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My friend was a streamer, and his wife got killed by a drunk driver right in front of him. All I could hear about for the next few days after it happened was just how brutal it was. He didn't even stop! He stopped showing up to work, stopped streaming, and anytime he doesn't look like a zombie... You can just tell he still crushed by it. Don't drink and drive, you'll hurt so many people.
I understand it’s bad that he committed a crime but he wasn’t actually drunk while driving it takes a while to get drunk and 1 sip of wine isn’t going to do anything
Given that he's performing for the camera, it would not be out of the question that the wine was a fake prop. I don't believe that, but include the possibility for completeness.
@@kvetch315 I do, to some degree, agree with you. He might have not been drunk off of one sip of wine. But that's not the point. Its about the fact that hes got the mindset and made the decision to drink, drive and livestream it. Whether he was drunk that night or not does not mean that he wouldn't do it again or that he had already done it before. sorry but its just stupid playing it down like this
@@Cubemilnot just that, I wanna see someone genuinely argue that he wouldn't get over the "legal" threshold faster than someone else could even realize what's going on. It's the very deadly version of "But I'm not touching you" or something. "But I'm not drunk yet" yeah, yet
@@kvetch315 you shouldn't be intaking alcohol while driving *full stop* when you get behind the wheel of a car you are in control of a ~2 metric ton metal box moving at high speeds, and a lapse in concentration can and will cause a lot of damage you are not only endangering yourself, but also anyone unfortunate enough to be in the area where you're performing such a reckless act
i had some rly bad takes when i got my only DUI almost 10 years ago. blamed everyone but myself. it wasnt until i attended the required MADD "class" that my perspective changed. it was brutal. listening to these people who have had their family stolen, or have been the one to murder a car full of strangers. it changed me. i think everyone should have to sit through those speeches. it made it real, and not just something im reading online or hearing about. I think a lot less people would consider it an option to drink and drive if they experienced something like that. edit: spelling errors: who-would
I got a dui 10 years ago as well.. it was that victim impact panel that made the biggest difference for me too. I never wanted that to be me, or be the reason it happens to anyone else. Everything else I had to do for the dui was bullshit, but that made me understand how wrong it was and actually feel so ashamed that I did it at all.
Luckily, you have a heart and conscience and were able to change and for that I am immensely proud of you. There's someone from around where I live who is infamous for driving drunk because he's gotten in not one but TWO serious car accidents where he made it out unscathed but everyone in the cars died. He was drunk driving both times and much like you did at the time he didn't care that he literally murdered people because he was drunk (not saying you hurt anyone, just that you didn't care at the time about driving drunk). He had his license revoked but has still been seen driving WHILE drinking alcohol. It just infuriates me that he has so little of a heart that he's totally fine with the fact he's killed multiple people, two or three of which were children, and continues to drink and drive as if it's no issue. TL;DR Thank you for having a change of heart and accepting responsibility because some people never will.
Not everyone should have to do it. I am sorry I've met many people who would never even consider driving under influence it is not one of those "everyone does this, its social acceptable we should have everyone going through this to change it." Its is a incredible selfish and egocentric thing that a lot of the population would not do it I dont want thst trauma
@@cupofjitters4501Everyone should have to do it. Else how do you figure out who's egocentric and who isn't? The egocentric people aren't going to admit they couldn't give a shit about drunk driving because they know it's illegal, so they'd escape it. Not only that, you think people who do the right thing are in the majority. You're wrong. A surprising number of people are egocentric and selfish, and even more aren't, but think to themselves "oh it's just one time, it won't do any harm" - and maybe 9 times out of 10 it won't do any harm, but it only takes that one time for a catastrophic collision to take out multiple people. You won't get PTSD from listening to people share stories about how drunk driving affected their lives, and they always give out therapy cards afterwards anyway in case you're deeply affected by something someone said.
When I was 10 years old, my dad got a call in the middle of the night from his sister in hysterics because she'd just lost her daughter, my cousin, to a drunk driver. She was only 16 and had just started to drive, it was one of her first times on the road by herself and sadly, also her last. I am 31 years old now, and my Aunt STILL cries everyday for her lost child. It has been 21 years and she still lives with the pain. Drunk Driving is unforgivable. Thank you Charlie 💖💖
@@legoyoda9026 You do realize that when people say "it's just the drunk crashers man" they're joking. You are taking that so literally, it is illogical. The reason why drunk driving is illegal is because it drastically increases the chance for you to crash, even if you're the best driver in the world. Chances are what happened to her poor cousin would have never happened if that person wasn't drunk. Please never say something like this after something so tragic.
I am a driver' Ed instructor and part of my job is explaining to teens how serious and dangerous drunk driving is. I really appreciate how you explain how dangerous and selfish drinking and driving is. Videos like this could actually save lives if it stops just one person from drinking and driving.
That's true and it is a great message, but this wasn't 'drunk driving'. It seems like people are assuming or saying stuff from the point of thinking he was drunk while driving but he wasn't. I'm not excusing what he did or saying it wasn't some easily avoidable thing, but he wasn't drunk.
my brother and his friend were actually killed by a drunk driver 3 months ago when he was just about to turn 24 a few days after it happened... meanwhile the killer who is in his 50s survived the crash. it will never not hurt seeing people being this stupid and irresponsible because you're not only putting your own life at risk but everybody around you. thank you for being open with your distain for drunk drivers cause hopefully less and less people will do it idk
Unfortunately a lot of drunk drivers live because their body doesn't tense up during the crash unlike people who don't have alcohol in their system. So the alcohol actually saves their lives as they take others
I ended a friendship because a friend thought that his drinking and driving "wasn't that bad". Four months later he wrecked a car full of all our friends and someone was killed. Not even *once*.
old friend of mine is now serving 10 years in jail because he "wasn't that drunk" flew off the road, killed his passenger, then after he got out of the hospital and realized just how fucked he was he binged over the weekend and tried to run over a cop
@@bobowon5450 How did he get out of the hospital and not go straight to jail? Did he bail out? Also how did he only get 10 years for not only killing someone, but also trying to run over a cop?
@@DracoPadilla he didn't go straight to jail because at first the incident was looked like as a weather related accident since it was snowing. But then the family of the passenger along with other eye witnesses came forward and said he was drunk. The whole process took a couple of months before he was told he would have to go to court to defend himself. It was then that he realized he didn't have a chance in hell of getting off and went out binge drinking before seeing a cop, freaking out, and trying to run the cop over to escape. How he only got 10 years? i'm pretty sure the cop didn't end up pressing charges despite having been injured, not sure why he wouldn't.
I’ve lost a close friend of mine to drunk driver, loved to draw, she was super sweet and thoughtful. No words can describe the pain I felt finding about this after we just talked the night before and shame on Bobby for thinking that this is even remotely okay.
I used to drive at night for a living. And I can’t tell you how many times I saw people drive home while staggering out from a bar. Thank you for taking this seriously. It was terrifying to be on the road with drunk drivers. Even in city limits, there is no excuse to drive with alcohol in your system.
@@outofpowder they USED TO drive at night. Even if they drive now, it's less likely that they drive at night when people are drunk and driving, which means it's less terrifying for them to drive.
@@outofpowder they USED TO drive at night. Even if they drive now, it's less likely that they drive at night when people are drunk and driving, which means it's less terrifying for them to drive.
@@CamelThiefI don’t think they were riled up at all, they just replied and explained that the op used to drive at night for a living and probably quit. Perhaps it looks intense because TH-cam has a dumb bug where comments can be duplicated, which is why it looks like he replied twice
Lost a class mate to a drunk driving accident. I think watching my entire school crumble and cry and watching his parents get his rewards was probably one of the most heartbreaking things ive ever seen
A kid at my school was bullied ruthlessly for getting caught masturbating in the bathroom and then killed himself. The school didn’t say anything 💀 im glad your school recognized its students and the things that happens to them.
I've seen people lost to gambling addition and Charlie allowed gambling promotions on the latest episode of his official podcast... They stopped the entire podcast to promote gambling!
It’s because most people understand a sip versus actually being drunk. If he just drank the sip before getting in the driver seat he would have done nothing to be banned.
No one’s saying arguing Drunk Driving isn’t dangerous, what they are arguing is that he wasn’t drunk. If you had any basic knowledge on how alcohol works, it takes at LEAST 10 minutes for it to enter your system and that’s assuming you’re drinking a good amount. A mere sip of a small percentage isn’t going to get you drunk in a 6 minute drive, even coffee is more dangerous to drink at that point.
@@luckywizard_ here's the funny thing: *it doesn't matter* . He broke the law, and all he had to do to avoid it was *wait 6 minutes* . Why is that so hard?
Appreciate you bringing up this incident and being so straight with it Charlie. Here in Ontario, many community members of the Greater Toronto Area are still haunted by a terrible drunk driving incident from 2015 that involved a super-wealthy construction company heir crashing his vehicle into a car with three children (all under the age of 10) and their grandfather. The father of the children died last year, supposedly from taking his own life due to the unimaginable grief that the event caused to him and his family. The mother of the children, Jennifer Neville-Lake, is now completely alone. The punishment that the driver, Marco Muzzo, received was a slap on the wrist compared to the harm that he inflicted. His name continues to be present in local parks and in hospital wards due to his family's great wealth in the construction industry, and now he lives a quiet life outside prison. These kinds of people who actively decide to endanger others on the road like this are absolutely unforgivable. Best the rest of us can do is never forget, and never allow them to live it down.
Even then, they can keep reoffending. Killing someone if it's YOUR FIRST dui charge, won't get you life in prison. You'll get 10-15 years at best. It's involuntary, at least that's how they treat it. So you'll never get a life sentence from this unless you have a history of drunk driving.
100% agree with you Charlie. My number 1 pet peeve is people who drive recklessly, people don’t think about the dangers we face every day operating a giant metal deathtrap and drunk drivers are the worst offenders. Under no circumstance is it okay to drink and drive too many innocent people die or are seriously injured due to other peoples carelessness.
@@necroxv soooo... middle of nowhere all alone be ok then? I'm just trying to make sure if there actually are circumstances where it's fine to drink and drive.
@@GiantFlamingClasher you must have missed the part where I said "in the desert" and "alone" Would be pretty hard for me not to see you coming when I'm the only one out there doing dumb shit.
Charlie as a truck driver, I just want to applaud you for being heavily against drinking and driving. I know that sounds ridiculous, but a lot of people don't treat it seriously.
Amazing that the line "I'm not a good role model." has evolved from just people who have a potty mouth or sick sense of humour, to people indirectly admitting that they're committing a crime.
It didn't evolve. It's always been that way. If you do stupid shit or are an asshole or commit crimes then you aren't a good role model. It hasn't changed.
My dad was hit by a drunk driver when I was 6 years old (in 2000). He was paralyzed from the waist down and is in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Drunk driving and driving under the influence (even if its just a sip) deserves so much more punishment. It is absurd. Thank you for having the stance you do Charlie.
I mean, no one's going to take a sip but if they did, I don't think a breathalyzer would even pick anything up. If they crash after taking a sip they're just a bad sober driver
@@mikeycrackson Taking a sip while driving is illegal, it's illegal to even have an unsealed container in your car even if you haven't drank. But if someone took a literal sip, walked out to their car, started driving and crashed, it's not because they're drunk driving. They either suck at driving or were unlucky enough to get hit by someone else.
I lost my grandfather to a drunk truck driver. He worked late hours in the evening and was coming back home from work around 3am like always…we didn’t find him till the next morning, with his body splattered all over the road. I hate drunk drivers with a passion. It’s the most selfish decision you could ever make - you’re not only putting yourself at risk of danger, but others around you too.
Had a friend in middle school that died to his own father drunk driving.. His sister survived the crash due to him protecting her and bloody thankfully that father will never get out of prison.
The dad must've had multiple charges of this. Because you don't go to jail for life for drunk driving even when it takes a life. You get a long sentence, but you don't do life. Not even close. Unless again, you have a history of drunk driving already in which case they'll try to just throw the book at ya. But if this was his first actual DUI, he'll be out in 10-15 years max and that's without good behavior.
Growing up my dad was an alcoholic.. Countless times I remember being in the vehicle while he was drinking his beers. Ill never forget a time I was in the back seat of his truck with my two younger siblings and he decided it was a good idea to chase a deer through a bean field.. I remember how terrified I felt while crying asking him to stop as he laughed it off.
