Can Americans really drink a beer and then drive afterwards? Aren't there laws that prevent drink driving...

Can Americans really drink a beer and then drive afterwards? Aren't there laws that prevent drink driving? I always see American TV characters go to a bar and then drive home.

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Just have to not get caught. Took me 20 years before I got popped for my first DUI. Pretty expensive, desu

Same. I used to drive home drunk from work every night. I called it autopilot because I would head to the bar and wake up at home. Never got caught.

It's one of those things where it's pretty fucked up but everybody does it. If it was the mid 90s or some shit I could MAYBE understand driving if you've had a few drinks because you don't want to sleep in your car, but it's the easiest shit in the world to just call a fucking Uber and get driven home, so no excuse anymore

You can drive after one or two beers

An experienced drinker like Marty doesn’t get drunk after one beer, it’s not a big deal if you’re smart

Surely it depends on wether one beer will put you above the legal limit? Which varies

yes we're usually fat which gives us a higher tolerance

Shit, I drink while I drive home. I molded out a cup holder in my center console so I can keep it out of plain sight.

you can drink 2-3 beer and be perfectly capable of dring safe

it's because american beer is the weakest watery shit imaginable

They do the observational tests first and then if you fail those then they bust out the breathalyzer.

This was so great. Perfectly captured the feel of growing up in 90s South Louisiana. Just flat terrain filled with scattered oil and chemical plants and shitty old infrastructure that hasn’t been kept up since the 1940s.

Fondly remember riding around with my dad in some of those locations in the show and he would go into a gas station and pick up two Budweiser’s to drink while he drove. Something everyone does. They get off from their job at the plant and grab a beer to drink on the ride home or they just head straight to the bar and don’t come home until like 9

The only crime in America is getting caught

Everything in America is far apart and punctuated with strip malls. I can walk to my local ye olde pub in a couple of minutes but an American probably has to drive past miles of billboards and Targets to get to an Applebees

They have breathalyzers. My friend passed all the nose-touching, walk in straight line tests but the cop insisted on the breathalyzer afterwards anyway. Blew a .09 (limit is .08). Spent the night in the drunk tank and license was revoked for like 6 months. Bullshit if you ask me.

american "beer" is just beer flavoured water

They worked in the middle of butt fuck nowwhere down south, I doubt anyone gives a shit even today about Drink Driving

Sounds comfy.

I don't know the intricacies of burger law.
But I'm pretty sure the supreme court's position is that if you pass the stupid dance tests a police officer would have not just cause to proceed in their investigation and your friend would have been within his rights to refuse and basically fucked himself by consenting to a voluntary test or had his rights violated.
The other option is your friend is lying and would rather blame the system then take responsibility.

In my state we have what is called implied consent. You can refuse a breathalyzer but you will automatically lose your license for 6 months. The arresting officer can also call a judge and get a warrant for a blood draw.

The Cleveland Indians in the 70s tried something called "10 cent beer night" where everyone in the stadium had no limit beers for 10 cents each and it turned into a literal riot that they had to bring in a riot squad, fans started running onto the field trying to fight players and steal their caps and a bunch of them got hit by bottles and they had to postpone the game.

It sucked tbhfam, just pure nostalgia and enjoying seeing Louisiana accurately portrayed rather than the standard Disneyfied Bourbon Street usually in movies or tv

I wasn't there but some other friends of mine were. All told me that the cop seemed like a rookie and was trying out a first time pullover or something. My friend went along with it because they were perfectly capable of driving and had passed all the observation tests anyway (definitely not the best move).

Can you name the state? Legit interested.
I live in a country where the breathalyser is the first choice but even if they found someone rolling drunk who blows like a 0.13 they still have to do a blood test to confirm the result.

Tons of people drink and drive in the US and never get caught. A lot of them are smart about it though and know their limit. Having a few beers and driving home is one thing, taking 15 shots and have a beer in the cup holder driving home is another.

>Consented
Sorry for your friend bro.

Wasn't Rust the one driving in that scene?

BAC levels in most states are such that you're fine as long as you've only had a drink or two. Also, as others have said, you just have to not get caught.

It's based on your blood alcohol level, which is discriminatory against men because it's balanced for both genders.

Washington

Your friend clearly didn't pass the tests, retard. The real test is how well you follow specific instructions.

When a cop tells you to look straight ahead and walk one foot in front of the other. He's not looking to see if you stumble, he's looking to see if your touching toe to heel and looking forward.

the characters are cops. who's going to "catch" them?

Mountain View California has 1 breathalyzer for the whole city, I had to wait an hour for it to show up, by then I was perfectly sober.

c'mon women shouldn't be driving anyway

Driving with a BAC over the limit shouldn't be illegal, driving impaired should be illegal.

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>friend breaks law
>wahhh he dindu nuffin hes a good boy
fuck your faggot friend. hope another drunk driver slams into him and splatters his brains on the road.

The fans were blue collar workers. Alot were unemployed at the time as the factories were shutting down. They had a right to be pissed and pissed

I just looked it up, the implied consent law is simply an increase in the penalty for refusing a voluntary breath analysis after a failed field sobriety test and arrest if it is later proven by an evidently breath test you were over the limit when you refused.

Not that bad desu.

>a beer costs $6.00
When was the last time you were at a game lol? I went to a Diamondbacks game (pro baseball in USA) last summer and draft 12oz beers started at $11- that is for Coors light. A "craft" beer cost $15.

this, my friends, is what we call based.

Never take the breathalyzer if you're worried you might fail. Even during "no refusal" weekends or whatever you're not obligated.
Granted it probably means you're going to be dragged back to the station and have blood drawn, but the time it takes might be enough to be under the limit.

God I fucking love baseball.

There doesn't seem to be a social stigma against it in the US. Which I find odd, people would ridicule you for doing so here even if you got away with it.

Sources: TV, this thread.

I drive around with an open cider all the time. Especially now that everything is locked down I'll have a drink or two and a spliff and drive around with another drink listening to music. I live in a county of like 50,000

"drink driving"
why do brits use such a goofy sounding term for drunk driving?

>STATE SAID .08 THEREFORE IT MORALLY RIGHT
A 95lb college girl and a 6'2 daily drinking tradecuck are pretty different cases

A few beers and most dudes are fine. The DUI idiots that are pulled over by the cops or causing wrecks are doing shots or drinking an entire case

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I go to an AA meeting regularly with a bunch of old as fuck people. They tell stories about drunk driving and doing other things drunk, and then are like "oh yeah this was in the 70's tho no one knew any better." People, especially under 25, have trouble imagining change like that.

To be fair my safe driving levels used to be like twice the legal driving limit, alcohol is a hell of a drug.

My grandpa and his buddies used to get totally pissed and drive around the woods and he told a cop he had about 30 beers one day and the cop said get the fuck out of here and go home.

> get to work
> sit in armchair, drink whisky and smoke
> take a break in afternoon by napping at the coach
> get up and back to work, I mean drinking
> finish and get home to wife
> can't even get it up after all the heavy drinking on the daily basis
What the fuck is wrong with Americans

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We're too based
>wanting to fuck your wife
Imagine being this gay

You dont have to take it,they have to take you to the police station were the real test is,dont consent to anything a cop says and you will be fine,street test dont weight on court

Watch old movies.
North by northwest springs to mind where the protagonist is drugged and put in his car where hes swerving all over the road, cant stand up, or even communicate with the cop when he is pulled over.
The result: he sleeps it off on a bench in the police station and is asked politely to not do it again.
In a modern context its unintentionally hilarious.

Which is why you set an arbitrary limit so you don't have cops making ambiguous judgement calls that increase liability and exposure.