3 dui's in mi

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The new law in michigan for 3 dui's, over the entire life of u r drivers license, is MANDATORY 5 yrs loss of license. My girlfriend is going through this and had to take an apt. near the hospital so she could walk to work. Lives too far for her SO to drive her everyday. Stays all week near the hospital and goes home on the weekends.

Personally when I drink, I either have a very sober designated driver, Or we go with yellow cab, or even a Limo, Limos are awesome.

Where I used to live one of the limo companies had a "Barhopping" package. Always thought I would feel sorry for the driver. ;)

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

After 3 DUI she should be sitting her a** in jail..... And be really worrying about her nursing license... Just my opinion...

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Specializes in Gyn Onc, OB, L&D, HH/Hospice/Palliative.

I do believe many decent people do make bad judgements. I can understand one DUI as a bad mistake, people do make mistakes, we are human. I've never had a DUI, but if that ever happened, I would hope I would have learned from it and next time I would never drink and drive again, stay at home if I wanted to drink or get a designated driver, at least now she can walk to work . She is very lucky she isn't behind bars. In my state she would have had a one year mandatory sentence and lost her license for 10 yrs

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Specializes in Cardiac, Adolescent/Child Mental Health.

I don't understand the purpose of the original post....

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Specializes in ER and Home Health.
Where I used to live one of the limo companies had a "Barhopping" package. Always thought I would feel sorry for the driver. ;)

I used a Limo a few weeks ago, I and 4 of my gfs were out having too much fun. I did not feel sorry for him at all. We took turns singing different tunes, We all have pretty good voices. He was smiling at our singing and our humor. We were entertaining.

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We were entertaining.

Oh yes, there's nothing like being around a bunch of drunks! :coollook::coollook:

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Specializes in Derm/Wound Care/OP Surgery/LTC.

"But when an RN makes a mistake and then cries "I'm an addict". The BON gives THEM every consideration and then wipes away the record of the mistake."

You are so wrong about this.

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

My husband, who is also a nurse got a DUI just recently. The funny part about this is that he almost never drinks anything. But the State of Washington pulled his drivers license for one year and he is on probation for three. He will have to get an SR-22 and a lock out device put on the car. Right now, I am driving hem everywhere. The report to the BNE was not mandated.

DUI's stay on your record forever here in Washington State. So if someone ever does a background check, he is out of luck.

I told him to get someone else on his speed dial because I was not coming to get him out of jail ever again. I hope he had learned his lesson. I can't believe that he made such a stupid decision. But when you are drunk, that is what you do. Thank God that he did not hit anyone.:jester:

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Specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.

In NJ it would be mandatory 10 year loss of license plus community service.

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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.

Woowwwwww...ignorance.

Add me to the list of people who don't do idiotic stuff like that. I'm the permanent DD in my group of friends, the one who orders water while everyone else drinks beer. When I do drink, my husband does not and he drives.

And I agree that 1 DUI should equal a 5 year loss of license, IF NOT PERMANENT. I think 5 years for 3 offenses is too lenient...by that time, it should be permanent. You've proven you can't be trusted.

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Specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.
Woowwwwww...ignorance.

Add me to the list of people who don't do idiotic stuff like that. I'm the permanent DD in my group of friends, the one who orders water while everyone else drinks beer. When I do drink, my husband does not and he drives.

And I agree that 1 DUI should equal a 5 year loss of license, IF NOT PERMANENT. I think 5 years for 3 offenses is too lenient...by that time, it should be permanent. You've proven you can't be trusted.

I just have to say something to this. I would never ever drive drunk at this point in my life. If I do drink I always have someone sober to drive me home. However, the only reason I made a commitment to never drive drunk is because my husband had lost his license for 3 DWIs and with 2 small kids, what kind of family would we be if no one could drive? I just could not risk it. Now my husband has been sober for 15 yrs now and has his license back but I still would never do it because I dont want to hurt anyone. When we were in our teens and early 20s however we partied with the best (or worst) of them and, like many young people did not anticipate any harm coming to anyone because of our actions.

I am such a completely different person now than I was when I was 21. My husband is as well. I am a good upstanding citizen, I never break the law, I have 2 great kids and a husband anyone would be proud of. I hate the idea of anyone giving up on me. Sometimes people make mistakes, that doesn't mean they can never be trusted again. People deserve a second chance, especially young people with a greater capacity for changing bad behavior than someone with a 30yr track record of bad decision making. I dont know how old the person in question is and I am not saying people should not suffer the consequences of their actions but jeez, cut people a break once in a while. You never know what someone has been through or why they do what they do.

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I just have to say something to this. I would never ever drive drunk at this point in my life. If I do drink I always have someone sober to drive me home. However, the only reason I made a commitment to never drive drunk is because my husband had lost his license for 3 DWIs and with 2 small kids, what kind of family would we be if no one could drive? I just could not risk it. Now my husband has been sober for 15 yrs now and has his license back but I still would never do it because I dont want to hurt anyone. When we were in our teens and early 20s however we partied with the best (or worst) of them and, like many young people did not anticipate any harm coming to anyone because of our actions.

I am such a completely different person now than I was when I was 21. My husband is as well. I am a good upstanding citizen, I never break the law, I have 2 great kids and a husband anyone would be proud of. I hate the idea of anyone giving up on me. Sometimes people make mistakes, that doesn't mean they can never be trusted again. People deserve a second chance, especially young people with a greater capacity for changing bad behavior than someone with a 30yr track record of bad decision making. I dont know how old the person in question is and I am not saying people should not suffer the consequences of their actions but jeez, cut people a break once in a while. You never know what someone has been through or why they do what they do.

If someone pointed a loaded gun at another person and shot three times, regardless of whether he missed or not, he would go to jail. The same should apply to DUI's.

Your husband got lucky and never killed anyone. As someone who has lost people to drunk drivers, I have *no* tolerance for that. I don't care what's going on in your life, that behavior is unacceptable, and I think if the punishments were harsher, some of the people who do it casually would think twice, including teens. The people I lost were lost to a teenage drunk driver, and I wish he was rotting in jail, but instead he got off with a fine and a temporary license loss. Like somebody said before, driving drunk isn't just a mistake, it's a conscious choice that should be punished harshly.

America is too lenient with punishments some times. We have a higher BAC limit, lower fines, shorter license suspensions and shorter jail time than most other developed countries. Even Canada is harder on their DUI offenders than the US. We need to step up and start doing more than slapping the hands of repeat offenders...what they need is a slap in the face.

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