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this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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If the kid isn't driving then getting him a dui on a technicality is super fucked up. Intoxicated while sitting in a car is a 100% victimless non-crime
It is drunk driving still.
The law says sitting in a car drunk is DUI.
Well our laws are if you are in control of a vehicle while intoxicated then you get a ticket , etc. You don't have to be in motion to get a ticket. Just having the keys on you sitting in a car drunk could qualify, because you have the key, thus the ability to control it at any time.
Sure its technicality, but that law is there to prevent him driving off one day. Prevent is a problematic word. But its like sexual offenders not allowed near a school. It isn't preventing sex crimes, but could lower chances, so you get ticketed for violating the laws.
That's fucking dumb and you know it.
Driving drunk is fucking dumb.
Yes it is. I agree with that. Sleeping in your car so you don't drive drunk shouldn't be a crime and technically (at least in the USA where the person I replied to presumably lives) that is. That's what I'm saying is dumb.
HE'S NOT DRIVING.
You don't know that. From the very brief post by OP sure but you don't know if he tears away every once in awhile.