Punished

I find it amazing that a building of such height was also built in concrete. Nothing wrong with concrete, but the sheer challenges of pouring it must have been crazy!

Oh shit, how did I manage to miss this post??? LOL.

Always the types out there who enjoy the online forum to dial it up a few notches and come off like a big boy. Look at sprite's, RD's, and topcarbon's posts for a better way of expressing your same thoughts.

Relax guys, no one's D&Ding anymore!! This post above speaketh the truth.....the data logging aspect is true and is probably scarier than anything imaginable!! It might be enough to force you to quit drinking altogether for 3 months as opposed to merely not drinking and driving. Will report back in March/April.

I got a call from my attorney yesterday....he says that he has good news & bad news. The good news is that the DA agreed to a plea bargain down from a DWAI to an "unsafe speed". So no drunk driving conviction, no suspended license, etc! The unsafe speed I believe will carry 3 points and a fine. The bad news is I have to put an ignition interlock on the car for 3 months, plus attend a 2 hour class sponsored by MADD. I really don't mind any of that, but if the interlock is set to detect the finest traces of alcohol versus let's say a 0.05 BAC, then it can be a bit of an inconvenience if I go out for dinner and have a glass of wine for instance. Will have to find out. Nevertheless I'll take all of that, and appreciate the leniency here....as Rakjoe says I dodged a bullet and overall it worked out ok. I learned my lesson well enough without them having to do any further punishment to me. They really were very reluctant to agree to this plea bargain despite the relatively benign circumstances (IMHO) surrounding this case. Anyways, nice to get this off my chest before 2010. One of my resolutions besides the obvious, is to try and not get any stupid speeding tickets and moving violations for as long as possible.....have had way too many of those. I'm off to take the train to my destination tonight.... Have a safe and healthy New Year!

True.... So what happens then? Does he still have a right to ask me out of the car, etc?

Joe, I appreciate your tough love....you're doing the right thing. I wave the white flag.

Had I not said anything when?? When I was stopped? So could I have plead the 5th in my car? Man, never thought about that. I guess they could have taken me in, done the test in the house....and let the counsel sort it out afterwards. We had a thread on this recently too, lol.

The main moral of the story is in the subject title and was re-iterated in the post not to D&D...originally it was a thread to get ideas on the case but I felt it was best not to go very public with all the details and made it sort of a venting thread. Yeah, I fucked up, I feel bad for it but I'm sure in the long run it will be ok. Everything works out..... While I'm not a saint in this matter I didn't damage property or hurt people. And I mentioned I was grateful for that. Don't you think it's good for people here to remind others about the risks out there?? Do you think I was the only one here to D&D even slightly this weekend? I won't be D&Ding again, but someone else inevitably will! And let me ask you this, if I wasn't inconvenienced with the whole car issue and made it out ok, should I have gone up to my employer and volunteered this information that I was arrested for DUI?? I'd be lying about a DUI if they asked me if I got one, not if I didn't bring it up on my own volition. Dude, if you wanna be all righteous and attack me study my posts a little more! What if I was for argument's sake, completely in the right here? Wouldn't the court conviction/exoneration matter more? According to the law a DUI is similar to a massive speeding ticket.....should I report all of those too? And what about seeking counsel? Maybe I should man up and face the music without one. Everyone in the real world that I've talked to is looking at me crazy for being honest, yet you want to show some e-bravado for whatever reason I dunno. Then on top of that you make comments like "maybe you sell hot dogs at the dodgers game, lolol", and "I'm anxious to learn this lesson" with an attitude not of trying to help, but to stick it to me and look like a cool badass. Everyone is a tough, smart, independent, righteous sage online....naturally. I've been around here long enough to hear about your reputation before you got married & had a kid.....yeah, you're a straight laced guy alright. Never took a puff or D&D ever, right? Right.

How very considerate of you...thanks for the sympathy. If you paid any attention to what I wrote you'll see it says saturday morning, which is really friday night.... I was free to society at 4 pm saturday afternoon, a good 40+ hours BEFORE work. My car was taken away and I needed a car to get to work. So I go to the police station for the release papers and they tell me that I can't get my car until MONDAY morning. The reality is that I can borrow a car from my parents or my brother, but without my physical presence (and whose hours conflict with work) I can't retrieve the vehicle. So we're looking at a car that's somewhat unretrievable for sometime, and I didn't want to (or was too annoyed/stressed) to come up with a scheme to get it back. It cost $190 to pick up yesterday, so imagine a few more days.....I'm not a baller like you so it's sorta a big deal. No matter how you cut it, I'd have to take *some* time off of work. The distance between the two places is like the distance between The Valley and downtown LA... So I make a dumb decision to be TRUTHFUL here, when I could have called up any number of friends (or maybe even come here) and asked for any good excuses. The reality is, any excuse would have been legit. It was even vague that I had to be there at 8 anyways as their drug test results weren't in. They literally were waiting on that and weren't informed over the weekend so any excuse I could have pulled with the recruiter would have been FINE with them. She even told me she hadn't called them to verify my results, so it was really only between ME & HER. Once this is cleared up in court, it will most likely never show on my record esp. if it's pleaded down to a lesser charge. Anyone is entitled to make a pass on employment based on a judgment call, that's okay.... But get your facts straight before making crazy accusations like drinking the night before my first day....what kind of moron does that??? Ask RD for some time verification if you don't believe me.

My god, this is taking things too f**** far! I can put up with key in the ignition, but all these other scenarios are ridiculous. What, should you put your keys in your underwear??? LOL. Or if you're a woman, in your bra??

Thanks.... .08 does come up quick indeed. Doesn't take a very long time to get it down but certainly time best served away from a vehicle. I was threatened with a one year license suspension if I refused the second breathalyzer, but that is certainly worse than anything I could have blown (or at least would have blown given my condition).

A "Main street" being the main drag through a small town. One lane in each direction, shops and stores on both sides.... I was legally parked by a meter... The car could have technically been there without me driving there but unlikely. I already admitted to dropping a friend off who lived a few blocks away (making it unlikely I'd be there)....plus I admitted we were at a bar and I had a drink. This is all official record too. Temperature was about 45-50 degrees, slight drizzle.

Don't know, and don't wish to find out!

Agreed.