Parking on match days

[ucandomagic]

I'm not easily offended. I just don't like dead people, families and children as the result of drink driving. The way alcohol effects is different for everyone and different on each occasion that same person has alcohol.

If you are drinking 8 to 10 units of alcohol in a short period, then driving 3 - 4 hours later there is no way this means you are definitely under the limit or with the equivalent of 1 pint in you. Not only that but for all the other reasons listed, your reaction time will be compromised.

You can call me all the names under the sun - snowflake, easily offended - I just don't want to put my children's lives in danger every time I go on the road because of people's blasé attitude to drink driving and the consequences of it and will challenge it every time.

I find it even more ridiculous you would have a go at people challenging this behaviour.

I don't normally reply to a response

 

[Bladepicker]

He does, read his post.

No he doesn't. Read his post.

Just because you have 5 pints and are under the limit 3 hours later today, does not follow that this will be exactly the same tomorrow.

 

[Torrix1889]

He does, read his post. Look, I'm no advocate of getting pissed and driving, I'm not stupid. I have two pints before the game starting at 1:00 and by 5:30 I'm stone cold sober and legally able to drive. In the grand scheme of things I'm not a menace to society because of this.

I'm sure you are....but he's having 4 pints and driving 100 miles just over 3 hours later....I can't believe you think that's acceptable.

 

[snootyfenooty]

No he doesn't. Read his post.

Just because you have 5 pints and are under the limit 3 hours later today, does not follow that this will be exactly the same tomorrow.

OK I accept you can read but your maths are out. He normally sups 4 pints and sobers up over a 7 hour period.

 

[Whiston Blade]

I'm sure you are....but he's having 4 pints and driving 100 miles just over 3 hours later....I can't believe you think that's acceptable.

Unfortunately some people think it's perfectly acceptable.

 

[ucandomagic]

Unfortunately some people think it's perfectly acceptable.

I worked for 25 years developing safety legislation and regulations - hence my meticulous data gathering to establish that 4 pints and 7 hours later I was below half the legal limit.

All regulations are compromises but in a democratic society you live with those compromises, you have the right to campaign to change them but you do not have the right to challenge individuals who are abiding by the laws of their society.

My son ended on the bonnet of a 90 year old driver - not hurt badly thankfully - but I don't go around telling all old guys to get off the road, just because I disagree with a law that lets people drive with very slow reactions.

I will make no further comment on this thread.

 

[Sothall_Blade]

I worked for 25 years developing safety legislation and regulations - hence my meticulous data gathering to establish that 4 pints and 7 hours later I was below half the legal limit.

All regulations are compromises but in a democratic society you live with those compromises, you have the right to campaign to change them but you do not have the right to challenge individuals who are abiding by the laws of their society.

My son ended on the bonnet of a 90 year old driver - not hurt badly thankfully - but I don't go around telling all old guys to get off the road, just because I disagree with a law that lets people drive with very slow reactions.

I will make no further comment on this thread.

Based on your stats, you could probably push it up to 7 or 8 pints next time. Might be worth a try?

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

No
Born in Sheff
Used to live there - hence the moniker
Yes, still there
On yer tod? That's fecking impressive.
Isn't it a Sainsbury's?
Agree but HS2 is screwing with it.

It WAS a Waitrose when we built it. Lord knows what's happened to it since. Some years ago now mind - maybe 10. We played Middlesborough in the cup on sky and watched the game in 'the staff' as we called it.

HS2 is fucking around with Mexborough. The house builder I work for built the estate it's going through. The owners get value of the house plus 10% of their house is demolished. Not bad considering that's gonna be in the region of £12-15000.

 

[Torrix1889]

I worked for 25 years developing safety legislation and regulations - hence my meticulous data gathering to establish that 4 pints and 7 hours later I was below half the legal limit.
.

Meticulous data gathering....are you for real?.........

"Yes m'lud, I piled my motor into a family of 4 on the m1 on the way back from watching the red and white wizards but thanks to my meticulous data gathering the 4 pints I consumed earlier in the day had absolutely no bearing on my driving ability whatsoever".

Again, you may very well be legally able to drive but after driving the 90 plus miles too and from BDTBL for years I know how tiring it can be sober, let alone after alcohol consumption. If it makes zero difference to your ability to drive, concentrate, judge distances and speeds then good for you and I hope you enjoy your matchday pints.....but it doesn't make it acceptable in my opinion.

 

[snootyfenooty]

My son ended on the bonnet of a 90 year old driver - not hurt badly thankfully - but I don't go around telling all old guys to get off the road, just because I disagree with a law that lets people drive with very slow reactions.

I was watching a woman trying to park her car at the supermarket last week. It was the end bay next to the kerb. The kerbstone was higher than normal, at least a foot high, and she kept whacking the rear wheel into it, stalling the car in the process. Eventually she lost her rag, took a run-up into it and bounced it over the kerb, damaging the alloy and probably the suspension with it too.

I looked more closely at her and she was one of the huge obese types where her arms rested on her chest and her chest was pressed up against the steering wheel. How she could manoeuvre the car is beyond me. When she got out her legs were like tree trunks and her gut was hanging half way to her knees. Pedal co-ordination? Forget it. This woman should be nowhere near a car but she can drive and does without a squeak from anyone. These days there would be a bigger fuss over fat-shaming rather than her suitability to drive a car if anyone said anything.

Driving whilst below the legal drink limit is not a crime. Neither is the example above or the one you illustrated. Who's going to be the morality judge of all this?

 

[Bladepicker]

I worked for 25 years developing safety legislation and regulations - hence my meticulous data gathering to establish that 4 pints and 7 hours later I was below half the legal limit.

All regulations are compromises but in a democratic society you live with those compromises, you have the right to campaign to change them but you do not have the right to challenge individuals who are abiding by the laws of their society.

My son ended on the bonnet of a 90 year old driver - not hurt badly thankfully - but I don't go around telling all old guys to get off the road, just because I disagree with a law that lets people drive with very slow reactions.

I will make no further comment on this thread.

I'm not doubting that you think what you are doing is perfectly acceptable and I also get you have gone to lengths to make sure in the past that you are within legal limits - it's not that you are thinking 'to hell with the law I'm going to have a few jars whatever' - I get that.

However, unless you breathalyse yourself every time you get in your car after a match, given that within the last 7 hours you have consumed at least 8 units of alcohol, then you can never be 100% sure that you are under the legal driving limit. If you were driving 200 yards I'd say this was irresponsible - given you are doing 100 miles and could well be fatigued too (we all know how much emotional energy we waste on United!) it is irresponsible and I'm surprised if your background is in safety legislation and enforcement you don't see this?

While the law is a certain amount of mg in the blood, the advice is to not drive after consuming any alcohol - less and less people think drink driving is acceptable thankfully. You may think I'm being a bit of a dickhead about this and that's fair enough - but for your sake and the sake of other road users, I have no qualms in asking that you reconsider your match day drinking habits and state that I think what you currently do is unacceptable. Will leave it at that.

 

[JohnDenver]

If I had five pints before the game I'd have a stonking hangover by 7pm. Legal or otherwise...

 

[JJBlade]

Sheffield people shouldn't have cars

What do we need cars for when a bus might arrive sometime today to take you within a mile or so of where you want to go

Cars........Have you ever heard owt so stupid for a working man ?

We should leave all that flash Harry stuff to them there London lot

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

At the Brother's Arms, then get a pint in there after and/or before the match