I suppose you could also consider drving under the influence of drugs but I think it might be feasible (although probably not acceptable) that a perscribed medication may have a significant side effect that you were not aware of. My new pils for instance are currenlty making me dizzy but this will pass when when I get used to them.
I don't drink alcohol so I'm allowed to be pious. I can't see that it can ever be justified.
*awaits tirade of teh sanctimonious*
When the pub is too far away?!?
When it's raining?
Only if every single other driver on the road is equally sozzled.
So, no, then. 🙄
No
Only if you've drunk yourself sober.
barca2 legal yes, sociably (sp) well it's a grey area
🙄
Were not geeks dammit.
Though we do make the 'Time Team' boys look like the Reservoir Dogs 😐
Too drunk to walk, obviously.
No - nor is driving whiles unfit thru drugs. Prescription or recreational.
Show me a person who drinks and has a driving license and has done both for years, and I'll show you someone that has probably (unwittingly) driven over the limit at some stage in his or her life.
Show me a person who drinks and has a driving license and has done both for years, and I'll show you someone that has probably (unwittingly) driven over the limit at some stage in his or her life.
+1
In reality, I have never intentionally come out of a pub and got into the drivers seat. However, I have many times got up in the morning feeling reasonably ok, but probably been over the limit and drove to work.
I'm sure we could quite easily contrive a situation where it would be acceptable, even if it may be unlikely...
Ingredients:
1. Impending nuclear explosion which can only be stopped with disarm codes (a la Bond or something).
2. Said codes in posession of hapless gentleman, who is half a shandy over the limit, does not have any means of wireless communication and is 10 miles away from the nearest telephone.
3. Thirty minute countdown timer.
I'm sure there are many slightly more feasible scenarios one could think of.
i have done so once (about 20 years ago) - through being too utterly wnakered to even think about how mind-numbingly stupid it was. I was in complete shock the next day to see my car outside my house and felt utterly ashamed with myself.
I won't even have a half if I am driving usually.
Is There Ever Any Acceptable Excuse For Drink Driving?
No.
Next?
lots of things are 'unacceptable'. i've driven while slightly over the limit, probably.
How about this one?
[url= http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/2010/04/05/cat-blamed-for-cricketer-graeme-swann-s-driving-rap-exclusive-115875-22162914/ ]'Cat Blamed for Cricketer Graeme Swann's Drink Driving'[/url]
what do you mean by 'drink driving'?
A) 'had a half - maybe 2'
or
B) 'a full metric skinfull'
?
(A is more acceptable than B)
If say the pub landlord was having a heart attack and no abulances were possible then I would say driving him to the pub even if pissed would be acceptable. You would have to order a taxi back though.
No, never.
Good troll though 😉
i'll make no public admissions of guilt. it's not acceptable. i don't put myself, my car keys, and large quantities of booze in the same location, not that far, but far enough from home.
Is it acceptable when you know loads of people on a bike geek website?
i presume this is in reference to another thread on here. no need. 😐
Poppa:
1. Impending nuclear explosion which can only be stopped with disarm codes (a la Bond or something).
2. Said codes in posession of hapless gentleman, who is half a shandy over the limit, does not have any means of wireless communication and is 10 miles away from the nearest telephone.
3. Thirty minute countdown timer.
- just sounds like excuse for a TT with excellent motivation....
What about drink riding your bike?
poppa - MemberI'm sure we could quite easily contrive a situation where it would be acceptable, even if it may be unlikely...
Ingredients:
1. Impending nuclear explosion which can only be stopped with disarm codes (a la Bond or something).
2. Said codes in posession of hapless gentleman, who is half a shandy over the limit, does not have any means of wireless communication and is 10 miles away from the nearest telephone.
3. Thirty minute countdown timer.
10 miles, thirty minutes - sounds like a time trial to me 🙂
As for Barcas comment:
Is it acceptable when you know loads of people on a bike geek website?
You sir, are a cock.
If say the pub landlord was having a heart attack and no abulances were possible then I would say driving him to the pub even if pissed would be acceptable.
You would have to be very drunk to decide to take him to the pub as oppose to the nearest A&E!
Interestingly In Canada in the late 60's when they were looking at decriminalising drugs - people under the influence of Mariguana were actuallu more safe than non drinkers- well rather than more safe more cautious would be a better description- So they'd decide a gap between two cars was not wide enough before the non drinkers and the people who drank for the test.
Surfer-"You would have to be very drunk to decide to take him to the pub as oppose to the nearest A&E!"
Just noticed that error myself! Clearly hospital would be better (then back to th pub)
As someone who got "caught" 10 years ago, there is never an excuse to drink and drive
Were not geeks dammit.
Though we do make the 'Time Team' boys look like the Reservoir Dogs
Sad but true... 🙂
What if the landlord is suffering from severe withdrawall symptons, that man needs a drink and fast, better drive him to the pub.
A poppa said we can all create a scenario when it seems reasonable that the only course of action is to drive. If my nearest and dearest were at severe risk and I had to drive to remove risk then yeah I would, but then I guess you would also have to accept the consequences.
Never.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1713367.ece
Saying that, anyone of us could fall so very easy after a bad event or occurrence in our own lives.
I can't think of anything that makes it [i]acceptable[/i], but the vast majority of people who drive a teeny bit over the limit probably don't hurt anyone, so I can't be bothered to get my ranting head on.
The only person I've ever met wo boasted about doing it reckoned he owed society nothing, because society had never done anything for him except give him disability living allowance, housing benefit, income support and free medical care for his schizophrenia.
A lot of presumption on this thread, but then that dosn't surprise me one iota about this place ...
My brother managed to kill himself, his girlfriend and his best mate by drink driving. There's never an excuse, just dont do it.
And if this thread has been started due to the one about sharki over on the bike forum, at least let the guy show up before slagging him off.
None of you live in Dorset then.
5 and you can drive round there. Less than 5 miles or less than 5 pints and you're good to go.
Apparently.
Given all the mindless sanctimony here, has one of you lot actually bothered to find out just how drunk all these people who kill and maim thousands when they get behind the wheel actually are? Are we talking a few mg over the limit, or a skinfull?
Just wondering so I know to whom I address my pious wrath...
Ordinarily i would say no but i am sure a scenario could be thought up.... say
Loved one dieing, no ambulances, taxis or neighbours cars, etc etc etc only chance of them surviving is driving under the influence.
But far fetched scenarios aside, no.
Seeing things in black and white is the hallmark of an unreasonable person.*
*Trolling, but not 100%
None of you live in Dorset then.5 and you can drive round there. Less than 5 miles or less than 5 pints and you're good to go.
Apparently.
Not aimed at you but that is a lame excuse for people in the countryside.
Manchester City centre is 4miles from me. Should I drive home after a night out in the bars there?
🙄
A decade and a half working A&E, leads me to think probably not, but I wrapped up the bodies of many that thought it was and their victims. It seems that class, education and money have little influence on who makes the choice to do so. But unlike some I'm can't be too smug about it, despite having a personal policy of not touching a drop when out if I'm driving, I would be certain I've driven over the limit the following morning. Also as a balance, I reckon I've processed more bodies due to speeding.
When I first moved to Cornwall, I lived in a little village called St Buryan, not too far from Lands end. One of the local boys used to get completely mullered every night, and at half past eleven, regular as clockwork, his mother would show up outside the pub in a tractor (and no, I'm not making this up), get the lads to throw him in the trailer, then drive him home. Bizarre, but a better alternative to letting him drive.
