If you have to have a breathalyzer device installed, you shouldn’t be allowed to drive
Its crazy that a car is viewed as so integral to a persons ability to make a living that we have to allow these types of situations to happen.
surprised they didn’t still get a DUI for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated
y’know, what with cops giving them out to people sleeping it off in the back of their car and whatnot. somebody had to get in the car to put it in neutral
Cops don’t catch most people.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
“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.
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.
Sorry who can translate this to a European?
The woman’s car wouldn’t start because of an installed device that makes her pass a breathalyzer (something courts can mandate). Midwestern people are stereotypically very helpful, but the ones from Wisconsin drink a lot, so nobody present could pass the breathalyzer either. The solution was for all the drunk strangers to physically push her car to where it needed to be.
Thanks mate!
that’s why you have sober balloons in the trunk
Holy crap lol i hope people dont do that
I had a friend in high school who’s father was an alcoholic attorney, and he’d have his kids pass the breathalyzer for him every morning.
I actually bought a user 2001 S10 off them in 2004 with like 25k miles on it for only 3 grand because he’d keep rubbing along the side of in the driveway pulling in and out drunk, so it had a bunch of cosmetic damage that I didn’t care about at all.
I drove that truck for 11 years.
He must’ve gotten lucky. The ones I’ve seen require you to blow every 10 minutes while driving. Dad would not have gotten all the way to work these days.
That’s the best kind of S-10
It was so scraped up people probably assumed it was a Dakota.
They’re joking. Interkocks are more sophisticated than that. You’re not going to fool one with a balloon. You have to inhale before exhaling, and a camera records a video of you blowing to make sure there’s no funny business.
I’ve not seen one with a camera before but it would take multiple very large balloons, and a level of coordination that a drunk would not have.
You have to breathe out for a full 30s strong or it will error. It was suprisingly difficult. Then every 10 minutes while driving - it will beep and you have 2 minutes to blow into it or it flips out, and the car shuts off. You won’t be able to turn it back on without contacting someone.
Source: My buddy’s dad was an alcoholic. He’d have to go home early from playing so he could do the breathalyzer and ride along so his dad could take the car out anywhere. Sometimes he’d have to skip school to go to his dad’s work.
Actually it’s fucked up thinking about it now…
Just checked, and I can only last thirty seconds at a rather feeble rate. Apparently the device is for people who trained their lung capacity in the childhood.
You have to humm too no?
Not anymore. You just have to breathe a certain way that can’t be faked by a non-human.
Communities are stronger when they come together. Truly a inspiration to us all.
It would have been fine. The tow truck also has a DUI lockout.
The DUI device will let you shift into neutral? I thought usually you had to turn the key to get it into neutral.
It would be a safety hazard if it prevented you from shifting into neutral, for situations like this. Tow truck would have needed to put it in neutral as well
Tow trucks dont have to. If they cant tow it on a free axle, they’ll just use dollys.
Sometimes but many cars also have a shift lock override that allows you to drop it in neutral, usually a small slot near the shifter knob the key will fit into. Dollys are only good for short distance and sometimes you need to get it on a bed.
Depends on the car and device, but I think they usually disable the ignition, not the key turning.
Don’t most cars also have the little hidden keyhole next to the shifter, specifically for this purpose?
No not specifically for a bunch of alcoholics to move a car under human power.
But yes most cars do have that.
Okay, maybe not that specifically, but more generally, to move the car when it cannot, for whatever reason, move itself.
Even if that reason is alchohilism.
I mean it is pretty damn unlikely these days but it could be a stick
That’s the Midwest I miss
Big 'ope energy.
The responsible thing to do would have been to make sure her car got towed.
why?
it was parked in the wrong spot and they corrected the situation
She was a serial drunk driver and parked in the wrong spot before going and getting drunk without and way of getting home. She probably got drunk before going out and had somebody else blow in the breathalyzer for her, maybe her kids, we don’t know for sure.
Clearly she isn’t responsible to handle this weapon, she is going to kill somebody.
We need to protect these drunk drivers at all cost
ok so your stance is that somebody with a DUI shouldn’t get the courtesy of being assisted regardless of context, I understand now
that’s a fair position to take, DUI drivers are incredibly selfish and tbh I don’t feel enough is done about pretty much any dangerous driving, so additional consequences are fair
I thought we were just talking about the parking situation in this specific instance, not the driver’s character
