BUI Laws

[TKOGWEE]

Your body can only totally remove something like four drinks' worth of alcohol in 24 hours, then you start to build up a blood-alcohol level.

actually, the average person can metabolize one drink (not a highball full of straight booze) per hour. That means that if someone drinks one beer in a half hour, then spreads out a bottle of water or a soda over an hour, by the time their done there's no alcohol in their system. At least that's what we were taught in drivers ed 15 years ago. I'm not condoning drinks in the boat or offering equations to help one avoid trouble, just stating that factual truth.

[Tom7227]

actually, the average person can metabolize one drink per hour.

That is correct. I found this and it seems pretty accurate to me. FYI I have pretty extensive experience in dealing with DWI - prosecuted thousands of them.

http://bloodalcoholcalculator.org/

[TooTallTom]

TKOGWE and Tom7227, what GrizzlyAdams posted is what I was taught in an alcohol education class which I was ordered to take as a result of pleading to actual physical control. Yes, the average person metabolizes one drink per hour, BUT only up to about four drinks in a 24-hour period. After that, the blood-alcohol level begins to rise, regardless of the rate of drinks per hour. That was a big 'but' because the second part is what will get you.

Again, this is something I remember from a class I took about 5 years ago, that's my source and I'm stickin' to it!

[Nick Kuhn]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=BAC...Alcohol.S-_Male

A visualization for you guys.

[Aaron Carrell]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=BAC...Alcohol.S-_Male

A visualization for you guys.

Useful tool I suppose, but LOL @ the "Number of Drinks" entry on that calculator. Is that a 3.2 beer, a 5.0 beer, a glass of wine? For something that they tried to look so scientific or useful, its fairly useless in practical terms anyways. Just my

[Nick Kuhn]

Useful tool I suppose, but LOL @ the "Number of Drinks" entry on that calculator. Is that a 3.2 beer, a 5.0 beer, a glass of wine? For something that they tried to look so scientific or useful, its fairly useless in practical terms anyways. Just my

If we are talking a 12 ounce can or bottle it's a 5.4% beer. Or about a pint of the typical light beers (Mich Golden, Miller, Bud, etc). Or a shot/mixed drink containing 1.62 ounces of 80 proof liquor.

[Fazerfish]

Between the 2 calculators listed above, if I drink 8 beers in one hr, one tells me I'm at .076, the other at .16...these are light beers after softball, which is an extreme, but I like the first link where you chose what you are drinking...

[gregg52]

[BoxMN]

Hey gregg, were you having a beer when you wrote that last sentence hehe

[Slabasaurus]

If you've been active, depressed, stressed, eating odd/inconsistently, your metabolization of alcohol slows.

There are a lot of factors that go into how many beers you can drink and still be 'legal'

My view of it is it's not worth it. I've known some folks who have BUI's, it's almost worse than a DUI because you have the same legal ramifications as a DUI, but also some boat related consequences as well.

And to get a BUI/DUI, you don't necessarily have to be .08 or above, an officer simply has to determine you were impaired while operating a motor vehicle.

Hence DUI, BUI, DWI, BWI, .08 or above within 2 hours of operating a motor vehicle... etc.

[Ed Carlson]

What gets me here is if the bike is not a vehicle that is enforced with the same vigor and intent as a motor vehicle in relation to operation under the influence, then they in all acuality....get a pass.

Any accidents or fatality's would only warrant a D&D Drunk and disorderly citation, and the motorized vehicle if involved would be up the creek.

That is Bogus at best.

If you share the roads, they also should live by the same laws, liabilities, and consequences as we all do, or stay off them.

Bikes do not require liability insurance, but they use the roads and are often involved in acidents....and the motor vehicle owner in the end gets the bill....BOGUS! They do not loose points for operating there vehicle like an [PoorWordUsage]? This rubs me wrong to no end.

[swamptiger]

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Bikes do not require liability insurance, but they use the roads and are often involved in acidents....and the motor vehicle owner in the end gets the bill....BOGUS! They do not loose points for operating there vehicle like an [PoorWordUsage]? This rubs me wrong to no end.

Looking at it from a little different angle, how many bicyclists are going to be willing to spend several hundred a year for mandatory insurance?

[Ed Carlson]

I'm certain there are many people who feel the same about there mandatory auto liability costs, yet it has no impact on the obligation by law to maintain it.

[Craigums]

Maybe we should create a WUI (walking under the influence) law next? Since, you know, people walking share the same surroundings as the sober folk. Maybe manditory liability shoe insurance too? You gotta draw the line somewhere Ed. If a bicyclist were found to be the cause of an accident, then it can be taken up in civil court. No need to prosecute people trying to do the right thing by biking home drunk instead of driving home drunk. Over the top laws rub me the wrong way.

[swamptiger]

Speaking of a free pass, I know of a number of people in my area who drive and go and sit in the bar and drink every day. This goes on day after day, year after year. Some of these people don't even have a driver's license (already been revoked - probably numerous times), so I'm pretty sure they don't have any insurance either. I know of a couple who have gone through the system numerous times, and even spent some prison time. Yet law enforcement chooses to look the other way. Why? I suspect the bottom line is that it's tough to squeeze blood out of a turnip, as they say.