Alan Tudyk possible DUI
POSTED BY: FutureMrsFIllion
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 8, 2011 02:00
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Okay, so some here feel the current rules are unfair, what substitute rules would you have if you could choose? I'm not asking this to be a snot, I'm seriously asking since people are expressing distaste for the current rules. I personally think that the current rules make sense, its hard to weigh everyone you pull over, then again I guess you could and then do a calculation. Like I said I don't mind the current rules, I think they're fine, but what alternatives are there that you can think of?
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I don't mind the rules at all. If you're even close to impaired you shouldn't be driving. It's a choice and everyone should err on the side of safety or they shouldn't be driving IMO. Alan chose poorly and I've lost a lot of respect for him. He put other people's lives on the line for his choice to drink. That's not cool in any manner. He failed the sobriety test meaning he was showing signs of impairment. Not cool at all. There's simply no excuse.
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Okay, so some here feel the current rules are unfair, what substitute rules would you have if you could choose?
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Years ago Road & Track magazine did an article proposing a two-tiered penalty system for impaired driving.
They proposed that the person who realized they had too much to drink, drove slowly and as close to carefully as they could, and weren't belligerent if pulled over; shouldn't be penalized the same as the the belligerent loud-mouth going 70 miles an hour while loudly proclaiming that he/she drives BETTER when drunk.
The benefits of such a system would be three fold.
First, you separate out the occasional, mistaken impaired driver from the habitual, personality disorder drunk driver.
Second, you offer an incentive for those who choose to drive impaired to do so with the least risk.
Three, you don't destroy the lives of those connected to the one-time offender who was unlucky enough to be caught. Nothing like the system taking a month or two of a family's earnings to send a ripple effect of destruction from a single bad decision.
Hopefully reason two, (impaired drivers would slow it down to minimze risk and penalty), reduces danger to others on the road.
Obviously, a repeat offender moves into the higher risk category at some point, regardless of how meek the impaired driving style.
I found it to be a common sense approach, but unlikely in today's "lawyered-up" society.
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I don't like that approach at all. You're saying people who know they're impaired and still choose to drive should get rewarded for trying? If you knowingly drive impaired you should lose your license. I have no sympathy for that. If you know you're impaired then wait until you sober up or call a cab. Neither of those will kill you. Driving might.
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I agree. "I know I am drunk but I am going to drive anyway". That is just stupid. A slow drunk driver can run somebody over just as dead. It also shows distinct lack of responsibility.
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All hail the mighty Alliance!
You're making better worlds, all of them, better worlds.
Worlds...without sin.
Little perfect people going about their little perfect lives; no risk to themselves or others.
With the government, through fines and imprisonment ensuring that no one steps out of line.
Independents? Browncoats?
Only in front of the TV, I guess...
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Originally posted by pennausamike:
All hail the mighty Alliance!
You're making better worlds, all of them, better worlds.
Worlds...without sin.
Little perfect people going about their little perfect lives; no risk to themselves or others.
With the government, through fines and imprisonment ensuring that no one steps out of line.
Independents? Browncoats?
Only in front of the TV, I guess...
That is such a pile of shit. Because some of us think people should be responsible for their actions?
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"We don't fear the reaper"
FORSAKEN original
Yes We Did!
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi
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Anyone else who reads these complaints about drunk driving laws have trouble imagining the posters as anything but sloppy drunks now?
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People can put them self at risk all they want as far as I'm concerned. It's when they put others at risk that I have a problem.
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Quote:
Originally posted by pennausamike:
All hail the mighty Alliance!
You're making better worlds, all of them, better worlds.
Worlds...without sin.
Little perfect people going about their little perfect lives; no risk to themselves or others.
With the government, through fines and imprisonment ensuring that no one steps out of line.
Independents? Browncoats?
Only in front of the TV, I guess...
I'd suggest that the DUI issue not be the hill on which to die on when it comes to fighting the " making better worlds " battle. It's well with in expectation that the pubic road ways be traveled by as many able and capable drivers as possible. Sure, some 7 yr olds could drive better than some adults, but the odds won't be too favorable.
Same goes for driving impaired.
I think folks are getting a bit carried away here, because of their affection towards Alan, and ignoring the point. He may have done something stupid, that doesn't make him a stupid or bad guy.
" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "
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