Ask a guy who just got a DUI anything

[sardis3207]

Pay for the best lawyer you can afford
DUI convictions are for the poor
srs

Stop drinking and diving also.. *******

LOLLOL Its kinda true, I knew this doctors kid and he got and underage drinking ticket etc/dui or something I cant remember what specifically but at the end of it all cash equaled no charges.

[YIAMSOMEBODY]

Dumb *******. I hate you.

[thunderykoala]

Your life would have been ruined had you hit and killed someone, potentially even yourself.

At this point your life isn't ruined. Just make sure you don't do it again.

[bballaman369]

Texting is worse than driving drunk

Not getting into the details because on mobile but look it up

Glancing at your phone for even 2 seconds while driving 35 mph you travel x amount of yards essentially with your eyes closed
At least if you had a few beers and drove considering you were watching the road it would be safer than checking a text for 2 seconds

And let's be honest when People read "driving drunk" they assume the person was annihilated

Not always true, most of the time they just blew over the limit which could have been only a drinks in a short amount of time and they were still congzinent


Hardly enough to really cause any danger but still charged as a dui simpley for the breathalyzer

OP blew a .24 that's pretty damn drunk.

[Jms89]

Lol dude...always refuse a breathalyzer. that should be rule #1 for anyone who gets pulled over for dui. Also, don't drive drunk.

[second2noneBrah]

Lol at all these *******s act like drinking and driving is attempted murder. Literally everyone I know drinks and drives. No.accidents ever. I'm more worried about u beta ****s checking your instagram likes then someone who.had a couple and is trying to get home

[iBulk]

Yea OK.. Let's just throw more ppl into the already overpopulated people penal system and let the public pay for their stay. I agree with increasing the penalty for getting a DUI and think that the consequences for a first time DUI charge are a joke.

Release all non violent inmates who are doing 10 years for marijuana possession/distribution. Lock up drunk drivers for 6 months.

Boom, society is instantly 8% better.

iBulk 2016

[KRC63]

I got one when I was 20 (dumb fuk thing to do). My aunt is a lawyer and so I asked her if she would represent me. She told me that there is no need for one since you can ask for A.R.D. and they will grant it to 99% of the time with or without a lawyer. I live in Pennsylvania and haven't had any previous charges so your situation may be different though

Get A.R.D. get the classes out of the way, and for the love of god stop driving drunk. I wrecked into a pole and split that thing in half man, it's no joke. Had I not had my seatbelt on I wouldn't be typing this out right now. You are driving a machine of death to begin with, show some responsibility

[da2ricky]

you realize a breathalyzer has a huge margin of error. it takes a number and multiplies it by huge amounts to get your reading...

edit: The Breathalyzer multiplies the chemical trace by roughly 2,100 to determine BAC.

not to mention other variables that come into play. you could literally drink nothing, but take a shot and swish it around in your mouth and it would produce a high readout because of the mouth alcohol content

a lot of people don't understand that .08 is pretty damn low for most people especially if they are a decent sized male and drink occasionally.

I really don't know anything about the margin of error. Usually you blow more than once in a 3-5min time span to get a good reading, though. I do know as long as the machine has received it's scheduled calibration and the logs of said calibration are correct, the results are going to hold up in court.

I should add that (in my state at least), the results from the portable breathalyzers that the cops carry aren't admissible in court. If you blow over on the portable unit, they take you to the jail where the Intox EC/IR II machine is and you blow again, and that one is admissible in court.

[azakdan2682]

I got one over 4 years ago while in Germany. Lost friends, couldn't get in apartment I was suppose to stay at, it was 6 am and starting to get light out, thought o was good etc. got pulled over on way home blew a .18...had been drinking all day, was just saturated. Fuked up my career a bit but bounced back. Just take cabs now, it gets expensive but much better then the alternative. I also live by a bar I can walk to. You can recover, learn from it and don't do it again.

[Bullneckbruh]

Release all non violent inmates who are doing 10 years for marijuana possession/distribution. Lock up drunk drivers for 6 months.

