Knew this thread was gonna be the lolz when I entered it.

No excuse at all to drink and drive. But the amount of it that goes on always has me curious what percentage of people in these threads do it on a regular basis, or have done it in the past. But still come in here just to rip on OP to make themselves feel better.

Don't blame your "friends" brah

You were dumb enough to get into the drivers seat fool ...

Heres my story and everything that happened after it.

I had just graduated from university in April 2014 and started seeing a girl that I was way too into. Anyways it was Christmas Day and her ex bf was over at her house and I got super depressed and decided to have a pre drink and get blackout drunk. I backed my car out of my parents driveway and damaged a cable box and totalled my 20k car. I don't remember a single thing. I woke up in jail in a dark room on a phone with my lawyer asking me a bunch of questions. I then remember being fingerprinted and having my picture taken. At this point I had no idea what happened and started panicking thinking that maybe I killed someone. It was honestly the worst I've ever felt in my entire life. I then asked the police if I hurt anyone and they assured me that I didn't. To this day I get a sinking feeling in my stomache contemplating how much worse that moment could have been had the cop said "yes brad 3 people are deceased and you are being charged with vehicular homicide." Make no mistake this would essentially mean my life was over; friends, money, girls, career maybe even a family of my own one day would all be gone, not to mention innocent people dead and faced with that guilt for my entire life with nothing I could ever do to rectify the situation.

So my aunt bailed me out because my mom and step dad were too pissed off. I spent the night at her house and after much pleading my family allowed me to come home. There was an article about me (my name wasn't disclosed). The article was posted on a news sources ******** page also and people were commenting saying I should die or be in prison for life.

So I go to court and I get the disclosure with pictures of my car and my dialogue after the wreck with police where I am talking about this girl and being in love with her and chit blackout drunk. Also there is a witness report where the witness claims he saw the crash and I tried to run away down the street but he convinced me to come back (luckily I wasn't charged with fleeing the scene). Crown wanted jail before trial and Ill never forget how terrified I was when I got that disclosure document and saw that box checked stating that fact.

Anyways fast forward 4 months and I plead guilty and am sentenced to pay a 2k fine and avoid jail time.

Now I get word from the insurance company that I owe 30k in damage for the car and cable box (car was leased so insurance wasn't paying for it since I was intoxicated). Anyways here I am no job, no girl, owe 30k as well as 20k in student loans with a criminal record and no job prospects. A complete fuking loser scum bag and I literally hated myself and wanted to die everyday. This depression went on for 6 months where I laid in my basement and took anti depressants and figured it was literally over everything I ever thought I could be or become a thing of the past. There was no way I could get out of it.

I then received an opportunity to move to the city and learn from family friends who worked in finance. The problem was I was being sued 30k and only had 3 months to pay it. Anyone that is familiar with IIROC the Canadian SRO for securities regulation knows that it's basically impossible to work for a retail brokerage with any outstanding civil suits. So I had 3 months to pay 30k or this prospect of moving in with these people and getting my life on track was gone. So what I did was I took two construction jobs and worked 16 hour days. Framed houses in the day and painted houses at night. I'm lucky for this opportunity because my family is in construction. So eventually I save 20k and borrow 10k from my mom and get myself to the city.

So I get to the city and sign up for my CFA level 1 exam and work for a brokerage firm cold calling rich people making 30k cdn. I pass the CFA exam moved out of that house with my family friends. I'm 27 and realize I need to be making more than 30k. So I decide to literally cold call for jobs. I network for 6 months with random people and finally I land a job for 70k per year. I'm way behind in life right now but I'm slowly building my savings, paying the remainder of my student loan as well as my mom. I live well below my means and practice minimalism because I never want to have nothing again. Financial security is the most important thing to me. I realize I probably won't be established until early 30s but everyday I'm thankful that I even have the chance to be established because I'm a POS drunk driver, but I'm also a logical person and realize I can't change the past and can only move forward and I'll never stop moving forward.

OP wake up everyday from now on with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind and count your blessings and become a good person. You can make it up to society and yourself.

Long read but really glad you turned your life around Brad

strong rep begging

just go ahead and pepper thy angus cuz you're phukd

Nice comment, RainingBlood.

Exactly. People come into these threads to berate the OP to feel a little satisfaction because their so morally superior and then they end up doing this same **** themselves. So many hypocrites. I know you people spend half your time driving around high or on your phone or doing some other stupid **** that puts innocent lives at risk.

This. I don't know anyone who has never drove with at least a little alcohol in the system. Yes driving blackout drunk is inexcusable. However I probably have driven with 3 or 4 beers in me hundreds of times so neg away.