@@CaseyDavies-od7ir thank you. When you are a kid it can start to feel like it’s just normal to be around such behaviours. It took a lot of pain and reflection looking back and realizing all the trauma my siblings and I went through
@@yogimitch1333Chasing a deer through a bean field was terrifying for you? Look, I get the father issues, I'm 30 and didn't get over the shit I went through with mine until my late 20s. But honestly, chasing a deer through a bean field sounds like a pretty fun time.
An old friend of mine and his dad died in a drunk driving accident, while he was at his college orientation. It was super recent and still stings to think about. The woman who killed them doesnt even have a license or own that car because of past instances. I hate how common it is and needs to be punished more severely if you are caught drunk driving.
In this day and age there is no excuse for drunk driving. You can always get an Uber, someone always has a phone so you can call someone to pick you up. I’m sorry about friends family. Life can be so unjustifiably cruel and drunk drivers can make it even worse.
I've not experienced a drunk driver incident before, but my father was a first responder to a few. He told me about the one that still haunts him. There was a girl that couldn't be older than 20, who had her leg severed in the accident. She told my dad that she couldn't feel it, but to keep her calm, my dad asked her where she was headed home from... "Dance class." Was her answer. It took 5 of the police officers on scene to keep him from straight up killing the bastard who couldn't put down the bottle... who just so happened to be perfectly fine, by the way. My dad doesn't know what happened to the girl, but you know as well as he what happened to that driver.
Thank you not only for this, but for reminding people that driving itself is in fact the most dangerous thing they do on a daily basis. Most people forget this fact and don't treat driving seriously at all, as can be seen by the plague of people texting and doing other shit while behind the wheel.
legit i have so much anxiety around driving and cant get behind the wheel without a panic attack bc i am so aware of this i cant imagine how others treat it so casually 😭
The fact that hes minimizing the situation tells you everything you should know. So many people dont take drunk driving seriously, and its such a dangerous mindset. Thank you Charlie for covering this and pointing out the severity of it
yeah, drunk drivers usually minimize what they're doing a lot. It can start to I just to a sip so its okay to drink today then 6 months down the line, I just drank 2 bottles, its fine and I can handle it. He didnt kill people yet but he's gonna get there soon with that mindset
can someone please explain to me the difference between taking your first swig of the night in the car and taking a swig of wine at mass and then driving? please note that i haven't and don't plan to do either of these things, and i can easily see why taking a swig in the car is wrong. but for the life of me i can't see why it's any different than drinking it at mass and then driving home, and why the mass scenario is presumably ok? i couldn't really tell what charlie's stance on that point was but it seemed like he felt mass situation was okay while bobby situation is not ok. also note im really not trying to debate anyone or be a debate-bro or whatever; i'm genuinely asking for an explanation and don't plan to argue about it. if i really think about it, the best answer i can come up with is that drinking wine in mass is guaranteed to be only one sip, whereas swigging a bottle while driving can easily and often lead to more than just one swig. am i right, is that it? also i agree what bobby did was wrong and i'm not completely sure he was sober and that was actually his first sip of the night. throughout my comment i'm not referring to bobby, but a hypothetical man who was sober and truly took his first sip of the night in the car vs a random guy in mass.
@@cade75 thank you. It was a misdemeanor open container charge. There’s a legal limit for a reason. What he did was the equivalent of texting while driving. It’s almost the same as taking a drink of water while driving. He should have definitely waited until he was home for sure but in my opinion doesn’t deserve the backlash he’s getting. He broke a law while streaming so I guess a temporary ban is valid but this backlash is definitely extreme. And I have never heard of this guy before so I have no skin in the game
The thing I like about Charlie the most is how okay he is with standing his ground on his takes. Seen a lot of people change cause of fame but Charlie doesn't sway and has a good heart, good channel, and epic content.
changing your mind or atleast showing some nuance isnt bad. Its just a little dissapointing that charlie cant do that on this topic because he has really good and rational takes most of the time but he takes this topic VERY personal
That’s the best thing about Charlie and also the worst thing. He will have some of the most brain dead, uneducated takes and stand by it or fence sit the entire way through.
I think the the issue is the distinction between driving under the influence and open container. If you drink 3 beers at a bar then immediately drive your car is that better than drinking one beer in a car? Former is legal and the latter is illegal but which is more dangerous?
My grandma was killed by a drunk driver when my mom was 7. He swerved into on coming and hit my grandparents head on, which killed her on impact. My grandpa still has a very had time talking about it to this day, and when he talks about her, she really seemed like a wonderful person. Would have been nice to actually meet her.
It's extremely unlikely that this is a rare occurrence for him. He did it without a second thought, without hesitation. He is clearly not in the habit of thinking that drinking and driving is anything to avoid.
Dudes probably got a bad drinking problem. I dealt with it in the past. 4+ years off the liquor. Hopefully he can find some help if that’s the case. Might be a good thing to step away from the public eye and find out what are the underlying reasons why he’s doing this.
@@GM-gv1hqHey, I’m sure you’re proud enough of yourself, but good job on being sober, man!! Takes someone so much stronger than I could ever be to tackle something like that. Keep up the awesome work.
It’s baffling how many people won’t think “I will not drink for the next hour to sober up” then assess from there. I’ll sit in the car for another hour idgaf
There is NO excuse for this, and the fact that he's playing it off and taking ZERO accountability is equally repulsive. My mother and sister were hit by a drunk driver 3 blocks from her house. She fled. Thankfully they survived, but it's nothing to minimize. That kind of mindset ruins innocent people's lives forever. Thank you for bringing this up, Charlie.
That's not the point dude, it's that he's encouraging, enabling and justifying that behaviour towards an audience who he has a literal responsibility to be responsible towards. Drink driving isn't a joke it's right up their with some of the worse crimes in society so no, he should be called out and punished otherwise the world would empower and reward shitty people even more than it already does. Picture this for a second: A drink driver can hit a car, kill both of a child's parents in the most visually and mentally traumatising way you could imagine by literally tearing them into shreds and then leave that child paralysed and physically disabled for the rest of their lives. Paedophiles do the same thing but with less blood involved, now let that sink in.@@rudolphschmidt313
@@rudolphschmidt313 A big part of this is how it normalizes the issue. He claims to not be a role model, but he really doesn't have a choice. If younger people are watching his content (which yes, many are), this sets the impression that drinking and driving is fine. People are stupid, and are very much so influenced by the content they watch online - especially people who are younger. Also, he still broke the fucking law man. He still went against open bottle laws - which are very real and very serious. A cop who saw him do that would absolutely detain him, and being able to pass a breathalyzer won't help you there. You aren't allowed to drink and drive, not just be drunk and drive.
@@rudolphschmidt313You endanger yourself and others. It doesn't matter if no one turned out being hurt, for today. Seeing you got away with it, you'll most likely repeat it. That shit's an addiction and needs to be looked into.
@@rudolphschmidt313 ladies and gentleman, we found ourselves a smoothbrain. Hey, smoothbrain, don't drink and drive. Don't care how little you drank, don't do it.
He gabbed his wine, then took the wheel, Believing his reflexes were made of steel. The viewers gasped, their hearts aflutter, "Bobby, no!" viewers would mutter. Oh dear Bobby, with a choice unwise, Drinking and driving, before our eyes. This isn’t Smash Bros; it's reality, true. And for that choice, we must bid you adieu.
i think theres a bigger crime here than the wine. he was streaming. not just filming, but actively entertaining people with antics. he might not have been drunk driving but he was definitely distracted driving.
I haven't seen the stream but if he really did only take one sip then I'd say him being distracted by his stream is a LOT more dangerous. Although any amount of alcohol adds more danger on top. Definitely not wise of him.
One extra factor that Charlie forgot to mention is the fact that he was also streaming during the whole thing, which even if he wasn’t holding the phone in his hand he most definitely gets distracted, adding to the many mistakes that could cause an accident.
Dude was 6 minutes from home and took a sip of wine so…meh. I do appreciate that the community takes drunk driving so seriously, but at the same time the reactions have felt disproportionate to what actually happened.
I remember the story of the woman who lost her entire family in 2 separate car crashes. Both her children, then her husband. Both because of drunk drivers.
hope both drivers got charged for murder, this poor woman. Her heart was broken so many times, i hope she can recover from this, but i know she'll never be the same. Bless her heart :(
I just find it odd how the court of public opinion is now harsher than actual laws. If a cop stops you after leaving a bar and you blow a .07 he'll let you go, so there is a legal amount of drunk youre allowed to be and still drive.
@@youngpbands9507 i'm glad people aren't letting the law dictate the minimum response they should have. I don't care if its just a misdemeanor, i'd be fully ready to disown someone if they even considered taking a sip while driving
Everyone wants to say this man was drunk tho, like what the hell, pretty sure everyone has driven home from their friends or the bar after having a beer or two but whatever.
As an alcoholic, the thought of even buying a car never crossed my mind, it wasn't until I started recovering from my addiction that I even considered getting my license and even then I'm still unsure.
The way he treats it so casually, this man absolutely drinks and drives on a regular basis, moreso than he showed on stream. This is just the first time he was caught doing it on camera.
If he really wanted to drink so badly, he could have taken the sip BEFORE starting to drive (at least here in Spain, the alcohol limit is around 2 cups of wine, I don't think he drank that much). The fact he streams AND drinks while driving means he clearly doesn't focus on the road, which is way worse to me
I was not properly taught about the nuances of drunk driving, and I wish people were taught a whole course on it. I used to not know that one can get more intoxicated when behind the wheel. Once I had some and drove because I felt sober. It wasn't until I was five minutes in when the intoxicant REALLY hit me. I pulled over and cried harder than I have for almost my entire adult life, because I knew that I could have hurt someone with no bad intention on my part. I was almost sober when I started driving, but the intoxicant hit WAY harder than I thought when I started driving. Much love to everyone, please. I was taught more about fractions in second grade than I was about the nuances of driving while intoxicated. When I was a teen, my family members drove me home when they were drunk and swerving, so I thought I was good because I felt sober when I started driving.
I like how seriously you take drinking and driving. A lot of the people around me see no issue drinking and driving because they can “control themselves” and it scares me because I don’t want something bad to happen. I see so many stories of innocent people dying and this streamer definitely deserves to be punished for it
It blows my mind how casual our culture acts towards drink driving but how extremely we act against paedophiles and it doesn't make sense to me. Both are as evil as each other and should be condemned to the limits but because everyone drinks we pretend like it's not a problem. I imagine back when paedophilia was legal everyone pretended like it was fine too because everyone did it which shows how we convince ourselves through culture and measure our morality with mass appeal and personal values and not on truth and actuality. Picture this for a second: A drink driver can hit a car, kill both of a child's parents in the most visually and mentally traumatising way you could imagine by literally tearing them into shreds and then leave that child paralysed and physically disabled for the rest of their lives. Paedophiles do the same thing, now let that sink in.
@@omnipotentpumpkin9755pedophiles perse are not the problem - they are who they are, they didn't choose to have that sexual drive. The problem are pedophiles who touch any children instead of searching for help. Then it's immoral. Important distinction.
Thanks for having this discussion man. So many people at my work stay drinking through the day and then drive home, it always gives me chills watching them get in their cars 🙃😒
@@kettle4316 Yes, he took a sip inside his car, on a documented stream, in front of an audience, which is still drinking and driving. I could only imagine what he does when he's driving by himself...
The biggest problem is, no matter how much he calls himself not a statute of morals and that people should not look up to him. They still do, because he's a well known person. In that regard you always influence someone, whether you like it or not.
Bro is he drank right before he hopped in the car it would have been completely legal. He was driving less impaired than most people driving home after a night shift, or anyone over the age of 60
This is literally Charlie’s dumbest video he’s ever made. I get that Charlie had an alcohol problem but that’s not fair to project his morals on others. I’ve worked with people who literally can’t get up to go to work without a beer in their hand. Anyone with any kind of common sense and over the age of 21 can see there was nothing wrong here. People take Snapchats of getting high, should they be banned forever too? Literally no one got hurt, dude wasn’t drunk, and Charlie once again making a mountain out of a molehill. Charlie is indirectly helping to ruin this man’s career because Charlie was bored and had to make a video on it. I’ve been subbed to Charlie for 3 years now and this video just gave him so much less credibility on what the fuck he’s actually talking about. And to make matters worse he wants to call people “brain dead” when they have more logic than him.
