How to Prevent DUI's with Classmates NYU Students

Here's what you can do to keep your friends from driving drunk. Friends may think that coffee, a cold shower, or fresh air is all they need to sober up. The truth is, only time can get alcohol and drugs out of the system.

1. Talk with your friends. Make it clear that none of them should drink or use drugs. Someone who is using drugs or alcohol must promise not to drive under the influence.
2. Politely but firmly tell the person you cannot let him or her drive home because you care. It will be tough to speak up, but your courage could save your friend's life or that of an innocent victim.
3. Call a cab. Always bring enough cash to pay the cabbie. Don't be reluctant, because a cab fare is trivial compared to what you or your friend would have to pay in the event of a DUI.
4. Call your parents for a ride. Yes, they'll be disappointed in your host and your friend, but they'll get over it.
5. Have your friend sleep over at the party.
6. Take the car keys away. Here are ways to get the keys from a drunk person.
   • Use the girl trick. If you are at a party and you know that a guy who has had too much to drink still has his keys, have one of the girls ask for the keys. The male ego may not be ready to give up the keys to another guy but will rarely refuse a girl.
   • Find the keys while your friend is distracted and take them away. Your friend might think he or she lost them.
7. If it is a close friend, speak to him or her privately and suggest that he or she let someone else drive or take a cab or bus.
8. Refuse to get in the car with a drunk friend who is driving. Tell him or her you will ride with someone else or take a bus or cab.
9. If possible, do not embarrass the person or be confrontational. Speak calmly and softly.
10. Whatever you do, don't give up. About half of drivers under age 30 admit drinking and driving at one time or another. Someone tried to stop about 80% of these people from driving and were successful about 75% of the time. Be patient. You can make a difference.

Stop yourself. Stop a friend. Don't drink and drive.

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Arizona Sex Crime Convicted Male Caught in Scottsdale

Scottsdale police have identified a man involved in a relative sex crime as 45-year-old Thomas Hawes.

Prison records show Hawes served a little more than six months of a one-year sentence in 2006 for misconduct involving weapons.

The rest of his previous convictions were petty, including marijuana possession, assault, disorderly conduct, issuing a bad check, and a few traffic violations.

This time around, though, police say Hawes was wanted for questioning in sex crimes when detectives saw Hawes today in his car, pointing a gun at himself. Police say he eventually pointed the gun at officers, and fired one round at the detectives.

Thomas Hawes was accused of molesting a relative when she was a kid, from 2003 to 2010.

Pubins says the girl was a juvenile throughout that entire range, but now, as an adult, she came forward with the allegations. Pubins adds that police don't believe there are any other victims.

Hawes was in the area of 83rd Street and Granite Reef Drive around 9:30 a.m. today, when he pulled over his car to the side of the road, and detectives saw him pointing the gun at himself, police say.

Detectives started negotiating with him, but Hawes eventually got out of his car, pointed the gun at the detectives, and fired a shot -- before he was gunned down by officers.

Pubins says this afternoon that five officers involved in the shooting were placed on leave, which is consistent with Scottsdale PD policy.

As we mentioned earlier today, the ACLU of Arizona filed a lawsuit against the Scottsdale Police Department in September, after former Officer James Peters notched his sixth kill, as the ACLU alleged Scottsdale PD heads pretty much have a policy of "rubber-stamping" officer-involved shootings as justified. No other officer fired a shot.

 

 

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