I'd happy head the queue to stone him. Drunk drivers are mindless self centred moronic ****ers. If it were up to me, you'd get a mandatory custodial sentence. ****ers and no justification at all.
Unashamedly so. Anyone who drinks and drives deserves every thing they get, which sadly doesn't include a lengthy prison term as standard.
**** Off!!!!! he got lucky he didn't crash or kill anyone. Drink Driving should be an automatic prison sentence
What's that got to do with drink/driving? Unless that's what you're referring to in which case, yeah, I am. I have never done, never would. I'm saddened you think its acceptable to do it, and I hope you never experience the aftermath of someone pissed killing someone you love, then seeing them do just a couple of years in prison because it was an *accident* and not premeditated while you live with it for the rest of your life.
Everyone does something wrong at some point in their lives, there's alot of us are real ****s at times. But drink driving will never condoned by me, a driving licence is a licence to kill, and getting behind the wheel drunk is like loading a clip and turning off the safety.
It's good to hear that so many are so anti drink driving, it's obviously something that is ridiculous and dangerous, though back in 1980 it was considered perfectly acceptable.
He is an idiot and bit of a twat for drink driving, taxi would barely cost him anything considering his fortune. However what he did for this club won't be forgotten by me even he is managing someone i am not supposed to like now, however i hope he does well with Hull FC.
Just so no one gets the wrong idea,Pearson is guilty of being almost twice,over the legal limit. This means could only have had two pints of beer,or the equivalent.
Surely, from a moral standpoint, it's worse to have two or three pints before driving than it is to have ten? If you're well and truly ****ed then it's unlikely you even realise what you're doing, whereas you will do if you've 'only' had a pint more than you know you should.
Your looking at around 1 3/4 pint of 4% beer to put you over the limit if both supped pretty quick and the test done about 20 minutes after the last pint. If he was nearly twice the limit, taking into account that the first pint was on its way out of his system. He could have as much as 4 pints. Either way, he is a daft **** for doing it in the first place and a even bigger **** for trying to worm his way out of it in the first place.
You know what,i never thought of it that way. Better to have two bottles of vodka,drive,kill someone,and still get to go to heaven,than drink a couple of Fosters,drive,kill someone,and go to hell.
There are lots of things to factor in to it, your body on average burns off 1 unit per hour, if you're active (say jumping round like a loony in a nightclub or something) it burns off even faster. Also if you're well fed it helps to soak up a small amount to start with. Twice over the legal limit doesn't mean he only had 2 pints, I know a lass who got pulled after necking a whole bottle of red, she blew positive at the roadside, got back to the station determine how much she'd had and she managed to blow just under the limit. So with her, I guess if she were to neck 2 bottles of red she'd be just under twice the legal limit, do you think it's acceptable to drive after that?
But the point is he could easily have done so. As some others have said, drink driving is a ****s trick. It is a crime that can leave the perp completely unharmed and an innocent bystander dead. There is literally no excuse for it and AP has less excuse than most. It's not 1980.
the fanny was in control of a 1 ton plus lump of metal at the time , if only steering wheels were fitted with a 6 inch spike at the centre we would see a sharp reduction in "accidents" and injuries to others .
the numbers of accidents, injuries, and deaths related to alcohol are falling and more rapidly than i expected. the number of eg deaths in 2011 (280) was half what it was in 2006 (560). still too many of course, but any is too many.
Agreed, there may be a level of hypocrisy on this thread as people of a certain age will have known or not reported drink driving back then largely because people thought nothing of it, but they react with outrage now, it was just as dangerous then as it is now. I think it's great there's such a stigma attached to it now and that people feel so strongly about it, however I think it's the person and not just the offence that has provoked a few on here. For what it's worth, 16 months driving ban and a fine he could scrape together in loose change is a joke, I like AP and am grateful for what he's done for city but he and other drink drivers deserve much more severe punishments.
