Chris Pine Charged With Drink Driving
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Assuming this is all true, all I can say is, don't drink and drive.
You don't have to do it, Mr. Pine, you've got no excuse. I hope you get all the help you need, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in the next Star Trek film.
You don't have to do it, Mr. Pine, you've got no excuse. I hope you get all the help you need, and I'm looking forward to seeing you in the next Star Trek film.
"They're taking your car away from you, and sending you back to the academy..."
Well, he's not the first Star Trek captain to be busted for drunk driving. Avery Brooks was caught a few years ago.
My family's home town, of all places. Priceless! Probably the most excitement Ash Vegas will have seen in a while.
No respect for drunk drivers. Be rather glad that coincidence didn't strike and he ran over one of your family members in your family's hometown.
I don't know why he didn't have Scotty just beam him to his destination, or at least have Sulu fly him there via shuttle...
Yeah, I couldn't help picturing him driving with Sabotage cranked to 11.
Uh-oh... Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros know what happens to actors on JJ Abrams/Damon Lindelof productions who get DUIs. Expect Spock to accidentally phaser Kirk to death at the start of the next film.
I'm really surprised this kind of story gets any attention. I do not condone driving drunk - at all - and I certainly have never done it, myself. But this is so minor an infraction, compared to all of the crazy shit celebs of his calibur are making the news for - and getting away with - all of the time.
It's a term commonly used in the US, though "driving under the influence" is probably more technically "correct".
... driving under intense influence (DUII), driving while intoxicated (DWI), "operating vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs" (OVI), operating under the influence (OUI) operating while intoxicated (OWI), operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated (OMVI), driving under the combined influence of alcohol and/or other drugs, driving under the influence per se or drunk in charge [of a vehicle].
Nonetheless, that's just what it's called in NZ and many of the other former British colonies. Perhaps you ought to appear before each of their respective parliaments and get them sorted out for us, while this thread gets back to talking about the specific incident involving Mr. Pine? (Send us a memo when you get back, letting us know how it all went.)
No, it's really not minor. He was stopped before he'd gone very far and (as far as the news story reports) without other incident, but a minor offense it's not, and hasn't been for quite a number of years, even in most US states.
Is that the blue pub in the picture they show in the article?
My family's home town, of all places. Priceless! Probably the most excitement Ash Vegas will have seen in a while.
Hey do the drink driving charges transfer over to the States?
He'll only be suspended from driving in New Zealand won't he?
I agree with 2takes, this one doesn't sound like that big a deal. The question is, how far over the limit was he? Maybe not by much. Reading between the lines of the story, it seems to me that he maybe just had a tipple or two at the wrap party, then got in his car and happened to be over the legal limit when the police pulled him up. The pub owner says that Pine did not appear intoxicated when he left, and was entirely polite, cognitive and reasonable throughout the affair. I suspect there might not exactly be 'Justin Beiber' style levels of deliberate assholery at play on this one. 
(Mind you, my first thought when I read the thread title was of his father's character on CHIPS pulling him over on his motorbike: "You're DUI, son".
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(Mind you, my first thought when I read the thread title was of his father's character on CHIPS pulling him over on his motorbike: "You're DUI, son".
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Wow, I did not know they were related, or, until a quick Wiki check on his filmography, that Robert Pine has also made guest appearances on both Voyager and Enterprise.(Mind you, my first thought when I read the thread title was of his father's character on CHIPS pulling him over on his motorbike: "You're DUI, son".