He is not going to get suspended. DUI is like a "common" cold. When you get 2 or 3 is when society says " You gots problems" and then they do something about it. 1 DUI is nothing. Please don't tell me any horror storys about a one time drunk driver that took out a bus full of handi cap children on there way to church camp. YAWN
Show some respect. Would you be yawning if it was your son or daughter? I mean, 1 DUI is nothing, right? So you wouldn't mind if I got smashed and waved a gun around inside your house? It's basically the same thing. The fact that almost EVERYONE knows someone who has been killed by a drunken driver makes me nearly want to cause you physical harm for such a retort.
Except that you aren't worth it.
Seriously. Well said Havoc.
And Jack- if you don't think 1 DUI is something, fine. Think it. Like Havoc said expressing it just rubs salt in the wounds of people who have actually had to deal with death resulting from "1 DUI"
Think whatever you want, but as long as you have such ty thoughts, do the rest of us a favor and keep your ing mouth shut.
actually it's a class A misdemeanor unless you're a repeat offender. i think on the third DWI is bumped to a felony.
easily ?
edit: lol at editing 'grammer'
That's what I assumed.
Thanks for the clarification.
LOL !! I know several people killed by a drunk driver and the drunk driver was THEM. 'Only' about 2800 of drunk driving deaths involve a drunk driver killing another sober driver/pedistrian. They even include a sober person killing a drunk pedestrian in their 'drunk driving death' statistics. But the OVERWHELMING majority kill themselves and/or their passengers. Fact.
And to say it's the equivalent of someone coming into your home and waiving a gun around is preposterous. That would get you about 10 years if not more.
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo burn
And dumb s like the above are the reason DUI is so common and the penalties aren't stiffer.
Think whatever you want, but as long as you have such ty thoughts, do the rest of us a favor and keep your ing mouth shut.[/QUOTE]
Quit whinning. Thats why we have laws. 1 dui , talking about Melo, is not a big deal, especially seeing he did not hurt anyone. You are acting like chicken little. "The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Everyone makes mistakes.Hopefully those who do learn from it and lets all pray when someone makes a mistake noone gets hurt. Go have a beer and don't drive.
Wow, that's not even as many people as died on September 11. What are we worried about? And only about 17,000 die every year due to drinking and driving. There's not a problem.
Facts are good. Here's some more:
In 2006, an estimated 17,602 people died in alcohol-related traffic crashes—an average of one every 30 minutes. These deaths cons ute 41 percent of the 42,642 total traffic fatalities.
In 2006, there were 13,470 fatalities in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver (BAC of .08 or higher) – 32 percent of total traffic fatalities for the year.
In 2006, 1,794 children age 14 and younger were killed in motor vehicle crashes. Of those 1,794 fatalities, 306 (17%) occurred in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Children riding in vehicles with drivers who had a BAC level of .08 or higher accounted for half (153) of these deaths.
Alcohol-related crashes in the United States cost the public an estimated $114.3 billion in 2000, including $51.1 billion in monetary costs and an estimated $63.2 billion in quality of life losses. People other than the drinking driver paid $71.6 billion of the alcohol-related crash bill, which is 63 percent of the total cost of these crashes.
Still think Driving under the influence isnt a problem?
http://www.madd.org/Drunk-Driving/Dr.../AllStats.aspx
http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-dr...tatistics.html
Here's one for the drunks:
Of the 17,448 fatalities, 2,555 occurred in crashes where alcohol was detected but no one was over the legal limit. . That leaves 14,893 deaths that can actually be attributed to alcohol.
- Of these, 1,770 were intoxicated pedestrians and cyclists who walked out in front of the vehicles of sober drivers. They had nothing to do with drunk driving. That leaves 13,123 deaths that can be attributed to intoxicated drivers.
- OF these, a staggering 8,308 were intoxicated drivers who killed themselves in crashes and no one else.
- That leaves 4,815 deaths in which intoxicated drivers killed someone other than themselves.
- Of those remaining 4,815 deaths it cannot be determined whether alcohol was the primary cause. They could be talking on their cell phone, ( which attributes to an extimated 2600 deaths a year on the highway ). Tired or sleep deprived drivers account for 1500 deaths annually. ( those that fell asleep at the wheel or possibly suicide. No one knows why someone runs off the road for no reason. ).
