Half of our listeners are at least driving “buzzed” right now . . .
A lawyer in Fort Worth, Texas is in the news for claiming you could get a DUI from drinking too much COFFEE. (???)
He posted a video about how “DUI” and “DWI” don’t just mean booze or illicit drugs. If they impair your ability to drive, LEGAL drugs can also get you in trouble. And he specifically mentioned caffeine. (Here’s the video.)
He said it’s not something that actually happens, it just could. But there ARE examples of people getting arrested for it.
A guy in California got pulled over in 2015 for driving erratically. Caffeine was the only thing in his system, and they charged him with a DUI for it.
They eventually dropped the charge after they couldn’t prove there was enough caffeine in his system to be “intoxicated” from it. But in theory, yes. You could get a DUI for having one too many espressos.
(The Sun)
