Have you ever driven when over 0.05 BAC

[Kingswood]

So stui, are we about to see a "have you ever lied to your parents" thread?

[The Truth]

Nope.

[CarringbushCigar]

Yes - reckon i have probably done it about 8 times as an 18yo before a pretty horrific scare - i was an emotional and messy 18yo and took off from Apollo Bay to Lorne on New Years Eve at about 2:00am - sheer madness - fell asleep at the wheel relatively low speed and ended up on a fair angle perched down a little cliff.
Slept perilously in the passenger sleep and woke in the morning to a concerned passer by who had managed to spot the car - got towed out relatively easy and somehow i was on my way a very lucky puppy.

The next time i reckon i did it - i got caught.
Was at a uni party 20yo and drove there but the plan was i wasnt driving home. My friend struggled to reverse out of the car park - battling with the manual transmission and fi think he had drunk more than he thought. As it turned out i had drunk less than i thought i would - felt ok - not under - but ok - was worried about my car - so set off from clayton to doncaster and didnt get too far down springvale road before we were pulled over. Gone 0.12 such an embarassing experience.

Next time was 11 years later about 9 years ago, really dont recall drink driving much at all - maybe 800m home from cricket training a fair few times on a Thursday night. Anyway got caught about 4:30am on a Friday night after sleeping in the car after a fair session at a pub in Fitzroy. Was not thinking straight and just craved bed and a few quality hours sleep before cricket. Was devestated - and probably went into a fair depression as a result of my self-punishment.

Got 18 months suspension but did not want to get my license back and i gave myself a self imposed suspension of 5 years.
Now i take every precaution possible to avoid driving to any situation that may result in me having a drink at all.

I was also involved in a pretty serious accident as a passenger with a good mate who i had been drinking with. The shock of the accident was unbelievable - neither of us were hurt apart from a few scratches but i truly believed when the car lost control that i was going to die. Adrenalin goes nuts.

The point is i can empathise with Heater and Dids for how they were feeling yesterday and can understand that they could have no idea of the consequences of the lie. They would have been in some serious shock - and human instinct is to self-presevate.
The 'club' should have realised this - maybe they did and have hung Dids out to dry. We all knew (95%) by 11:00am from watching this forum that Dids was in the car.

What i do not understand is how the hell they can be out drinking in the first place in a busy pub, and then to hop into a car screams of arrogance and disrespect to Collingwood.

I feel for all concerned but wish the club had bunkered down yesterday and been sure of all the facts first. They have stuffed up in a serious way unless it was a deliberate ploy to expose the lie, i dont think so as they committed to a 2pm press conference very early.

Hopefully progress and positive change will result for Collingwood.
Hopefully the incident will change our culture and save lives.

[mel_kay39]

I voted no because I'm proud to say that although I haven't had my licence as long as a lot of ppl on here, I'm very careful about not drinking when I know I'm going to be driving. For me, it took too long to get my licence (over ten years due to lack of funds and confidence) so I'm not about to do anything stupid to risk losing it, or hurting/killing someone. I'm surprised there are so many people willing to admit they've driven a car while being drunk. I know you can be over the limit and not know it, but if you're driving the least you could do it space out your drinks, have only light beer and give it an hour or so (and lots of water in between) before you attempt to drive home. It's not that hard. Really.

[David]

Once - I was absolutely convinced I was over the limit, and was shitting myself all the way home.

I never drink if I plan to drive home, more due to paranoia than conscientiousness. However, there was one night when I went to a party with a few friends, and got pretty blind drunk. We all crashed in the guy's loungeroom at about 1, and went to sleep. I got woken up at 4am by one of the guys, who had to get to work early and wanted a lift... at first I said no, but he put me under a bit of pressure and I cracked. It was only a 10 minute drive through the suburbs in the early hours of the morning, but it's not impossible I could have been picked up, and it's pretty likely I was a fair way over the limit (Don't forget also that P-platers are only allowed to be 0.02).

In hindsight, this guy wasn't even that much of a real friend - I know that if I had been pulled over, I would have been the one to lose my license and face the consequences. And that alone is a good enough reason never to give into peer pressure like that again.

[sam.]

[David]

I think that's what it is for all intents and purposes - they only set it at 0.02 to cover stuff like aspirin.

[JacJacJacqui]

Probably but I didn't know it at the time.

[Magpie_Dan]

[stui magpie]

[Steve86]

ha.ha.ha. yes?

[ktszyu1]

Absolutely, many times. I HATE doing it. But I continue to do it. It's never for more than 5 minutes, just usually from a mate's place to home. When I'm sober I know how stupid it is, but when I'm blind, I think "as if I'll get caught". Luckily I've just gotten my full license, so I finally have a bit of leeway in terms of one or two drinks.

[Magpie Jack]

I did when I was younger but not now.

If I was earning what these guys are I would never do it. Cabs are cheap on their wage.

[rambopriscilla]

Possibly, but I doubt it. not sure enough to vote either way.

[stik35]