Enjoy your summer pint, but...

Enjoy your summer pint, but...

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thinfourth2

32,414 posts

203 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Welshbeef said:
thinfourth2 said:
So you are one of the sad gits who can't have one pint but must have a skinful
Not at all. I can do none a few or many depending on the situation. I'm more of a country pub drinker I search out lovely places to have a good meal with really nice local ale. Or dinner parties
So if you have had 1 ale then how do you get home?

Phil Mitchell

22 posts

143 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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This topic has turned boring all of a sudden, well done you two

g3org3y

20,589 posts

190 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Welshbeef said:
Madness to drink and drive even the one.

If you want a drink go for it get smashed but taxi home.

If you want to mix driving and drinking you deserve everything coming your way.
Welshbeef said:
Not at all. I can do none a few or many depending on the situation. I'm more of a country pub drinker I search out lovely places to have a good meal with really nice local ale. Or dinner parties
Hope you're getting a taxi back after that one ale. Or would you drive then?

Phil Mitchell

22 posts

143 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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I want to read stories about people getting gloriously drunk and driving.... Not some holier than thou, boring bks about lovely meals in country fking pubs

Come on lads, jazz it up a bit for fks sake

deltashad

6,731 posts

196 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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People who don't drink and have a good time are usually doing it for a reason. It's usually as they cannot handle it. They make a total ass out of themselves, embarrass their wives/friends, pick a fight, vomit everywhere, pick up a bottle again first thing in the morning. etc etc.



LoonR1

26,988 posts

176 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Shotgun Rider said:
Bullst yourself. You can have your opinion but I know it for fact. He may have got points or a fine, I don't know becuase I haven't heard the full story, the court date was only last week. He did not receive a ban though!
Drink driving is a summary offence with virtually zero chance of getting off, it carries a mandatory minimum 12 month ban, unless you have a very, very, very good defence and those opportunities are very limited too.

You might get the "leeser" charge of Drunk whilst in charge of a vehicle, but that's still a pretty severe penalty of a minimum 10 points.

I don't believe a word of hat you're saying. If he did "get off" as you claim, then it would at the very least make the local headlines. Any chance of a link to this please? Somehow I doubt it.

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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thinfourth2 said:
So if you have had 1 ale then how do you get home?
I don't go to the pub alone. As such we have a nominated driver sometimes that's me in which case it's club soda of Pepsi or J2O etc.

If in a scenario I drove to a pub alone and had beer I'd either get a bus taxi or call a friend wife etc to pick me up. Or I'd walk.

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Welshbeef said:
I don't go to the pub alone. As such we have a nominated driver sometimes that's me in which case it's club soda of Pepsi or J2O etc.

If in a scenario I drove to a pub alone and had beer I'd either get a bus taxi or call a friend wife etc to pick me up. Or I'd walk.
Silly boy. One pint is fine.

thinfourth2

32,414 posts

203 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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hornetrider said:
Welshbeef said:
I don't go to the pub alone. As such we have a nominated driver sometimes that's me in which case it's club soda of Pepsi or J2O etc.

If in a scenario I drove to a pub alone and had beer I'd either get a bus taxi or call a friend wife etc to pick me up. Or I'd walk.
Silly boy. One pint is fine.
Which is why the current limits are fine

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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thinfourth2 said:
Which is why the current limits are fine
Indeed they are. In fact this thread has put me in the mood for a breakfast pint before I head out. lick

Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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hornetrider said:
Silly boy. One pint is fine.
I know it is but I'd rather not have anything to drink if I'm driving my personal choice. Any accident god forbid would be down to another reason

thinfourth2

32,414 posts

203 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Welshbeef said:
hornetrider said:
Silly boy. One pint is fine.
I know it is but I'd rather not have anything to drink if I'm driving my personal choice. Any accident god forbid would be down to another reason
As long you have no desire to impose your personnel choices onto others. As i think what you do is just sick and wrong

A pint of pepsi

You sick and weird individual

Phil Mitchell

22 posts

143 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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beer I drove better after 4 or 5 pints anyway


B'stard Child

28,282 posts

245 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Phil Mitchell said:
beer I drove better after 4 or 5 pints anyway
Doesn't say much for your driving abilities sober I'm afraid....

mrtwisty

3,057 posts

164 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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No custard yet then?



Welshbeef

49,633 posts

197 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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thinfourth2 said:
As long you have no desire to impose your personnel choices onto others. As i think what you do is just sick and wrong

A pint of pepsi

You sick and weird individual
Where the fk did that come from you ignorant tt.

Shotgun Rider

816 posts

169 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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LoonR1 said:
Drink driving is a summary offence with virtually zero chance of getting off, it carries a mandatory minimum 12 month ban, unless you have a very, very, very good defence and those opportunities are very limited too.

You might get the "leeser" charge of Drunk whilst in charge of a vehicle, but that's still a pretty severe penalty of a minimum 10 points.

I don't believe a word of hat you're saying. If he did "get off" as you claim, then it would at the very least make the local headlines. Any chance of a link to this please? Somehow I doubt it.
Virtually zero chance of getting away with it unless he has a very good defence or it was reduced to a lesser charge. So there is a chance of getting away with it then!

Entirley up to you whether you believe me or not. I've never felt the need to make up stories to post on an internet forum and not going to start now! By got off I mean that he didn't get a driving ban, which in a drink drive situation is getting away with it as like you say, they usually end up with a ban.

You have a PM.



LoonR1

26,988 posts

176 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Shotgun Rider said:
Virtually zero chance of getting away with it unless he has a very good defence or it was reduced to a lesser charge. So there is a chance of getting away with it then!

Entirley up to you whether you believe me or not. I've never felt the need to make up stories to post on an internet forum and not going to start now! By got off I mean that he didn't get a driving ban, which in a drink drive situation is getting away with it as like you say, they usually end up with a ban.

You have a PM.
OK, I sort of stand corrected, although there's no reference to the outcome of the hearing yet.

What I found interesting was his defence:

The Local Rag said:
However, the driver denied the charge at C***** Magistrates' Court on the basis that he was not on a public highway
Compared to what you claimed his defence was:

Shotgun Rider said:
A friend was in court for the same thing recently. One of his defences was to ask what was the difference betwen sleeping whilst drunk in a parked up car and sleeping whilst drunk in a parked up motorhome. He fought it and won!
So his defence wasn't really to claim the difference between sleeping in a car aand a camper van. That may have been a minor part of it, but unlikely to be the whole thing.

thinfourth2

32,414 posts

203 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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Its the UK i'm surprised plod doesn't go round caravan parks on a saturday evening getting some easy pulls

Shotgun Rider

816 posts

169 months

Saturday 28th April 2012
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LoonR1 said:
So his defence wasn't really to claim the difference between sleeping in a car aand a camper van. That may have been a minor part of it, but unlikely to be the whole thing.
Which is why I said one of his defences. Another I've been told was telephone records to show that he had tried to phone for a lift.