What would you do in this difficult situation?

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Your child who is 12 or under is away for the night. They call you and say that the person in charge of them has left and there is an emergency they cannot handle. You have had a bottle of wine/or 4 fine/or 6 beers etc. There is no option of walking/taxi/ambulance/calling someone to help. Would you get in the car and drive to them? About 30 minutes away.

Obviously I would call ghost busters.

I would not drink drive no matter what.

What an odd thread. You bored OP?

In what scenario would there be no emergency services to call??

I think the only reason to ever drink drive is to flee someone actively trying to kill you and only until you reach someone else who can help.

I'd cycle, or use my scooter because although technically you can get fined for cycling drunk I'd be far less likely to cause serious harm to anyone else.
Or I'd ask my lovely neighbours/friends to help me out and drive me.
What prompted the hypothetical scenario where no other options are available - is it a movie plot or something?

Yep, you gotta call Ghost
Busters

If it were an emergency which must be seen to fast I don't think kid would have called. If the kid called it's because there's time. First choice would be to call sb who lives close by to drive me there OR for sb else to go there to help if they were closer.
If it's 30 minutes away -it doesn't say whether by car or on foot- I can pick what suits me better, so I'd walk. I don't think 30 minutes is that far away on foot, so second choice would be to walk.

Ring a friend to take you, another parent on the same trip, or get a taxi.

Also, find out what the emergency is in case you need to call the police, advise how to clean up a spillage etc

if there are no emergency services presumably you are living in a dystopian state where law and order has broken down in which case it would not be illegal to drive. How much help you would be to your child if your hypothetical drunken drive ended up in a crash is another point to debate.

I’d worry it IF and WHEN it happens when there is no emergency services to consider, by then the 12yo may well be 55yo and may need to help me

Well if there was really no emergency services and my child was literally on fire then yes I would get in a car and drink drive there because I’d never get caught as there are no emergency services to catch me.

Is this scenario playing out on the moon? The whole thing is ridiculous.

A former schoolmate went out one weekend and had a lot to drink. Knowing that he'd had more than enough he sensibly got a taxi home and went to bed.
His brother who was also out, got into trouble and ended up in the cells to sober up and cool off. When let out, he called his brother to collect him.
Brother duly hurried to the police station in his car, seemingly overreacted to an animal running across the country lane, wrapped his car around a tree and died at the scene.
We all wish we could turn the clock back, but even with the best of intentions, we can make the situation much, much worse.

Tell the child to knock on a neighbour’s door.

So in answer to your question op, no, there is no plausible excuse for drink driving.

As we are in make believe land I would get my make believe sober robot to drive me. HTH OP.

Definitely not but someone should always be in a fit state to drive. There's no excuse for being to drunk to look after your child!!

There is almost no hypothetical situation in which I would drive while drunk. I say 'almost' because if there was an unexpected volcanic eruption then I would drive away from danger. Same for unexpected flooding or wild fire. It would have to be unexpected because if I knew there was a possibility of it happening I wouldn't drink in the first place.

In our house we always make sure at least one of us stays off the alcohol if either of the kids are out just in case they need picking up unexpectedly. I kinda thought that was normal?

So it’s about as relevant as if you had a blue dog and a yellow cat and it was a Tuesday would you eat eggs or potatoes?

Unless you are referring to a zombie apocalypse (and then I think all rules go out the window including drunk driving), I am completely lost.

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Obviously! 2 men with 70s pornstaches can fix any problem!

Why would anyone even consider driving after drinking so much and then putting their child in the car?

Get a cab.

I know, right?
Like fuck are they getting an iron poker through the scanners at Fairyland.

Hypothetical? Oh ok I'd use the house transporter and beam myself there......or use the time machine and go back to the time when I let her go and say no instead.