everyone is agreed that throwing junkies in jail does no good--rehab is preferred by all. (But, the prosecutors and judges won't say that in public, as they'd never get re-elected.)

But, even she thinks that throwing repeat drunk drivers in jail is a good idea (with emphasis on repeat). You aren't throwing them in jail for being drunks, but for their inability to stop driving drunk.

syrynxx: Maybe your break lights were broke. Maybe someone should give you a brake about your break lights being broke.

Maybe the lazy break lights should get a job if they are broke.

They give a drunk man a ticket, then let him go on his way.. Then ticket him again. Sounds like some greedy cops!

Instead of giving drunkards like this a ticket, arrest them, seize their car. No matter if they have a license, without a car, they'll have to walk.

Drunk drivers who kill should be shot.

The cops farked up. I live in South Australia and, at least here, you don't get arrested for drink driving but the cops aren't supposed to allow you to drive away. The policy is that you get picked up by someone else/walk/bus/whatever and someone else drives your car home.
You can always tell where a Booze Bus (DUI testing station) has been since there are cars parked all over the sides of the road.

/Mind you, SA only recently closed a loophole allowing drink drivers to keep their licence until they went to court