Dawn2Dusk

Never seen a boat faster than "Motorola" or "COBRA"

Steve762us

Not sure I follow the logic, but I'm not aware of any categoric restrictions on nolo pleas. Perhaps we can have a legal opinion rendered

OTOH, can the court refuse a nolo plea, based on the high and aggravated nature of the offense?

Perhaps you can offer more details on your case, Mr. Tusher.

jsmorrison

My boat is a slow pig. I have seen the Savannah cops call in the Coast Guard helo on a boat they could not catch up with. My point again! What a waist of resource. Those guys should be on MLK busting crack heads. Not harassing teens in there daddy's whaler. Leave The BUI's up to the DNR or the Coast Guard! This whole thread is Crap!!!!

Tireless

How about the forking Chatham Country Sheriff's dept? I was pulled by those idiots five years ago for not slowing down at the yacht club before you get to Thunderbolt. The dingleberry said I ran the no wake zone.....I told him my 23 ft boat was under 26 ft and the zone didn't apply to me. He had no idea what I was talking about so we motored over to the sign and I made him read it. He then said I was too close to the docks and I said BS, I was in the middle of the river. The calmer Sheriff got Barney Fife under control and told us to leave. Morons.

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jsmorrison

Chatham county Sheriff, Savannah PD,DNR and U.S. Coast Guard. I don't understand? Please explain to a confused tax payer.

Steve762us

Agree...sounds like a generalized "authority figure" issue. Add some booze, boats, and people start getting hurt, or worse.

Gundy

Sorry dawn2dusk but I will not be supporting you, .08 is already low enough. Maybe you will get pulled over after a few beers with your steak and blow .09 and then I'd like to see how you feel after about 5,000 dollars.

Steve762us

The statute is currently .10, not .08.

Dawn2Dusk

If I have a few beers with my steak, I don't dare touch a steering wheel on nothing; car, truck, boat, etc...

Plus, I weigh 250lbs, am 6'2"...

If I were to drink "3" beers in an hours time having my steak, I wouldn't be anywhere near .08 BAC. But then again, I wouldn't put myself in a situation where it would matter b/c I wouldn't be driving.

http://www.intox.com/wheel/drinkwheel.asp

Tireless

It is my understanding the Sheriff's Dept started patrolling the water when they got a free boat from somewhere. I only see them on the water during holiday weekends.

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bamaboy473

depending on what you ate and your body chemistry, you could belch before blowing and still blow over the limit whether you had "enough" or not. I also note the irony of your advocating the lowering of limits while you KNOW that your own body is capable of holding a lot more alcohol because of your size.

This is why your advocacy is counterproductive; you use the same measuring device on everybody without regard to how they're acting; just a chemical measurement that is known to be inaccurate. It grates me that do-gooders pound drums for other people's behavior when any LEO already is able to arrest those that SHOW signs of intoxication.

What you advocate will only cost people attorney fees and will increase governmental revenue. Oh, it will also increase the public's paraniod perception of LEOs....something that isn't productive for anybody.

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Alabama's Gulf Coast
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Dawn2Dusk

Rick,
My point was to "Not Drink and Drive" regardless what you ate, body chemisty, size, etc.

As I note you are from Alabama, I would like to point out that your state already adopted the 0.08 BAC levels for BUI. Has this fact caused a surplus of funds for the Alabama Department of Revenue? I would think not.

bamaboy473

Of course there's no such thing as a surplus of funds in the government, nor would I know how much extra goes into the coffers, but we can all agree that it's a LOT more than when the concept of impaired was left up to a LEO to interpret based on his observation.

In the time since MADD was begun and their goal became a dry USA, the Legal definition of impaired has morphed into a statutory number. That number has been reduced several times in the past 20 years because DAs have been successful in getting tougher numbers installed IN ORDER TO INCREASE THEIR CONVICTION RATE. They have no primary interest in saving us from ourselves; they want a conviction to be cut and dried.

What's the flipside? Their cousins, the Defense attorneys, get a LOT more income from defendents because the stakes are so much higher. On one hand are the attorney DAs angling for career enhancement and on the other hand are defense attorneys angling for more personal income.

What about this is news? Those of us that are not tee-tolers are made to pay attorneys and courts...and we aren't going to switch to Cola because we're paranoid....so we suffer when its our turn to get singled out of the crowd of otherwise law-abiding boaters.

Please know that you and I see clearly about abusive alcoholic intake... and those souls are on their own. Where I disagree with your premise is that the vast majority of people that get arrested because they blew .08 instead of .10 are not inpaired, not drunk in speech or action. Statutory drunk is the primary objective of incentives like what you propose.

...and, no, I haven't been BUI or DUI. I just like people to enjoy the freedoms that we have left.

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Alabama's Gulf Coast
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Steve762us

Interesting that you'd mention that, and claim you have no DUI/BUI experience...since that's a defense *against* the accuracy of breathalyzers, that most folks aren't aware of---cops and drunk driving attorneys, and their clients, excepted.

It's also easily managed with training of the officers who administer the breath test, so fret not...if you register over .08, you have only yourself to blame.

What's all your objection to Georgia's legislation, anyway? You show as an Alabama resident---so your meddling in our laws is a moot point anyway---and Alabama _already has_ the .08 BUI BAC.

AFA enjoying my freedoms, I do so quite nicely...and enjoy the idea of same, without a drunk idiot running thru my vessel at 35 knots...of course, that's never happened, right?

Dawn2Dusk

Please do enjoy the freedoms we are afforded as Americans, just don't mix your freedom to drink beyond having a BAC of 0.08 with your freedom to drive.

Seems simple enough to me.

Dawn2Dusk

http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2007_0...atural2-10.pdf

The Senate Committee of Natural Resources and Environment meet today at 4pm to discuss SB-71.