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To: elkfersupper

“......because the people in charge refused to believe the first 2.” I completely understand. LMAO

Everyone has a fantasy, you’re welcome to have yours. LOL.... please stop, Einstein, my sides are aching.


56 posted on 06/20/2013 4:26:05 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: Gator113
Everyone has a fantasy

You included.

58 posted on 06/20/2013 4:31:34 PM PDT by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Gator113
......because the people in charge refused to believe the first 2.

I actually had that experience once, but they refused to believe the first four! It was Christmas Eve a couple of years ago and I had a couple of beers at a party. But I had switched to water a couple of hours before leaving so I'd be okay for a long drive home. I saw the lights shortly before I got home. I had been going a few miles over the speed limit and they stopped me for speeding. My wife was in the car with me and she had not made any attempt to sober up before leaving. Well the cop said he smelled booze and asked me to get out the car. Knowing that it's best not to take the FS tests I did so anyway because I knew I was sober. He went right to the field breathalyzer. He ordered me to blow, which I did. After looking at the instrument he started shaking it, gave it back to me and ordered me to blow again, but this time harder, which I did. Same result. Now his muscle head partner gets out of the car and starts screaming at me to BLOW! Same thing. Now they're really yelling at me to BLOW, DAMN IT, BLOW! So I did. Now they're really pissed, looking at the instrument, banging it against their knees to try to fix whatever was obviously wrong it. Finally, they told me it was showing .04 and said I was free to go. And cops wonder why they're not respected?

By the way, people should know that being below .08 doesn't mean you can't get charged with DUI. All the .08 means is that you're legally presumed to be impaired at that level. The opposite is not true. If you blow under .08 you are not legally presumed not to be impaired. If you exhibit signs that you've been drinking but blow less than .08 they can still use their observations (glassy eyes, slurred speech, weaving, smell of alcohol, etc., whatever else they can make up) to nail you, though it's much harder for them to get a conviction.

78 posted on 06/21/2013 6:41:12 AM PDT by KevinB (A country that would elect Barack Obama president twice is no longer worth fighting for.)
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