Posted on 06/20/2013 3:18:55 PM PDT by kreitzer
Only one step needed contact AA.
I have zero tolerance for alcoholics. Especially ones that get behind a wheel.
What if you’re detained for being a Tea Partier?
Does Tea on your breath incriminate you?
0. Don’t drink and drive in the first place.
Yep. The best thing to do is NOT drink and drive.
Where I live the police will arrest you for ‘suspicion’ of DWI if you blow below the legal limit of .08. They will not release you. You have to get bailed out of jail.
Don’t admit a damned thing and don’t fight the cops.
Check your local laws. In AZ refusing the breathalyzer can be an automatic 12 month license suspension. And they have the tools to do the blood test on site, so there’s no “do it at the station” option, yeah they need a warrant, but they can get that by radio. Refusing the field sobriety test is good, but in some states you don’t have much leeway on that either.
In Missouri, if you refuse to do numbers 5 and 6 you lose your license for one year. A buddy of mine lost his because he refused, but he was over the legal limit when they did one at the police station.
In California contacting an attorney is a waste of time and money. You ain’t gonna get off.
The one SURE way to avoid a DUI???? Don’t drink and drive ....either take a cab or have some one who has had nothing other than water or coffee or soda to drink do the driving.....why risk it???
I know a person who was prosecuted and convicted of DWI with a .02 BAC.
That's one beer. What do you people want?
We tried prohibition once and it was disastrous. That was with a Constitutional amendment. Now we effectively have it again without having gone through that process.
What do you want?
Driving a car is one of, if not the most, dangerous things we can do. Doing it while impaired is really, really, insanely stupid.
Same way in every State.
Still the prudent thing to do.
I can’t help wondering whether some of this advice might be contingent on the laws of the state where you are pulled over (i.e. whether or not you can refuse a field sobriety test or a hand=held breathalyzer).
I don’t drink and drive, but I will note there are bunch of studies that show the average driver is not materially imparied at .08
This article has some excellent advice. Be polite and respectful to the police officer but stand up for your rights. Even if you are stone-cold sober, you should always refuse a field sobriety test or a Breathalyzer. A nervous person could fail a field sobriety test and a Breathalyzer can easily produce a false positive and this would be very difficult to beat in court, especially with so many knee-jerk people prejudiced like you.
Ideally I would say yes.
But in some places, if the officers says “I believed that Nifster was driving chemically impaired. Since the tests are not accurate, they can not be used to prove his innocence.”
I know people who are "impaired" by being too old to pay attention or too fat to work the controls.
Until we start prosecuting those people for DWI, I guess I will continue arguing against all the DWI laws and procedures.
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