OP, dont plan on going to Canada anytime soon.

Lost an uncle to a drunk driver while he was walking home from night class

No sympathy for you *******. learn from your mistakes.

Everyone's metabolism varies obviously, but the general rule of thumb for an average ~200 lb male is that BAC increases by 0.02 per drink and decreases by 0.02 per hour. So take the number of drinks you've had, subtract the number of hours since you started drinking, and multiply by 0.02. If you calculate less than 0.05, you're likely OK (0.08 is the limit in most states, but you don't want to be skirting the limit, either). That's basically 2.5 drinks plus one per hour since you started, so for most reasonably-paced drinking sessions, 3 or 4 is probably OK.

Did you read your own article or just trying to justify your irresponsibility?

From the link you posted:
The only one in that article sharing your delusions about driving performance improving while intoxicated is a criminal defense lawyer petitioning to legalize marijuana. You can almost smell the bias coming off the webpage.

LOL, did you? There is this, too:So, there are conflicting studies, one that shows no impairment at all from THC, and one from a completely biased anti-drug foundation that shows that the maximum impairment for THC is 2x more likely to be in an accident (while the impairment for BAC=0.08 (i.e. at the legal limit) is 20x). I personally haven't smoked in years, but nonetheless, I find the "war on drugs", especially in relation to MJ, to be a complete farce and waste of money and resources.

In my experience, when an article uses studies as support but neglects to cite them it's because they're not from a reputable source. Nice try, but you can't justify driving around with your frat boys and getting high whether the substance in question is marijuana, bath salts, or heroin.

This has nothing to do with the war on drugs. I don't give a flying toss if any these substances are legal. But if they were I'd hope that you idiots would have enough sense to know that it does not mean you should be driving around stoned or drunk out of your minds mowing down mailboxes and pedestrians.

And to be honest I have been through checkpoints after drinking 4 beers because I handle it well and am driving fine so the cop never even suspects it.. I weigh 225 lbs, 4 beers over a couple hour period is only going to make me slightly buzzed.

Pay the 10k and get it expunged(as long as you refused the breathalyzer). Take out a loan if you have to.



So glad I didn't blow when asked...hehehe

Bad choice. Dont feel bad for you. Choose new friends and keep yor head up. You can bounce back from this.

Be thankful you didnt hurt/kill yourself or others.

damn bro, Ill buy you a beer

You idiots all have the same story. The man is out to get you, made up a story, etc. Heard the same thing countless times

Then you're given a cake walk probation and can't even manage to meet that. Keep telling yourself you're innocent and got thrown in jail because of a loud party

Police state supporter sucking on the cocks of pigs.

http://www.postindependent.com/news/...ion-not-money/But let me guess, you as an electrical engineer are more knowledgeable on the subject of justice than somebody who spends there life actually working in the judicial system. Everybody thinks they know everything over the internet.

Can't believe I'm the first person ITT to mention Uber. OP should have spent the cash on Uber instead of driving Drunk.

got a dui when i was 19 had no car license either, biggest mistake i made in my life, still paying for it almost 4 years later

If Im going out these days and having anything to drink at all I find a way to not have to drive after the case. I'm way to paranoid to even risk it.

I Find it interesting how the misc destroys people who get dui's but at least in my town the idea of drinking and driving is often shrugged at, I'm not saying everyone shares the same views but I mean it seems the people who look past the action of drinking and driving far exceeds those who are against it, then again I'm not talking about those who are sloshed but more about the people who down 4 beers with dinner still coherent and drive worry free. I know police officers who down 4 or 5 beers at the local brewery with friends and drive home.

Driving on NYE? cmon maneeeeeeee, that's just asking for it

I too have been guilty of drinking and driving. More than once . I think all states should have a mandatory sentencing of five days in jail for the first charge, 2nd charge another five dsys plus a $500 fine and third charge jail,fine and losing your lisence for 30 days and finally after three strikes I believe a person should lose their right to drink alchohol.

Same as when drug prohibition is ended. I believe we all have right to ingest what we want. If it be a!chohol or ******* what have you but that right needs to come with a privilege Klaus. If you abuse it...abuse it meaning you take it out of your home and your freedoms suddenly put other people at risk. I. E driving drunk or getting super high on coke or some other drug and you go out starting fights or whatever then you should !lose that privledge and no longer have the right to ingest chemicals.

Your personal rights and freedoms end at other peoiples front door

lol, that's messed up

My comment has very little to do with the police state nonsense you're spouting off about. Couldn't really care less. The rules are put in place. I follow them for the most part and take my lumps when I don't

The reason you ended up in jail was 100% your own fault. That's it and that's all