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Stallworth was drunk.
That's your claim. Were you there? It's been reported that his BAL was 0.126, which is by no means a guarantee of drunkenness.
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Stallworth was drunk.
And yet, you seem to not ask about the dead man's Blood Alcohol Limit... why he was crossing a cordoned street AGAINST oncoming traffic. At night. I'd say you ought to reconsider just WHO was using poor judgement that night.
Stallworth paid the price society demanded of him. It's over. I'd welcome him back on this team.
Have to disagree there...Cops will arrest you for public drunkeness if they feel you are a hazard to the community...and thats walking down the street
They arrest you if you are acting like an idiot. People walk the streets in Boston drunk every Friday and Saturday night between 2-4 pm.
That's your claim. Were you there? It's been reported that his BAL was 0.126, which is by no means a guarantee of drunkenness.
I'm not going to argue that the guy who got killed wasn't an idiot for running across a highway, but if you compare Stallworth to the guy he killed you are seriously saying that the dead guy had worse judgement then the guy who was DUI?
UMMMM Night is A.M.
Well, a sober man who's stupid enough to hop onto that highway, instead of using the crosswalk, in the middle of the night would be very, very stupid. So, yes.
How does it feel to defend a man who drank, got drunk then decided to drive home (killing someone along the way).
Disgusting.
1.) Driving drunk is not the same as driving with a blood alcohol level that is over the legal limit.
2.) The next person I meet who isn't a teetotaler and can still honestly claim never to have gotten behind the wheel with alcohol in their system will be the very first one.
It wasn't in the 'middle of the night',Donte did not reach that stretch of highway until 7am according to HIM...What do you not understand?
By definition being drunk is being affected by alcohol. Since 0.126 is enough to at minimum moderately impair driving skills, I don't think "driving drunk" is a misnomer.
Pardon me.... "coming home from the night shift." I hope that makes you feel better, because it doesn't make a bit of difference in my response.
By your definition, people are drunk off of a sip of beer. Any level of alcohol affects the person drinking it.
I'm able to think rationally about things, so it causes me no problems. And, again, you don't know that he was drunk. What's funny is that I actually have personal experience prosecuting DUI cases in Miami, yet I'm more able to see this stuff clearly than people such as yourself.
Then again, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. After all, you insulted DaBruinz and myself because we dared to point out that Manning's a choker....
Well, it's actual the dictionary's definition, is that not good enough? And it depends on the BAC to determine effect. One drink might not affect you, but there's lots of evidence saying that driving impairment happens well before 0.08.
being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
1.
Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties.
2.
Caused or influenced by intoxication.
1 a : having the faculties impaired by alcohol b : having a level of alcohol in the blood that exceeds a maximum prescribed by law <legally drunk>
2 : dominated by an intense feeling <drunk with rage>
3 : relating to, caused by, or characterized by intoxication :
Actually, I looked at various dictionaries. None had so liberal an interpretation as you claimed.
Also, if you look at enough of the wacko literature, you'll find claims that any amount of alcohol is too much and affects people. It's an irrelevancy. You can get hopped up on caffeine and be a danger on the road, too.
Your definition agrees with me: "Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties." Impairment being the key word. I don't have access to a university library at this exact moment, but this study (from a government site) indicates driving impairment shows up at 0.05 and it seems to have legit references:
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh23-1/31-39.pdf
By definition being drunk is being affected by alcohol.