This holiday season... Please don't. Just don't.

[Karnak]

  I like that lol, I feel that if caught DWI, should be charged with attempted vehicular manslaughter or something, and should lose license on the spot.  HUGE fines should be included in it also, not a $500 fine but a $5k fine, and if they cant pay for it, they do community service to make it up.  There should be ZERO tolerance for drinking and driving, not a slap on the wrist.  Was talking to a guy the other day that had 3 DUIs and still driving.  Something wrong with that in my mind.

Not a flat fee as that only targets the poor or middle class, make it a percentage of one's income, capital gains included.  Make it a deterrent that affects everybody.

[Wildcatdad]

Thanks for this. A family friend of mine was lost about 2 years ago when his brother hid his drunkenness to drive home after a party. He fell asleep going on an over pass, hit the start of the guard rail, and flipped it off the highway, killing them both. This vid has a good message: don't do it.
 

[mechanic]

Well, didn't work for my dad.

His father died in a car/train wreck in October of '63.  He was passed out drunk in the back seat of a car being driven by my grandma late at night on the way back to Fairfax, CA from a fireman's ball in Berkley, CA.  She heard the train, but thought it was on the tracks she'd already crossed.  I don't know if she'd had anything to drink as she's never said and, given that she is almost 90 now, I wouldn't ask her.  Being drunk was not uncommon for my grandfather.

funny that, my grandma was the same as my mother. She died at 58 from liver failure. Didn't seem to stop my mum. However myself and my brother rarely drink. Infact him not ever, myself I like to on occasion down some beer and whisky with friends, but not often.

[macleod01]

Over here if you're blowing a .2 to .5 you get a stiff fine (usually equivalent to one and a half months income) and 3 or 4 marks on your license. 7 marks and you're a pedestrian. If you blow more than .5 you're a pedestrian for at least two years, and will probably see some jail time if you're a lot over the limit.

Gotta say Scholz, I'm not sure what the numbers are here in the UK and I don't really care.

Sounds pompous I know.

I don't care because if I am driving or going to be driving the next morning I don't touch a drop. If I have a beer, I am on the couch. Simple as. You never need to worry about how much you've had if you live by those simple rules.

My father is also an alcoholic. Has been since I was young so I have never really had a father. Combine that with the fact that when I was a teenager my mother also became an alcoholic and it wasn't a pleasant household. However after my mother was stopped for drink driving, she quit. Good on her, hasn't touched a drop in over 4 years now! Father on the other hand has had 2 strokes and still goes through a bottle of whisky and about 6 cans of beer a day.

Personally I very rarely drink. I like a nice cocktail but I do not go out and get blazing like many of my friends. Never seen the appeal and I see the effect every day.

Thanks for posting this video. It is good to try to spread the message and I am sorry for all those who have lost or have known people who have lost people due to D+D/DUI

[GScholz]

A wise precaution macleod. I've taken the step of buying an alcometer/breathalyzer. They're not that expensive.

[Xtirp8r]

I don't care because if I am driving or going to be driving the next morning I don't touch a drop. If I have a beer, I am on the couch. Simple as. You never need to worry about how much you've had if you live by those simple rules.

It's not you you have to worry about. It's the bloody idiots that do drink and drive.

Our local paper publishes the names of everyone who's fronted court on a DUI charge and lost. They've never missed a Friday list because there has always been a bunch of idiots caught every week.

It's the ones they miss that are the bad news.