the OP got screwed....the drunk tank is the best part of a DUI. Right now he just has a really shitty story to tell. If you're going to spend that much money, you should at least have some good drunk tank stories.
more like he wanted to get drunk but knew he had to drive so he decided to wait to get home to get drunk. .08 isn't drunk...people who get drunk on a holiday revolving around drinking do not have a drinking problem. Who the fuck are you anyways? (the only acceptable answer is alcohol addiction counselor at this point):thumbsdown::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:
Noob, get back to work. Btw, I'm taking a bunch of tests anywhere I can. Thinking about going back to the cop route. The process is such a pain in the ass.
I could do what the average person would call higher level math while drunk (as can most here probably)... basic multiplication and subtraction should be no problem even for the average student.
I totally understand if he wants to get drunk on St. Patty's Day. I like to have a few drinks on a holiday too, and I'm just an ordinary guy. But it's incumbent upon him to not drive if he wants to do so. He either stays at a home to drink (his or a friend's) or has a safe ride home from the bar.
You're only defending him because I know you've posted here about getting a DUI before. Not very responsible of you, Slim :thumbsdown:.
Ok, here's the formula: http://www.ctduiattorney.com/dui_information/calculating_bac.html
%BAC = (A x 5.14/W x r) - .015 x H
Using the numbers he provided:
A=6 beers = 12oz*.05=.6; 6*.6=3.6
W=170
r=.73 (male)
H=4 hours
I worked this out with a calculator to be 0.089. This is over the limit. It's probably within the range of error for the breathalyzer, since the OP didn't give more specific numbers.
I agree, it's not a particularly difficult formula, but I'd argue it's more difficult to do in your head, even sober.
Not to mention that PBT's (preliminary breath test) are not the most precise instruments known to man. I highly doubt there was a certified intox operator and machine on-site.
I stick to the 1 drink an hour rule when I'm DD.
As for all of you siding with the OP...I'm sure if the OP had ran into someone after having his "measly" six drinks you all would be singing a different tune.
Was he charged with DWI or DUI?
Consider yourself lucky, you probably got off easy. I just saw a local blotter where a 19 y/o got DUI for 0.024, and got jail time.
Consider yourself lucky, you probably got off easy. I just saw a local blotter where a 19 y/o got DUI for 0.024, and got jail time. And one where a 20 y/o was convicted of vehicular homicide for an accident where she was 0.075 and crashed her car killing her passenger. Looks like she will get several years.
1) Underage
2) 3x times the legal limit....she had to be shit face, blacked out can't stand or talk drunk.
was there an accident too?
So college students can't be alcoholics?Or being a college student he likes to drink?
Which one of those seems far more likely?
No, not 0.24, 0.024 one quarter the legal limit for over 21, but in NJ the legal limit for under 21 is any detectable etoh.
There you go.
Is it really an on off switch? Not Drunk to Drunk? No. Your driving and reactions are impaired at drink one, so play that one back to me and let's see how you want to spin it this time.
no accident or anything? Thats crazy to jail a kid for making a mistake that didn't hurt anyone. There are better ways to punish someone for this.
So college students can't be alcoholics?
Sure they can, but realistically, its uncommon.
A true alcoholic with a physical dependency on alcohol is very different from the person that drinks too much or too often. Actual alcoholism is a chronic addiction that takes time to develop. I knew a lot of very heavy drinkers in college, and only one of them had true alcoholic tendencies - but even he was in the low stages of it.