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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.
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.
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.
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
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?
“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.
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.
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.
No, you go through a whole process to get one. Its as a result of a dui.
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.
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.
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.
That’s the best kind of S-10
It was so scraped up people probably assumed it was a Dakota.
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.
You have to humm too no?
Thanks mate!
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.
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
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.
Big 'ope energy.
That’s the Midwest I miss
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
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
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.