Boom, society is instantly 8% better.

iBulk 2016

No we are sweet

[Steve707]

in my state anything over .08 and you lose your license on the spot for a year, get community service, and take a class. Anything over .16 and you are also required to have an interlock installed that you have to blow in to start your vehicle. You get to pay to have it installed, maintained, and taken out at the end.

I got mine downgraded to wet reckless, I was told to blow three times and blew .07 .09 and .08 all within 15 minutes. Didn't know my rights at the time, and I agreed to have blood taken and that showed below legal limit as well. Still have 7 years of zero tolerance probation though. If I get pulled over and have any alcohol show up its an automatic dui and the wet/reckless will be upgraded to dui.

[UnitedLife]

Miscers in here saying they would never drink and drive probably have done it before without even knowing. Ever gone to a party, got hammered, stayed the night, and left early in the morning? Good chance you were over the legal limit.

http://www.newhealthguide.org/How-Lo...ur-System.html

[second2noneBrah]

I think the first DUI should come with mandatory 6 months in prison and 1 year of suspended license after that. 2nd DUI should be 15 years in prison. Too many people drink and drive, which tells me that the risk is not greater than the reward, so the penalties need to be increased.

I have no fukin tolerance for shiitheads like you who drink and knowingly get behind the wheel and put the lives of innocent people in danger.

Quite possibly the dumbest thing I've read in my entire life and this is the misc

[Ironmanlet]

lol at everyone who needs this to feel better about themselves.

[Mobraelite]

OP blew a .24 that's pretty damn drunk.

Seeing as all the moral warriors in this thread are summing up OP 's story as the general story for what happens to all persons who are charged with a DUI

My response was a general repsonse as well to most DUI happenings .. It wasn't to be directed at OP's story and only his

[heyyouwhome]

Lol dude...always refuse a breathalyzer. that should be rule #1 for anyone who gets pulled over for dui. Also, don't drive drunk.

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Lmao just no. In ym state if you refuse to blow I believe it's an automatic suspended license for a year on top of anything else. Well I had a dui last year, blew a .1 and hired a lawyer, he got the judge to sentence me to pbj and all I had to do was take some classes, mva suspended my license for 60 days (except for work and alcohol-related classes, so I could still drive when I needed to) and unsupervised probation for six months. I did my probation, and my classes, and have no conviction on my record.

Tell me how that's worse than mandatory losing your license for a year at the very least, and theoretically being convicted anyway? I would definitely get a lawyer if I was op

Release all non violent inmates who are doing 10 years for marijuana possession/distribution. Lock up drunk drivers for 6 months.

Boom, society is instantly 8% better.

iBulk 2016

Drunk drivers are non violent inmates too

[Datsek]

I am not saying what he did is right and should be defended. You are making that part up. Read my posts again. I am saying that we are no better. Everyone in this thread has deviation from traffic standards, yet we are all pretending to be better for some reason. It is moral superiority complex. Narcissism at it finest. Hope you feel better about yourself cause someone else did something........

You are defending him by negging people scrutinizing his choice to dui in the first place. I'm not making that up and it's as clear as day. That is also a massive assumption to claim that everyone deviates from the traffic standards, even if it were true, dui is a major deviation that costs people their fuking lives which you don't seem to understand the gravity of. Criticizing OP for drink driving and having a moral superiority complex are very different things. Hope you feel better about neglecting road rules while driving because "other people do as well".

[da2ricky]

I got mine downgraded to wet reckless, I was told to blow three times and blew .07 .09 and .08 all within 15 minutes. Didn't know my rights at the time, and I agreed to have blood taken and that showed below legal limit as well. Still have 7 years of zero tolerance probation though. If I get pulled over and have any alcohol show up its an automatic dui and the wet/reckless will be upgraded to dui.

Well you were dancing on the line of legal so I'm not surprised you got off with a lesser charge. I was charged years ago and I blew a .09, .07, .07. The trooper decided not to charge me but the magistrate charged me anyway. It got dropped in court but it still cost me quite a bit of money. Lesson learned, I don't drink and drive at all, ever.

