Two things strike me here. First is that the effective cost to you was over ten times the amount that the judge (or whoever) thought was sufficient to serve "j

Two things strike me here. First is that the effective cost to you was over ten times the amount that the judge (or whoever) thought was sufficient to serve "justice". That's fucking insane. Second is that the people in charge treated you like a hard core alcoholic. Without knowing anything else about you I'm going to guess that's not the case. Regardless of motivation -- although profit is a safe bet -- it's stupid in the truest self-destructive sense for society to automatically treat you like this for [edit: a drink or two]. Edit: I'm getting my BAC numbers mixed up, but it doesn't really matter. I see that in our state 0.02 is DWAI for <21 years of age. It's like we're looking for ways to fuck up peoples lives.