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pilsner:
--- Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 18 Mar 2008, 10:56 ---stuff
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Bravo, you're admitting that you're regularly committing a gross misdemeanor. In writing. In a medium you don't have control of. You idiot.
--- Quote from: Washington State law ---RCW 46.61.502
Driving under the influence.
(1) A person is guilty of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug if the person drives a vehicle within this state:
(a) And the person has, within two hours after driving, an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher as shown by analysis of the person's breath or blood made under RCW 46.61.506; or
(b) While the person is under the influence of or affected by intoxicating liquor or any drug; or
(c) While the person is under the combined influence of or affected by intoxicating liquor and any drug.
(2) The fact that a person charged with a violation of this section is or has been entitled to use a drug under the laws of this state shall not constitute a defense against a charge of violating this section.
(3) It is an affirmative defense to a violation of subsection (1)(a) of this section which the defendant must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant consumed a sufficient quantity of alcohol after the time of driving and before the administration of an analysis of the person's breath or blood to cause the defendant's alcohol concentration to be 0.08 or more within two hours after driving. The court shall not admit evidence of this defense unless the defendant notifies the prosecution prior to the omnibus or pretrial hearing in the case of the defendant's intent to assert the affirmative defense.
(4) Analyses of blood or breath samples obtained more than two hours after the alleged driving may be used as evidence that within two hours of the alleged driving, a person had an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more in violation of subsection (1)(a) of this section, and in any case in which the analysis shows an alcohol concentration above 0.00 may be used as evidence that a person was under the influence of or affected by intoxicating liquor or any drug in violation of subsection (1)(b) or (c) of this section.
(5) Except as provided in subsection (6) of this section, a violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor.
(6) It is a class C felony punishable under chapter 9.94A RCW, or chapter 13.40 RCW if the person is a juvenile, if: (a) The person has four or more prior offenses within ten years as defined in RCW 46.61.5055; or (b) the person has ever previously been convicted of vehicular homicide while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, RCW 46.61.520(1)(a), or vehicular assault while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug, RCW 46.61.522(1)(b).
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How bad is a gross misdemeanor? It's bad enough.
--- Quote from: Washington State jury instructions ---A gross misdemeanor is a criminal offense for which an adult could be sent to jail for up to one year, pay a fine up to $5,000 or both.
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But I'm thinking that the above post is a joke. A joke that you should probably delete.
onewheelwizzard:
Driving after drinking is a completely different thing from driving after smoking. There's really not much of a comparison. Driving after drinking is a much, much, much riskier thing to do. I've done a LOT of things that require extremely fine coordination, multitasking, and constant attention while high. I once face planted just trying to get on a bike while drunk and sported a huge stripe on my cheek for a week. The two forms of inebriation are completely different and drinking is FAR FAR more incapacitating.
I'd balk at driving on psychedelics, though ... if I was stranded somewhere and the only person who could drive me home was tripping (which has happened once, as I mentioned), I'd probably get in the car, but it would have to be an absolute last resort. Biking on psychedelics is different! I'm really comfortable on a bike and tripping makes it way more fun. But driving, not so much. I might learn in future years that driving on low doses is relatively OK, but it's really not something I want to stick my neck out to try.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: redglasscurls on 18 Mar 2008, 11:03 ---I sat there in DARE class in elementary school and went 'oh damn, I'll never do drugs or drink anything or get in a car with someone who drank!'
And yet here I am, smoking pot and drinking socially, and I ride in cars with people who have been drinking on a pretty regular basis.
I know the drunk driver part is unintelligent, but some of you are seriously still stuck in scare-tactic DARE-land.
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LOL I AM A CHILD BECAUSE I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO DIE
35% of all car related fatalities in my state are drunk drivers. It's horrifying when I drive between Socorro and Albuquerque and there's basically a cross next to the road every two miles.
I am reasonably paranoid, I think.
Scandanavian War Machine:
--- Quote from: Pilsner ---Bravo, you're admitting that you're regularly committing a gross misdemeanor. In writing. In a medium you don't have control of. You idiot.
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you're kidding right? if everything anyone ever said on the internet was admissable in court, 90% of America would be fucked. we have this thing where we can claim to have done whatever we want as long as it can't be proven. it's pretty sweet.
ever wonder why rappers don't get arrested for singing about drugs and guns and shit? same reason.
FOR THE RECORD I HAVE NEVER DONE DRUGS EVER. YOU HEAR THAT, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT?!
there.
0bsessions:
America's actually pretty efficient at protecting people from those minor stupidities we all commit once in a while.
For example, did you know that in some states a former employer cannot give a prospective new employer a bad reference unless authorized by the applicant? This comes in very handy if one were to, hypothetically, cuss out the boss's wife/your coworker for fucking something up. If something like that happened, your former employer couldn't legally say they fired you or why you were fired.
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