Getting into a DWI

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

7/15/2013 10:35:23 AM

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"can't tell if serious."

I am being serious. He can't drive and there are no GKs in the pool. This sucks!

7/15/2013 9:42:26 PM

i'd rather get a DWI than play soccer

I'm Krallum and I approved this message

7/15/2013 9:46:12 PM

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"Damn I'm out the first 2 games cuz I'm in jail that weekend and the next one then I'm done with jail just a heads up. I finished my first weekend today and I have 3 more. My last weekend in jail is at the end of August"

I can't complain about this. It seems fair to do some time behind bars.

7/28/2013 7:54:16 PM

he should have to serve it all at once.

7/29/2013 11:47:31 AM

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[Edited on July 29, 2013 at 12:20 PM. Reason : nevermind...just reread and saw he got 2]

7/29/2013 11:54:59 AM

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"you cant be convicted in nc with a dwi unless you are in the car and the keys are in the ignition"

So if you crash your car drunk, and there are no witnesses that can place you in the drivers seat, just stand outside the car and do not answer any questions and they cant prove you guilty of any crime???

I know a lot of people leave the scene and get charged with Felony hit and run or leaving the scene of an accident, but I really never thought about what happens if you stay on scene but do not admit to driving.

7/29/2013 12:08:04 PM

From what I've seen they'll charge you and let the court decide. Just getting charged with DUI is going to be an expensive buttfuck even if you are found not guilty.

On leaving the scene....I actually know someone who is going through this right now. He did a hit and run in a parking lot and was arrested at his house about two hours later. They charged him with the hit and run as well as DUI even though they really have no way to prove he didn't start drinking after arriving at his house. It's a shithead thing to do on his part and I don't feel bad for what he's about to go through.

[Edited on July 29, 2013 at 12:19 PM. Reason : l]

7/29/2013 12:14:34 PM

^,^^
yep...hard to "prove" but it gets charged a lot. judges are pretty privy to the "i started chugging liquor after my wreck, and i was stone cold sober before it" excuse.

i know a few fantastic defense attorneys though if someone needs help...PM me. but really, don't break the law, that shit aint worth it y'all

7/29/2013 1:23:40 PM

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"From what I've seen they'll charge you and let the court decide. Just getting charged with DUI is going to be an expensive buttfuck even if you are found not guilty."

That makes sense, there is still PC for an arrest and the case will just run its course in court.

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" He did a hit and run in a parking lot and was arrested at his house about two hours later."

I know people do not really think things through when they are drunk, but if you are going to make an effort to run actually make an effort. Maybe put the car somewhere besides your house and then go somewhere besides your house so it at least takes the cops a couple of days to find you.......by then you can sober up, consult an attorney, and have a story lined up.

I mean if you crashed within walking distance of a hotel and were not injured you could check in, turn your cell phone off (not tell anyone where you are), wake up sober, have a nice shower, hire a lawyer...at least give your attorney something to work with. The lawyer is just gonna say you forgot to lock your car and someone stole your shit with the spare key in the console or something. The timing would be suspicious, but suspicious =/= proven guilty. There is a good chance the police would never even know you spent the night in the hotel unless they ran your pic on TV or canvassed the area and the hotel told them. Non-injury accidents rarely make the news...

7/29/2013 6:05:28 PM

Obviously don't drink and drive, but that's^ good advice. They've made DWIs expensive enough that it makes sense to get crafty if you can...even if you feel really sleazy about it.

7/29/2013 7:18:20 PM

^^When I worked at the grocery store a 50 year old lady hit a car and then drove about 300 yards out of the parking lot in reverse, so no one could see her plate number, but someone did manage to see it and write it down. The cops went to her dad's house since the car was registered to him. He told them his daughter had borrowed his car, so then they arrested her.

7/29/2013 10:50:26 PM

If you get a DUI, don't just bend over and accept the super high liability insurance premiums. After mine, Geico wanted to raise my shit to something like $1400 but Progressive gave me $500-something.