Imagine thinking that's his problem. Charlie constantly tells people not to harass people he talks about, but his fans still do. That's not Charlie's problem
Just because your audience has a few idiot white knights doesn't mean you aren't accountable to a certain degree. When you have 12 year old Smash Bros fans watching you and looking up to you, the least you can do is acknowledge the position you're in and not normalize dumbass behavior that's easily avoidable@@GodOfTheDisturbed
Objectively speaking, the fact he was performing for a stream while driving was infinitely more detrimental to his capacity to operate a vehicle than the fact that he was drinking. Alcohol needs time to work on your system, but lack of attention is an immediate problem. I used to drive a couple hundred km every week for work and quite a few times a second of not paying attention almost landed me in a high speed frontal collision.
Not defending him or anything, I’m just pointing out that having not slept for 24 hours makes you way more impaired than a large swig of wine would. I don’t think drunk driving is okay, but I think it was a bit of an overreaction from Charlie to say it’s completely inexcusable when getting a shit night of sleep would affect your driving just as much.
@@TheTaoOfOneyea but there’s level to bad bro like just because somebody does something bad doesn’t make them a bad person overall bro literally took a sip of wine man I guarantee your mom has picked you up from soccer practice off a couple glasses and was still under the legal limit
One day we're gonna have to live in a world where even public assault is gonna be morally questioned like "It was just a little punch to the noggin, not any severe damage just a prank bro." aren't we?
Dude that goes back years but it’s part of his formula now, wish somebody would do a deep dive on what makes Charlie’s simplistic videos so popping, unless somebody already did I just might lol I figure there’s a psychological aspect to it yk
its gonna take more than 6 minutes for a sip of WINE to effect your system, but he could've just waited the 6 minutes. he got banned for a stupid reason by making a stupid decision, simple as that.
dont think he deserves the ban for it, but i think hes definitely stupid for doing it. If iShowSpeed can show his ballsack infront of a bunch of underage kids and not get ban, I think it stupid af that someone who wasnt even drunk gets ban for "drinking and driving"
Yeah, I have to say it's just not really how alcohol works. It's stupid to drink any a degree will driving, but this is way less dangerous than someone having one beer and then getting into a car after. 😅 Again, not defending drinking and driving, I'm just being realistic..
@@retrohipster1060 yeah, to act like he's doing such a ~dangerous immoral irresponsible thing~ is a huge exaggeration on charlie's part. but hey-- just dont drink before you drive and you dont have to worry about it.
I have no clue who this guy is, but Charlie's acting like you can get drunk off of one sip of wine lol. The guy's an idiot for doing something illegal, but the reaction everyone's having is overkill. Don't drink and drive, but don't act like one sip of alcohol is gonna cause the guy to run over pedestrians.
Just going to write an essay: If the majority of people truly feel this way about his decision to drink here, then it is about time you people have your voice heard and you take action to remove all BAC legal limit laws because you are contributing to an ambiguous legal state in America. If any amount is wreck less then why is there a legal limit at all? There is something referred to as the passage of time rule where driving near the legal limit (0.07) is reason enough to arrest for dui. If any at all is bad then there would not be so much legislation around this legal limit. Drinking a small amount and driving is not as bad as being smashed and driving and the current laws we have in place reflect that sentiment. Punching someone in the face once will net you a battery charge, punching someone in the face 25 times will net you an attempted murder charge. That's the way sips of alcohol and driving mostly are. 1 sip not so bad, 25 sips you're probably a threat to the people around you, and again the presence of a legal limit communicates this idea. Surely this streamer thought, "there is a legal limit right," before he took that sip. Unfortunately nobody was there to tell him that some people online are against legal limit laws and truly believe that any drinking at all while driving is just as immoral as being blacked out when driving. If your BAC is below 0.08 and are of legal drinking age you have a strong defense against DUI even if the officer decided to arrest you. Why is that? Because driving barely drunk and smashed are two different things. And btw Open container by itself is rarely an arrestable offense indicating a societal view that open containers are far less serious as well.
He's well under the legal limit, so its not drunk driving. There is a distinction between driving under the influence and having an open bottle in the vehicle. Its still illegal in America, but this would be completely legal outside of the US.
L take. My first fiancee died 7 years ago when a drunk driver jumped the curb and ran her and her mum's dog over. This happened in Poland. Just because it's not illegal doesn't make it fucking stupid and horrific. Gonna assume this was just you missing the point, so here to show you legality and morality are two different things. Don't make dumb, shitty choices man. This guy was drinking while driving. Idc if he's below some arbitrary limit, it's irresponsible.
First off one sip wouldn't get him remotely close to 0.08, and second his body has to digest it first so any intoxication probably wouldn't have hit until after he got home. He didn't drive drunk
Having the intention and performing the act is already a dangerous sign. You risk yourself and the lives of others. You're really missing the point. He had the full intention and actually did it. Regardless of whether he was deeply intoxicated, his intentions said it all.
@@Angelatic2014bro his intentions were taking a sip of wine before he got home, it’s extremely stupid to drink alcohol and drive at the same time even if you aren’t drinking to get drunk but bro jus cus someone does it doesn’t make them evil or a bad person it’s just a stupid law to break considering the consequences if you get caught, now if you’re drinking to get drunk that’s completely different and 10000x worse
@Angelatic2014 and? He intended to have a sip of wine and then drive. Plenty of people will have a glass with dinner and then drive home. There's really nothing risked if he knows it won't have an impact
I'm glad Charlie mentioned vehicles are literally death machines because I say that in my head so often to remind myself I'm operating a 3000 lb death machine and so is everyone around me everyday. There's no excuse for drunk driving. Ever. Walk home or sober up. Even then bring a designated friend.
I know everyone jokes about drunk driving and yeah haha very funny but I’m really appreciative someone that has such a big audience like Charlie is willing to speak facts about how deplorable and unforgivable it is
@@AMGKITTENZ 100% overblown most people drink 2-3 glass of wine when going to the restaurant and they all drive back home and if its a bring your wine they drive back with thier open wine bottle on the passager seat
@@WeedNoTobbaco In fact most people don't do that. Reminds me of something I heard once "Scumbags will always assume that everyone else is also a scumbag."
Glad you mentioned texting n driving. Been in too many cars asba passenger where the driver is full on having text conversations at the same time as driving, wheel in one hand, phone in the other... Shit drops my jaw each time
I knew a guy who was very against texting and driving, he was pretty much against anything dangerous, sinful, or fun. This dude started getting into scratch tickets and his ass would be behind the wheel scratching them shits, hahaha fucking hilarious. What a prick right.
Yea man, try telling the police officer that pulls you over "i'm not drunk though" when they see an opened container in your car. Works like a charm every time.
Is it specificed that he was in fact drunk? Did he take a breathlyzer test and shown the results? A sip of wine will not get anyone drunk and his blood alcohol level is likely under the legal limit. Was he drunk before hand?
@@joltyflare then what is the big deal??? Is the problem that he is drinking (any kind of drink or beverage; water, red bull, a juice box) while commandeering an automobile???
@@AllanElMelon1043 There wasn't actually a big deal. Just people jumping at the chance to potentially ruin someone from an imaginary moral high ground.
About 3 years ago, one of my old best friends, his dad, his sister and his dog were all struck and killed by a drunk driver. it's the most irresponsible thing anybody can do. Cars are dangerous enough, to inhibit yourself KNOWINGLY is such a dumb fucking move it astounds me. I hope he sees the FULL consequences for this. It's disgusting.
Eh. I mean, drunk drivers are a bit of a grey area for me. I mean sure, there have been plenty of deaths documented from these events, but on the other hand, they made a stupid decision to get behind the wheel, and stuck with it. Doesn’t necessarily make them evil, just hopelessly stupid.
I drive with this in mind, never bump into anyone since I have a license, only have one crash when the other vehicle bumped mine in the rear. In other words, I drive like a coward.
Thank you for including texting and driving! I know way too many people who do it and I stop responding as soon as I find out. Going like what? Thirty mile per hour, the time it takes you to look down at your phone and back up, you've already traveled the length of a football field. Just don't freaking do it.
Coming from someone with a long family history of alcoholism/DUIs/OVIs, probably not his first time doing something like this. Just the first time he’s been caught. I’ve witnessed how a single stupid decision messes up someone’s (often multiple) life(s) on multiple occasions. It’s not cool or funny smh. He’s lucky the only thing that happened to him was a ban.
I honestly can’t believe i use to have this same mind set. Drinking and driving is so normalized in our society “ah, i can have one or two and be fine” which i have heard my own friends say, makes people think “okay its not that bad”. I also watched my dad grow up drinking and driving and somehow never get in an accident or pulled over. When i also use to cope with alcohol i would also make an excuses like this, i truly never realized i how much danger i was putting other people in until I started listening to stories of people with loved ones die from this behavior. I also use to think drunk driving = belligerent driving. But it truly doesnt matter how much you ingest, especially when its dark out. And ESPECIALLY being on medication makes it 10 times worse. 1 beer = 4 if ur taking meds. There could be people walking or bikers you might not see. Im thankful ive never have a close call and im thankful I realized before i did. I never know my limit so i quit drinking, i started drinking again with friends but realized I couldn’t ever plan ahead so i quit again. All i was doing was being selfish because i didnt want to pay for an uber or bother someone for a ride. Ill never drink again until i can actually plan ahead, its not worth risking other peoples lives. All of these people making disgusting excuses for this behavior in this comment section, i truly hope you never have to learn the consequences the hard way. It’s something you can never take back. Its disappointing to see this sp normalized. ITS NOT WORTH RISKING OTHERS LIVES just pay for the got dang uber.
It's the pervasive social media culture of narcissism that contributes to thinking your needs/desires outweigh the safety of everybody else on the road. I have police in the family and have heard accident horror stories, so I find it hard to summon any sympathy for people who get loaded and get behind the wheel. They're endangering themselves and everybody else with their selfishness and short-sightedness. I'm glad you recognized this behavior and changed, never too late to change.
@@yellowblanka6058 i dont think its just social media cause my dad never had that growing up but he definitely has narcissistic traits. Social media really doesnt help tho and could be making it worse since drinking and partying is so glorified. Idk why it is exactly but i hate that its so normalized. And the legal limit of .08, i feel like is a trap. Maybe its not but i feel like people hear that and think it will be okay to just wait 40mins after drinking and be fine. But it is not the case for everyone, depending on how much you had and ur body weight. I feel like it should just be .00 so no one feels like they have leeway to get behind the wheel. Unfortunately tho there will always be selfish people that wont care:/ realizing how selfish I’ve been with it i feel like i don’t deserve to drink, it really doesn’t benefit me anyway.
@@outofpowder thats the excuse i would always make or that i don’t wanna leave my car somewhere. But if ur gonna shovel money out for a bar, you can probably afford an uber. It gets costly to do that but so would being pulled over and getting a $600 - $1,000 fine. And leaving my car for one night wouldnt be as bad as getting license suspended for a year, that would really suck. But knowing how much it would be all together its better to just drink at home or at friends house, and have it insta-carted to you if you really need more. We just have so many options now days there really isnt an excuse for it. It sucks trying to tell this to the friends i care about and they act like im being an over protective parent
@@purplekittycreates you can have beer delivered?!?! WHAT THE FUUUUCK where have I been? Your lying to me aren't you. I haven't been to a bar in years, I just drink at home or with friends at home. I had a chick come up to me asking me questions at the bar and I didn't really like that. That isn't why I don't go to bars, just made me uncomfortable.
Eh, I'd say most people who "defend" him are focusing on the fact that a sip of wine has practically 0 effect on a human adult body, and no alcohol has an effect within 3 minutes. In the other camp I mostly see people who condemn him for things they just speculate he has done. It's a stupid thing to do, and even more stupid to stream. I can't imagine how someone who has been personally affected by drunk driving would feel seeing this. Still, comparing him to actual drunk drivers is out of proportion.
He literally didn't do that, the amount of alcohol he actually consumed is virtually no different from none at all. This is a nothingburger being made into the ultimate sin by moral busybodies who literally don't understand what's going on or who have invented a history they have no proof of. He's got a ticket for an open container at worst, nothing more.
@@YurgenGrimwood b.. but big Moist man himself said that guy did a stinky bad no no .... yea man i don't think charlie has to many cr1tical thinkers in his echo chamber here. dumb thing to do yea ofc. But for a guy who constantly complains about nuance flying over people's head he sure didn't care for it here. Not just that but the fact he himself can basically cause a type of "cancel culture" with how many people that listen to him. How many people knew who that guy was? charlie saying "sic 'em" to his millions of follows on some dude with what? low thousands of follows? insane.
