Banned for drink-driving

[Meekychuppet]

I wish I could find the photo of my face after a cyclist knocked me flying on a footpath. He was sober - but he was racing along an unlit footpath with neither lights nor consideration.

I was so badly concussed, I couldn't remember my address or the phone number of anyone that I knew! Two weeks off work recovering from that 'total non-issue'!

Cunts that do not consider other road/path users can and do cause damage whatever they are driving/riding. Pissed-up cyclists should be fined every bit as severely as motorists.

I am constantly frustrated by cyclists who break the law, even if it is just running a red light rather than endangering and injuring people. To me what happened here is simply GBH or assault and should be prosecuted as such. In an ideal world he'd be caught and jailed but let's be honest, the police can't even police motorists properly. The way to get cycling policed properly is to popularise it. That way there's a revenue stream available in policing it.

[mozg]

I am constantly frustrated by cyclists who break the law, even if it is just running a red light rather than endangering and injuring people. To me what happened here is simply GBH or assault and should be prosecuted as such. In an ideal world he'd be caught and jailed but let's be honest, the police can't even police motorists properly. The way to get cycling policed properly is to popularise it. That way there's a revenue stream available in policing it.

Meanwhile we have, thanks to MADD and such, tons of enforcement of so-called drunk driving in the US where someone's BAC is estimated based on the shoddy math of a machine nobody is ever allowed to question, and a legal requirement that the court must assume the person drunk when this machine spits out a particular number.

An attorney can be held in contempt and jailed or fined for questioning the accuracy or validity of breathalyzer data, and the company that makes them has never proven that they accurately measure blood alcohol content at all. The US Supreme Court has even ruled that although DUI checkpoints are contrary to the Fourth Amendment, it's an acceptable exception because we have to get these drunk drivers off the road.

I don't know how it is on your side of the pond, but over here the anti-drunk driving zealots (MADD) have become anti-drinking zealots to the point that their founder quit the group she started. I don't mind punishing people for harms they commit against someone else, but having dozens of cops hanging out a a DUI checkpoint doesn't seem like policing motorists properly to me.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Over here, the legal limit is 35 µg per litre of breath but 40 µg is required before a prosecution will be made. If the reading is low but positive - 40 - 50 µg/l - you can request a blood or urine sample be taken to confirm the result. Above that, the breathalyzer is considered accurate in itself.