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.
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???
Driving a car is one of, if not the most, dangerous things we can do. Doing it while impaired is really, really, insanely stupid.
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 would also add, stay in the car till the officer
tells you to come out. I watched a friend get cited
for public drunk because he got out.
Could be a difference in venue.
I was cited for DUI by the city.
He was cited by the county.
we went to differnt lockups.
I was released that night,
but it was the weekend and he
couldn’t be released till monday.
He was an alcoholic and asked the
trustee there to get him some booze.
The trustee told him he could get him
pot or cocaine but no booze on weekends.
Eventually it was all thrown out at court.
I took the breath test at the station...
and passed it, but they searched the car
and found some pot in the back seat.
Luckily the car wasn’t mine and since I
passed the breath test they had no cause
to search the car.
Oh, and do NOT go to court without an attorney.
The cops started testimony with both sitting
in court. My lawyer made them stop and one leave
the room so as not to hear the others testimony.
A small thing but it might have made a difference.
Hubby hit a cow and wrecked our truck recently, officers on the scene wanted him to take a field sobriety test but he explained to them that he had a stroke a few years ago and his slight impairment would likely cause him to fail the test. He offered to do a breath test and he did, had not been drinking. He said the officers were very professional and did not question his not wanting to do the field sobriety, guess they had common sense.
No matter how many times you fall down or urinate on yourself, be adamant in insisting that you only had “two beers”.
I agree with all of this except the part about getting out of the car at the request of the officer. Before doing so, you should ask him if you are under arrest. If he says no, you are not obligated to exit the car. If he says yes, he’d better have a damn good reason for giving that answer.
Don’t say, “Here, hold my beer”.
Skip all of this crap and if you’re drinking, stay the hell off of my roads.
aaaaaaand you’re really going to remember these ten things when you’re pulled over for DWI. “Oh, sh*t...uh...what was the first one?”
Ping.
10. Don’t barf on his shoes.