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Mar 15, 2009, 10:06 PM
 Re: 3 dui's in mi
the sheer arrogance and hypocrisy to the responses in this message are astounding. how many of you can honestly say that, at NO TIME in your life, you havent had more than 2 drinks and driven, even once? Driving intoxicated is not acceptable, nor should it be, but people make mistakes. i can only hope this girl gets help and can move on.
in response to the post of "how bout 1DUI=5 yr loss of license". are you serious? hopefully you never find yourself on the wrong side of the law. we'll see if you like an extreme punishment for a first offense. until you walk in someone else's skin, dont judge.
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Mar 15, 2009, 10:17 PM
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Mar 15, 2009 at 10:28 PM by Atheos
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Mar 15, 2009, 10:26 PM
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Mar 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM by Atheos
Re: 3 dui's in mi Originally Posted by 81FSUseminole  in response to the post of "how bout 1DUI=5 yr loss of license". are you serious? hopefully you never find yourself on the wrong side of the law. we'll see if you like an extreme punishment for a first offense. until you walk in someone else's skin, dont judge.
Reality check...
Just so we all remember who should get the sympathy and who shouldn't...
Family mourns father, daughter killed in crash
Surrounded by family members at her northwest Harris County home, Rhina Ventura on Sunday tightly embraced a Dora the Explorer doll that was among her daughter’s favorite toys.
“She was a good girl. She loved her dad and her brother,” Ventura said after Gabriela, 4, and her father, Jony Ventura, 33, were killed early Saturday in a head-on crash caused by a suspected drunken driver.
“She’s a good girl,” Ventura said a second time, before breaking down in tears.
Jony Ventura was going to work at a doughnut shop about 2 a.m. Saturday when his car was struck by a driver heading the wrong direction along northbound Texas 249, just north of Cypresswood Drive, Harris County sheriff’s deputies said.
... If the charge is filed, it won’t be the first time Sagastisado has been accused of drunken driving. According to Harris County criminal records, she received a 10-day jail sentence in March 2005 after pleading guilty in a DWI arrest.
If my 1 DUI and 5 year ban rule was in place perhaps that little girl and her father would be alive. I guess the driver just made a mistake...
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Mar 15, 2009, 10:28 PM
Re: 3 dui's in mi Originally Posted by 81FSUseminole the sheer arrogance and hypocrisy to the responses in this message are astounding. how many of you can honestly say that, at NO TIME in your life, you havent had more than 2 drinks and driven, even once? Driving intoxicated is not acceptable, nor should it be, but people make mistakes. i can only hope this girl gets help and can move on.
in response to the post of "how bout 1DUI=5 yr loss of license". are you serious? hopefully you never find yourself on the wrong side of the law. we'll see if you like an extreme punishment for a first offense. until you walk in someone else's skin, dont judge.
It is not arrogance and hypocrisy to want me and my family and everyone else, for that matter, to be safe from impaired drivers. My husband's parents and one set of grandparents were killed by a drunk driver. The crash orphaned eight children under the age of 16. Decades later he still feels the pain of that person's "mistake."
It is not arrogance and hypocrisy to say I have never driven after drinking two drinks because I just won't do it. Period. End of story.
Making a mistake is a problem. Going back and doing the same thing two more times indicates some seriously impaired judgment while sober.
Addiction is a powerful force. I'm not faulting this person for having a chemical attraction to alcohol. I'm faulting her for not facing that reality and doing what it takes to manage the addiction.
Not everyone chooses to do that. And that is when society has to step in and start making other choices for those who won't do it for themselves.
At some point it doesn't matter whether it's "will not" or "can not." They function exactly the same.
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Mar 15, 2009, 10:41 PM
Re: 3 dui's in mi Originally Posted by 81FSUseminole the sheer arrogance and hypocrisy to the responses in this message are astounding. how many of you can honestly say that, at NO TIME in your life, you havent had more than 2 drinks and driven, even once?
No! It may shock you to realize this, but not everyone drinks or even likes alcohol. I can't stand the smell of alcohol, much less the taste. I can't put myself in this or any other alcoholic's shoes, because I can't understand how anyone could want to drink.
And I have such little patience with drunks I have a hard time being civil to them. I had a neighbor with a drinking problem and on weekends he was unbearable to be around. The man was a good person but he is dead now from an overdose of alcohol and Benadryl. Thank God he didn't drive. Drunk drivers infuriate me and I can't empathize with them.
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Mar 15, 2009, 10:58 PM
Re: 3 dui's in mi Originally Posted by 81FSUseminole the sheer arrogance and hypocrisy to the responses in this message are astounding. how many of you can honestly say that, at NO TIME in your life, you havent had more than 2 drinks and driven, even once? Driving intoxicated is not acceptable, nor should it be, but people make mistakes. i can only hope this girl gets help and can move on.
in response to the post of "how bout 1DUI=5 yr loss of license". are you serious? hopefully you never find yourself on the wrong side of the law. we'll see if you like an extreme punishment for a first offense. until you walk in someone else's skin, dont judge.
Wow. I can't even tell you how furious that statement makes me. I have never and will never get behind the wheel of a car drinking.
My father was an alcoholic. He drunk drove with me in the back seat, so should I forgive him? (Btw, my mother divorced him after this incident and he was too disinterested to keep contact with me).
I don't understand what the OP was trying to achieve with this post. All I can think is that 1 is far too many. And personally, I think 1 shot should be 5 years without a license and any other dui or dwi should result in permanent loss of license!
It is unacceptable to put any one else's life at risk!
I understand that it is an addiction, but you need to take steps to keep yourself from drunk driving. Give your keys to a friend who will be staying sober for the night.
THERE IS NO EXCUSE!
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