If you only drink one 33cl can of beer or a few sips of wine you should not be intoxicated enough to be a safety hazzard. Isnt it more insane that people make such a big deal out of nothing?
Yes there's a legal limit for a reason. You can be .08 and be legal behind a wheel. He shouldn't have had an open container and drinked in a car in front of his young impressionable audience. Call him out for that not "drunk driving".
the stupid thing is if he took a sip outside the vehicle, put the bottle in the trunk for the drive home, he would have been perfectly fine. But no, he had to drink behind the wheel... what a goober
He wasn't even drunk to begin with, he may comitted a crime but he only took 1 sip and wasn't even drunk, the most he should get is a fine because this isn't really that big of a deal.
A bad idea but he was not a drunk driver (unless he drank before that) Was just a stupid idea, especially as a streamer. He wasn’t endangering anyone with a sip of wine. But he should have known better
The scary part is that he was confident enough to stream himself drinking and driving. This implies that he did it before. Even ignoring the stupid take of 'it's just one sip', it's encouraging extremely reckless and dangerous behavior. Drunk driving is no joke and it's terrifying a decent number treat it like one. I live in a college town that has a healthy party scene and the amount of near-wrecks I've had from people seemingly impaired is certainly a spooky amount.
The open container law is not even a law in some states and he was obviously still well below the legal limit. If he had done the exact same thing standing outside of the car and then got in the car nobody would care. This is ridiculous
It's about the visuals. Seeing someone drink while driving sends a very bad message to viewers, especially the younger audience, in itself. No matter if he was really drunk or not, the message "drinking and driving is okay, even cool, sometimes" relativises driving and drinking in a way that in the end may cause serious harm/injury to others.
ABSOLUTELY. Thank you for saying this. I worshipped a physically non-physically-addictive substance because family members I love glamorized it. I was addicted to it for most of my life, even if not physically. Young people are very impressionable, in my experience.
First time I disagree with Charlie. I think he deserves the ban and even to be charged for having a open bottle, but I don’t think this 5 second mistake should ruin his career. Actors get dui’s all the time and nobody cares, why should this lesser crime be a career ender?
That’s a really shit argument lmao just because people have wrongly gotten away with worse that doesn’t mean everyone should suddenly get the same thing for a shitty action.
@@thealterego3187 I agree with alterego people should lose their career and be punished for life and not able to work again for committing any small offense, nothing is too small if you break the law in any way your life should be over
@@rhcpbssm7exactly bro if you J Walk across the street you are literally scum and deserve to be banished from society and thrown in the middle of the desert with no water
Thank you Charlie for speaking on this. I have never understood drinking and driving myself, and how much we tolerate it in the US… It is a miracle both my parents are with me today, as they were hit head on by a drunk driver in December of 2021, after attending a late night Mass to go get some items from their home they were moving out of. The drunk driver that hit my parents, did not get any injuries, and even though he had been caught drinking and driving before, since it was his first caused accident, they let him chose when to serve his jail time…. And I sadly think he did not learn his lesson, and is going to continue his actions, until it gets someone killed… we really need to strengthen the laws in the US on this. Make it very harsh like Japan. If you haven’t already today, make sure you tell someone you love them. ❤ Life is too short ❤
I have done this before, and now that I am grown, and am very ashamed of my behavior. It was dangerous for not only myself, but passengers AND most importantly, the others I share the road with. The passengers knew what they were getting into. The people in the other vehicles did not. It is dangerous and preventable. It does not make you lesser asking for help!
Given that impairment from ethanol was not a factor here, I consider streaming while driving to be a far greater risk than taking a swig of wine. Aside from the presumed 'open container' violation and any "message" that one imagines is being conveyed, this is exactly analogous to opening and taking a swig of a soft drink. It's funny how opinions and judgements cloud perceptions to create a difference where there is none.
I hear you and I think I understand. I will say that drinking while driving is not a joke, because alcohol is already a slippery slope, and lord is it easy to lose track of drinking when one is already drinking. Lord is it not good for someone to lose track while drinking. All that said, I hear you and you raise a point, and not a ridiculous one.
Charlie makes a good point. If it's such a short drive anyway, why not make the drive first before drinking which is committing a crime? It's three minutes away. Just drive home before drinking.
My mom died when she was drinking and driving. Mostly, I was relieved that she was alone (except for her dog) and she didn't kill anyone else. The dog survived.
My Uncle was ran over by drunk drivers and died. They didn't even stop. They were caught but didn't receive a sentence, just a fine and a driving ban. I'm glad laws have changed since then and stricter laws and punishments are being applied. If you want to drink, walk or get a taxi. It's not worth it, it's selfish, stupid and dangerous to drink and drive. Thank you Charlie ❤
@@themostbestwizard that is different, when you are gambling the only one affected is you, but when you're drunk driving you put people's life in danger
@@incognito8907 I didn't say being a gambler is bad; I said said it is immoral to exploit vulnerable people by promoting a sports gambling scam (in violation of TH-cam rules which explicitly prohibit that btw which is way the address was masked with phrases like "dot com" btw) to an audience that has come to trust you.
I just had someone at my school pass away to a drunk driver and it’s really heartbreaking to see this stuff happen. Rest in peace to all who have been affected by drunk drivers and or even just bad drivers in general
My younger brother would hang out with this kid who was around his age. He was only 16 yet his physique was way better than the both of us, since he was very passionate about bodybuilding. My brother described him as a a popular, and kind guy who would help those who were struggling with the gym. One evening, he was walking by himself and was struck by a drunk driver, died at the moment. The coward fled but was later arrested. His mom set up a GoFund me for the funeral expenses. My brother was sad for a while since they were both work-out buddies. It socks and it is infuriating to see a young person with great potential having their life robbed because of a coward with no life prospects of their own.
On your point about it being unjustifiable, there was actually a case in which a court decided a man legally drove drunk to escape his wife who was violently assaulting him.
I doubt they actually ruled it was legal driving. What they probably did was decide that the weight of the abuse crimes outweighed the drunk driving, and that the drunk driving would not have happened if the abuse hadn’t been committed first, so they ruled a double sentence on the wife.
To be honest I think that streaming while driving is way more detrimental to his attention and coordination than the quantity of alchool he ingested, in my country he would be charged not for being drunk (we are quite lenient on that) but for deliberately engaging in an activity that can cause huge distractions.
As someone who's a frequent pedestrian (Walking when its actually nice out and not 5 billion degrees is my favorite) drunk drivers are my biggest fear. I checked my local county jail out of curiosity and over half of the people posted in jail are in there for DUIs. Garbage humans.
I remember when I was a kid and thought drinking and driving meant any drink not just alcohol. So i freaked out on my mom one time when she was drinking water 😂
Not being a moral beacon is not an excuse for being immoral…
Didn't even finish the video...slow your roll
Very true
@SyakirinTheStickMan tf did i just read
Ok wamo
amen
My friend was a streamer, and his wife got killed by a drunk driver right in front of him. All I could hear about for the next few days after it happened was just how brutal it was. He didn't even stop!
He stopped showing up to work, stopped streaming, and anytime he doesn't look like a zombie... You can just tell he still crushed by it.
Don't drink and drive, you'll hurt so many people.
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@@haredeenee this is why i hate the internet...
@@haredeeneeyou aren’t real
Tell your friend I'm sorry, man, that's so terrible
@@DaPurpleWarrior I really appreciate it!
If he is comfortable enough to do it live on stream, it's NOT the first time he's pulled the move.
I understand it’s bad that he committed a crime but he wasn’t actually drunk while driving it takes a while to get drunk and 1 sip of wine isn’t going to do anything
Given that he's performing for the camera, it would not be out of the question that the wine was a fake prop. I don't believe that, but include the possibility for completeness.
@@kvetch315 I do, to some degree, agree with you. He might have not been drunk off of one sip of wine. But that's not the point. Its about the fact that hes got the mindset and made the decision to drink, drive and livestream it. Whether he was drunk that night or not does not mean that he wouldn't do it again or that he had already done it before. sorry but its just stupid playing it down like this
@@Cubemilnot just that, I wanna see someone genuinely argue that he wouldn't get over the "legal" threshold faster than someone else could even realize what's going on. It's the very deadly version of "But I'm not touching you" or something. "But I'm not drunk yet" yeah, yet
@@kvetch315 you shouldn't be intaking alcohol while driving *full stop*
when you get behind the wheel of a car you are in control of a ~2 metric ton metal box moving at high speeds, and a lapse in concentration can and will cause a lot of damage
you are not only endangering yourself, but also anyone unfortunate enough to be in the area where you're performing such a reckless act
i had some rly bad takes when i got my only DUI almost 10 years ago. blamed everyone but myself. it wasnt until i attended the required MADD "class" that my perspective changed. it was brutal. listening to these people who have had their family stolen, or have been the one to murder a car full of strangers. it changed me. i think everyone should have to sit through those speeches. it made it real, and not just something im reading online or hearing about. I think a lot less people would consider it an option to drink and drive if they experienced something like that.
edit: spelling errors: who-would
I got a dui 10 years ago as well.. it was that victim impact panel that made the biggest difference for me too. I never wanted that to be me, or be the reason it happens to anyone else. Everything else I had to do for the dui was bullshit, but that made me understand how wrong it was and actually feel so ashamed that I did it at all.
Luckily, you have a heart and conscience and were able to change and for that I am immensely proud of you. There's someone from around where I live who is infamous for driving drunk because he's gotten in not one but TWO serious car accidents where he made it out unscathed but everyone in the cars died. He was drunk driving both times and much like you did at the time he didn't care that he literally murdered people because he was drunk (not saying you hurt anyone, just that you didn't care at the time about driving drunk). He had his license revoked but has still been seen driving WHILE drinking alcohol. It just infuriates me that he has so little of a heart that he's totally fine with the fact he's killed multiple people, two or three of which were children, and continues to drink and drive as if it's no issue.
TL;DR Thank you for having a change of heart and accepting responsibility because some people never will.
Not everyone should have to do it. I am sorry I've met many people who would never even consider driving under influence it is not one of those "everyone does this, its social acceptable we should have everyone going through this to change it." Its is a incredible selfish and egocentric thing that a lot of the population would not do it I dont want thst trauma
@@cupofjitters4501Everyone should have to do it. Else how do you figure out who's egocentric and who isn't? The egocentric people aren't going to admit they couldn't give a shit about drunk driving because they know it's illegal, so they'd escape it. Not only that, you think people who do the right thing are in the majority. You're wrong. A surprising number of people are egocentric and selfish, and even more aren't, but think to themselves "oh it's just one time, it won't do any harm" - and maybe 9 times out of 10 it won't do any harm, but it only takes that one time for a catastrophic collision to take out multiple people. You won't get PTSD from listening to people share stories about how drunk driving affected their lives, and they always give out therapy cards afterwards anyway in case you're deeply affected by something someone said.
@@emstink so how many things are we going to have mandatory for all drivers just because a few people cant follow simple rules?
When I was 10 years old, my dad got a call in the middle of the night from his sister in hysterics because she'd just lost her daughter, my cousin, to a drunk driver. She was only 16 and had just started to drive, it was one of her first times on the road by herself and sadly, also her last. I am 31 years old now, and my Aunt STILL cries everyday for her lost child. It has been 21 years and she still lives with the pain. Drunk Driving is unforgivable. Thank you Charlie 💖💖
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i'm glad she's staying strong, losing someone that close must be so horrible ❤
It was a drunk crasher not a drunk driver who killed he would of regardless if he was drunk or not
@legoyoda9026 dude find the highest 🌉
@@legoyoda9026 You do realize that when people say "it's just the drunk crashers man" they're joking. You are taking that so literally, it is illogical. The reason why drunk driving is illegal is because it drastically increases the chance for you to crash, even if you're the best driver in the world. Chances are what happened to her poor cousin would have never happened if that person wasn't drunk. Please never say something like this after something so tragic.
I am a driver' Ed instructor and part of my job is explaining to teens how serious and dangerous drunk driving is. I really appreciate how you explain how dangerous and selfish drinking and driving is. Videos like this could actually save lives if it stops just one person from drinking and driving.
