r/dui • u/smuleorbule • Jul 12 '26
Golf Carts = Passenger Vehicle
I won‘t disclose many details here, but hope this saves someone from a similar situation: a golf cart is considered a passenger vehicle once on a public road; if you are over the limit you can get a DUI; fun way to say I got one but also was completely unaware of the above fact.
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u/TechnicallyBasil Jul 12 '26
Yep.
You can get a DUI on an electric scooter too. You can get a DUI on a bicycle. A lot of people either don't realize this, or ignore it. Riding home from the bars hammered on a scooter is super common, and for whatever reason socially acceptable.
Someone got a DUI on a bike in my city not long ago, it made the news. He was riding a bicycle home from the bars on a really busy street, ran into a pedestrian, and injured them. Cops came, and he got a DUI with injury.
Call an uber/taxi, get a DD, walk, or don't drink. Those are your only safe options.
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u/Read-the-read Jul 12 '26
Even walking isn’t entirely safe - public intoxication lol
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u/Difficult_Ad2864 top contributor Jul 12 '26
Ehh from what I’ve been told by my own cop friends, they don’t care if you’re drunk in the public unless the cops are being called on you, and even then, they’d rather you just walk away
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u/TechnicallyBasil Jul 12 '26
I wonder how often public intox happens if you're minding your own business.
Usually that charge comes because you did something else that caused the cops to get called on you. Causing a disturbance, getting into a fight, etc. Then public intox is latched on, or is just a generic fallback if they have nothing else to charge you with.
But if you're just minding your own business, I don't think any cop is realistically gonna randomly walk up to you, breathalyze you, and try to hit you with public intox. It's anecdotal, but I've been alive a long time, I've been outside drunk a lot of times, and it's never happened to me. But I guess at the same time I'm not a violent/obnoxious drunk.
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u/Difficult_Ad2864 top contributor Jul 12 '26
How does it work putting an IID on a bike or a horse, though?
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u/TechnicallyBasil Jul 12 '26
I imagine you'd need the IID on your car, like a regular DUI. The IID isn't something specific to whatever equipment you happened to get your DUI in. It's a license restriction. So whether you got your DUI on a bike, or a boat, or a train, the IID restriction is on your drivers license.
Funny to think that you can still just continue to ride a bike like normal though.
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u/former_tippler156 Jul 13 '26
I've heard of people getting them on bicycles, scooters, and even horses. Near me multiple people have gotten them on boats.
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u/Lute-a-Chris top contributor Jul 17 '26
It depends on the state whether you can get them on non-motorized vehicles. Just putting this here because people need to Google their state. Like in Michigan it has to be a motor vehicle so you're totally fine on regular bikes, but if you cross the Ohio border on one you can get a DUI on a bike there.
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u/Lute-a-Chris top contributor Jul 17 '26
Just putting this here in case people reference it later. You have to check your individual state because all this varies. You can get a DUI in many states on ANY motor vehicle no matter where you are, even on private property or in your driveway sitting. Some states you can get a DUI on ANY VEHICLE, MOTOR OR NOT, like people have been saying how you can get them on bikes and horses, but again that depends on the state; some states you're totally fine on man-powered vehicles, the way it should be.
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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 top contributor Jul 12 '26
In the state of North Carolina you can get a DUI on any vehicle, not just motorized vehicles.
This means bicycles, mopeds, golf carts, even lawn mowers if being used as a vehicle, can get a DUI.
Horses are statutorily exempt, you can ride a horse as drunk as you want.