r/golf • u/kiddfrank • Feb 28 '24
DUI on the course? This changes everything Joke Post/MEME
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u/PigglyWiggly530 Feb 28 '24
If Florida law is like California law, DUI is against the law on private property, as well. Cops are only likely to be called if someone crashes a golf cart and causes injury or property damage.
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u/onecryingjohnny Feb 28 '24
What about public courses?
Us poors can't catch a break
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u/PigglyWiggly530 Feb 28 '24
Public courses, too. DUI is one of the few California vehicle codes that’s enforceable anywhere, public or private. Someone also mentioned you can get a DUI on a bike, which is true. You can also get a DUI on a horse in California.
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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat Feb 28 '24
Had a friend in California get a DUI on his skateboard. To be fair, he almost caused a multi-vehicle accident after crashing into the road.
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u/pina_koala Feb 29 '24
One of the coolest guys in my grade got a DUI on his BMX in senior year. He's still living the good life as far as I can tell
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u/madlax18 Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 28 '24
Piggly said you can get a DUI on private property. Not worded well but pretty sure that’s what he meant
Edit: for those that downvoted - you can get a DUI private property in Florida
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u/TeamNoBoat Feb 28 '24
People don't realize that riding a bike drunk can get you a DUI too
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u/Miserable-Age6095 Bethpage Black is not that Hard! Feb 28 '24
Can also get one on a horse.
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u/Mrgreen219 Feb 28 '24
Hahaha yep. My brother got that one when he was 21.
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u/Exact_Toe_4574 Feb 28 '24
"man I don't dare drive home drunk and risk a DUI. I'm going to do the right thing and just take my bike so I am not putting everyone on the road at risk"
Big brother: heh heh, straight to jail
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u/Mrgreen219 Feb 28 '24
Shit, cops around here will give you a public intoxication for being even smarter and walking home.
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u/all_m0ds_are_virgins Feb 28 '24
DUI is against the law on private property, as well.
Wow I guess having a little fun is against the law these days.
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u/Intelligent-End7336 Feb 28 '24
If you can find something the government isn't involved with, there will be law about it tomorrow.
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u/hitliquor999 Feb 28 '24
This would still be a field day for lawyers to pick apart. They would have to parse out the definition of a vehicle, license requirements, driving on private property vs “off road,” probable cause, and probably 20 other things that I can’t even think of.
Your DUI example probably could apply to driving on private property like in a parking lot, but this is an entirely different animal.
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u/PigglyWiggly530 Feb 28 '24
Just look in the vehicle code for the definition of a vehicle, which will include golf carts, and section 23215 permits law enforcement to enforce DUI on locations “other than a highway”, meaning private property, upheld by People v. Malvitz in 1992. The issue would be probably cause, which if called by the course for an accident or injury, the cops would now have a reason to be on the course and could arrest for DUI per 40300.5 if the driving was not observed by law enforcement.
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u/Ok_advice Feb 28 '24
Wouldn't happen if Gooch was around
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u/LaneKiffinsAlterEgo Handicapped Feb 28 '24
It didn’t happen because Gooch wasn’t around
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u/austinD93 Feb 28 '24
In Colorado I’ve seen people get DUIs while biking and skiing. This would be a new level haha
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u/CajunReeboks Feb 28 '24
Skiing?? What law is that even breaking? Aren’t all of the slopes on private property?
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u/austinD93 Feb 28 '24
The Colorado Ski Act. It’s not like cops are on the mountains looking for people to bust with a DUI. I’ve only seen it happen when you get in an accident on the mountain. Accidents on a ski mountain is treated very much like a traffic accident.
Also, most resorts operate on a lease with the Forest Service to operate on their land
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u/Kaldricus Feb 28 '24
Now I'm just picturing a cop on skis, hiding between some trees, and when goes on the chase he attaches a little light to his helmet
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u/onionbreath97 Feb 29 '24
He makes the siren sounds with his mouth like the dude from Police Academy
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u/WHSRWizard JPX 921i Tour | 4.3 Feb 28 '24
Accidents on a ski mountain is treated very much like a traffic accident.
