Re: UK: Drivers may be banned from smoking at the wheel

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 5/14/07, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:

> >
> > The only way a cop has to know of most drunk drivers is to pull them
> > over for something else. By then they've committed a crime of some
> > sort
>
> Rubbish. Someone might drive into a tree. That's not a crime. But then
> if you test them for alcohol and find they're drunk, then they've been
> recklessly endangering everyone around them.

So you admit that cops are only involved after the fact and therefore
the law did nothing to prevent the drunk from hitting the tree?


> > You've often stated that you enjoy visiting the pub, and having good
> > beer. Do you walk? Does England not have a public intoxication law? Or
> > public nuisance law?
>
> It's very simple. If I drink, then I don't drive. If I'm driving, I don't
> drink. It's very simple, and very easy to do.

Easier than answering a question even, eh?

> Once again, there's such a thing as recklessly endangering other people.
> Getting tanked up and trying to control a ton of hurtling vehicle is just
> that.

Agreed, if that's what they're doing - as observed by a copy watching
the swerve going down the road or what have you.

> I suppose you'd be cool about someone firing a gun ionto a crowd of
> people, provided he was lucky enough to not actually hit anyone.

No reasonable sane person would believe that one could fire a gun into
a crowd and not hurt someone. Plenty of reasonable people have gotten
behind the wheel of a car and that exactly that - and most don't hurt
people.
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