You should say that to any aged drivers. Even adults need teaching
@@Ahhahhhsiisisadults rarely listen to eachother anymore
not that they listen to anything yo have to say
I think it's funny when people drive drunk with the goal of getting more alcohol. Hahaha makes me laugh just thinking about it
That's true and it is a great message, but this wasn't 'drunk driving'. It seems like people are assuming or saying stuff from the point of thinking he was drunk while driving but he wasn't. I'm not excusing what he did or saying it wasn't some easily avoidable thing, but he wasn't drunk.
my brother and his friend were actually killed by a drunk driver 3 months ago when he was just about to turn 24 a few days after it happened... meanwhile the killer who is in his 50s survived the crash. it will never not hurt seeing people being this stupid and irresponsible because you're not only putting your own life at risk but everybody around you. thank you for being open with your distain for drunk drivers cause hopefully less and less people will do it idk
That's rough, take care of yourself.
oh also i love garfield so thank you for confirming his hatred of drunk drivers
Unfortunately a lot of drunk drivers live because their body doesn't tense up during the crash unlike people who don't have alcohol in their system. So the alcohol actually saves their lives as they take others
My condolences for your loss. The pain never goes away but gets less every day. Stay strong friend.
@@taco8951bruh wdym unfortunately?
I ended a friendship because a friend thought that his drinking and driving "wasn't that bad".
Four months later he wrecked a car full of all our friends and someone was killed.
Not even *once*.
old friend of mine is now serving 10 years in jail because he "wasn't that drunk" flew off the road, killed his passenger, then after he got out of the hospital and realized just how fucked he was he binged over the weekend and tried to run over a cop
@@bobowon5450 How did he get out of the hospital and not go straight to jail? Did he bail out? Also how did he only get 10 years for not only killing someone, but also trying to run over a cop?
@@DracoPadilla he didn't go straight to jail because at first the incident was looked like as a weather related accident since it was snowing. But then the family of the passenger along with other eye witnesses came forward and said he was drunk. The whole process took a couple of months before he was told he would have to go to court to defend himself. It was then that he realized he didn't have a chance in hell of getting off and went out binge drinking before seeing a cop, freaking out, and trying to run the cop over to escape. How he only got 10 years? i'm pretty sure the cop didn't end up pressing charges despite having been injured, not sure why he wouldn't.
I’ve lost a close friend of mine to drunk driver, loved to draw, she was super sweet and thoughtful. No words can describe the pain I felt finding about this after we just talked the night before and shame on Bobby for thinking that this is even remotely okay.
rest in peace
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are you okay? ❤
I'm so sorry
Um actually it was a drunk crasher who killed your friend
I used to drive at night for a living. And I can’t tell you how many times I saw people drive home while staggering out from a bar. Thank you for taking this seriously. It was terrifying to be on the road with drunk drivers. Even in city limits, there is no excuse to drive with alcohol in your system.
It WAS terrifying or it still is? I assume you still drive right.
@@outofpowder they USED TO drive at night. Even if they drive now, it's less likely that they drive at night when people are drunk and driving, which means it's less terrifying for them to drive.
@@outofpowder they USED TO drive at night. Even if they drive now, it's less likely that they drive at night when people are drunk and driving, which means it's less terrifying for them to drive.
@@eduwitch8954calm down dude it's TH-cam comments not that serious
@@CamelThiefI don’t think they were riled up at all, they just replied and explained that the op used to drive at night for a living and probably quit. Perhaps it looks intense because TH-cam has a dumb bug where comments can be duplicated, which is why it looks like he replied twice
My entire family was ruined when my mom was hit by someone who shouldn't have been behind the wheel.
Thanks for always being against this Charlie.
Sorry to hear that man.
@@Magusine thanks man.
Fucking drunk crashers
Hope you're doing good
What do you mean? Drunk? Asian? Woman? Black? Specify.
Lost a class mate to a drunk driving accident. I think watching my entire school crumble and cry and watching his parents get his rewards was probably one of the most heartbreaking things ive ever seen
A kid at my school was bullied ruthlessly for getting caught masturbating in the bathroom and then killed himself. The school didn’t say anything 💀 im glad your school recognized its students and the things that happens to them.
I've seen people lost to gambling addition and Charlie allowed gambling promotions on the latest episode of his official podcast... They stopped the entire podcast to promote gambling!
@@themostbestwizard You should just delete your comment while you still can, before everyone comes to figuratively drag you by the hair.
@@examichelle I hate gambling addiction more than I fear any cult.
@@examichelle amen
The fact Charlie has to explain why drinking and driving is dangerous to these people to begin with is actually very concerning.
whats even more concerning is the amount of people that defended the guy...smh
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It’s because most people understand a sip versus actually being drunk. If he just drank the sip before getting in the driver seat he would have done nothing to be banned.
No one’s saying arguing Drunk Driving isn’t dangerous, what they are arguing is that he wasn’t drunk. If you had any basic knowledge on how alcohol works, it takes at LEAST 10 minutes for it to enter your system and that’s assuming you’re drinking a good amount.
A mere sip of a small percentage isn’t going to get you drunk in a 6 minute drive, even coffee is more dangerous to drink at that point.
@@luckywizard_ here's the funny thing: *it doesn't matter* . He broke the law, and all he had to do to avoid it was *wait 6 minutes* . Why is that so hard?
Appreciate you bringing up this incident and being so straight with it Charlie. Here in Ontario, many community members of the Greater Toronto Area are still haunted by a terrible drunk driving incident from 2015 that involved a super-wealthy construction company heir crashing his vehicle into a car with three children (all under the age of 10) and their grandfather. The father of the children died last year, supposedly from taking his own life due to the unimaginable grief that the event caused to him and his family. The mother of the children, Jennifer Neville-Lake, is now completely alone. The punishment that the driver, Marco Muzzo, received was a slap on the wrist compared to the harm that he inflicted. His name continues to be present in local parks and in hospital wards due to his family's great wealth in the construction industry, and now he lives a quiet life outside prison. These kinds of people who actively decide to endanger others on the road like this are absolutely unforgivable. Best the rest of us can do is never forget, and never allow them to live it down.
Short girly Charlie a devil worshiper
My grandfather was killed by a drunk driver. This shit is not ok.
@@steelrain1313Ozzie Ozbourne is, but not Charlie
Walmart heir had a similar incident
dantdm is crying like a baby over a dog lmao
There honestly needs to be heavier punishments for drunk driving. It's so stupid how they can just keep reoffending until they kill someone.
He wasn't drunk.
The punishment is plenty harsh if enforced.
Harsher penalties don't reduce crime though, we need a better solution
Even then, they can keep reoffending. Killing someone if it's YOUR FIRST dui charge, won't get you life in prison. You'll get 10-15 years at best. It's involuntary, at least that's how they treat it. So you'll never get a life sentence from this unless you have a history of drunk driving.
@@kritsadventuresMy favorite part is that everyone just ignores you because they know you're right.
He wasnt drunk though. It was wine. Not hard liquor. Has he breathed into a breathlyzer?
100% agree with you Charlie. My number 1 pet peeve is people who drive recklessly, people don’t think about the dangers we face every day operating a giant metal deathtrap and drunk drivers are the worst offenders. Under no circumstance is it okay to drink and drive too many innocent people die or are seriously injured due to other peoples carelessness.
If I'm in the middle of the desert all alone with a case of beer and a vehicle. Can I use the vehicle lol
@@outofpowder obviously just don't drink and drive on the road or anywhere it could get you into a dangerous wreck
@@necroxv soooo... middle of nowhere all alone be ok then? I'm just trying to make sure if there actually are circumstances where it's fine to drink and drive.
@@outofpowder Why don't you go test that out lol, watch as another vehicle passes by and you go killing you and them.
@@GiantFlamingClasher you must have missed the part where I said "in the desert" and "alone"
Would be pretty hard for me not to see you coming when I'm the only one out there doing dumb shit.
Charlie as a truck driver, I just want to applaud you for being heavily against drinking and driving. I know that sounds ridiculous, but a lot of people don't treat it seriously.
my cars keys whispering to me when i’m drunk:
you're a truck driver? do the horn thing
I'm sure you've seen some shit mate
As a truck driver myself, I couldn’t have said it better myself.
@@FK-13
WEEEEEEEEEEEGH
WEEEEEEEEEEEEGH
Amazing that the line "I'm not a good role model." has evolved from just people who have a potty mouth or sick sense of humour, to people indirectly admitting that they're committing a crime.
It didn't evolve. It's always been that way. If you do stupid shit or are an asshole or commit crimes then you aren't a good role model. It hasn't changed.
My dad was hit by a drunk driver when I was 6 years old (in 2000). He was paralyzed from the waist down and is in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Drunk driving and driving under the influence (even if its just a sip) deserves so much more punishment. It is absurd. Thank you for having the stance you do Charlie.
I mean, no one's going to take a sip but if they did, I don't think a breathalyzer would even pick anything up. If they crash after taking a sip they're just a bad sober driver
@@mikeycrackson Taking a sip while driving is illegal, it's illegal to even have an unsealed container in your car even if you haven't drank. But if someone took a literal sip, walked out to their car, started driving and crashed, it's not because they're drunk driving. They either suck at driving or were unlucky enough to get hit by someone else.
@@mikeycrackson It was, I'm not defending him. You're welcome
sorry to hear that man. keep strong for him.
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I lost my grandfather to a drunk truck driver. He worked late hours in the evening and was coming back home from work around 3am like always…we didn’t find him till the next morning, with his body splattered all over the road. I hate drunk drivers with a passion. It’s the most selfish decision you could ever make - you’re not only putting yourself at risk of danger, but others around you too.
Had a friend in middle school that died to his own father drunk driving.. His sister survived the crash due to him protecting her and bloody thankfully that father will never get out of prison.
Wow, the fact he saved his sister says a lot about him, I’m sorry that you lost your friend, he sounds amazing.
The dad must've had multiple charges of this. Because you don't go to jail for life for drunk driving even when it takes a life. You get a long sentence, but you don't do life. Not even close. Unless again, you have a history of drunk driving already in which case they'll try to just throw the book at ya. But if this was his first actual DUI, he'll be out in 10-15 years max and that's without good behavior.
@AtomicPiggly and you know tge laws of every country? Or are you speaking from your own narrow point of view?
Thank God someone made it
Thats awful. This person wasnt drunk while driving though.
Growing up my dad was an alcoholic.. Countless times I remember being in the vehicle while he was drinking his beers. Ill never forget a time I was in the back seat of his truck with my two younger siblings and he decided it was a good idea to chase a deer through a bean field.. I remember how terrified I felt while crying asking him to stop as he laughed it off.
Sorry to hear that mate sounds horrible
@@CaseyDavies-od7ir thank you. When you are a kid it can start to feel like it’s just normal to be around such behaviours. It took a lot of pain and reflection looking back and realizing all the trauma my siblings and I went through
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@@yogimitch1333Chasing a deer through a bean field was terrifying for you?
Look, I get the father issues, I'm 30 and didn't get over the shit I went through with mine until my late 20s. But honestly, chasing a deer through a bean field sounds like a pretty fun time.
Im so sorry
An old friend of mine and his dad died in a drunk driving accident, while he was at his college orientation. It was super recent and still stings to think about. The woman who killed them doesnt even have a license or own that car because of past instances. I hate how common it is and needs to be punished more severely if you are caught drunk driving.
TAKE HER FUCKIN HEAD OFF...... I mean.... jail maybe?
In this day and age there is no excuse for drunk driving. You can always get an Uber, someone always has a phone so you can call someone to pick you up. I’m sorry about friends family. Life can be so unjustifiably cruel and drunk drivers can make it even worse.
I hate those stupid “ironic” memes of drunk driving. I feel like it only instigates the problem more.
What ended up happening to the woman? Im very sorry for you and your friends loss
I've not experienced a drunk driver incident before, but my father was a first responder to a few. He told me about the one that still haunts him.
There was a girl that couldn't be older than 20, who had her leg severed in the accident. She told my dad that she couldn't feel it, but to keep her calm, my dad asked her where she was headed home from... "Dance class." Was her answer.
It took 5 of the police officers on scene to keep him from straight up killing the bastard who couldn't put down the bottle... who just so happened to be perfectly fine, by the way.
My dad doesn't know what happened to the girl, but you know as well as he what happened to that driver.
"The only thing Garfield hates more than Mondays is drunk drivers"
Another quote from Charlie.
there is something called the legal limit. People drink a beer at dinner or a glass of wine and then drive. That's not the same as drunk driving.
