Lawmaker who thinks gays a threat to children crashes boat into children

[cecilia]

Maryland delegate Don H. Dwyer Jr was drinking with another man on his boat on the Magothy River in Pasadena around 7pm when his boat struck a smaller vessel with five children on board.

and this pig wants forgiveness.

Dwyer later admitted to having a blood alcohol level of 0.2 – twice the legal limit.

wow, what a responsible adult you are mr homophobe

 

[the_leander]

Umm, oops?

Also, drink drivers? Should automatically get a lifetime ban from driving. No excuses in this day and age when the message of don't do it is bombarded at people from every conceivable angle.

3 of the lads in my secondary school got killed when the driver (who was one of the three) took his dads car out for a spin and had a smash whilst wasted. A fourth lad was also in the car and in the same year group, he survived though by all accounts he's never been the same since.

 

[cecilia]

exactly.
and I just don't buy that BS excuse: "but Everybody does it"

really? news flash - I haven't. And it's not about being miss perfect or some crap like that. It's that driving a boat/car/train/bus/whatever means you act like an adult and try not to harm people. It's about doing the right thing.

so much for claiming to be "Christian" I love the shite these morons spout

 

[the_leander]

Thing is, these days you can buy your own breathalyzers for next to nothing, many pubs and clubs offer coin operated breathalyzers here in the UK and I'd be surprised if the US didn't similarly.

 

[cecilia]

they do have them for cars (key won't turn on the vehicle if you can't pass your Breathalyzer), but if a person knows they are going to drive, just don't drink. period

 

[ilwrath]

Thing is, these days you can buy your own breathalyzers for next to nothing, many pubs and clubs offer coin operated breathalyzers here in the UK and I'd be surprised if the US didn't similarly.

Actually, in the US they are very rare. Personally, I've never seen one here. And I've been to more than my share of pubs over the years. I believe the handheld ones aren't allowed to be sold as anything other than a restricted novelty item (as they don't have a certified calibration) and can only be sold by certain highly restricted vendors. The coin operated ones won't be installed, because they then open the bar up to lawsuits. See, in the US, it is illegal to serve anyone over the limit. Installing the device would give the bartenders a reasonable way to find that out, and then open them to being sued if someone was over while in their establishment. So, rather than risk that, no one installs them, thus reducing overall safety by stupid braindead legislation. I just love the US legal system.

 

[cecilia]

they do have them for cars (key won't turn on the vehicle if you can't pass your Breathalyzer), but if a person knows they are going to drive, just don't drink. period

I want to clear up that all such Breathalyzer devices installed in cars are done so by a Judge. Meaning that person got a DUI, had a court date and the Judge told the defendant that the only way he could keep his drivers license was to have such a device installed in his car. In order to be able to even start the car he has to blow in the device and pass it.