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 12/05/2008, 8:34
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Pickles
 
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12/05/2008, 17:16
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ErnieY
Joined on 05/12/2006
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Sounds a good idea and I'm not against it but I can't help wondering exactly how much effect it would have in practice.
In the first place I think the majority of people pretty well know themselves if they've had too much to drink without a machine to confirm it although it would of course act as a timely reminder and give them pause for thought hopefully.
Secondly, those disposed to heavy drink driving will still likely do it anyway and it will be predominantly this group who are wiping themselves (and others) out, not the marginals and borderline cases.
I wonder too how workable it would be. How would you segregate the drivers from non drivers for instance or is it proposed to bag everyone just in case ?
Somehow I can't see that working too well at closing time with several hundred revellers wanting to get out and get home but not allowed to until they've been bagged. Also who's going to enforce it in the clubs, breathalyser operated turnstyles perhaps ?
Still, if it saves just one life......................
My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !
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12/05/2008, 22:02
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Rob Roy
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Either you drink, or you drive - if you are going to drive even one drink is too many. I like to have a few drinks as much as anyone, but if I am driving then it is soft drinks only for me. If I sound like a prude, then so be it.
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12/05/2008, 23:36
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sweet 17
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I agree totally, RR. In fact, I find it very useful to offer to drive when I am trying to stay away from alcohol (something I do from time to time with varying degrees of success)
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13/05/2008, 7:57
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Iceni
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14/06/2008, 20:05
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wiskersnatch
Joined on 13/06/2008
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We have several friends here, French and British and most of them seem to think drinking and driving is OK. Back in the Uk the way they really beat it (I know there are some who still do it) was not to make laws or to 'bag' people, it was to make it socially unacceptable.
I fear that here it is still seen as an OK thing to do. It is up to all of us to tell our friends who drink and drive that is is simply not acceptable.
Drink drivers KILL PEOPLE! Losing a child is just something no one should ever have to endure. To lose a child because someone wants to drink and drive is beyond evil. If you find it embarrasing to tell your friends off picture a child mangled in a car's wheels and try again!
When one man suffers delusion it is called insanity,
when a group of men suffer delusion it is called religeon.
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