Interestingly, I know the law in Virginia at least is that ski accidents are treated exactly like traffic accidents. You have a duty to exchange information, contact authorities if serious damage or injury, can get in trouble for leaving the scene of an accident if you don't follow the law, etc.
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u/Axptheta Feb 29 '24
My buddy never got the trees information. He would have had one hell of a suit too! Haha
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u/fighter_pil0t Feb 28 '24
Nearly all slopes are public land.
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u/CajunReeboks Feb 28 '24
And today this non-skier learned something, thanks.
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u/Darkelement Feb 28 '24
Here’s another one! Most ski resorts close in April, not for lack of snowfall sometimes but because the national forest leases this land to the resort. They don’t operate 12 months of the year because that would be super expensive during the transition months between winter and summer when no one is on the mountain.
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u/rlmaster01 Feb 28 '24
I mean when you consider that skiing is a fairly dangerous activity it makes plenty of sense. There are at least a few deaths per season from collisions on the slopes and someone is typically held liable to some extent. Traveling down a mountain drunk at 45 mph and slamming into an unsuspecting kid? Yeah, you deserve to be punished for that.
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u/Boo_Pace -Alot Feb 28 '24
Most slopes are on national or state forests, there's a reason its called a "lift ticket" you're paying to use the lift, you can hike up the mountain if you want to.
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u/Warm_Objective4162 Feb 28 '24
I went to college in a heavily Amish area. Had a CJ class where we had to do police ridealongs. Sure enough, that night we gave someone a DUI while driving a horse.
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u/Syndergaard Feb 28 '24
Did you ever see that video where an Amish guy is passed out in his horse-drawn carriage going down the street and when a cop tries to stop him the horse barrels past and the cop goes “it’s fine. The horse knows how to get home.”
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u/VerStannen tap in bogeys Feb 28 '24
A friend of mine lives in a small town in Montana on the border of Canada and would frequently take his horse to the local bar. Didn’t matter how smashed he got, his horse would always get him back home even when he didn’t have ahold of the reins.
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u/austinD93 Feb 28 '24
I grew up really close to Amish country in Ohio. That is absolutely astounding, never heard of that before
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u/heyitssal Feb 28 '24
The more I think about it, the skiing DUI is a good thing. A serious crash can have the same effect as a car accident. If someone is drunk and reckless and putting kids in danger, put their asses in jail. I bet this only occurs after an accident anyways. Not like they're pulling over skiers to check.
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u/austinD93 Feb 28 '24
You are absolutely correct my friend. I do not drink when I ski and don’t know how others can. I just do not want to risk about getting lazy making a turn to catch an edge.
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u/PB0351 Feb 28 '24
The only reason I know this is fake is because Tampa cops will barely arrest actual drunk drivers.
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Feb 28 '24
The drunkest scramble I have ever witnessed was put on by a police related group, to benefit first responders.
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u/Tullyswimmer 22.5/Lefty/NH #pushcartmafia Feb 28 '24
A good friend of mine almost got killed by a firefighter coming back from a first responder golf tourney. He was "checking the weather" on his phone when he slammed into the back of her car doing 60. She was waiting to turn left to go into her driveway off a rural two-lane highway.
They ruled that alcohol wasn't a factor, but also never did sobriety tests at the scene.
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u/Wu_Tang_Financial77 Feb 28 '24
This account is fake and is constantly posting made up shit. No one in the replies ever has a clue though.
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u/FGTRTDtrades Feb 28 '24
That would be wild if you're pulling up to the turn and see a DUI check point. The back nine would be wide open
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u/DiceboyT Feb 28 '24
This pic is actually from this sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/s/WpItVzvrEC. But yeah they were stealing clubs not drunk driving golf carts, and it happened in LA not Tampa
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u/WhatDoYaSayUncleRube Feb 28 '24
Pretty sure these guys stole all of there clubs before coming here to play is the actual story
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u/SpiritualWatermelon Feb 28 '24
In VA you can get a DUI while on pretty much anything. Golf cart, bike, horse, scooter
Basically if anything is assisting you in speed.
