UI's clarification of Tailgating Policy = DUI maker

This is the official DUI maker......drinking too much alcohol and then driving. Wow, bombshell revelation! Dont blame the university or the police. You cant get a DUI if you dont drink and drive, no matter how many police are out there.

Do YOUR part. Drink in moderation in approved areas, have a DD, be respectful of everyone and you wont have a problem. That's all there is to it. Anyone complaining that is too much to handle, is the problem.

Too many chicken littles out there. The sky is not falling. Its really not that tough to grasp. Dont drink too much and dont act the part of a fool. You are in public, this isnt your backyard. If you want to get plowed, stay at home. Guess what, you wont get a DUI if you stay at home drunk. Another bombshell revelation! You arent allowed to be drunk in public and endangering other people. ITS THE LAW EVERYWHERE.

Lastly, Go Hawks. 2 weeks to go.
 
CAARHawk said:
Everybody. I understand that you should have 5 hours to sober up if you don't drink after the game. The issue is that the UI is deciding to give people an hour to drink after the game.

See what I am saying about doing the math?

You either don't allow them to drink after the game, or you allow them more time to stay in the parking lots after the hour.

Do you get that?

Oh, BTW I grew up in Los Angeles.
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So are you suggesting that they should not allow drinking to happen after the game? I'm sure that would go over well.

The point you are not understanding is that it is not the job of the university to make sure you are a responsible adult. If you need to drive home, then stop drinking early enough to be able to do that. The hour after the game is for the people who want to wait until the traffic clears out a little before heading home. It isn't so people can get blasted and get behind the wheel.
 
Holy cow. This is the dumbest conspiracy theory ever. The UI isn't forcing beer down anyone's throat and putting them behind the wheel.
 
DuffMan said:
Why is it so hard to understand that saying you are allowed to do something and saying you should do something are two different things?

I'm not blasted at the end of the game (or before it for that matter). If I want to have a post game beer than fine. If you are blasted after and are concerned about it then don't (even though you are allowed).
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It doesn't take a lot to blow .08 (something that I've been told several times on this site, regarding the Binns/Hampton incidents). People likely won't have to get hammered to blow .08.

I understand that saying you're allowed to do something and saying you should do something are two different things. But why allow people to drink after the game and kick them out after 2 hours when many of the people who drink will blow a .08 simply because they've not had long enough to metabolize just a couple beers? That just seems more like hoping to catch a few people in that boat and give them tickets, as well as the ones that are stupid enough to get hammered a second time. Just say "no post-game drinking", and call it good. Sure, you're going to p*** a lot of people off, but I think it's quite possible that more people will get worked up after getting ticketed for DUI's because they weren't allowed enough time to metabolize the couple beers they had in the post-game session.
 
CAARHawk said:
The UI has clarified their rules for post-game tailgating. People can drink up to an hour after a substantial number of fans leave the stadium, but must end all tailgating activities within 2 hours.

You do the math.

I actually got a DUI in high school for the exact same type of policy. I was at a party. The cops broke it up and told everyone that anyone left at the party in a half hour would go to jail. They then drove around the corner and waited with their lights off for the first car to drive past so that they could pull them over for a DUI.

I say let the people drink for an hour after the game and then do a live post game show for an hour after that in a section of the park lot that is cordoned off with no alcohol allowed. Let the fans who need to burn off a little BAC come over and sit and watch some assistant coaches and a couple of players get interviewed with some good video highlights, and give em some food, water, soft drinks, etc. Then send people on their way. In any event, you need to let people have at least 2 hours to burn off BAC.

Giving them only one hour is a prime way of sending people out on the road hammered.
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SOrry to inform you but the average person metabolizes ETOH at 0.015 % per hour. You are talking about a pretty long time for a person to drop down into the "legal" level. 2 hours wouldn't cut it. I have a way way way better idea! Dont drink or don't drink and drive. Its pretty simple really. Much easier than keeping people around to burn off booze.
 
LaxGoHawks said:
This is the official DUI maker......drinking too much alcohol and then driving. Wow, bombshell revelation! Dont blame the university or the police. You cant get a DUI if you dont drink and drive, no matter how many police are out there.

Do YOUR part. Drink in moderation in approved areas, have a DD, be respectful of everyone and you wont have a problem. That's all there is to it. Anyone complaining that is too much to handle, is the problem.

Too many chicken littles out there. The sky is not falling. Its really not that tough to grasp. Dont drink too much and dont act the part of a fool. You are in public, this isnt your backyard. If you want to get plowed, stay at home. Guess what, you wont get a DUI if you stay at home drunk. Another bombshell revelation! You arent allowed to be drunk in public and endangering other people. ITS THE LAW EVERYWHERE.

Lastly, Go Hawks. 2 weeks to go.
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I don't think anyone is disputing that. But allowing people an hour to drink is inevitably going to produce more DUI's because people will have a few (not a ton), and will blow right around .08 just because of 2 or 3 beers that they consumed fairly quickly, not because they got hammered. Now you can say "well just don't drink then". But what's the point of allowing the hour if it can't be used?
 
