Thread: Booze bus... pointless bus?

Originally Posted by cartm58

personally l think we should have more testing stops and we should expand to testing for drugs as well as alcohol

and

when you blow positive your car should be impounded immediately and your license should be stopped there and then and if you want it back you got to court and argue extenuating circumstances

and

you lose your car for length of license cancellation

and

if its not your car the company or owner can pay a fine to retrieve it

only way to stop the many many many clowns who continue to drink drive after license loss and may also deter the few who think they can get away with it and should stop otehrs from lending their cars to mates.

VOTE 1 - Cartm58 for Premier

I got RBT'd a few weeks back... after having two glasses of red over dinner only an hour before. I felt like I had drunk nothing so wasn't concerned and I told the lady officer and she said well lets see what we get...... 0.0000 I at least expected it to show there was something in my system!

Always happy to see RBT when driving, whetever the time. I dont drink and drive and want every ***** that does off the road.

Sorry, got a bit emotional there.

Originally Posted by EchiDna

I got RBT'd a few weeks back... after having two glasses of red over dinner only an hour before. I felt like I had drunk nothing so wasn't concerned and I told the lady officer and she said well lets see what we get...... 0.0000 I at least expected it to show there was something in my system!

The father of a mate used to be a victorian cop. He said that in his experience the average male can drink half a bottle of red (over a meal) and still be fine to drive (well below 0.05 anyway)

Yep, I don't condone drink driving, it just amazed me that they don't bother to test some people. I reckon a lot of people over the limit must get lucky like that. It proves though that its not all about revenue raising - because if it was run like a business, everyone would get pulled in and tested to maximise $$$.

Originally Posted by isuzurover

The father of a mate used to be a victorian cop. He said that in his experience the average male can drink half a bottle of red (over a meal) and still be fine to drive (well below 0.05 anyway)

As I was getting a lot of late evening work and IT callouts in the wee hours, I gave up drinking all together 3 1/2 months ago. I'm not sure of the variables in build, weight, sex etc, but it used to take me over 24 hours to return to 0.00.

Originally Posted by joel_nicholson

I'm not sure of the variables in build, weight, sex etc, .

I don't know if having sex sobers you up, I guess it really depends on your choice of partner .

They don't make a cent out of RBT, it must cost the Gov't a fortune.. You'd be unlucky (on average) to get more than $1000 fine for a High Range conviction Offset that against the cost and you're in the red bigtime.

Dunno why they didn't test you mate, maybe the alco broke - he could've been a bit more pleasant too.