Thank you not only for this, but for reminding people that driving itself is in fact the most dangerous thing they do on a daily basis. Most people forget this fact and don't treat driving seriously at all, as can be seen by the plague of people texting and doing other shit while behind the wheel.
legit i have so much anxiety around driving and cant get behind the wheel without a panic attack bc i am so aware of this
i cant imagine how others treat it so casually 😭
People texting, putting on makeup, and drinking while behind the shell are the reason that it’s so dangerous
More kids are killed by cars in some way every year than anything else by a long shot. It's infuriating.
Being too careful while driving is dangerous to other people
@@KuraiKaNinjayeah you shouldn't drive in the first plqce
The fact that hes minimizing the situation tells you everything you should know. So many people dont take drunk driving seriously, and its such a dangerous mindset. Thank you Charlie for covering this and pointing out the severity of it
Drunk driving is terrible. That being said what he did was not drunk driving.
dantdm is crying like a baby over a dog lol
yeah, drunk drivers usually minimize what they're doing a lot. It can start to I just to a sip so its okay to drink today then 6 months down the line, I just drank 2 bottles, its fine and I can handle it. He didnt kill people yet but he's gonna get there soon with that mindset
can someone please explain to me the difference between taking your first swig of the night in the car and taking a swig of wine at mass and then driving? please note that i haven't and don't plan to do either of these things, and i can easily see why taking a swig in the car is wrong.
but for the life of me i can't see why it's any different than drinking it at mass and then driving home, and why the mass scenario is presumably ok? i couldn't really tell what charlie's stance on that point was but it seemed like he felt mass situation was okay while bobby situation is not ok.
also note im really not trying to debate anyone or be a debate-bro or whatever; i'm genuinely asking for an explanation and don't plan to argue about it. if i really think about it, the best answer i can come up with is that drinking wine in mass is guaranteed to be only one sip, whereas swigging a bottle while driving can easily and often lead to more than just one swig. am i right, is that it?
also i agree what bobby did was wrong and i'm not completely sure he was sober and that was actually his first sip of the night. throughout my comment i'm not referring to bobby, but a hypothetical man who was sober and truly took his first sip of the night in the car vs a random guy in mass.
@@cade75 thank you. It was a misdemeanor open container charge. There’s a legal limit for a reason. What he did was the equivalent of texting while driving. It’s almost the same as taking a drink of water while driving. He should have definitely waited until he was home for sure but in my opinion doesn’t deserve the backlash he’s getting. He broke a law while streaming so I guess a temporary ban is valid but this backlash is definitely extreme. And I have never heard of this guy before so I have no skin in the game
The thing I like about Charlie the most is how okay he is with standing his ground on his takes. Seen a lot of people change cause of fame but Charlie doesn't sway and has a good heart, good channel, and epic content.
It's quite nice.
Imagine someone swayed to condone drinking and driving... his take isn't the least bit controversial.
changing your mind or atleast showing some nuance isnt bad. Its just a little dissapointing that charlie cant do that on this topic because he has really good and rational takes most of the time but he takes this topic VERY personal
That’s the best thing about Charlie and also the worst thing. He will have some of the most brain dead, uneducated takes and stand by it or fence sit the entire way through.
@@noodle_tax The hill you're going to choose to die on is drinking while driving not being bad?
Imagine filming yourself breaking the law. This will be the easiest case of the district attorney's life.
Lmao you think this will be even attempted to be prosecuted?
@@Andy.G8 Better Caul Saul
I think the the issue is the distinction between driving under the influence and open container. If you drink 3 beers at a bar then immediately drive your car is that better than drinking one beer in a car? Former is legal and the latter is illegal but which is more dangerous?
both is dangerous lol@@Hadzz95
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My grandma was killed by a drunk driver when my mom was 7. He swerved into on coming and hit my grandparents head on, which killed her on impact. My grandpa still has a very had time talking about it to this day, and when he talks about her, she really seemed like a wonderful person. Would have been nice to actually meet her.
It's extremely unlikely that this is a rare occurrence for him. He did it without a second thought, without hesitation. He is clearly not in the habit of thinking that drinking and driving is anything to avoid.
Dudes probably got a bad drinking problem. I dealt with it in the past. 4+ years off the liquor. Hopefully he can find some help if that’s the case. Might be a good thing to step away from the public eye and find out what are the underlying reasons why he’s doing this.
I wouldn’t assume that, being recorded definitely has people acting differently and not thinking
@@GM-gv1hqHey, I’m sure you’re proud enough of yourself, but good job on being sober, man!! Takes someone so much stronger than I could ever be to tackle something like that. Keep up the awesome work.
yeah and him admitting that he uses it to cope is also a really bad sign
I used to drink and drive every weekend in high school. I’m pretty sure everyone I knew drank and drove. Some people are just really bad at it
It’s baffling how many people won’t think “I will not drink for the next hour to sober up” then assess from there. I’ll sit in the car for another hour idgaf
There is NO excuse for this, and the fact that he's playing it off and taking ZERO accountability is equally repulsive. My mother and sister were hit by a drunk driver 3 blocks from her house. She fled. Thankfully they survived, but it's nothing to minimize. That kind of mindset ruins innocent people's lives forever.
Thank you for bringing this up, Charlie.
Okay but he took one sip. Sure it was dumb af to do that butbhe took a sip of wine. Not a big deal he wasn't drunk and would pass a breathalyzer
That's not the point dude, it's that he's encouraging, enabling and justifying that behaviour towards an audience who he has a literal responsibility to be responsible towards. Drink driving isn't a joke it's right up their with some of the worse crimes in society so no, he should be called out and punished otherwise the world would empower and reward shitty people even more than it already does.
Picture this for a second: A drink driver can hit a car, kill both of a child's parents in the most visually and mentally traumatising way you could imagine by literally tearing them into shreds and then leave that child paralysed and physically disabled for the rest of their lives. Paedophiles do the same thing but with less blood involved, now let that sink in.@@rudolphschmidt313
@@rudolphschmidt313 A big part of this is how it normalizes the issue. He claims to not be a role model, but he really doesn't have a choice. If younger people are watching his content (which yes, many are), this sets the impression that drinking and driving is fine. People are stupid, and are very much so influenced by the content they watch online - especially people who are younger. Also, he still broke the fucking law man. He still went against open bottle laws - which are very real and very serious. A cop who saw him do that would absolutely detain him, and being able to pass a breathalyzer won't help you there. You aren't allowed to drink and drive, not just be drunk and drive.
@@rudolphschmidt313You endanger yourself and others. It doesn't matter if no one turned out being hurt, for today.
Seeing you got away with it, you'll most likely repeat it. That shit's an addiction and needs to be looked into.
@@rudolphschmidt313 ladies and gentleman, we found ourselves a smoothbrain. Hey, smoothbrain, don't drink and drive. Don't care how little you drank, don't do it.
He gabbed his wine, then took the wheel,
Believing his reflexes were made of steel.
The viewers gasped, their hearts aflutter,
"Bobby, no!" viewers would mutter.
Oh dear Bobby, with a choice unwise,
Drinking and driving, before our eyes.
This isn’t Smash Bros; it's reality, true.
And for that choice, we must bid you adieu.
👏👏👏👏nice poem about a not so nice streamer
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now it really is dr seuss
The tragedy of an actually original, clever, and funny comment not making it on top.
Good poem
i think theres a bigger crime here than the wine. he was streaming. not just filming, but actively entertaining people with antics. he might not have been drunk driving but he was definitely distracted driving.
I haven't seen the stream but if he really did only take one sip then I'd say him being distracted by his stream is a LOT more dangerous. Although any amount of alcohol adds more danger on top. Definitely not wise of him.
One extra factor that Charlie forgot to mention is the fact that he was also streaming during the whole thing, which even if he wasn’t holding the phone in his hand he most definitely gets distracted, adding to the many mistakes that could cause an accident.
Rip to any people who fell victim to drunk drivers and I feel sorry for the family's like damn
‘Tis unfortunate, but it’s a fact of life we’ve been living with for the past 80 years.
Like damn
like damn in deed
@CrewmateComplexClandidn't ask
@@Mandate_of_Heaven🤓
Dude was 6 minutes from home and took a sip of wine so…meh.
I do appreciate that the community takes drunk driving so seriously, but at the same time the reactions have felt disproportionate to what actually happened.
I remember the story of the woman who lost her entire family in 2 separate car crashes. Both her children, then her husband. Both because of drunk drivers.
Same guy both times?
hope both drivers got charged for murder, this poor woman. Her heart was broken so many times, i hope she can recover from this, but i know she'll never be the same. Bless her heart :(
This sounds like the start to a revenge thriller movie
3rd times the carm.
God blesses his drunkest drivers with his windiest roads
I just find it odd how the court of public opinion is now harsher than actual laws. If a cop stops you after leaving a bar and you blow a .07 he'll let you go, so there is a legal amount of drunk youre allowed to be and still drive.
i doubt a cop would let you go with an open bottle in your hand
@@bobowon5450well if they don’t it’s at most a misdemeanor, which supports op’s comment that the internet is going crazy over a literal misdemeanor
@bobowon5450 most likely give you a ticket, make you pour it out and send you on your way.
@@youngpbands9507 i'm glad people aren't letting the law dictate the minimum response they should have. I don't care if its just a misdemeanor, i'd be fully ready to disown someone if they even considered taking a sip while driving
The drink drive limit exists for a reason, you are allowed to do it.
Everyone wants to say this man was drunk tho, like what the hell, pretty sure everyone has driven home from their friends or the bar after having a beer or two but whatever.
@@TheCaptianBadassyeah this is insane.
As an alcoholic, the thought of even buying a car never crossed my mind, it wasn't until I started recovering from my addiction that I even considered getting my license and even then I'm still unsure.
Hey man I hope youre doing well against the disease that is alcoholism. That you refuse to even risk endangering anyone is admirable
as a child of an alcoholic - thank you for not wanting to potentially endanger others. i hope you are doing well
I am wishing you the best recovery.
Hope your recovery is going well. Keep going every day you set a new record for sobriety!
I appreciate your kind comments, it’s been 3 months since I stopped and I can’t say I’m looking back at all
The way he treats it so casually, this man absolutely drinks and drives on a regular basis, moreso than he showed on stream. This is just the first time he was caught doing it on camera.
Caught? He self reported
If he really wanted to drink so badly, he could have taken the sip BEFORE starting to drive (at least here in Spain, the alcohol limit is around 2 cups of wine, I don't think he drank that much).
The fact he streams AND drinks while driving means he clearly doesn't focus on the road, which is way worse to me
I was not properly taught about the nuances of drunk driving, and I wish people were taught a whole course on it. I used to not know that one can get more intoxicated when behind the wheel. Once I had some and drove because I felt sober. It wasn't until I was five minutes in when the intoxicant REALLY hit me. I pulled over and cried harder than I have for almost my entire adult life, because I knew that I could have hurt someone with no bad intention on my part. I was almost sober when I started driving, but the intoxicant hit WAY harder than I thought when I started driving. Much love to everyone, please. I was taught more about fractions in second grade than I was about the nuances of driving while intoxicated. When I was a teen, my family members drove me home when they were drunk and swerving, so I thought I was good because I felt sober when I started driving.
"its the drunk crashers that give us a bad reputation" -jschlatt
I like how seriously you take drinking and driving. A lot of the people around me see no issue drinking and driving because they can “control themselves” and it scares me because I don’t want something bad to happen. I see so many stories of innocent people dying and this streamer definitely deserves to be punished for it
It blows my mind how casual our culture acts towards drink driving but how extremely we act against paedophiles and it doesn't make sense to me. Both are as evil as each other and should be condemned to the limits but because everyone drinks we pretend like it's not a problem. I imagine back when paedophilia was legal everyone pretended like it was fine too because everyone did it which shows how we convince ourselves through culture and measure our morality with mass appeal and personal values and not on truth and actuality.
Picture this for a second: A drink driver can hit a car, kill both of a child's parents in the most visually and mentally traumatising way you could imagine by literally tearing them into shreds and then leave that child paralysed and physically disabled for the rest of their lives. Paedophiles do the same thing, now let that sink in.
@@omnipotentpumpkin9755pedophiles perse are not the problem - they are who they are, they didn't choose to have that sexual drive. The problem are pedophiles who touch any children instead of searching for help. Then it's immoral.
Important distinction.
Hey same! For me though, if my shit head mates ever crash and harm another person while drunk I'm going to make sure they wished they hadn't survived.
It's completely irresponsible for you to allow those people to drive while under the influence.
@@BeanCasserole-wg7wuAs if they would listen to any advice on or suggestions to stop the habit.
