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YessirAtsaFact

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4. The current law seems overly intrusive to me

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Mar 5, 2018, 06:15 PM

Mar 2018

If I want to drive a lawnmower drunk on my yard, it would be stupid but I don’t think the state should interfere, unless I’m so intoxicated they charge me with drunk in public.

If I hurt someone doing this, I should be charged with a crime. I hurt myself, that’s what I get for being stupid.

The law can’t prevent stupid. It shouldn’t try to.

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Bill making it legal to drive drunk at home makes it halfway through Virginia General Assembly, but [View all] TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP

I've been under the impression that drunk driving only applied to public roads. no_hypocrisy Mar 2018 #1

Not really zipplewrath Mar 2018 #3

So its illegal to do drunk donuts on one's own front lawn. What about doing those donuts sober? marble falls Mar 2018 #2

You've clearly never been to Chesterfield county underpants Mar 2018 #5

But I enjoy misusing other people's gardening equipment making donuts in their front yards. marble falls Mar 2018 #6

The current law seems overly intrusive to me YessirAtsaFact Mar 2018 #4