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A car does not randomly have a DUI device...
Especially in Wisconsin. Our drunk driving laws are some of the most lax in the nation. There's a saying that the first DUI is free, and it's only kinda a joke.
Pop over to Michigan and they permanently revoke your license for a second DUI.
can't have shit in detroit
When you look at consumption rates it makes sense. Wisconsin is a powerhouse of drinking.
It's like the mitochondria of the Midwest.
I’ll tell the IRS to screw off. I’ll hit a lawyers car for fun. I will not fuck with the tavern league of Wisconsin.
Takes a whole lot of DUIs in Wisconsin. Probably years and years of consistently driving home drunk
Driving drunk is just an expected part of American life in most of the country. If it weren't, we'd have ways to get around other than by car
Or maybe she's one of those dimwits who likes to annoy judges by asking them if they are following maritime or common law, and assert that the court doesn't have jurisdiction over them, and that they're not travelling, and that nobody was personally harmed...
It's impressive just how careful judges tend to be with these nutcases, which I suppose is because it's so far outside the rules of court, that they tend to play too safe and end up vindicating the whole clown show...
Seriously, this isn't that sweet of a scene
It never pretended to be a sweet scene. It's basically just saying that wisconsinites are alcoholics.
Why not? Not a single person drove drunk that day
At least not the car that has a DUI device installed. But considering the car is the primary method to get around in the States, some of the people in that story probably drove a car before and after
Is "waiting a few hours until you're better" not a thing in the US?
"You don't have to go home but you can't stay here!"
Sitting in a car while drunk is a DUI in many if not most states.
Holding car keys near your car can be too, if the cop wants to arrest you.
Not really. You can get a DUI for sleeping in the backseat of a car and you can get charged with vagrancy or public intox for sleeping it off in public. You have to go home (or to someone else's home), and the car is probably the only way to get there.
That's why designated drivers and taxis/ubers are so important. The only alternatives are dangerous or illegal unless you can find and afford a spontaneous hotel or you live in a big enough city to have useful public transit.
It seems to me that there's some weird propaganda going on in this thread. I've only ever known one person who has driven while drunk and the only reason I know that is that he confessed it out of deep shame.
I guess it's possible that everyone I know is out joyriding every time they drink and just not telling me, but assuming that's not true, I - being from and in the US - never really experienced a culture remotely supportive of drunk driving.
That's because they didn't include the part where she lands flat on her ass laughing when she realizes "this isn't even MY CAR you guys!"
Some friends and I (though sober) once did this to a friend's car so that they would be confused when their shift ended.
I'm pretty sure they didn't even notice.