In rural Indiana (read anywhere but Gary, Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis) a first offense is usually 10 days in jail + fines + 1 year probation + a bunch of other crap. But the really special thing about rural Indiana is this (and no, I am NOT making this up). You know you're gonna go out and get slammed, so you get a designated driver. A cop pulls over your driver for a real/imagined traffic violation. He smells alcohol on you and instructs you to get out of the car. Now, you're screwed. Because if you don't get out of the car you go to jail for failing to obey a law enforcement officer. If you do get out of the car, you go to jail for "public intoxication". Either way, as one cop put it to me, "In Indiana, if you drink outside your home, we own you." See, the DUI law kicks in at 0.08, but public intox kicks in at 0.04. So, in Indiana, you can be too drunk to legally walk down the sidewalk, but not too drunk to legally drive. This makes the effective limit in Indiana 0.4 (because if you blow 0.5 in your car, the cop is going to ask you to step out of the car and then bust you for public intox). Some counties report up to 60% of their alcohol related arrests are PI and most of those are as described above. Great place, Indiana. Again.