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Trying to be the voice of reason? Fail.

You know, there was a time when people would have gotten in their cars and drove out there to hang the judge and jury over that. Or maybe that was get on their horses and ride out. Or maybe I just wish there was.

There was a time when people would have just hung the wetback from the nearest tree.

Thus avoiding a messy trial in the first place.

Some reason, some Devil's advocate.

I've got a cousin like that. He has been a worthless drunk his entire adult life. His in-laws gave his two children bicycles and he pawned them for beer money. He has been convicted of DUI on a riding mower. He has spent time in the pen for DUI. He has had strokes and now lives on Social Security. He is mid 50's and looks like mid 80's. A truly wasted life.

Got a notion even the devil's moved on by now.

I know a guy that got a DUI on a bicycle.

In North Carolina bicycles are subject to motor vehicle law. Skateboards , roller skates and Radio Flyer wagons are not subject to motor vehicle law.


Mike

You mean a drunk kid right?

Drunk adult on a Big Wheel in traffic, drunk toddler on a Big Wheel in traffic, both are a danger to traffic, one should know better the other not necessarily so.

Besides age whats the difference?

The Big Wheel thing was to elicit responses about how much if any difference it made if he was driving a "deadly weapon" himself, besides being a danger to traffic.

Hopefully if he's riding a kids Big Wheel, he'll pull out in front of a Mack truck and nobody will have to worry about the drunken loser again. That answer your question?

NYH1.

So he does pose less of a danger.

Nope, but it's best to lock up people for what might happen.....unless of course they are sober.

That guy would kill someone eventually by his drunkenness. Good call, but I hope there's a lifetime ban on a drivers' license in that sentence.

Most drunks just drive without one.

The laws against refusing a sobriety test are pretty flakey. One of these days somebody is going to test that Constitutionally.

Last I knew in Colorado if refusing a sobriety test it's an automatic 1 year suspension of license.

I knew a guy with two priors who was busted riding home on his horse on a public road while drunk. Apparently there is a specific law in Colorado against that and it has been around for a long time. He did a year in jail......

Not if the Mack truck driver swerves to miss drunken loser on Big Wheel and hits your wife and kids or mother, father, sister and brother head on and kills them. But hey, you're ok with it so no biggy.

NYH1.

... except he was apparently DUI while on a public highway. Even a bicyclist is subject to laws while on a public road. Six too eight years sounds rather harsh unless young Ryan had a number of other problems.

He needs his hind end run over.

I know of a women that was stopped for DUI on a horse. She though her license was the glove box on the horses neck. Not her first DUI.

Where did I say I was OK with it?