
data.3news-bydate.train.rec.motorcycles.104859 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Tom Coradeschi)
Subject: Re: Ok, So I was a little hasty...
Organization: Elect Armts Div, US Army Armt RDE Ctr, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ
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[email protected] (Speedy Mercer) wrote:
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> [email protected] (Randy Davis) writes:
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> > [email protected] (Speedy Mercer) writes:
> >| [email protected] (Jean-Noel Moyne) writes:
> >|> What does "DWI" stand for ? I thought it was "DUI" for Driving Under
> >|>Influence, so here what does W stand for ?
> >|
> >|Driving While Intoxicated.
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> > Actually, I beleive "DWI" normally means "Driving While Impaired" rather
> >than "Intoxicated", at least it does in the states I've lived in...
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> >|This was changed here in Louisiana when a girl went to court and won her
> >|case by claiming to be stoned on pot, NOT intoxicated on liquor!
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> > One can be imparied without necessarily being impaired by liquor - drugs,
> >not enough sleep, being a total moron :-), all can impair someone etc... I'm
> >surprised this got her off the hook... Perhaps DWI in Lousiana *is* confined
> >to liquor?
>
> Lets just say it is DUI here now!
OK. It varies from state to state. It has to do with operating a vehicle
while there is greater than a given percentage of alcohol in your
bloodstream. Can we drop this now, and get back to asking Ed Green to
getabike?
tom coradeschi <+> [email protected]
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