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08-02-2012, 12:53pm | #1 | |||||||
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DUI while rafting??
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That's bullshit, we toob the Guadalupe river here in Tx every year, god knows my BAC might approach that high from time to time.
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So they are going to take away his drivers license for floating down the river? Sounds like a bunch of overzealous azz hats to me. I’d fight the damn thing all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court. This is why working in laws it total BS. They can be interpreted as the LEO and his dumb ass DA sees fix in most cases. Public intoxication maybe but DUI no way.
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What is he going to float into somebody and run them over?
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I wonder if he tried to lead them on a high speed chase.
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The article said that he was "floating on the river". To me "floating" implies a passive action. The article goes on to say that "Alaska’s driving under the influence law applies to people operating motor vehicles, water craft and airplanes". Doesn't sound like he was "operating" anything. With a BAC of 0.313 I doubt he could have even put the right end of an oar in the water.
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Probably did the guy a favor. They couldn't just drag him off and sober him up without a reason. My guess is he'll pay a small fine on a public intoxication charge and live to drink another day.
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The judge will throw that out, maybe public drunk would be a closer charge.
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And if he didn't have a license what would they have done I wonder.
probably could argue that you weren't piloting a vessel, but rather the other way around...or maybe argue that an inflatable without any means of propulsion isn't a vessel as, I believe, the law originally intended. |
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Eh, makes about as much sense as when they give DUIs because a person is sleeping off their drunk in their car parked behind the bar. I've known three people that got DUIs for that. It's pretty chickenshit if you ask me.
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I know a few boat deputies where I live. They will tell you the reason they arrest drunk people in boats is because they get tired of pulling them out of the water after they drowned.
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The article says he was arrested without incident so the cop must be a first class asshole.
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