Ashamed to admit it but in my 20's I was stupid enough to drive drunk. Payed the heavy price wrote off the Impreza and was pretty lucky not to kill my mate in the process. Was a peer pressure (@*!# excuse) occurrence, been fishing in the day had a few cans by the lake, went to the pub later sank several other premium strength larger's and decided we wanted food. So instead of the logical, smart thing and order it we hopped in the car to go get it. Drove too fast, attracted the attention of the law and decided to out run them....
I did a great job of loosing them right up to the point I jumped a red light, at which point I 'found' them again. Firmly planted the scooby right in the side of them at 50 :/
Took out some street railings etc etc.
Long story short. 3 year ban, suspended sentence, 400 hours community service, 400 hours probation and one of those drink awareness courses. Solicitor said I was lucky not to get 6-12 for it really I was inches away from it. Lost my job and was almost bankrupt.
On the plus side, never driven drunk since nor will I.
The awareness course really was an eyeopener on the fact it is so easy to be way over at lunch time the next day, takes a surprising amount of time to get out your system. Additionally, while on it there were guys there on their 5th and 6th bans for DD, I mean really 6 times ? Got to ask how they are stupid enough to keep doing it, once is too many.