7/29/2013 10:55:41 PM

Dont drink and drive!!111!!!


But if you do, blah blah blah

7/29/2013 11:47:54 PM

It helps if you're a UNC basketball player... just sayin...

7/30/2013 12:12:22 AM

you can get out of it by not driving drunk, you fucking prick

7/30/2013 12:14:44 AM

SHOTS FIRED!!!!!

7/30/2013 1:12:43 AM

^^That is a good idea, but once again, it wasn't me who got caught. It was someone on my men's soccer team.

7/30/2013 9:08:31 PM

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"idk how many games I'll make it to. I got a scooter for Christmas"

Yeah, you probably don't want to go on 540 on a scooter. I was told if you don't have a motorcycle license then you can only go a max on 30 mph on them and even going 31 mph will get you pulled.

[Edited on January 26, 2014 at 2:04 PM. Reason : .]

1/26/2014 2:04:22 PM

Scooters =/= Moped.

Mopeds do not require a license, registration and/or insurance. They are restricted to 30 mph (on a flat level surface) and 50cc. If you are riding one that is 51cc or more or driving in excess of 30 mph (on a flat level surface), you are subject to being charged with DWLR, No Insurance, No Registration, and a litany of other tick tack stuff like no mirrors/signals, no motorcycle endorsement or being run over by RPD.

A scooter is the same as a motorcycle.


[Edited on January 26, 2014 at 2:37 PM. Reason : ...]

1/26/2014 2:10:42 PM

PWNT

1/26/2014 2:22:07 PM

Have any of y'all declined the field sobriety test and taken the breath test instead, because you haven't had anything to drink before that?

[Edited on January 26, 2014 at 3:58 PM. Reason : Sorry if its been asked before, and DUI]

1/26/2014 3:58:01 PM

What is the rationale behind that? Are you talking about a pre-arrest chemical analysis.

1/26/2014 5:21:39 PM

Yeah, pre-arrest, to avoid doing the field sobriety test(HGN, WAT or OLS) . Might as well prove using the breathalyzer that I haven't consumed any alcohol.

1/26/2014 5:44:41 PM

Never had anyone ask for one; most officers probably wouldn't know what to do.

1/26/2014 6:15:11 PM

I had an officer take me directly to his car to do the breathalyzer without doing field sobriety tests once. I knew I was fine so I didn't object. Was he in the wrong?

1/26/2014 7:58:52 PM

The little instrument that an officer has you blow into on the side of the road is officially called an Alcohol Screening Test Device (ASTD) or may be referred to as a PBT or Alco-Sensor. These instruments should only be used to confirm or deny that alcohol is the source of impairment.

The instrument "downtown" is the EC/IR II more commonly referred to as the breathalyzer.

1/26/2014 8:09:30 PM

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"Damn deer I wrecked my scooter tonight. My knee fudge hurts"

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"it ran off i turned to miss him and overcorrect then bam i hit the ground"

2/9/2014 12:19:58 PM

i got stopped once and asked to recite the alphabet backwards from M to E.

that was hard. and i hadn't drank a thing.

2/9/2014 12:44:39 PM

^WTF is up with all of this reciting the alphabet backwards from the middle. Pretty much anyone would have to think really hard to do that. Or are they trying to get people to say something like..."Come on! I couldn't even do that if I was sober."

2/10/2014 1:30:14 AM

Nobody should be asking you to do it backwards.

2/10/2014 6:40:08 AM

turn around 180°. efghijklm

2/10/2014 6:57:53 AM

Ive been asked to blow in a breathalyzer twice. Neither time was I asked to perform a field sobriety test. 1st time I failed (under .08, but also under 21 ) and 2nd time I hadnt had anything to drink all day, but had been out on the lake with people who had.

