It’s comical how things really don’t matter that much to you until they influence someone you care about or someone you are close to. You observe it all the time with sports figures, celebrities, and other greatly publicized individuals. Somebody is diagnosed with cancer, they create a cancer establishment. Someone’s adolescent has juvenile diabetes, they establish a fundraiser to help that ailment. Well the same thing has happened to me, in a road.

My pal, we’ll name him Fred, was driving around Seattle last night in his girlfriend’s car. A bunch of us hadn’t seen each other in a while and we sort of tied one on over at Sport, a downtown Seattle sports pub. Well, on the way back home he got pulled over by a Seattle police officer. Was he speeding? No. Was he swerving all over the place? No. What was he doing? He was driving his girlfriend’s vehicle that had expired license plate tags.

Once he was pulled over the rest was history. He was detained for drunk driving (though it is questionable if he really committed a Seattle DUI - it would be worthy of note if they provided you a driving examination when you were suspected of DUI instead of a breath test) and began the longest year of his life.

As any person should do if they are arrested or popped with Seattle DUI, he hired a Seattle DUI attorney, who was in fact a Seattle drunk driving attorney (they are right next to each other). That cost him around three grand. After that his license was suspended for 90 days. He had to appeal that suspension - another $200. Then he ended up pleading guilty to negligent driving, which carries a $1,000 fine. And he had to do probation, go to alcohol class, go to a victims panel, and shell out court costs. Useless to utter he didn’t undergo a high-quality period.

So, I figured in view of the fact that my buddy got a Bellevue DUI (or near to it) I’d create this to speak out opposed to Seattle and Bellevue DUIs. Be suspicious if you drink and drive (and don’t drive if you are too drunk to drive). And if you do get stopped by the cops, talk with a drunk driving attorney in Seattle as rapidly as feasible. Don’t put off until someone near to you gets popped with DUI or you yourself get busted to speak up about it.