Why am I allowed to legally carry a firearm, but then they don't let me shoot people at random? They are creating murderers.
 
tm3308 said:
It doesn't take a lot to blow .08 (something that I've been told several times on this site, regarding the Binns/Hampton incidents). People likely won't have to get hammered to blow .08.

I understand that saying you're allowed to do something and saying you should do something are two different things. But why allow people to drink after the game and kick them out after 2 hours when many of the people who drink will blow a .08 simply because they've not had long enough to metabolize just a couple beers? That just seems more like hoping to catch a few people in that boat and give them tickets, as well as the ones that are stupid enough to get hammered a second time. Just say "no post-game drinking", and call it good. Sure, you're going to p*** a lot of people off, but I think it's quite possible that more people will get worked up after getting ticketed for DUI's because they weren't allowed enough time to metabolize the couple beers they had in the post-game session.
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For the average sized american male one beer equals about .02. The average male burns somewhere around .02 of BAC per hour. What that means is for someone to blow in the ballpark of .08 you must have consumed (ballpark) 4 more beers than hours drinking. Soooooo....

If you crack your first one at 8am and get pulled over at 4pm that means to blow legally drunk you must have ingested 12 beers over that 8 hour period. When you factor out the 3 hours you spent at the game thats 12 beers in five hours. Again kinda shoots a hole in that I blew a point .08 after only having a few beers idea.

Real story, I got pulled over for running a red a few months back (one of those sitting in the intersection waiting for a spot to turn left through traffic deals). I had been at a bar where in consumed 4 tallboys over the course of 3 hours. They gave me a field breathalizer and I blew under .04, thats half the legal limit.

For a normal sized guy .08 does not happen by accident.


Again for the love of all things holy IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT NOT HAVING ENOUGH TIME TO METABOLIZE POST GAME BEERS THEN DON'T HAVE ANY FRIGGEN POST GAME BEERS!!!!
 
I think this shows that the 'one hour' after most of the people get out is going to be far too fluid to control, and really its just going to come down to you will have two hours from the end of the game to take care of everything. I doubt they bust anyone for drinking until after the two hours after the game time has ended.

I mean, are they going to have a 'shot gun start' to commence with the one hour time limit for drinking? No
 
ICHawk24 said:
Why am I allowed to legally carry a firearm, but then they don't let me shoot people at random? They are creating murderers.
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You know there is a difference between being allowed to carry a weapon for self-defense and being invited to drink with the distinct possibility of being busted for it.
 
Dear god,

I'm honestly dissapointed in some people here, I'm not the moarilty police but some of you need to take responsibility for your own actions. I'm fully capable of consuming respnosibly and I'm glad I still have that choice. For those that cant consume responsibly I hope you get the book thrown at you.

Honestly people there is a person above complaining that now he won't be able to slam down 3 beers in that post game hour without being worried about blowing over the legal limit...

Paint chips... freaking paint chips.
 
Ozhawk said:
SOrry to inform you but the average person metabolizes ETOH at 0.015 % per hour. You are talking about a pretty long time for a person to drop down into the "legal" level. 2 hours wouldn't cut it. I have a way way way better idea! Dont drink or don't drink and drive. Its pretty simple really. Much easier than keeping people around to burn off booze.
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That is about one drink for the average person. It takes more than that to get up to the legal limit for most. .08 takes a little over 3 hours.
 
tm3308 said:
It doesn't take a lot to blow .08 (something that I've been told several times on this site, regarding the Binns/Hampton incidents). People likely won't have to get hammered to blow .08.

I understand that saying you're allowed to do something and saying you should do something are two different things. But why allow people to drink after the game and kick them out after 2 hours when many of the people who drink will blow a .08 simply because they've not had long enough to metabolize just a couple beers? That just seems more like hoping to catch a few people in that boat and give them tickets, as well as the ones that are stupid enough to get hammered a second time. Just say "no post-game drinking", and call it good. Sure, you're going to p*** a lot of people off, but I think it's quite possible that more people will get worked up after getting ticketed for DUI's because they weren't allowed enough time to metabolize the couple beers they had in the post-game session.
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This is pure insanity.
 
Sorry, I don't exactly have a lot of experience with alcohol (meaning none). It just seems like there's no point in drinking after the game at all. And if there's no point to it, I don't understand why it's going to be allowed.
 
tm3308 said:
Sorry, I don't exactly have a lot of experience with alcohol (meaning none). It just seems like there's no point in drinking after the game at all. And if there's no point to it, I don't understand why it's going to be allowed.
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I really don't understand the point of Christianity. I mean praying to something you don't even know exists, what is the point. And if there's no point i don't even understand why it's being allowed.
 
DexterMorgan said:
I really don't understand the point of Christianity. I mean praying to something you don't even know exists, what is the point. And if there's no point i don't even understand why it's being allowed.
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To the people who believe in God, there is a point. To people who don't believe, it's pointless. But it does have meaning to those doing the praying.
 
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