| What rubs me the wrong way on DUI laws is normally the wording isn’t driving a motor vehicle; it’s operating a motor vehicle. That means if you walk out of a bar and decide you shouldn’t be driving and want to sleep it off in the car, don’t run the engine for the heater. Even if you never put the car in gear, even if it’s on private property, you just operated that vehicle by starting it and you can be busted. The intent of the law is to keep drunks off the road. When a drunk is busted for sleeping in a parking lot, that’s just harassment and revenue generation. |