Real Americans drink and drive

Prius owners are always demanding more legislation against drink driving, but an advantage of living in America is that if you are too trashed to drive home, your 15-year-old kid can pick you up from the bar. The only problem with this is that we Americans love reckless driving too much to let anyone else take the wheel. Drink driving is one of our great illegal freedoms. Actually, it’s called ‘buzzed’ driving in the States, and as we like to say, ‘it’s only illegal if you get caught.’ 

Justin Timberlake was caught indeed in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a policeman in the Hamptons saw him swerve between lanes and blow through a stop sign. Timberlake had been at The American Hotel and claimed he’d only had a single martini, hardly enough to put a grown man over New York state’s limit of 80 mg of alcohol to every 100 mL of blood (a little less than four pints for a man of his size).