You can't just tell them no.
Thanks for having this discussion man. So many people at my work stay drinking through the day and then drive home, it always gives me chills watching them get in their cars 🙃😒
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People walk around with a death wish
He had 1 sip
@@kettle4316 Yes, he took a sip inside his car, on a documented stream, in front of an audience, which is still drinking and driving. I could only imagine what he does when he's driving by himself...
if this is a regular occurrence, you can and should tip the non emergency police hotline. You could save a life.
80% of traffic accidents are caused by sober drivers. Sober drivers are the risk. Booze helps you feel relaxed and confident.
The biggest problem is, no matter how much he calls himself not a statute of morals and that people should not look up to him. They still do, because he's a well known person. In that regard you always influence someone, whether you like it or not.
Drinking one sip of wine behind the wheel doesn't make him the anti-Christ.
Bro is he drank right before he hopped in the car it would have been completely legal. He was driving less impaired than most people driving home after a night shift, or anyone over the age of 60
This is literally Charlie’s dumbest video he’s ever made. I get that Charlie had an alcohol problem but that’s not fair to project his morals on others.
I’ve worked with people who literally can’t get up to go to work without a beer in their hand. Anyone with any kind of common sense and over the age of 21 can see there was nothing wrong here. People take Snapchats of getting high, should they be banned forever too? Literally no one got hurt, dude wasn’t drunk, and Charlie once again making a mountain out of a molehill.
Charlie is indirectly helping to ruin this man’s career because Charlie was bored and had to make a video on it.
I’ve been subbed to Charlie for 3 years now and this video just gave him so much less credibility on what the fuck he’s actually talking about. And to make matters worse he wants to call people “brain dead” when they have more logic than him.
Imagine thinking that's his problem. Charlie constantly tells people not to harass people he talks about, but his fans still do. That's not Charlie's problem
Just because your audience has a few idiot white knights doesn't mean you aren't accountable to a certain degree. When you have 12 year old Smash Bros fans watching you and looking up to you, the least you can do is acknowledge the position you're in and not normalize dumbass behavior that's easily avoidable@@GodOfTheDisturbed
Objectively speaking, the fact he was performing for a stream while driving was infinitely more detrimental to his capacity to operate a vehicle than the fact that he was drinking. Alcohol needs time to work on your system, but lack of attention is an immediate problem. I used to drive a couple hundred km every week for work and quite a few times a second of not paying attention almost landed me in a high speed frontal collision.
Not defending him or anything, I’m just pointing out that having not slept for 24 hours makes you way more impaired than a large swig of wine would. I don’t think drunk driving is okay, but I think it was a bit of an overreaction from Charlie to say it’s completely inexcusable when getting a shit night of sleep would affect your driving just as much.
One being worse doesn't inherently make the other not bad. Like, getting shot is arguably worse than getting punched... but both are bad and hurt.
@@TheTaoOfOneyea but there’s level to bad bro like just because somebody does something bad doesn’t make them a bad person overall bro literally took a sip of wine man I guarantee your mom has picked you up from soccer practice off a couple glasses and was still under the legal limit
One day we're gonna have to live in a world where even public assault is gonna be morally questioned like "It was just a little punch to the noggin, not any severe damage just a prank bro." aren't we?
You get it!
That's already happening in many places.
@@johnhoney5089 Tru dat.
Charlie just got put in the new skibidi toilet video 💀
I love no matter how awful the subject matter, charlie always makes the description the greatest *blank* of all time
It's pretty genius actually, gets us all to click to figure out what's happening 😆
A tribute to his first videos
it's the longest running joke of his, been here for 10 years and counting and I love it
Dude that goes back years but it’s part of his formula now, wish somebody would do a deep dive on what makes Charlie’s simplistic videos so popping, unless somebody already did I just might lol
I figure there’s a psychological aspect to it yk
@@warframehunter7298 yep, but I always click cuz almost always it's something interesting
its gonna take more than 6 minutes for a sip of WINE to effect your system, but he could've just waited the 6 minutes. he got banned for a stupid reason by making a stupid decision, simple as that.
dont think he deserves the ban for it, but i think hes definitely stupid for doing it. If iShowSpeed can show his ballsack infront of a bunch of underage kids and not get ban, I think it stupid af that someone who wasnt even drunk gets ban for "drinking and driving"
Yeah, I have to say it's just not really how alcohol works. It's stupid to drink any a degree will driving, but this is way less dangerous than someone having one beer and then getting into a car after. 😅 Again, not defending drinking and driving, I'm just being realistic..
@@retrohipster1060 yeah, to act like he's doing such a ~dangerous immoral irresponsible thing~ is a huge exaggeration on charlie's part. but hey-- just dont drink before you drive and you dont have to worry about it.
I have no clue who this guy is, but Charlie's acting like you can get drunk off of one sip of wine lol. The guy's an idiot for doing something illegal, but the reaction everyone's having is overkill. Don't drink and drive, but don't act like one sip of alcohol is gonna cause the guy to run over pedestrians.
Just going to write an essay: If the majority of people truly feel this way about his decision to drink here, then it is about time you people have your voice heard and you take action to remove all BAC legal limit laws because you are contributing to an ambiguous legal state in America. If any amount is wreck less then why is there a legal limit at all? There is something referred to as the passage of time rule where driving near the legal limit (0.07) is reason enough to arrest for dui. If any at all is bad then there would not be so much legislation around this legal limit. Drinking a small amount and driving is not as bad as being smashed and driving and the current laws we have in place reflect that sentiment. Punching someone in the face once will net you a battery charge, punching someone in the face 25 times will net you an attempted murder charge. That's the way sips of alcohol and driving mostly are. 1 sip not so bad, 25 sips you're probably a threat to the people around you, and again the presence of a legal limit communicates this idea. Surely this streamer thought, "there is a legal limit right," before he took that sip. Unfortunately nobody was there to tell him that some people online are against legal limit laws and truly believe that any drinking at all while driving is just as immoral as being blacked out when driving. If your BAC is below 0.08 and are of legal drinking age you have a strong defense against DUI even if the officer decided to arrest you. Why is that? Because driving barely drunk and smashed are two different things. And btw Open container by itself is rarely an arrestable offense indicating a societal view that open containers are far less serious as well.
He's well under the legal limit, so its not drunk driving. There is a distinction between driving under the influence and having an open bottle in the vehicle. Its still illegal in America, but this would be completely legal outside of the US.
If he's willing to do that, it's not unreasonable to think he would drive shitty drunk. The negligence is very telling.
Not legal in Aus too. Open alcohol driver and passenger get fined
He could’ve just waited the 4 minute drive home to open the bottle though
L take. My first fiancee died 7 years ago when a drunk driver jumped the curb and ran her and her mum's dog over. This happened in Poland. Just because it's not illegal doesn't make it fucking stupid and horrific. Gonna assume this was just you missing the point, so here to show you legality and morality are two different things. Don't make dumb, shitty choices man. This guy was drinking while driving. Idc if he's below some arbitrary limit, it's irresponsible.
@@jessew3047well now we are just talking what ifs
First off one sip wouldn't get him remotely close to 0.08, and second his body has to digest it first so any intoxication probably wouldn't have hit until after he got home. He didn't drive drunk
Having the intention and performing the act is already a dangerous sign. You risk yourself and the lives of others. You're really missing the point. He had the full intention and actually did it. Regardless of whether he was deeply intoxicated, his intentions said it all.
@@Angelatic2014bro his intentions were taking a sip of wine before he got home, it’s extremely stupid to drink alcohol and drive at the same time even if you aren’t drinking to get drunk but bro jus cus someone does it doesn’t make them evil or a bad person it’s just a stupid law to break considering the consequences if you get caught, now if you’re drinking to get drunk that’s completely different and 10000x worse
@Angelatic2014 and? He intended to have a sip of wine and then drive. Plenty of people will have a glass with dinner and then drive home. There's really nothing risked if he knows it won't have an impact
I'm glad Charlie mentioned vehicles are literally death machines because I say that in my head so often to remind myself I'm operating a 3000 lb death machine and so is everyone around me everyday. There's no excuse for drunk driving. Ever. Walk home or sober up. Even then bring a designated friend.
I know everyone jokes about drunk driving and yeah haha very funny but I’m really appreciative someone that has such a big audience like Charlie is willing to speak facts about how deplorable and unforgivable it is
In this case it is a bit overblown but the overall message is great
@@AMGKITTENZ 100% overblown most people drink 2-3 glass of wine when going to the restaurant and they all drive back home and if its a bring your wine they drive back with thier open wine bottle on the passager seat
@@WeedNoTobbaco no. You drink, doesnt matter how much, YOU DONT FUCKING DRIVE. it s that simple.
@@WeedNoTobbaco In fact most people don't do that. Reminds me of something I heard once "Scumbags will always assume that everyone else is also a scumbag."
yeah he's so brave for speaking out against drunk drivers
Glad you mentioned texting n driving. Been in too many cars asba passenger where the driver is full on having text conversations at the same time as driving, wheel in one hand, phone in the other...
Shit drops my jaw each time
I knew a guy who was very against texting and driving, he was pretty much against anything dangerous, sinful, or fun.
This dude started getting into scratch tickets and his ass would be behind the wheel scratching them shits, hahaha fucking hilarious. What a prick right.
That's so fucking scary😭😭😭 I'm sorry that they were willingly putting you in danger!!
Yea man, try telling the police officer that pulls you over "i'm not drunk though" when they see an opened container in your car. Works like a charm every time.
no matter if you think you’re a functional drunk, drunk driving is the most dick move you could do for others
Is it specificed that he was in fact drunk? Did he take a breathlyzer test and shown the results? A sip of wine will not get anyone drunk and his blood alcohol level is likely under the legal limit. Was he drunk before hand?
@@AllanElMelon1043 No, he was not.
@@joltyflare then what is the big deal??? Is the problem that he is drinking (any kind of drink or beverage; water, red bull, a juice box) while commandeering an automobile???
As a drunkard I'd rather keep the harming to myself rather than potentially harm others
@@AllanElMelon1043 There wasn't actually a big deal. Just people jumping at the chance to potentially ruin someone from an imaginary moral high ground.
for the amount he drank it doesnt matter wheter it was wine or coke, showing it on stream was the stupid part
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I love how focused Charlie usually is with his delivery, but hearing him say that out loud made him realize how ridiculous it was
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About 3 years ago, one of my old best friends, his dad, his sister and his dog were all struck and killed by a drunk driver. it's the most irresponsible thing anybody can do. Cars are dangerous enough, to inhibit yourself KNOWINGLY is such a dumb fucking move it astounds me. I hope he sees the FULL consequences for this. It's disgusting.
drunk drivers are honestly so evil
no theyre not
Eh. I mean, drunk drivers are a bit of a grey area for me. I mean sure, there have been plenty of deaths documented from these events, but on the other hand, they made a stupid decision to get behind the wheel, and stuck with it. Doesn’t necessarily make them evil, just hopelessly stupid.
@CrewmateComplexClan this reverse psychology tactic seams to work surprisingly well for you.
are you a drunk driver advicate @@ttowell
It’s the drunk crushers that are the problem.
The smash community wouldn't be the smash community without constant controversy.
As a wise person once said, "Don't be afraid of driving, be afraid of other drivers."
There's a saying that you should drive like everyone else on the road is an idiot for that exact reason.
I drive with this in mind, never bump into anyone since I have a license, only have one crash when the other vehicle bumped mine in the rear. In other words, I drive like a coward.
that is specifically why ill never drive, cuz its not my driving I would be afraid of, but the driving of others that I simply cannot control.
I wear my seatbelt because while I won't cause a crash, others might.
Thank you for including texting and driving! I know way too many people who do it and I stop responding as soon as I find out. Going like what? Thirty mile per hour, the time it takes you to look down at your phone and back up, you've already traveled the length of a football field. Just don't freaking do it.
Coming from someone with a long family history of alcoholism/DUIs/OVIs, probably not his first time doing something like this. Just the first time he’s been caught. I’ve witnessed how a single stupid decision messes up someone’s (often multiple) life(s) on multiple occasions. It’s not cool or funny smh. He’s lucky the only thing that happened to him was a ban.