2/10/2014 9:05:34 AM

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"i got stopped once and asked to recite the alphabet backwards from M to E. that was hard. and i hadn't drank a thing."

I can recite the entire alphabet backwards and that is still tough. I had a Wake deputy ask me this at a party (he was off duty and we were discussing sobriety tests) and when I took about 2-3 seconds of thinking before my response, he said that was enough for them to assume I had been drinking... I was like

2/10/2014 12:14:55 PM

Yeah this was like 6-7 years ago when I was still in Raleigh. I think it happened on duraleigh.

The cop let me go after I did it, so whatever. No warning, no reason given for stopping me. Was weird.

2/10/2014 1:25:03 PM

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"i got stopped once and asked to recite the alphabet backwards from M to E. that was hard. and i hadn't drank a thing."

I said it backwards after thinking for a few seconds. If they make you start at M then that is easy to remember.

J, K, L, M

Martin Luther King Junior. MLKJ.

2/10/2014 9:08:23 PM

yes its so easy when you are asked out of the blue by a police officer who pulled you over for no reason.

2/11/2014 10:32:41 AM

Now he has a fractured rib from the scooter wreck, spent the weekend in jail because of a probation violation, and doesn't have the money to play this season. He asked me if I would pay his registration fee for spring season and then he could pay me back since he is short on money right now.

I found someone to take his place though, so everything will be ok. I told him he can come back when he gets all of his driving issues taken care of.

2/22/2014 1:19:50 AM

That sucks, dude. I hope your new guy is good!!!

2/22/2014 1:24:59 AM

^The new guy played in high school and in college for a little while. He's a college grad and currently enrolled at Duke. He sounds like he will behave behind the wheel.

2/22/2014 1:30:29 AM

Seems like people who have driving issues have issues in general.

2/22/2014 1:32:17 AM

^Yeah he's been working at the same pizza restaurant since high school and he's in his late 20s. There is nothing wrong with the restaurant business, but at some point I would think you would have to get a better job, or it would get depressing. My sister is a chef/restaurant manager who got her start at a bbq restaurant and Outback, but she also went to chef school, worked at the Cardinal Club, NC State Alumni Club, and now helps manage a new restaurant chain that was started by the owners of Outback. She enjoys life.

2/22/2014 1:57:14 AM

I am a volunteer fireman, and we have had many calls to "wrecks" late at night where a car is in a ditch, locked, keys gone, windows fogged up from dew, and no driver in sight. If they can get out and away from the car and maybe sober up, it's very hard to prove they were driving it, much less driving drunk, especially on dark back roads and no one willing to testify. I imagine it would be hard to have a case hold up in court even if the owner of the car was sitting beside it hammered. They would still have to prove that the person was driving. Cases where they pull people over are totally different though.

2/27/2014 11:36:58 PM

^I don't know, if you're drunk and sitting next to a wrecked car with no one else around then you will probably look pretty guilty to law enforcement, if they pull up and ask what is wrong.

2/28/2014 12:44:10 AM

Any decent lawyer could prove reasonable doubt in ^^ case. Especially if there is no damage to another vehicle or real property.

2/28/2014 5:53:23 AM

So now he showed up to watch us play on Saturday since we played 5 minutes from his house. He was with us for 3 years. Our new gk is good too. I don't know what I will do once he is ready to return.

3/17/2014 9:13:08 PM

Its a fucking adult soccer league...not English Premier. If you worried less about your pizza cook goalkeeper and making your next cheerleader collage, you might actually get your dick wet every now and then.

3/18/2014 7:58:45 AM

^i was wondering when something like that was going to be said. it seems weird to me that you are so preoccupied with this guy and his life

3/18/2014 1:09:49 PM

I'm not that worried about it, but it kinda sucks to have to tell a friend they can't return. We only have so much room on roster. My b team actually sliced me this season which sucked too, but that actually worked out in the end because their schedule was changed. It still sucks though.

3/18/2014 3:16:55 PM