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**markjohnson** · #1 06-25-2009, 10:22 PM

Well, I'm against drunk driving as much as the next guy but I'm even MORE AGAINST the right of government to seize your vehicle and sell it. That's crossing a line, right there. Could you imagine spending 5 years of your life restoring a car, driving it to a buddy's house on a Saturady afternoon and drinking a can of beer, maybe two, chirping the tires while leaving his subdivision, get pulled over and have your car confiscated? I'm having a hard time trying to rationalize this as right.

Jim Ferron · #2 06-25-2009, 10:47 PM

So Mark...I'm guessing you don't know anyone who was killed by a habitual drunk driver...

**markjohnson** · #3 06-25-2009, 11:20 PM

You know what, don't even go there. I don't know who you think you are but you don't know me. Back off. If somebody is a habitual drunk driver, than you take their license away. Driving is a privilege, not a right. You remove that privilege or at worst put them in jail where they can do no harm. It is wrong though, for the goverment to seize your vehicle. That's the beginning of the wrong kind of goverment. By the way, I don't drink AT ALL, so don't think I'm defending myself or anyone else for that matter, only the loss of freedoms and personal property.

x Baldwin Motion · #4 06-25-2009, 11:23 PM

In NY I believe you get your car taken if it is a "felony DWI" which may mean 2nd offense within a certain time frame.

note to self.. don't drink and drive. period.
edit;
Mark, here in NY they don't just seize YOUR vehicle, they take whoever's vehicle you are driving; leased, corporate, neighbors wifes' minivan, whatever you are driving.
The irony is, if you are sober and driving without a license that was revoked for DWI, they DONT take the car. I agree the laws need some tweeking to say the least. Most of the bad accidents near me are DWI.

beater68427 · #5 06-25-2009, 11:40 PM

I do not condone the act on either side, On the west coast the car has to be free of any lien and in your name, I have a leasing co, and most of my property is owned by the leasing co, and I lease it from it. this is not to protect a act of drunk driving but many other reasons. but in a case like this it would be protected at least in this state.

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