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pilsner:
I'm not surprised you've never encountered it given that the bars in question are probably shitholes that no one who wanted beer other than swill would ever go to, and given that the practice gets your bar's liquor license suspended (which means you could be bankrupted if you don't have a lot of operating capital lying around). Also, it wouldn't surprise me if NH was one of the states where the bar can be liable if they permit a clearly drunk patron to drive home and they get into an accident. In which case, it's in the bar's best interest to make DDs as comfortable as possible so the other patrons can get hammered without them worrying.
Not every state has these laws though.
EDIT: This apparently happened in Florida as well.
0bsessions:
NH is one of those places where you pretty much absolutely have to have designated drivers. There's really barely even a semblance of any kind of mass transit (Shy of a couple limited bus systems in Nashua, Concord and Manchester that don't really run much past ten PM anyway) and so few cities that you can't really walk home from the bar either. If you go out, you drive there or pay like $20-30 each way for a cab.
pilsner:
For sure. I'm surprised that the "Dial a DD" programs that are popular in Europe, Japan and Korea aren't more popular in the US (outside of LA and the Hamptons, where apparently lots of people use them). I guess people don't want strangers messing with their rides or the population is dense enough or something.
It's not really an issue in Manhattan for obvious reasons.
Darkbluerabbit:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 19 Mar 2008, 00:16 ---Darkbluerabbit, when you mention the "one drink per hour" rule are you referring to how long it takes for alcohol to get out of your system? Because I always understood that to be one unit of alcohol per hour, and very few drinks are only one unit (a pint of average beer is about 2 I think).
--- End quote ---
Oh, it's clearly a very ineffective rule. My problem was that I was following a guideline for an average person, and I am a pretty small person so those suggested amounts don't directly apply to me. It seems so obviously dumb in retrospect, but at the time I thought I was being smart.
Believe me, I am the first to admit that I was fucking stupid. When I describe the circumstances of my arrest, I'm not making excuses, I'm trying to emphasize just how easy it can be to get a DUI. Maybe it's different in other areas, but where I live (a city too small for reliable mass transit in beer-soaked Wisconsin) it's pretty normal to drive after a couple of drinks, and most people who do so have no idea that they could be considered legally drunk if they were to get stopped, which could be for any reason. People around here need to be better educated about the issue, but since they don't think of what they are doing as "drunk" driving, they just don't pay attention.
We do have bars around here that let designated drivers drink soda on the house, which is a pretty nice offer.
Lines:
I always make sure that the person who says they will be DD actually holds up to their word. If they don't, I take their keys and sober myself up if I'd had something, because I usually don't drink much anyways. I don't really see why others should pressure the DD or that they should give into it, at least not around here as public transport is decent.
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