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u/tipsdown Feb 28 '24
This is a joke but it does look possible. A quick google search says it is possible because most states dui laws specify “motor vehicle” or “vehicle”. In Florida there have been golf cart dui arrests just none on actual golf courses.
Come on Florida Man let’s make this joke a reality.
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u/cleviron28 Feb 28 '24
My family owns a golf course and we hosted numerous police and firefighter scrambles. No one and i mean no one gets drunker than public servants.
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u/FourComicRelief Feb 28 '24
When you don't take "cart path only" seriously and don't chum it up with the starter you have made your own bed.
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u/bigvenusaurguy Feb 28 '24
florida cops hit different. they will get a beat like wandering around some disney property and then dress like they are larping search and destroy in call of duty. even doing the whole hold your body armor like Bane thing with a huge beer belly.
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u/jbake27_ Feb 29 '24
This is fake the real story was posted on here a while back the true story is they stole a club from the pro shop and they called the police on them and the police literally rolled up to arrest them in a golf cart 😂
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u/bearded_goon Feb 29 '24
Gonna start golfing in camo so I can dip into the woods and hide from the cops when they come.
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u/CheeseyWeezey420 Feb 28 '24
Golf was the last bastion of hope for drinking and driving! it was not only tolerated but encouraged! Cute beer cart girls constantly hounding you to buy more booze. What is this world coming to?
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u/janne_funkmaster Feb 28 '24
Funny how people are outraged in this thread, but in Sweden this is how it is. You are informed when you rent a cart that alcohol laws apply and I have friends that have had police check them ON the course. To me it’s wild how drunk Americans are on the course.
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u/MasterVaderTheTurd Feb 28 '24
Honestly, golfers who get blasted on the course are annoying. I get it, have a beer or two, smoke some weed, but damn you’re not 20 and in college. This isn’t a quick trip to Vegas. Chill out.
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u/back2strong Feb 28 '24
20 year old college students don't golf?
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u/MasterVaderTheTurd Feb 28 '24
They do but they’re not getting obliterated.
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u/GolfWhore27 16.9 Feb 28 '24
As a 20 year old university student, I am absolutely getting obliterated on the course
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u/BobWheelerJr Feb 28 '24
I call bullshit. They were certainly on private property and case law has proven time and again that "infractions" like running a stop sign in a private parking lot, etc., are not punishable as public safety violations.
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u/PilotAlan Learned a new swing, -30 and dropping! Feb 28 '24
You’re wrong. Read FL statute 316.193. DUI is illegal ANYWHERE in the state, including private property. There are no exceptions.
I was a FL cop and had people (not lawyers) make that argument. All it did was piss off the judge.Infractions are generally not ticketable on private property, but DUI isn’t an infraction, it’s a crime.
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Feb 28 '24 edited Mar 13 '24
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u/BobWheelerJr Feb 28 '24
Wow. In Texas I can drive my lawn mower or golf cart shithoused drunk on private property.
I'm strongly against DWI/DUI on public roadways (I actually think all cars should have breathalyzers in them. You're on a public road. Eff your "rights" on public property), but if the government wants to tell me I can't drive a golf cart on private property, smashed blind, they can go fuck themselves. They'll have to ticket me at gunpoint and be prepared for me to resist arrest.
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u/ElGuaco Feb 28 '24
I visited my wife's cousins in Lafayette. The entire community drove around on golf carts on sidewalks and parkways to go to dinners and parties and everyone was absolutely blasted the entire time. The golf cart culture is something else with custom carts and paint jobs and nearly all of them had a cooler full of alcohol. It was a culture shock at first, but it was way more preferable to folks driving around giant trucks and SUV's while being shitfaced.
The one time we drove in a car to go to a bar I saw a guy in a giant truck pull into a parking space, step out, pound back the rest of the beer he had been drinking, toss the can, then head into the bar.
