Try helping police put body parts in a plastic bag at 3 am.
Or watching a police officer leave yet another fatal site, with one of your workmates .
To help in breaking the news to a past workmate his wife mother of two is dead.
No one ever has the right to drink and drive.

It appears Paul has not noticed that there are on ramps to go south, & on ramps to go north, at most express way entrance points. I suppose it is a bit much to understand this.

It is also a fact, although my son & his mates didn't know this, you are still charged with drink driving, [or drunk in charge of a motor vehicle I think was his charge] if you are sleeping in your vehicle, over the .05, & have the keys in your position. With this sort of stupidity, is it any wonder people stop trying to do the right thing, & sober up before driving.

Just for you Paul, I once got a call from this bloke, asking me where the PA hospital was. He had dropped someone at Beenleigh railway station, then was heading for an appointment at Tweed Heads. He was by then, only about 130Km in the wrong direction.

No one ever has the right to drink and drive.
Belly,
You're not getting the point. You're right no-one has the right to drink and drive. My argument is why the Coppers let drunk people drive first & then book them.
0.5 is not drink driving for a blue collar worker ! I know many who drive better at 0.8 than most sober drivers. I am not advocating drink driving I'm arguing about revenue chasing by way of entrapment.
An upset driver is a dangerous driver as is an incompetent one, so if we can at least get the upset driver off the road then we only have the incompetent ones to worry about because they'll never get better but someone at 0.7 just needs a half hour break & a coffee. I suggest coppers should focus on being Police first & then suggest to an inebriated person not to get behind the wheel instead of instantly hammering them. How do they deal with incompetent drivers then ? They've got nothing to charge them with so they'll get off !

individual,

Do you suggest we station a copper behind every car in the pub car park - just in case the inebriated person requires a late-stage directive that they shouldn't drive while boozed.

People know what the law is. They don't need a policeman to tell them when they are at the late stage of sitting behind the wheel with key in the ignition after downing a skinful.

We have to face the fact that we inhabit a society that condones and encourages alcohol for fun and relaxation. The fact that our lifestyle also relies on car use makes the two somewhat incompatible, given the increasing centralisation of amenities away from localised neighbourhood affairs.

People know the deal with drinking and driving....you can't have one rule for some and not for others.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-25/baby-killed-after-car-crashes-into-house/4483812

<< …all those brought up with the original 0.08 alcohol limit, should be able to to continue to drive by that law. Johny come lately types could live by the 0.05. Better still, all us old blokes, brought up with the old, "60 miles/hour, or any speed you deem safe" speed limits, should still be driving by that one. >>

That’s a doozy Hazza!

Are you sure you don’t drink?? ( :>/

Some Yobbo's see drink driving as some kind of badge to skite about down at the pub as they skull 10 schooners before they drive home pissed!
"my son & his mates didn't know this, you are still charged with drink driving, [or drunk in charge of a motor vehicle I think was his charge] if you are sleeping in your vehicle, over the .05, & have the keys in your position." Well Hasbeen, I knew that, only a total idiot would put a drunk behind the wheel with the keys in his position.
"He was by then, only about 130Km in the wrong direction." this bloke should never be in charge of a motor vehicle, seems cars and "mate" don't mix, he can't even point the thing in the right direction. Come on Hasbeen answer the question What is "Mates" previous form? No one, but no one, will get $400 and 4 months for 0.056. Come on, pull the other leg.
Comrade Belly I agree with you 100%. Spot on Bro. Just giving a couple of mugs a bit of stick over this.
"I know many who drive better at 0.8 than most sober drivers" Individual got any facts to back that up. "just needs a half hour break & a coffee." Is that so, where did you get that one from.
"Just because the Paul1405's are one pot screamers" Individual you know it all. Then there is the Crock Dundee type story about Cape York, pot-holed roads, with five in the back of the ute plus an esky for the road. you have to make one trip per carton (of booze) etc etc, I ask wher's the Red Kelpie? Who destroys this alcoholic paradise, the usual suspects, evil public servants, southern do gooders in their Toorak tractor's. Toorak to Cape York must be Hasbeen's mate getting lost again.
What were you doing in Cape York,(besides drinking and riding around in the back of a ute) checking out the non-military national service (I call them boot) camps.