"it was only that one time" -Someone who does it all the time with no consequence
I honestly can’t believe i use to have this same mind set. Drinking and driving is so normalized in our society “ah, i can have one or two and be fine” which i have heard my own friends say, makes people think “okay its not that bad”. I also watched my dad grow up drinking and driving and somehow never get in an accident or pulled over. When i also use to cope with alcohol i would also make an excuses like this, i truly never realized i how much danger i was putting other people in until I started listening to stories of people with loved ones die from this behavior. I also use to think drunk driving = belligerent driving. But it truly doesnt matter how much you ingest, especially when its dark out. And ESPECIALLY being on medication makes it 10 times worse. 1 beer = 4 if ur taking meds. There could be people walking or bikers you might not see. Im thankful ive never have a close call and im thankful I realized before i did. I never know my limit so i quit drinking, i started drinking again with friends but realized I couldn’t ever plan ahead so i quit again. All i was doing was being selfish because i didnt want to pay for an uber or bother someone for a ride. Ill never drink again until i can actually plan ahead, its not worth risking other peoples lives.
All of these people making disgusting excuses for this behavior in this comment section, i truly hope you never have to learn the consequences the hard way. It’s something you can never take back. Its disappointing to see this sp normalized. ITS NOT WORTH RISKING OTHERS LIVES just pay for the got dang uber.
It's the pervasive social media culture of narcissism that contributes to thinking your needs/desires outweigh the safety of everybody else on the road. I have police in the family and have heard accident horror stories, so I find it hard to summon any sympathy for people who get loaded and get behind the wheel. They're endangering themselves and everybody else with their selfishness and short-sightedness. I'm glad you recognized this behavior and changed, never too late to change.
Buts I cants affords da got dang uber.
Nah you right though. Good luck everybody else.
@@yellowblanka6058 i dont think its just social media cause my dad never had that growing up but he definitely has narcissistic traits. Social media really doesnt help tho and could be making it worse since drinking and partying is so glorified. Idk why it is exactly but i hate that its so normalized. And the legal limit of .08, i feel like is a trap. Maybe its not but i feel like people hear that and think it will be okay to just wait 40mins after drinking and be fine. But it is not the case for everyone, depending on how much you had and ur body weight. I feel like it should just be .00 so no one feels like they have leeway to get behind the wheel. Unfortunately tho there will always be selfish people that wont care:/ realizing how selfish I’ve been with it i feel like i don’t deserve to drink, it really doesn’t benefit me anyway.
@@outofpowder thats the excuse i would always make or that i don’t wanna leave my car somewhere. But if ur gonna shovel money out for a bar, you can probably afford an uber. It gets costly to do that but so would being pulled over and getting a $600 - $1,000 fine. And leaving my car for one night wouldnt be as bad as getting license suspended for a year, that would really suck. But knowing how much it would be all together its better to just drink at home or at friends house, and have it insta-carted to you if you really need more. We just have so many options now days there really isnt an excuse for it. It sucks trying to tell this to the friends i care about and they act like im being an over protective parent
@@purplekittycreates you can have beer delivered?!?! WHAT THE FUUUUCK where have I been? Your lying to me aren't you.
I haven't been to a bar in years, I just drink at home or with friends at home. I had a chick come up to me asking me questions at the bar and I didn't really like that. That isn't why I don't go to bars, just made me uncomfortable.
Seeing this situation has shown a crazy amount of people are actually okay with drinking and driving which is insane
Eh, I'd say most people who "defend" him are focusing on the fact that a sip of wine has practically 0 effect on a human adult body, and no alcohol has an effect within 3 minutes. In the other camp I mostly see people who condemn him for things they just speculate he has done.
It's a stupid thing to do, and even more stupid to stream. I can't imagine how someone who has been personally affected by drunk driving would feel seeing this. Still, comparing him to actual drunk drivers is out of proportion.
He literally didn't do that, the amount of alcohol he actually consumed is virtually no different from none at all. This is a nothingburger being made into the ultimate sin by moral busybodies who literally don't understand what's going on or who have invented a history they have no proof of. He's got a ticket for an open container at worst, nothing more.
@@YurgenGrimwood b.. but big Moist man himself said that guy did a stinky bad no no .... yea man i don't think charlie has to many cr1tical thinkers in his echo chamber here.
dumb thing to do yea ofc. But for a guy who constantly complains about nuance flying over people's head he sure didn't care for it here. Not just that but the fact he himself can basically cause a type of "cancel culture" with how many people that listen to him. How many people knew who that guy was? charlie saying "sic 'em" to his millions of follows on some dude with what? low thousands of follows? insane.
If you only drink one 33cl can of beer or a few sips of wine you should not be intoxicated enough to be a safety hazzard. Isnt it more insane that people make such a big deal out of nothing?
Yes there's a legal limit for a reason. You can be .08 and be legal behind a wheel. He shouldn't have had an open container and drinked in a car in front of his young impressionable audience. Call him out for that not "drunk driving".
I love how the mini fridge in the background somehow just, EVOLVED into a CLAW MACHINE
Charlie's weak grin after unleashing the "King of Poop" zinger is a hilarious mix of "I'm a comedic genius" and stomach-churning shame XD
the stupid thing is if he took a sip outside the vehicle, put the bottle in the trunk for the drive home, he would have been perfectly fine. But no, he had to drink behind the wheel... what a goober
My exact thought, still don't get why people are saying he was drunk.
He wasn't even drunk to begin with, he may comitted a crime but he only took 1 sip and wasn't even drunk, the most he should get is a fine because this isn't really that big of a deal.
@@factoraavion2874😐
A bad idea but he was not a drunk driver (unless he drank before that)
Was just a stupid idea, especially as a streamer. He wasn’t endangering anyone with a sip of wine. But he should have known better
The scary part is that he was confident enough to stream himself drinking and driving. This implies that he did it before.
Even ignoring the stupid take of 'it's just one sip', it's encouraging extremely reckless and dangerous behavior. Drunk driving is no joke and it's terrifying a decent number treat it like one. I live in a college town that has a healthy party scene and the amount of near-wrecks I've had from people seemingly impaired is certainly a spooky amount.
“Bobby Big Balls gets banned, no I do not eat green eggs and ham” is not a sentence I was ready to hear today
The open container law is not even a law in some states and he was obviously still well below the legal limit. If he had done the exact same thing standing outside of the car and then got in the car nobody would care. This is ridiculous
It's about the visuals. Seeing someone drink while driving sends a very bad message to viewers, especially the younger audience, in itself. No matter if he was really drunk or not, the message "drinking and driving is okay, even cool, sometimes" relativises driving and drinking in a way that in the end may cause serious harm/injury to others.
ABSOLUTELY. Thank you for saying this. I worshipped a physically non-physically-addictive substance because family members I love glamorized it. I was addicted to it for most of my life, even if not physically. Young people are very impressionable, in my experience.
Drunk driving should be classified as attempted murder and be punished as such
First time I disagree with Charlie. I think he deserves the ban and even to be charged for having a open bottle, but I don’t think this 5 second mistake should ruin his career. Actors
get dui’s all the time and nobody cares, why should this lesser crime be a career ender?
That’s a really shit argument lmao just because people have wrongly gotten away with worse that doesn’t mean everyone should suddenly get the same thing for a shitty action.
@@thealterego3187 I agree with alterego people should lose their career and be punished for life and not able to work again for committing any small offense, nothing is too small if you break the law in any way your life should be over
@@rhcpbssm7so by that logic people getting away with murder makes murder ok, please never reproduce
But if he does that on stream while being watched, what happens off stream? “An act practiced in private eventually becomes public”
@@rhcpbssm7exactly bro if you J Walk across the street you are literally scum and deserve to be banished from society and thrown in the middle of the desert with no water
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Thank you Charlie for speaking on this. I have never understood drinking and driving myself, and how much we tolerate it in the US… It is a miracle both my parents are with me today, as they were hit head on by a drunk driver in December of 2021, after attending a late night Mass to go get some items from their home they were moving out of. The drunk driver that hit my parents, did not get any injuries, and even though he had been caught drinking and driving before, since it was his first caused accident, they let him chose when to serve his jail time…. And I sadly think he did not learn his lesson, and is going to continue his actions, until it gets someone killed… we really need to strengthen the laws in the US on this. Make it very harsh like Japan.
If you haven’t already today, make sure you tell someone you love them. ❤ Life is too short ❤
Yeah let's be like Japan and kill ourselves out of disrespect. Or maybe we should be like north korea and have generational punishments.
I have done this before, and now that I am grown, and am very ashamed of my behavior. It was dangerous for not only myself, but passengers AND most importantly, the others I share the road with.
The passengers knew what they were getting into. The people in the other vehicles did not. It is dangerous and preventable. It does not make you lesser asking for help!
The way he’s trying to justify his actions too is actually pathetic
Assuming that's ALL he had was that one swig, it's an open container not a DUI.....totally blown out of proportion if so. But he sounded drunk already
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@@bigisrick no lmfao idc if its just that one swig or not, showing that shit with no repercussions is terrible
“surely… doesn’t classify as drunk driving”
It literally fucking does
Given that impairment from ethanol was not a factor here, I consider streaming while driving to be a far greater risk than taking a swig of wine. Aside from the presumed 'open container' violation and any "message" that one imagines is being conveyed, this is exactly analogous to opening and taking a swig of a soft drink. It's funny how opinions and judgements cloud perceptions to create a difference where there is none.
I hear you and I think I understand. I will say that drinking while driving is not a joke, because alcohol is already a slippery slope, and lord is it easy to lose track of drinking when one is already drinking. Lord is it not good for someone to lose track while drinking.
All that said, I hear you and you raise a point, and not a ridiculous one.
Charlie makes a good point. If it's such a short drive anyway, why not make the drive first before drinking which is committing a crime? It's three minutes away. Just drive home before drinking.
My mom died when she was drinking and driving. Mostly, I was relieved that she was alone (except for her dog) and she didn't kill anyone else. The dog survived.
My Uncle was ran over by drunk drivers and died. They didn't even stop. They were caught but didn't receive a sentence, just a fine and a driving ban. I'm glad laws have changed since then and stricter laws and punishments are being applied. If you want to drink, walk or get a taxi. It's not worth it, it's selfish, stupid and dangerous to drink and drive. Thank you Charlie ❤
I 100% agree with you, Charlie. I'm grateful you're promoting such a good message and I hope everyone takes heed.
He's promoting gambling on the latest episode of his podcast (skip to 33:43 or look at the video description.) So much for promoting a good message...
@@themostbestwizard that is different, when you are gambling the only one affected is you, but when you're drunk driving you put people's life in danger
@@incognito8907 I didn't say being a gambler is bad; I said said it is immoral to exploit vulnerable people by promoting a sports gambling scam (in violation of TH-cam rules which explicitly prohibit that btw which is way the address was masked with phrases like "dot com" btw) to an audience that has come to trust you.
I just had someone at my school pass away to a drunk driver and it’s really heartbreaking to see this stuff happen. Rest in peace to all who have been affected by drunk drivers and or even just bad drivers in general
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My younger brother would hang out with this kid who was around his age. He was only 16 yet his physique was way better than the both of us, since he was very passionate about bodybuilding. My brother described him as a a popular, and kind guy who would help those who were struggling with the gym. One evening, he was walking by himself and was struck by a drunk driver, died at the moment. The coward fled but was later arrested. His mom set up a GoFund me for the funeral expenses. My brother was sad for a while since they were both work-out buddies. It socks and it is infuriating to see a young person with great potential having their life robbed because of a coward with no life prospects of their own.
On your point about it being unjustifiable, there was actually a case in which a court decided a man legally drove drunk to escape his wife who was violently assaulting him.
that is an extremally specific case mind you.
I doubt they actually ruled it was legal driving. What they probably did was decide that the weight of the abuse crimes outweighed the drunk driving, and that the drunk driving would not have happened if the abuse hadn’t been committed first, so they ruled a double sentence on the wife.
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To be honest I think that streaming while driving is way more detrimental to his attention and coordination than the quantity of alchool he ingested, in my country he would be charged not for being drunk (we are quite lenient on that) but for deliberately engaging in an activity that can cause huge distractions.
Like the French lady who hit a dog while streaming and driving
As someone who's a frequent pedestrian (Walking when its actually nice out and not 5 billion degrees is my favorite) drunk drivers are my biggest fear. I checked my local county jail out of curiosity and over half of the people posted in jail are in there for DUIs. Garbage humans.
I remember when I was a kid and thought drinking and driving meant any drink not just alcohol. So i freaked out on my mom one time when she was drinking water 😂
Given he was so close to home. It makes it even worse. He literally could not wait. He may have a serious problem.