Back home!

[shep_shepherd]

The boat party went very well indeed, with hardly any outrageous behaviour at all, despite all of my colleagues getting pretty hammered on beer, Jack Daniels, shots and the like - as far as I know, two of them (Mark and Dave) are still pissing it up in the local Chicago Rock Cafe as I type this

Comments

[benji]

Very scary being breathalised after drinking.

Not long after I started my latest job, I had a hard night and so finished it off with a pint of Bass Top to wind down. I drank it pretty quickly then chatted for maybe 20 mins and then left.

I got pulled for enthusiastic driving and was breathalised. I was under the limit, but at that point my blood alcohol was at it's highest. Images of me getting drink driving on my record and never ever ever again having a personal license were flashing before my eyes.

Now if I drink before I leave work, I do it whilst I'm still working, an hour or more before I finish (while I'm totting up crap in the office) and it'll only be a pint of shandy at worst, usually though I stick with J20 topped up with lemonade :)

[badboybunny]

..having a personal license...

What's a personal license?

[shep_shepherd]

Something to do with pubbery :)

[benji]

What Shep said :)

A license to sell Alcohol. Ordinarilly you need a completely clean Criminal Record to get one, although obviously some offences won't matter. Ones that mean you'll never get one ever though are:

Drug dealing
Drink driving
Fraud
Kiddy fiddling

[badboybunny]

That sounds harsh man 0.o Yay, for not being over the limit tho ^^

[shep_shepherd]

I think the real reason why I was stopped (the first time I have ever been stopped by police since I've been driving) was that the officer was bored, but he was very nice and only kept me for a couple of minutes. I don't have any problem with being stopped, as it shows that the police do take an interest in catching drink drivers at this time of year. The Festival Leisure Park is a veritable hotbed of drink drivers at the best of times, anyway :)

[red_fox_gt]

being pulled over isn't a great experience anyway.You've forgot it's christmas :P so they'll be targeting work's do people for the drink drivers to help get their bonus.

Did they let you keep the mouthpiece as a souvenier? :P I've lost mine from when I was breathalysed ages ago.Like yourself I blew a zero reading and was also on my way home from a christmas party,but I hadn't drunk a drop being 17 at the time!

[shep_shepherd]

It's in my jacket pocket. I may put it on display on The Volvo's dashboard :)

[fen_ra]

Wow, I bet you weren't expecting such excitement on the way home.

[megadog]

I've only been breathalysed once - after my car had been rear-ended at a set of traffic lights. At the time, local police policy was to breathalyse all people involved in a RTA irreslective of whether they were the cause of the accident or the one accidented against.

[benji]

I'm sure I've heard that is now national police policy. Came in quite recently that anyone involved in an accident who is compus mentus is to be breathalised.

[alexf0x]

That's true! After crashing my first car (toyota starlet, and the crash is another story), I was breathalised despite it happening at 9:30am.

Even the officer said "I know from experience that your sober, but we have to do this"

[shep_shepherd]

It was often the case when I was in the job that anyone involved in an RTA was breathalysed, providing we had an alchometer on board or could get one from someone else.