[BBC News] Nineteen drink-drive arrests made

[DjDan]

How do you know if you've never tried it?

 

I doubt you need to try suicide... to know that it's not the thing to do.

 

I don't need to try drugs... to know that you're better off without it.

 

I don't need to try alcohol. I can see the affects of it on the people around me. Drink n'driving for one.

[Mission]

Drink can be enjoyable, if you respect it.

 

It's not an illegal activity, no reason at all why it can't be enjoyed in moderation.

[keyboarder]

Drink can be enjoyable

But a drinker would say that. What drinker would admit to not enjoying their habit?

[Mannin the pub]

We was out last now down the pub. There was police trailing anything that moved. I bet this figure goes a lot higher.

 

Strange though isnit that we all know not to drink and drive but a\ll these people do. Perhaps drink has become a to much of our lives. What they say about all the alckys clinging to a rock cant be all wrong. Boring maybe but not wrong.

[Mannin the pub]

And ive just been listening to the Manx radio and there are even adverts telling us not to drink and drive. That might seem a good thing the government and there civil servants are doing ok, but it is annoying and patronising. The people i know who work for the government are boozers themselves anyway. It is big brother via the airwaves.

 

Then there will be an advert for buying drink. Which is also selling alcohol via the airwaves.

 

If the government had any sense then they should wonder why the Isle of Man is full of p*** heads, especially in young folk.

 

Whatever the arrests are this year, they can only go up as our drunk kiddies these days get their own cars.

 

An Island awash with alcohol. Best bet is to a. give it up and b. buy some shares in the brewery.

 

 

Beer and alcohol - we love it over here - bring it on is what I say.

 

see ya down the pub.

[Minxie]

Strange though isnit that we all know not to drink and drive but a\ll these people do. Perhaps drink has become a to much of our lives. What they say about all the alckys clinging to a rock cant be all wrong. Boring maybe but not wrong.

I know what you. Why do people go to the pub - if it's to get drunk, then you don't take your car full stop. If it's to socialise then why do we feel as though we have to drink. I am quite happy to go to the pub for one soft drink, but so often when you say to people that you aren't drinking because you are driving they'll say "go on you can have just one". I do drink sometimes, but I also know people that do not drink at all for whatever reason and when they say they don't drink alcohol people always seem surprised. Why do we feel the need socially to drink?

[thesultanofsheight]

I have to say that these people deserve all they get. There is no excuse for the numbers going up at all. Its pure stupidity and it remains to be seen what pathetic excuses these people offer up when they are in front of the Deemster.

 

I've got to the point of getting a bus or taxi into work if I've been out the night before because you really can not risk it at all.

[Saltire]

One thing I have never done is drink drive. When i was growing up and becoming of driving age it was when drink driving was becoming really anti social, and well publicised as such. If I go to the pub for a few beers, the car stays at home.

 

I remember going to a work colleagues leaving do. I had the car as normal at work, as our office (and the pub the leaving do was in) was about 30miles from home. I had decided just to have soft drinks to say goodbye be sociable, and drive home.

 

But what annoyed me on this occasion was the amount of people that felt the need to question why I wasn't drinking. And telling me, could I not just have one etc etc. Could I not just stay at a colleagues house so I "could have a drink". This got tiresome after a while and I left early. If they had just let me be I would have been fairly happy with my decision not to drink, but this being the constant topic of conversation just got on my nerves in the end.

 

Although these same people would be the ones up in arms if any of their family members were injured or killed by a drink driver.

[cheeky boy]

Drink driving is now seriously taboo, but when I passed my test in the 70s it was almost a national sport

 

The Saturday night drive back from the Port Soderick was a cross between the Gumball Rally and Mad Max

 

People got killed and injured but it was not socially unacceptable to be done for DD

 

However getting busted for pot was automatic jail, which would now only be a caution

 

In 20 yrs time shagging without a condom will be punishable by imprisonment but smoking crack will be allowed

 

As long as you do it outdoors

[Gladys]

Yes, I remember the days of Port Soderick, many ended up over the Marine Drive, including one of our national figures. It was acceptable, then, to go on an all island pub crawl by car with no Des. I also remember a driver phoning the police to explain that the reason his car was on double yellows was because he was too drunk to drive it, 'Not a problem, Sir, we'll put a ticket on it so it'll be safe until you collect it in the morning'.

 

Not saying it was right, just commenting on how social attitudes have changed. This was also a time when road deaths were much less than now. More to do with the number of cars on the road, I guess, or that cars then weren't the high performance vehicles they are now.

[Albert Tatlock]

This was also a time when road deaths were much less than now. More to do with the number of cars on the road, I guess, or that cars then weren't the high performance vehicles they are now.

I think you'll find that road deaths have gone down since then - not up.

[Gavsta]

DD is a big no no. If Im driving I dont "even have one" just a J20.

 

I used to work with a guys years ago that would get very drunk, drive home - drinking on the way - and would toot his horn at his house so his wife could come to the car and carry him indoors.

 

He never had an accident, but he did get caught, and through that he lost his license for 3 years and then his job because he couldnt drive.

 

Just for a drink, madness.

[Gladys]

I know that road deaths have reduced per car/driven mile, but that comparison was with the 1940s/50s, as I recall. What I am referring to is perhaps anecdotal, but I do not remember so many deaths in the 70's. It was quite remarkable then for anyone to meet an untimely death, but my memory may be wrong. Are there any stats for the IOM?

[keyboarder]

One thing I have never done is drink drive. When i was growing up and becoming of driving age it was when drink driving was becoming really anti social, and well publicised as such. If I go to the pub for a few beers, the car stays at home.

 

I remember going to a work colleagues leaving do. I had the car as normal at work, as our office (and the pub the leaving do was in) was about 30miles from home. I had decided just to have soft drinks to say goodbye be sociable, and drive home.

 

But what annoyed me on this occasion was the amount of people that felt the need to question why I wasn't drinking. And telling me, could I not just have one etc etc. Could I not just stay at a colleagues house so I "could have a drink". This got tiresome after a while and I left early. If they had just let me be I would have been fairly happy with my decision not to drink, but this being the constant topic of conversation just got on my nerves in the end.

 

Although these same people would be the ones up in arms if any of their family members were injured or killed by a drink driver.

 

The thing is, people who drink are rattled by people who don't drink - it's the nature of drug addiction. It is far easier for them to justify their drinking to themselves as normal if everyone is drinking. Less soul searching that way you see.

[keyboarder]

DD is a big no no. If Im driving I dont "even have one" just a J20.

 

I used to work with a guys years ago that would get very drunk, drive home - drinking on the way - and would toot his horn at his house so his wife could come to the car and carry him indoors.

 

He never had an accident, but he did get caught, and through that he lost his license for 3 years and then his job because he couldnt drive.

 

Just for a drink, madness.

And yet you have no qualms when it comes to bragging about your silly speeds achieved when on your motorcycle - behaviour which to an awful lot of people is far more dangerous than driving whilst over the limit. Aren't folk queer....