Brandon Reilly DUI

cm husker said:
Same arguments could apply to speeding, too. But we almost universally agree that a speeder shouldn't be punished as severely as a speeder who hits someone. And if it's just about riskiness, then we should be punishing the heck out fatigued drivers.

As far as .15, that's not that high. Only 1/3 higher than the traditional limit before fed gov required it to be lowered. Just ran a check on healthstatus.com and 6 beers in 2 hours registers .15 for someone Reilly's size. That's hardly ultra-excessive drinking for a college kid.

Again, not excusing it, but trying to put it in perspective.
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Just saw this and wanted to lol for a second.

Don't know where your math came from, because 1) its wrong and 2) even healthstatus.com doesn't say that. General rule of thumb is one standard drink (12oz) is between 1.5-2%. Beer, since not hard alcohol, is safer to estimate at ~1.5%. Your body burns off 1.5% every hour you've been drinking.

Using a two hour drinking window, that means he needed to drink 12 beers, double what you're saying. That's a lot of beer to get behind a wheel with.

 
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On healthstatus, was using 16oz per beer (i.e., a pint). If I plug in 12 beers over two hours (at 200lbs), it hits a .21. https://www.healthstatus.com/perl/calculator.cgi.

If he was drinking for three hours, it may have been around 3 cans of beer an hour.

https://www.healthstatus.com/perl/calculator.cgi

Anyway, the numbers were meant as a rough estimate because we don't know all of Reiley's makeup or what and how long he drank that night. This chart indicates it would be about 8 to 9 cans of beers over 2 hours (with the allowance of .01% reduction per 40 min).

http://bloodalcoholcalculator.org/bac-charts/

I'm not diminishing the risks associated with drinking and driving at .15. It's not good. That's a lot of beer. But I'd wager a lot of people have drank that amount of alcohol (or equivalent a more typical 150 pounds student at 7 beers in 2 to 3 hours), in college and gone driving.

Again, DUI is bad. But it's not genocide and there's already hefty civil penalties for the offense. I'm not convinced football players should be required to suffer additional penalties.

 
Do we really have people that want him punished harder for NOT hurting people.
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Just treat him like any other drunk driver. Fair enough? Then after that, treat him like a football player who broke whatever team rules apply.

You don't want him punished LESS than that, do you?

 
Bowfin said:
Do we really have people that want him punished harder for NOT hurting people.
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Just treat him like any other drunk driver. Fair enough? Then after that, treat him like a football player who broke whatever team rules apply.
You don't want him punished LESS than that, do you?
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I'd be shocked if anyone didnt agree with that sentiment.

Some may disagree with team rules should say.

Does anyone know what current rules say?

 
Bowfin said:
Do we really have people that want him punished harder for NOT hurting people.
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Just treat him like any other drunk driver. Fair enough? Then after that, treat him like a football player who broke whatever team rules apply.

You don't want him punished LESS than that, do you?
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I don't give a f#*k what the team punishment is...

 
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