[mhockey9090]

I make the wife drive if I am drinking, my career let alone isn't worth the risk.

[Bando]

in my state anything over .08 and you lose your license on the spot for a year, get community service, and take a class. Anything over .16 and you are also required to have an interlock installed that you have to blow in to start your vehicle. You get to pay to have it installed, maintained, and taken out at the end.

OP blew a .24 that's pretty damn drunk.

TFW you have a Commercial Driver's License. Like .04 and you lose your CDL. Can get pretty close to a .04 from taking NyQuil last night.

My cousin had to have that interlock thing installed, for awhile I didn't think he was gonna make it. Had probation from DWI, had to work to satisfy probation, got in his truck one morning after a night of whiskey and cokes and truck was not going anywhere.

If I go somewhere where I'll be drinking it better be somewhere I can throw up a tent. Otherwise it will be oh hi, here's a gift card, congrats on your whatever, see ya later

[Steve707]

Well you were dancing on the line of legal so I'm not surprised you got off with a lesser charge. I was charged years ago and I blew a .09, .07, .07. The trooper decided not to charge me but the magistrate charged me anyway. It got dropped in court but it still cost me quite a bit of money. Lesson learned, I don't drink and drive at all, ever.

Same, I make my gf drive or I drive and she drinks.

[FlexLex]

Idk. Ive blown a .1 and been perfectly fine doing anything. I dont think you can morally say driving at .07 is fine and .08 is horrible.

With that said, a .24 is obliterated and OP is a piece of ****. People die in the high .3s

[second2noneBrah]

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Lmao just no. In ym state if you refuse to blow I believe it's an automatic suspended license for a year on top of anything else. Well I had a dui last year, blew a .1 and hired a lawyer, he got the judge to sentence me to pbj and all I had to do was take some classes, mva suspended my license for 60 days (except for work and alcohol-related classes, so I could still drive when I needed to) and unsupervised probation for six months. I did my probation, and my classes, and have no conviction on my record.

Tell me how that's worse than mandatory losing your license for a year at the very least, and theoretically being convicted anyway? I would definitely get a lawyer if I was op



Drunk drivers are non violent inmates too

You never blow or take any field sobriety exercises. You can get a hardship (work license) next day in Florida. This is advice from a dui task force sargent and every lawyer ever

[Tears]

lol @ getting busted while driving in the carpool lane.

ROY award.

[Kukayla]

Live and learn OP. I sub contract work out to a guy that is just finishing up voluntary jail time after 3 DUI's in 6 years. He just got his license back but with 98764625654 conditions attached. Prior to that he had to hire a driver just to drive him around for work. He made about 50 calls to different insurance agencies and nobody will insure him. Finally one company did and guess what his rate is for third party liability only ($2 million coverage)....
























$3600/month

srs

[RougeProdigy]

.24 is pretty damn drunk. A lawyer ain't gonna do a damn thing for you at this point other than continue your court date for ever. Pepper your angus.

Lol a good lawyer can easily get OP scott free. He just has to hire the right people.

[DiscoSkeletons]

I got a DUI for falling asleep in my car with it turned off in a CVS parking lot, when my parents kicked me out for retarded sht when I was 18.

Wasn't even drunk. Had gotten wisdom teeth removed a few days earlier, and was on low dose vicodin for pain.

Me being naive and not knowing anything about the law, let them do a blood test on me. Boom DUI. Oh and the dogs shredded the seats of my '08 G35, and ripped out the console panels.
Would have hire a lawyer but I didn't have $4k to spare.

Couldn't get a license for two years after that,

BRB had $600 cash in my wallet, bailed myself out like a boss.

[ImitatioDei]

Hope you aren't allowed to drive ever again srs. Driving drunk my be the stupidest thing you can do.

Rates right up there with thinking every person with a DUI should never be allowed to drive again. OP is stupid for making that decision, but your extreme punishment suggestion is also moronic.

[littleterrio]

oo lawd