#drink driving

[duckbunny]

important alcohol safety information:

Coffee will not sober you up.

Alcohol does not have an antidote. You can't drink coffee to counteract the alcohol. You can have caffeine and alcohol effects at the same time, but that just makes you drunk and awake, it doesn't make you sober. The alcohol is still in your system. It is still in your inner ear, fucking up your balance, it is still slowing down your reactions, and it is still impairing your judgement. There is nothing you can do about this. All drugs and medications (same thing, different reasons for use) have a natural clearing time in your body. The average for alcohol is one hour per unit of alcohol consumed. There is no short-cut for this.

Coffee will not sober you up. Cold will not sober you up. Exercise will not sober you up. Nothing can make you sober except time and your liver.

Don't drink and drive even if you feel fine.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was arrested and sentenced to one day in prison because someone else was drunk driving the car I was in.

[kidneyboy]

Best days

[manifold-updates]

Jack replied to Wisp & Jonnaay!

[crimesandcuriosities]

Pictured bottom is 22 year old Lisa Hasting, who was killed when a vehicle collided with her car on 16th July 2012 while she drove to work in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was struck by an SUV driven by 19 year old Dennis Alsip, who was intoxicated at the time of the crash. The impact was so forceful that Alsip's SUV ended up on top of Lisa's car, crushing her.

Lisa was a talented artist, an Emergency Medical Technician who loved her job, and an animal lover. She is pictured here with her beloved pet snake. Lisa was transported to hospital by helicopter, but sadly died a short time later, while Alsip was hospitalised for minor injuries and then discharged. Pictured top, Lisa's mother Karen Hasting holds up photographs of her critically ill daughter for her killer to see. Speaking emotionally and directly to him in the courtroom, she stated:

"I hate you. I have wishes for you and I hope they all come true. I wish you have a painful, miserable life. I wish you nothing but bad luck and bad health... I wish at whatever prison you go to, the most violent prisoner there hates you too, and that you're scared of him every day. I wish you hate prison and you want out. I wish you do things that get you more time, so you can stay there forever because society doesn't need you... I would kill you, you killed my daughter."

Alsip was charged and convicted of aggravated vehicular homicide, for which he received the maximum sentence of 8 years. During sentencing, the judge spoke of how she felt disappointed that the law only enabled her to imprison Alsip for such a short period of time.

[deanisaman]

Listening to radio in car with dad right now and there’s talk of allowing drunk driving permits in rural areas...

I hope it doesn’t pass because drunk driving kills.

[mysharona1987]

But, yeah, guys. Don’t drink and drive tonight. Just get a cab. Not only is it safer, you will be helping the economy and contributing to someone’s living and all.

THE TAXI GUY HAS A WIFE AND MANY CHILDREN TO THINK OF. 

WHY ELSE IS HE WORKING NYE AND MAKING BANAL CONVERSATION WITH DRUNKS?

 I mean, I dunno if this is technically true in all cases.  I guess, feasibly, it can’t be 

But it was always the idea I had in my head.  

[ohbutwebestmakepeacewithit]

two young guys get into a car. both have been drinking all night. they decide between each other that one will take the wheel because he is “less drunk” the the other. they’re laughing and having fun because it’s a friday night and they’re young and they both have jobs and girlfriends and their whole lives ahead of them. they slam into a power pole..one is killed instantly and the other ends up in prison. one loses his life.. the other loses his job, his girlfriend, his freedom. everyday he has to live with the knowledge that his decision killed his best friend. his family have to visit him in prison. a mother and father lost their only son. paramedics at the scene have nightmares about a car wrapped around a power pole.

one of those guys was my brother. i am SICK and TIRED of people making a joke of drinking and driving. drink driving is a mistake that cannot be undone and it is a decision that can not only ruin your own life but the life of your friends and family and even the lives of complete strangers. i cannot listen to one more person laugh at getting into a car, knowing they’ve drunk too much to drive but still going ahead and driving anyway, because “it’s just one time”, or “who doesn’t do it anyway” or even worse “grow a pair and live a little”. Just don’t fucking do it!! call a cab, get a train, text a friend.