johnnydoom
I'm not sure what this has to do with anything? You were fortunate not to hurt yourself or someone else. If I drive 100 mph on the highway, should I be given a speeding ticket? The answer is...Yes...but only if I'm caught. You weren't caught. The right question is should you have been cited for DUI? Yes, you should've but you got away with one.
Making a choice (getting drunk or being past the legal limit) is a choice that doesn't have to be made. You have intent when you do that. That intent and all the pitfalls that can come out of it, IE: Killing someone on the roads, is something you're accepting liability for when you tip that glass or bottle. There really isn't any other way on that issue.
If a person takes meth and mixes a bunch of other drugs and goes on a killing spree like happened not far from where I live a few years back, he's not getting off from murder charges because his intent when he took a bunch of drugs wasn't to do that.
People need to learn about real responsibility on this drunk driving issue. Again, when you get yourself impaired like that ANYTHING bad that comes from it, you're responsible for as it pertains to your actions. Heck, you might be combative with an officer because you're hammered and get shot. You may keeping going when told "no" from a woman. Many want to get drunk and then wash their hands of it and say I only did that because I was drunk. That's pathetic. If that was true, you'd stop drinking. Who would continue doing something that made you have detestable behavior? If you really thought it was the alcohols fault and not your own you'd stop the alcohol. I think people realize it's actually them but like to put the responsibility elsewhere. You made that possible when you downed the alcohol. It's simple to me because I don't drink and don't have something pulling on me the other way about wanting to drink and not having to face consequences.
This is off-track. My apologies. Hot button issue for me. Too many die because someone wants to drink too much. Their need for pleasure rules them to the point your life might end. Very sad.
If what Mike is saying is true...and she gets off, there will be riots here for sure. It won't be pretty. I can also understand the technical nature of the law can be her friend here. Her words on that 911 call was her way of trying to push off responsibility for her coming legal issues. It may work. I hope it doesn't but it might.