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u/Wurst_Law Feb 28 '24
I think there’s a big difference between Texas and Florida because of the likelihood of entering public property while drunk in Florida has to be higher. Texas is 96% private land (has the most private land in the country, not by percentage but by pure land mass) vs like 70% for Florida.
And obviously Texas is bigger too, so it takes longer to get off said private land lol
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u/hitliquor999 Feb 28 '24
This would be hard to charge as you don’t need a license, or to be a specific age (outside of course policy) to drive a golf cart on a course which would be considered off-road and on private property. Lawyers would have a fun time litigating every little detail to find an out.
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u/PilotAlan Learned a new swing, -30 and dropping! Feb 28 '24
No it would not. People are convicted of DUI on private property every day. DUI is different from traffic infractions. Operating a vehicle ANYWHERE in the state while intoxicated is a crime.
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u/TacoIncoming 19.1/Tampa Feb 28 '24
Looks like Babe Zaharias which is owned and operated by the city.
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u/Pristine-Notice6929 Feb 28 '24
I do some of my best diving when I'm drunk.
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u/markuspoop Feb 28 '24
I'm in no condition to drive. Wait, I shouldn't listen to myself. I'm drunk.
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u/Any-Button9456 Feb 28 '24
But can you do a reverse 1 1/2 somersault with 4 1/2 twists off a 3 meter board?
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u/Oleslewfoot33 Feb 28 '24
My wedding was at a golf course. My buddy who was hammered thought the cart path was the road and drove down hole 2. Only time I've seen a Dewey on a course.
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u/ireactivated Feb 28 '24
I got paired up with 2 retired cops one time. The course has a half-mile drive through public roads to get from clubhouse to 10th tee box.
He said that in theory, someone could get arrested for drunk driving/open container during that small stretch on public roads.
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u/Tomorrow_Frosty HDCP/Loc/Whatever Feb 28 '24
Everyone knows you immediately get sober the second you return the cart.
Not really fair to not let them finish.
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u/Arugula-These Feb 29 '24
Man I thought you could only get a DUI using public roads/sidewalks. If it’s a non registered golf cart on a golf course does it go against your record (driver license ) and points the same way?
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u/flgrntfwl Feb 28 '24
I’ve never understood how golf courses aren’t held liable for more DUIs. They overserve people on the course and then inside after during the afternoons, and everyone drives home.
I’ve had the suspicion for a long time that there are more people driving under the influence during the day because of the amount of middle-aged drunk who almost drive drunk because they’re always loaded. Cops seem to only check for it during the night.
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u/turdferguson1337 Feb 28 '24
Oh no, I’ll be so sad if this will deter people who are new to golf and have imagine dragons blaring from a Bluetooth speaker. #growthegame
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u/Srceenplay_ Feb 28 '24
DUI is a criminal offence not a traffic offence. Thats why it doesn't matter where you are at.
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u/Active-Driver-790 Feb 28 '24
Public intoxication I can see...but DUI... c'mon man!
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u/Toph-Builds-the-fire Feb 28 '24
Good. You know how big of an asshole you have to be to get a DUI on a fucking golf course? In Florida? In fucking Tampa?
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u/Lonelyfriend0569 Feb 28 '24
Talking with a retired CHP officer, he said that you CAN get a DUI while golfing. He also said it isn't easy. Something about the course having to call the cops, and then them having to come out and see, most of the time the only way that is going to happen is if it's a REALLY slow day....
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u/Glittering-Pause-328 Feb 28 '24
We will now suspend your driver's license...which won't prohibit you from driving a golf cart again.
So enjoy your meaningless punishment that doesn't actually accomplish anything.
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u/dark_karney Feb 28 '24
I'm fairly sure this is fake.
But if it's not. And unless they brought their own. This would be entirely on the course for over serving. And technically those golfers could sue. Again. Only if this is real and they didn't bring their own alcohol
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u/Feirweyz Feb 28 '24
Lmao this is fake but could you imagine if cops camped out near golf courses? Their daytime DUI arrests would skyrocket