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My question is, how do you know they are drunk? If they're swerving around on the road perhaps they are having car trouble? I say this because a friend of my father's once was out one evening with his son and on the drive home (roughly a 30 min drive) he had car trouble. His car didnt accelerate well and would slow down randomly. There was a car behind him and he pulled over to check out his car. The car behind him passed him and went over a hill. Nothing seemed obviously wrong with the car so he decided to keep on going as home wasn't that far. Over the hill, he noticed the car that had passed him had pulled over, and pulled back onto the road behind him. 5-10 min later a cop came screaming down the road and pulled him over, and the other car drove away. He then proceeded to be questioned by the officer and forced to do all the field sobritey stuff, when the cop hadn't witnessed him driving at all, and the cop wouldn't listen to either the driver nor his teenage son that they were having car troubles. He was perfectly sober so of course was eventally let go. He found the whole situation emberassing and was frustrated at whomever was in that car behind him.
Drunk driving is totally stupid and wrong, and anyone I know who does it gets quite a bit more than an earful from me. But the point I guess I am trying to make is how can on tell another driver is drunk by just driving behind them? How much swerving and stuff is necessary before you know that this person is drunk?
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