I'm surprised this hasn't been commented on yet ...

.... Drivers face ban if they drink a pint


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/article7061168.ece
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"Lord Adonis, the transport secretary, expects an official review of
the law to recommend reducing the legal limit from 80mg of alcohol per
100ml of blood to 50mg"

He must love himself to think something like that up

Paul.

 

Excellent - bring it on.

 

*Shrug*

I can't help thinking that if you're going to have a drink-drive policy,
that should be: "No booze at all. Zero."

 

Enjoy that thought when you get tugged the morning after a few beers,
or on the way up the M20 after a TOGTour.

 

Yeah, well, the Friday night sessions on the TOG Tours are always the
killer ones. Saturday night is mild by comparison.

Seriously, I wouldn't have a problem with a zero-tolerance drink driving
law. If you know the rules, you can abide by them.

 

First, they came for the smokers.... then they came for the drinkers....

Exactly as predicted by the smokers, then.

 

I have to agree.

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I'm old enought to have forgotten how many times this has been proposed. ;-)
Certainly it seems to have come up many many times and nothing ever comes of
it.

Tim

 

Zero would be far too low.
The slightest trace of alcohol and you get banned for a year?
That's not at all proportionate to the hazard you pose.

 

Fair point. All right, as close to **** all as is practicable, then.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

Speaking (whatever) personally, I can rely on the Disco knowing its own
way home, but I wouldn't go within several yards of the bike if I'd had a
drink.

OTOH, when I lived in London and cycled everywhere, I figured you only
had to get on a (push)bike after an evening in the pub to become suddenly
completely sober. Why doesn't that work for a motorbike?

 

A few years ago I was riding my bicycle after a few large drinks.

I landed in a spikey hedge which was funny as **** at the time.

The following morning OTOH...

 

Do you know what the speed limit is on this stretch of road Sir..?

 

And we haven't finished with them, yet

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Can != will

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Similar tale here, upon leaving the pub I was convinced I could
perform the perfect wheelie after several pints of hobgoblin, but
instead managed to pretty much perform a backward somersault on the
spot. I lay on the floor laughing for a couple of minutes
afterwards, and my back was still decoratively bruised a good week
later.

 

What else can they do? Banning smoking completely will never work
because there aren't enough cops in the land to enforce it and raising
taxes even higher just won't work because the majority of smokers are
buying duty free tobacco already.

 

It did, in the eighties.

 

Are they? Genuinely curious as to the accuracy of that.

As an ex-smoker[1] I am genuinely stunned by how much I notice people
smoking now. Especially when, for example, leaving a concert. As soon
as one gets into the smoking permitted zone, it seems[2] like being back
in the 'bad old days'

[1] Aren't they always the worst?
[2] This is a purely subjective view. I genuinely don't remember finding
smoking quite so 'in your face' when it was more widespread.

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