Speeding ticket

[Saga]

Long story short: drunk (still drunk), pulled it together so officer didn't even bother with a breathalyzer, going 94 in a 65 on a major highway, officer misspelled my home address on the ticket (which is different than my current address, I'm in OH). Is the misspelling enough for me to ignore this shit or what?

[Bartylby]

seriously though, i don't know the answer sorry.

[Saga]

np homes just looking for an answer. if they didn't get my address correct, then legally the person at that incorrect address doesn't exist, right?

[jmc]

nvm

*edit*

Wasn't gonna help you out, because you were driving intoxicated.

However, I will say if your name is correct... and your license number is correct then I would not ignore it. Majority of judges allow minor errors to pass through and not disrupt the ticket.

[Gregorio]

No, it's not enough to get you out of it.

[Saga]

no dont nvm jmc. I know you're a police officer, I really do want an answer. It's only my second speeding ticket ever, so I can waive it, but still. I went to college in Boston, do I get points?

EDIT: gotcha, thank you.

[Salodin]

Wasn't gonna help you out, because you were driving intoxicated.

And yet I bet he still was able to drive safer then a lot of asian/female drivers.

No, I'm not even kidding.

[Saga]

Wasn't swerving, had 2 Sam Summers and a Dos Equis at the bar, just wanted to get the hell home and get to bed.

Edit: also I live in the middle of fucking nowhere, it was 1am on a Saturday, all of two cars on the road with me, and the back road I take to get back to my apartment was completely empty. Only thing I was ever in danger of was hitting a mailbox or a deer.

[MisterBob]

How the hell were you drunk off of 3 beers?

[Vandole]

How the hell were you drunk off of 3 beers?

i think this is the point of this thread now

[Despain]

And yet I bet he still was able to drive safer then a lot of asian/female drivers.

No, I'm not even kidding.

This. Not that I advocate drunk driving, but some people can actually drive completely fine while intoxicated. My dad is one of these people... I don't think I have a single childhood memory of him not driving drunk really late at night whenever we had family get togethers. He never got pulled over for anything or was involved in any accidents, either. Alcohol affects people differently just like any other drug out there.

[MisterBob]

i think this is the point of this thread now

Alcohol affects everyone differently to an extent, perhaps. For EVERYONE, it reduces reaction times for sure (I don't care what anecdotal evidence you present in the form of some stupid story you heard from your uncle's horse's left testicle, this is a fact of human physiology). While you may be able to drive normally, your ability to react to that idiot crossing outside of a crosswalk at night while wearing dark clothing is extremely diminished. Those types of unexpected circumstances are what kill people when drunk drivers are involved. Anyone who says or thinks otherwise is a fool, ridiculously selfish, or just completely out of touch with reality.

[Saga]

They were all tall beers, they had tall/short available for all their draft beers. Also I didn't eat much for dinner, and I killed those three tall ones in about an hour, hour and a half, so I wasn't "drunk" so much as pretty tipsy. But yeah, it was stupid, I was lucky not to tip off the officer to anything, just gonna suck it up and pay the $169.

[Ksandra]

This. Not that I advocate drunk driving, but some people can actually drive completely fine while intoxicated. My dad is one of these people... I don't think I have a single childhood memory of him not driving drunk really late at night whenever we had family get togethers. He never got pulled over for anything or was involved in any accidents, either. Alcohol affects people differently just like any other drug out there.

Considering he was going 94 in a 65, then I don't think this is the same as your dad.

Pay the ticket, learn your lesson, don't get more tickets.

[Yabby]

Not only did you drive drunk, but you were speeding well above the limit.... Pay the ticket, and call it a dumb-ass fee.

[Saga]

Not only did you drive drunk, but you were speeding well above the limit.... Pay the ticket, and call it a dumb-ass fee.

Believe me, point well-taken. Was dumb to try and get out of it.

[Tagus]

This. Not that I advocate drunk driving, but some people can actually drive completely fine while intoxicated.

lol... the thing about driving shitfaced is that it doesn't cause a problem, until it does.

[RKenshin]

Alcohol affects everyone differently to an extent, perhaps. For EVERYONE, it reduces reaction times for sure (I don't care what anecdotal evidence you present in the form of some stupid story you heard from your uncle's horse's left testicle, this is a fact of human physiology). While you may be able to drive normally, your ability to react to that idiot crossing outside of a crosswalk at night while wearing dark clothing is extremely diminished. Those types of unexpected circumstances are what kill people when drunk drivers are involved. Anyone who says or thinks otherwise is a fool, ridiculously selfish, or just completely out of touch with reality.

I don't know about the drunk driver accidents you've seen/heard about in your area, but nearly all I ever see reported don't involve any 'unexpected circumstances' at all. Unless a tree being in the same place it has been for the past hundred years or hitting people/objects when you drive out of your lane are unexpected circumstances, because just about all drunk driver accidents I see involve just that.

There's no doubt it impairs your ability to drive as well as you could while sober, but I don't think dealing with the unexpected is the cause of even the minority of drunk driver killings. And on that note, just about everything you do in a car other than driving and looking straight ahead impairs your ability to react to the unexpected. Generally, unexpected events while driving typically equal an accident even while sober; most people simply don't react well to them. But even then, those events are rare and typically not a cause of the majority of DUI accidents.

I'm not defending drunk driving, but I just think that it's inaccurate to imply the biggest danger of people driving drunk is not dealing well with the unexpected. It's just plain not driving well. Though, I'd wager to say it's just as (if not more) dangerous to drive while tired as well.

[Tagus]

We should turn this thread into a "my drunk driving story" thread... mostly so this story will fit in. SO this one time, I was about 18 driving my dad's mustang convertible pretty hammered, and totally side-swiped the entrance ramp wall on the highway. Did a pretty good number on the car, lost a side mirror, etc... my dad gets home from being out-of-town and flips out. I did the only thing any teenager with a survival instinct would do in this situation, and lied through my teeth... saying I swerved to miss a deer and hit a guard rail on a local road. My dad, being the conservative type who thought that saving the mirror was the most important thing, dragged my ass to the supposed spot of the accident and made me search for the mirror in the bushes. When I couldn't find it, he tried to climb down the ditch and slipped and fell and busted himself up pretty good, but the whole time I stuck to the lie, even after he fell.

I think the moral of the story is that drinking and driving makes you a horrible person, will cause you to create a web of lies to cover your ass, and you'll probably go to hell.

[Saga]

We should turn this thread into a "my drunk driving story" thread... mostly so this story will fit in. SO this one time, I was about 18 driving my dad's mustang convertible pretty hammered, and totally side-swiped the entrance ramp wall on the highway. Did a pretty good number on the car, lost a side mirror, etc... my dad gets home from being out-of-town and flips out. I did the only thing any teenager with a survival instinct would do in this situation, and lied through my teeth... saying I swerved to miss a deer and hit a guard rail on a local road. My dad, being the conservative type who thought that saving the mirror was the most important thing, dragged my ass to the supposed spot of the accident and made me search for the mirror in the bushes. When I couldn't find it, he tried to climb down the ditch and slipped and fell and busted himself up pretty good, but the whole time I stuck to the lie, even after he fell.

I think the moral of the story is that drinking and driving makes you a horrible person, will cause you to create a web of lies to cover your ass, and you'll probably go to hell.

I'm Jewish, I'm going to hell anyway.