At what point do you have to step up and take resposibility for your own actions? This story in the paper today makes wonder what goes through these people’s minds:
This woman goes to the pub for a few drinks before going to pick up her kids from school. Then goes back to the pub for more drinks afterwards.
If this sort of case gets decided in her favour, it opens a real can of worms. Pub owners will be hounded and no doubt their insurance will go up, costing the average punter more for his/her beer.
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Well, the one thing in her favour is that she claims the bartender loaned her $50, according to her so she could continue drinking.
Even so, she should not even been thinking of driving home after having a few. If she can’t afford the drinks she’s buying, she’ll not be able to afford the fine for getting caught DD.
I think it’s a bloody joke.
‘According to her’, yes, let’s try proving that, shall we!
And, if a ‘drunk’ really wants another drink, he/she’ll get one! Anyone could’ve lent her the dosh/bought her drinks/whatever to keep drinking - she would’ve got it somehow… the fact that it was the barman is a pretty ‘lame alibi’/dispersion of blame…
Still doesn’t alter the fact that she got in the car and drove… no one else did that!
Agreed, this stuff really shits me too.
I read in the paper today that the judge decided in favour of the pub, so thank goodness sanity has prevailed. He decided that even though she was too pissed to drive, she wasn’t too pissed to make up her own mind whether it was a good idea to drive.
This is the reason I started my company, to stop tragedies like this from happening. If everyone carried a breathalyzer key chain on them they could test there friends before they make a big mistake.
Regards,
Phil LaBoon
http://www.saveabuddy.com
Ok, granted I only read the first para of the article, but my gut reaction says, ’she’s lucky to be alive, not to have harmed/killed someone else’! Methinks she’s askin’ a bit much! The onus might be on the barperson for serving ‘intoxicated’ persons [and even then, it's not always easy to tell how 'pissed' and much of a 'danger to society/themselves' they may be?], but um, who got in the freakin’ car and drove?!
Should I have read on? I don’t know, but being responsible for one’s actions seems to ring true here…
What about victims and victims’ families of DDs?!
Okay, off the soapbox… grrr…