Shit like this just lowers the seriousness of DUI. DUI is bad because real cars (and lesser extent motorbikes) have enormous potential for carnage and death. A pink toy jeep does not.
Surely a public intoxication or nuisance charge exists that would better suit?
It would be equivalent to him walking, re: speed and general safety. Hell, it’s a pink “car”, which is great for visibility! It’s nonsense to charge him with a DUI. They gonna do the same to someone drunk while in a motorized wheelchair?
Also, this whole situation is just an extension of our stupid car-centric societies: the damned sidewalks stopped existing on his path to the store. He was otherwise just fine using the sidewalk until he couldn’t. That’s neglect on the city’s part.
Edit: downvote all you want, the cars were a danger to him, not the other way round.
If it was just as fast to walk, then he should have walked. But by taking a vehicle into the street while intoxicated he enters DUI territory.
As for your wheelchair comment i think the context matters. I doubt they would charge someone who needs the wheelchair with a DUI in the scenario but someone just taking a motorized wheelchair for a drunken joyride down the road will likely end up with a DUI.
It lessens it in the sense that he can make jokes about it.
I got a DUI, but its okay, I was in a barbie jeep. Lol.
That its posted here is proving my point, its been treated as a joke.
We are both sensible people, we know its serious, but others will just see it as a joke. I’d rather they charged him with something else. He’s just as much a hazard if he was sober.
It’s to protect the everyone on the road, including the person in the pink plastic car. Rules on the road are different than the rules on private property.
Shit like this just lowers the seriousness of DUI. DUI is bad because real cars (and lesser extent motorbikes) have enormous potential for carnage and death. A pink toy jeep does not.
Surely a public intoxication or nuisance charge exists that would better suit?
It’s no different to riding a horse. Drunk riding is a thang
I had a buddy back in the day. Get a DUI on a bicycle.
I feel like that could be a sport on the ocho
Given he was operating it on the road, he would be a hazard to himself and a distraction/hazard to other drivers.
I’d say it doesn’t lessen the seriousness of a DUI. They take the DUI so seriously they’ll even get you in the pink barbie jeep.
It would be equivalent to him walking, re: speed and general safety. Hell, it’s a pink “car”, which is great for visibility! It’s nonsense to charge him with a DUI. They gonna do the same to someone drunk while in a motorized wheelchair?
Also, this whole situation is just an extension of our stupid car-centric societies: the damned sidewalks stopped existing on his path to the store. He was otherwise just fine using the sidewalk until he couldn’t. That’s neglect on the city’s part.
Edit: downvote all you want, the cars were a danger to him, not the other way round.
If it was just as fast to walk, then he should have walked. But by taking a vehicle into the street while intoxicated he enters DUI territory.
As for your wheelchair comment i think the context matters. I doubt they would charge someone who needs the wheelchair with a DUI in the scenario but someone just taking a motorized wheelchair for a drunken joyride down the road will likely end up with a DUI.
It lessens it in the sense that he can make jokes about it.
That its posted here is proving my point, its been treated as a joke. We are both sensible people, we know its serious, but others will just see it as a joke. I’d rather they charged him with something else. He’s just as much a hazard if he was sober.
It’s to protect the everyone on the road, including the person in the pink plastic car. Rules on the road are different than the rules on private property.