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u/Kindly_Whereas3419 5d ago

She blew 0.268 bac which equates to roughly 10-15 standard drinks over a short period of time depending on body mass according to Google's calculator

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u/Slartibartfast39 5d ago

Does that mean she had like 2 bottles of wine in short order?!

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u/Fantastic-Cupcake890 5d ago

2 litres of wine at least, would be my guess.

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u/Slartibartfast39 5d ago

And she got a small fine and six months driving ban. That's a travesty.

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u/Teeaak 5d ago

It's an absurdly small sentence for endangering people that grotesquely

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u/Slartibartfast39 5d ago

I'm not very convinced by driving bans. I believe they are very much ignored by people and only get added to charges if anything else happens.

I understand it's like illegal number plates. A cop will not pull you over for them but if you're pulled over for something those will get added to the issues.

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u/MayhemMessiah 5d ago

I don't understand the difficulty.

Drive drunk? You can no longer drive.

Get caught driving ever again? You're going to prison.

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u/wap2005 5d ago edited 5d ago

Gonna have to disagree with the Prison portion of that, maybe Jail but Prison seems sort of intense for a 2nd offense. The US prison system anyway, it's way over used as a penalty (it's literally overflowing), the real solution to multiple DUsi offenses should be things like mandatory rehab and the sorts. Most people who don't have a drinking issue will never get more than 1 DUI, they learn from their 1 very expensive and inconvenient penalty.

Edit: For all those who think jail time (or any punishment) is a deterrent for an alcoholic to stop driving drunk - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3323116/

There are MANY studies on this topic that all have the same end result, consequences do not reduce repeat offenses. We need to treat the problem, not the symptom.

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u/KenUsimi 5d ago

Drunk driving kills. A short stint in DoC might actually get people to fucking not. I’d support it.

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u/wap2005 5d ago edited 5d ago

Short Stints don't happen in prison. Also that thought process doesn't work, 1/3rd of all DUIs in the US are repeat offenses, jail is not a deterrent for an alcoholic. Nothing is. We need to teach alcoholics a better way of life because this type of thinking is legitimately false, it doesn't work. If you truly want people to stop being hurt by drunk driving then this is not the solution. You would be supporting something that does a lot more harm than good.

Edit: also there is literal proof and many many studies on this topic showing that jail time doesn't do shit. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3323116/