This doesn't even take age into account. All I know is when I was a teenager I had a 1968 roadrunner and drove it as fast as it would go, drunk or sober, everywhere I went. Thank god I survived and didn't kill anyone.
I could drive Indy at .08.
Last edited by word; 04-14-2008 at 06:35 PM. Reason: because I can
It's always good to get drunk before the playoffs. Great preparation there Carmelo.
I suspect some of us may be getting smashed in a few weaks.
I wonder how many DWI's would result out of some of those spurstalk GTG's ? More than one is my guess.
More for the drunks:
GO dRuNkZ pe0pLz...
MADD’s founder, says she disassociated herself from the movement in 1985 because she believed the organization was headed in the wrong direction. ‘It has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I had ever wanted or envisioned,’ said Mrs. Lightner, who founded MADD after her daughter was killed by a drunk driver. ‘I didn’t start MADD to deal with alcohol. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving."
“‘I thought the emphasis on .08 laws was not where the emphasis should have been placed. The majority of crashes occur with high blood-alcohol levels, the .15, .18 and .25 drinkers. Lowering the blood-alcohol concentration was not a solution to the alcohol problem."
— Los Angeles Times, December 2002
Hillary having a shot:
WHOOOT !! Go Melo Go Melo Go Mel....errr Hillary...
Just being the PUNK he is suppose to be. Nothing new.
i hope one of them who will get smash by a truck is you, then u cant say such a horrible thing. care to show some respect?
Didn't Damien Stoudemire just have a DWI charge dropped ?
I find the self rightousness here distasteful. But that's human nature. Nail someone to the cross if you don't like him, look the other way if it's your homeboy. Bring out the 'struck by lightening' stats and make the emotional appeals. Compare it to attempted murder...yadda yadda.
There is nothing Carmello Anthony has done yet or that we're aware of to indicate he's a thug. He's just a young dude with a lot of money making the mistakes young dudes make...and older dudes make but less.
I refuse to nail the man to the cross over something I've done countless times resulting in not a single accident or ticket much less for driving drunk in my 40 years of driving.
Get off his nuts.
This is the problem with this damn country. Everyone wants blood for everyone except THEM or someone they like or know.
that.
I think he's a thug wannabe... as illustrated in the sucker punching episode in NY last year...
Sorry, but in my mind that is WAY too many completely innocent people to die in one year, when all you have to do is pick up a phone and call a cab if you think you may have had too much.
Furthermore, these acts affect these people's families, and many other people. Not to mention that the $51.1 billion in monetary costs alone totals more than the endowment of the wealthiest university in the country.
The fact that you, or anyone else, was irresponsible as a teenager doesn't make that behavior ok. In fact, it's a ridiculous premise that stupidity validates additional stupidity. As I said before, getting a designed driver or a cab, especially when you're a multimillionairre like melo, hardly seems like a heavy price to pay.
In 1990 my two year old son died from encephalitis. We had taken him out trick or treating the night before and he was bitten by a mosquito. The next morning, when we went to wake him up, he was dead. It ultimately caused my wife and I to divorce and it took me many years to get over. I had no one to blame. All I could do was shake my fist at the sky, which I did for many years. And I still do. Just not as much or with the same verocity and anger I had.
I put all the photos away but keep one on my desk, that I can see right now. And I can now look at it and think of the good memories with him without cursing god and wonder why 'this piece of ' or 'that piece of ' is alive, and my son is dead.
I could run you through a whole range of head trips. So before you go judging me, remember that bad things happen and people get burned in the 'lottery of life'. I don't need to be schooled by some halfwit about the pain of losing a child. The most bizarre odds that god can lay on a person came to my doorstep. What do I do ? Go on some crazy anti-insect crusade ?
God took my child. He takes everyone. When it's up, it's up.
If you think I'm poo-pooing away deaths from accidents you're wrong. I am saying their solution to drunk driving has been less than just or reasonable and that there is a lot of hysteria about it.
Carmelo Anthony sucks, I lost respect for him after he sucker punched Mardy collins and then he ran like a when Nate Robinson and Jared Jeffries were about to rightfully whoop his ass. That guy is the definition of a pussy, the fact that he could have killed people while he was drunk pisses me off even more. Basketball this is real life you can't do that . If he wants to enjoy a drink then go ahead but if your gunna get drunk then have someone drive you home. Simple as that. Carmelo fails again...
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