Tag: DRUNK DRIVING

The next time you get caught drinking and driving in Huntington Beach, California, you may get more than just a mark on your record; you could get tagged on Facebook, as well. Huntington Beach city councilman Devin Dwyer is calling on local police to begin posting mug shots of repeat DUI offenders on Facebook. Dwyer's proposal initially called for all drunk drivers to be publicly shamed on the ...

Despite the rare case to the contrary, drinking and driving ain't no joke. And during the holidays, when champagne and merriment flow freely, sound judgment tends to blur, and inebriated drivers hit the road in droves. This year, one county in Texas is attempting to stem the DUI tide well before any key meets ignition. The weapon of choice? Twitter. The district attorney office in Montgomery ...

Whether it was a brilliant stunt or just sweet irony at work, we'll probably never know what 18-year-old trick-or-treater James Miller was thinking when he was arrested early Sunday, for drunk driving, dressed as a Breathalyzer. Cops pulled over the intoxicated Cincinnati teen in Oxford, Ohio after catching him driving the wrong way on a one-way street, NBC 4 reports. As police searched the ...

Ohio resident Kile Wygle, 28, learned a difficult lesson this week. Be sure to sober up a little bit before you call the authorities, especially after you've wrecked your motorized barstool. Yep, the ingenious Wygle affixed a rigged-up chassis and a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine to a barstool, enabling him to cruise home at up to 40 miles per hour, all the while feeling like he never ...

Drunk driving kills thousands every year in the United States, a disturbing and rising trend that has resulted in the passing of new legislation in many states that will require in-dash breathalyzers for formerly convicted drunk drivers. Now, though, a man in Australia has managed to have a similar device removed from his car after proving that a common ice cream treat resulted in false positives. ...

Certain ingredients do not mix well with driving. Alcohol, of course, comes to mind. And we all know that driving after a large turkey dinner and/or heroin injection can lead to trouble. There is, however, a secret killer out there. Its name? Ice cream. Okay, it's not a killer, but it can cause you to test positive on a breathalyzer. According to UPI.com, an Australian man recently blames a ...

New laws requiring drunk drivers to install breath-analyzing ignition locks in their cars went into effect in six states on January 1st, reports the AP. Mothers Against Drunk Driving's (MADD) campaign for more widespread use of such interlocks has seen another victory, as Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Nebraska and Washington joined a number of other states in requiring first time offenders to ...

How's this for dual purpose? Zhao Wencai and Li Zhoumu, two graduate students at the China University of Geosciences, have concocted a prototype device which checks for two important bits of information before allowing a car to start. First, it scans your fingerprint to make sure you're on the authorized driver database; second, it takes a long, hard look (okay, so maybe 20 seconds isn't all that ...

Here's a piece of advice for our readers: Don't get behind the wheel or handlebars of anything motorized if you're intoxicated, whether it's a car, a scooter, Power Wheel, or even a cooler. It's dangerous, and most likely illegal. Leslie J. "Bomber" Marr learned this the hard way when he was arrested on Memorial Day in Whitehall, NY and charged with DWI and aggravated unlicensed operation of a ...

Some while back, certain residents of Florida charged with DUI managed to get a court to hand them over the source code of the breathalyzer that had "proven" them to be drinking and driving. Now, in another victory for drunks everywhere, Dale Lee Underdahl of Minnesota has filed a similar petition and won. What is source code and why would you want it? Breathalyzers are basically computers with ...

We're not sure how much some one wants to play a video game while urinating, but a German company seems to think it may be the trick to reducing the number of drunk drivers on the road. The name for this well-intentioned, if slightly odd, concept? The Piss-Screen. Here's the premise: A video game -- a driving game, specifically -- is displayed above the urinal. You control the car with your um ...

After a series of drunk driving accidents in Japan last year, Nissan decided it had to do something about the epidemic of inebriated motorists. The company considered a whole host of options including Breathalyzer-like devices. Finally, yesterday the company unveiled its anti-drunk driving initiative: Every time you turn the car on, the optional GPS displays a message reminding you not to drink ...