| limecorrado |
Some guys a work were telling me you can be charged with driving impaired on a pedal bike. Which make no sense whatsoever to me.
Is there any truth to this?
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| turbo_dave |
| Well you don't need a license to ride a bicycle so what you do on a bicycle doesn't affect your driving record and, most importantly, a bicycle is not a motor vehicle. You could probably be charged with a variety of other offenses but not driving while intoxicated. |
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| turbo_dave |
Canada has two main substantive DWI law criminal offences:
1. impaired driving, impaired operation, or impaired care or control,
2. over 80 operation or care or control
Section 253. Every one commits an offence who operates a motor vehicle or vessel or operates or assists in the operation of an aircraft or of railway equipment or has the care or control of a motor vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment, whether it is in motion or not,
(a) while the person's ability to operate the vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment is impaired by alcohol or a drug; or
(b) having consumed alcohol in such a quantity that the concentration in the person's blood exceeds eighty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood.
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| Kyle D. |
| Yes you can be charged with having fun ! :bthumbup: |
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| Jord@n |
| You can get arrested for drunk driving on a horse. |
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| No-Pistons |
quote:
Originally posted by Jord@n
You can get arrested for drunk driving on a horse.
now thats funny shit lol |
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| majormojo |
| I wonder if it's OK to ride sober on a drunken horse... |
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| midnite |
| i believe you can also get 'driving with undue care and attention' or stunting tickets on a bike. |
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| rexxrally |
| There was a disabled guy charged in Edmonton last winter with driving his motorized wheelchair while drunk, and some guy was just bitching about getting a ticket on a bicycle running a stop sign, so I don't see why not. |
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| Mavrick |
A bicycle is still defined as a vehicle under most laws, even if it doesn't have a motor in it.
I don't know if operating a bicycle under the influence is actually a criminal offense, though. I'm pretty sure it's a Provincial law that you get charged with on that one.
I did see a case about it several years ago, but I don't remember the actual charges that the guy got. He was riding his bicycle home from the bar, rounded a corner without looking, and ran into/over/through two ladies who were crossing the street. He got charged for not stopping for the red light, and being impaired, and then he got sued by both ladies for the injuries he caused by hitting them on his bike. |
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| Supra_devil |
my uncle recieved a speeding ticket on his bike, he was passing cars. yes he was a very good athlete in his day, could still do things i probably can't.
Bikes are classified as vehicles too, they have to follow all the same rules as cars.
sometimes when they're riding three wide on the shoulder of the road instead of in line like they're supposed to or on the double wide sidewalk 5 feet away, i even remind them of this fact :D i hate bicyclists that don't know how to follow the laws set forth by the city, same with joggers. |
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| purevl |
| Back home there was this farmer who got his liscence pulled for drunk driving, so he started using his riding lawnmower to get around town until. But he eventually got charged for DWI on the lawnmower:lol: |
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