The DUI/DWI laws vary by state, and it depends on the wording whether they can bust you for bicycling under the influence. Here in Arkansas, the statute for DWI/DUI applies to drivers of motor vehicles, so they can get you if you're driving a car, truck, motorcycle, or, as someone mentioned, a riding lawn mower or golf cart.
Cyclists and equestrians get a break here, but you'd better behave yourself, they can still get you for "public drunkeness..."
As John Anderson once noted:
I heard it on the radio and the 6 o' clock news,
Said you'd better not drive when you get on the booze.
The sheriff was on TV an' a shakin' his hand.
Said we're really crackin' down you'd better understand...
(Chorus)
When you get on the whiskey
When you get on the whiskey
When you get on the whiskey,
Let somebody else drive!
I started drinkin' on Friday and by Saturday night
They had me blowin' through a tube, charged with DUI.
Cuffed and booked and thrown in a cell,
I was tryin' to sober up and a' tellin' myself...
When you get on the whiskey
When you get on the whiskey
When you get on the whiskey,
Let somebody else drive!
48 hours is a long is a long time to kill
In a room full of drunks surrounded by steel.
Hell's all they serve in a metro bar,
So don't be drinkin' when you're drivin' your car.
When you get on the whiskey
When you get on the whiskey
When you get on the whiskey,
Let somebody else drive!





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