By jack.russelle on Skatehive
I don't do it, but unfortunately I do know a great many friends of mine that do. For the most part they justify this by saying that they are only going a short distance but to me, a responsible adult, I don't think the distance that you are traveling is relevant at all. If you are joining a public road and you are drunk, you shouldn't be doing it. In Chiang Mai we have some safeguards in place as there are checkpoints throughout the city that will test your breath with that machine to make sure you are not drunk but here's the thing, they checkpoints are always in the same places and everyone knows where they are. So someone with a little bit of strategy could easily avoid them. I have been going through these checkpoints many times and see people on motorbikes turn around abruptly and nobody pursues them so it all seems a bit pointless. I guess it accomplishes something but not a great deal. I talk about this not just because it is common but you might have noticed that I have been on