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This is why you do not want to drink and drive. CBS 2 reports
"MISSION VIEJO (CBSLA.com) Authorities say a suspected drunken driver plowed his vehicle into a home in southern Orange County, killing one person.
The overnight crash occurred about 3 a.m. Sunday in the 26000 block of Pacato Drive in Mission Viego.
Police believe the male driver, identified by police as 27-year-old Kourosh Keshmiri of Mission Viejo, was headed down Olivera Street at a high rate of speed when he lost control and plowed into the bedroom of the home.
It was a big bang
like ba-boom! It was like something exploded. And I didnt think anything of it and I looked outside and I saw a lot of sheriffs and the fire department, said Don Loessberg, a neighbor.
One man was killed. His identity has not been revealed. A second person inside the home was uninjured"
This is what happens you drink and drive. This is what happens you deal with untreated alcoholism. Please do not drink drive or you will kill somebody. If you live in my state and this is what happens to you
PC 191.5(d) of the California Penal Code states
"d) A person convicted of violating subdivision (a) who has one or
more prior convictions of this section or of paragraph (1) of
subdivision (c) of Section 192, subdivision (a) or (b) of Section
192.5 of this code, or of violating Section 23152 punishable under
Sections 23540, 23542, 23546, 23548, 23550, or 23552 of, or convicted
of Section 23153 of, the Vehicle Code, shall be punished by
imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 15 years to life.
Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2930) of Chapter 7 of Title 1 of
Part 3 shall apply to reduce the term imposed pursuant to this
subdivision"
Please do not get behind the kill when you are drunk. It is something that I have done and I have the consequences of my actions. Because of my actions, I will face the what is called the Watson Rule if I drink and kill somebody.
To get parole, you must meed the requirement Section 8(d) of the California Constituion
" (b) No decision of the parole authority of this State with respect
to the granting, denial, revocation, or suspension of parole of a
person sentenced to an indeterminate term upon conviction of murder
shall become effective for a period of 30 days, during which the
Governor may review the decision subject to procedures provided by
statute. The Governor may only affirm, modify, or reverse the
decision of the parole authority on the basis of the same factors
which the parole authority is required to consider. The Governor
shall report to the Legislature each parole decision affirmed,
modified, or reversed, stating the pertinent facts and reasons for
the action.
You will spend the rest of your life in prison for a terrible action and burden with a terrible guilt and burden that you can get never let go even working through the steps of AA with another sponsor. And you need the governor signature to get out which means that you need an outside sponsor who will work steps with you for 15 years and is willing to submit oral or written testimony that will submitted to the parole board and the governor to vouch for your release. That is high threshold to get for release and few people
The statements that I just made to pertain to California, but other states have similar laws when it comes DUI. DUI is a horrible action to do given how people to get intoxicated behind the wheel and kill somebody.
This New Year's, please do not drink drive.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I haven't ventured from the house on New Year's Eve in over 20 years.
brucefan
(1,549 posts)Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)Too many stupid drunks on the road. Even if you haven't been drinking, some other asshole will have been, and that particular asshole might jump a median or head down the freeway in the wrong direction and smack right into your totally sober self. And the drunks often have an unfortunate way of walking away from accidents.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)She's fine, but damn it, don't fucking do it.
Initech
(100,080 posts)New Year's and other drinking days are why services like this exist. Use them to your advantage people! Drink and let someone else do the driving!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...big time.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I buy my booze, bring it home, put my keys up, get drunk, and go to bed. You cant get arrested for sleeping while drunk in your own bed.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)for your reflexes to be affected enough to hurt someone in a car crash.
JI7
(89,251 posts)nolabels
(13,133 posts)and blowing a .04 (one beer) i would loose my license, my job and probably my house in the process.
Don't expect to see me out there doing any of that, anytime soon