[quote name='CitizenB']I've never had one, as I don't drive but my uncle has spent most of his life in and out of jail.
Most states don't play around with DUI. Depending on your state of course. Most are very harsh on DUI's. Normally your first one is a big ass fine, and a few other fines just cause.
Normally the 2nd one gets you some jail time, probation, AA, and big ass fines,
3rd one gets you years in prison.[/quote]
So here's the story:
Saturday night, over at a buddy's place with a couple friends, doing some fairly heavy drinking. Come 5:30 in the morning it was time to head home, I was definitely still drunk, but I had my girlfriend with me and she had stopped drinking hours ago, so I was not concerned about our safety. One of my friends also decided to head home at this time. I knew he wasn't completely sober, so I had my girlfriend follow him down the main roads, as a way to monitor his driving and avoid a cop tailing him.
So we followed him all the way up to the road that went to into his subdivision and up to his house. Since he had been driving relatively cautiously and slow, we assumed he'd make it home just fine. Ah, please understand you must never assume.
The next day I called him to see when he was heading over to the Super Bowl party we were going to, and he told me that I'd never beleive where he spent his morning... in jail!
Apparently he rounded 3rd base for home incorrectly as his car's crappy tires spun out on ice and snow (Michigan winters will get you) and he went sailing into a fence. He was just fine, that's good, but his bumper was cracked and right mirror clipped, that's bad.
He then drove his car out of the fence and back home to alert his parents as to what had just happened. His neighbors weren't home, so they left a note for them as to why their fence was destroyed. Then his dad, in his infinite wisdom, decided to phone the police presumably to have them get a record of the incident for insurance purposes.
Well the police showed up, didn't even look at the car, proceeded to administer several sobriety tests, all of which my friend failed, and they took him in. This seems fairly illogical to me, as he was already home, but, the cops do what the cops do. I guess the biggest mistake of all is my friend's dad deciding to call the police right then instead of waiting a few hours until he was 100% sober.
All in all, I think my friend has to be the only person I know that basically called the cops to come and arrest him.
The officer wrote him up on an OUI, took his license, gave him a piece of paper that was his "new license", and told him to call the court. However, the officer wrote no tickets and said he wouldn't ticket him.
So, exactly how screwed is my friend here?
I certainly feel bad, but then again, I did offer to have my girlfriend drop him off at home, and our other friends did tell him he could sleep there for awhile if he needed to, but since he figured he'd be fine to make the 5 minute trip home.