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UW, the problem is that the courts seems to forget that there is an overt act by the individual at the start of the process that caused all of these other things to be important: Putting a fresh cup of coffee between your legs instead of in a cupholder ( and if you don't have a cupholder, don't get drive through!), drinking to excess, etc. Each and every one of these people took the root action that cause the thing to happen (don't want to get blind drunk? Don't go to bars... or don't drink so much).
In my drinking days, I would go out, drink moderately for most of the evening, and then about 60-90 minutes before closing time switch to WATER. Quite possibly at that moment I wasn't legally in condition to drink, but by the time I was behind the wheel, I was more than sober enough (and got checked once to find out).
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is an important part of real life. None of these apparent flaws in bars, beer vendors, car rental clerks, McD's employees and such would be an issue if the people involved had first taken PERSONAL RESPONSILBITY for their actions.
The beer didn't do anything beer isn't suppose to do. The driver did.
Alex
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